When comparing Swarm by Foursquare vs SeriesGuide, the Slant community recommends SeriesGuide for most people. In the question“What are the best Material Design apps?” SeriesGuide is ranked 64th while Swarm by Foursquare is ranked 77th. The most important reason people chose SeriesGuide is:
Check in to shows or movies (yes, even at the theater) you are watching and even share the information with social media such as Google+, Facebook and Twitter if you like.
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Pros
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.
Pro Check In and share
Check in to shows or movies (yes, even at the theater) you are watching and even share the information with social media such as Google+, Facebook and Twitter if you like.
Pro Progress indicators
Information available for unseen episodes and viewing statistics.
Pro Find new shows and movies
SeriesGuide provides access to tract's currently trending shows and finding shows is facilitated through trackt's database which composites information from several main sources (i.e. IMDb, TVDb, TMDb). Also visible are trackt's recomendations and your personal trakt library.
Pro In-app links to common source video data sites
IMDb - Internet Movie Database
TVDb - The TV Database
TMDb - The Movie Database
Pro Third-party extensions available for episode actions
Pro Updated information is synced to trakt
Pro Open Source
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0
Cons
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.
Con Pay for advanced features
Pay either yearly subscription or one time for X Pass.