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Add to SafariWhen comparing Sliding Explorer vs Swarm by Foursquare, the Slant community recommends Sliding Explorer for most people. In the question“What are the best Material Design apps?” Sliding Explorer is ranked 29th while Swarm by Foursquare is ranked 77th. The most important reason people chose Sliding Explorer is:
Sliding Explorer is designed following Google's Material Design guidelines.
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Pros
Pro Material Design
Sliding Explorer is designed following Google's Material Design guidelines.
Pro Root access
Sliding Explorer has root access support for editing root files on a device.
Pro ZIP support
Sliding Explorer features ZIP file support for compressing and extracting .zip files.
Pro Stickers
Formerly known as badges in the original app, you will be rewarded stickers whenever you check-in to a specific place or for the number of check-ins you have made.
Pro Mayorships
Mayorships is a feature where the person with the most check-ins in that particular place will be rewarded with a mayorship of that particular place.
Pro Leaderboard
Leaderboard is a features that ranks how frequent you and your friends gain points via check-ins, exploring new places and mayorships.
Pro Powered by Foursquare
All of the places data is obtained from Foursquare, as Swarm is part of Foursquare product.
Cons
Con Has trouble reading external SD cards
Sliding Explorer has users reporting that there is trouble with it reading external SD cards.
Con Viewing a place requires main Foursquare app
Since there is a split between place discovery and the social check-in feature in main Foursquare app, anyone who wants to check out a place must install the main Foursquare app in order to view the places details, photos and contacts.
