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Add to SafariWhen comparing Swarm by Foursquare vs Wally, the Slant community recommends Wally for most people. In the question“What are the best Material Design apps?” Wally is ranked 32nd while Swarm by Foursquare is ranked 77th. The most important reason people chose Wally is:
The app allows searching for wallpapers by text and tags as well as allows filtering them by categories, resolution, and/or aspect ratio.
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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 Lots of different ways to find wallpapers
The app allows searching for wallpapers by text and tags as well as allows filtering them by categories, resolution, and/or aspect ratio.
Pro Has a huge selection of high quality wallpapers that's constantly updated
The app uses wallhaven.cc as the source for wallpapers. Wallhaven.cc, the successor of wallbase.cc, is a vast resource for high quality wallpapers.
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 app not available in play store
Con Buggy
Multiple people are reporting that the app can sometimes crash or crash the launcher or not work properly in some other way.
