# Locationscout - Photo Spots — Scenic Pictures & Bucket List

> Travel planner, bucket list, and photo spot finder with extensive location data. (iPhone/iPad app by der-Webdesigner GmbH.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/locationscout-photo-spots/id1474484447 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [der-Webdesigner GmbH](https://appshunter.io/developer/1474484446)
- Category: Travel, Photo & Video
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Rating: 4.60/5 from 158 App Store ratings · 102 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 15.0 · 56 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2020-08-28
- Data updated: 2026-08-26
- Monetization: free with in-app purchases
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/locationscout-photo-spots/id1474484447/reviews.md

## What is Locationscout?

Locationscout is your bucket list, trip planner, and photo spot finder in one. Plan road trips, track visited places, and discover amazing locations worldwide.

YOUR PERSONAL BUCKET LIST, TRAVEL & ROAD TRIP INSPIRATION

Get inspired for your next trip whether it's the stunning fjords of Norway, the rugged coasts of Portugal, the natural wonders of New Zealand and Iceland, or an epic road trip through Italy and Argentina. From the vibrant streets of Berlin to hidden spots, find your next adventure.

Use the "Explore" feature to find places you've never visited and save them in your personal bucket list (bookmarks). Track countries you've been to and plan where to go next.

(Re-) discover nearby places with Around Me. With over 233.000 entries across more than 184 countries available in Locationscout, you'll certainly find a hidden spot. Who said a bucket list is only for places far away?

LOCATION & TRAVEL INFORMATION, PHOTOGRAPHY TIPS, COORDINATES & MORE

Locationscout is built upon millions of amazing photos provided by professional and hobby photographers who love to share their passion and experiences with the community. Similar to geocaching, you can explore and check off amazing photo spots around the world.

But that's just the beginning.

Beyond inspiring photos, find essential information such as local insights, travel tips, photography equipment recommendations, exact spot coordinates, parking details, and much more. Whether you're planning a road trip through multiple countries or searching for the perfect sunset spot, Locationscout has got you covered.

Locationscout is an invaluable trip planner for photographers, road trip enthusiasts, nature lovers, geocaching & astrophotography fans, and anyone looking to turn their travel dreams into reality.

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LOCATIONSCOUT - FEATURES
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• Search over 233.000 entries across countries like the US, Germany, Iceland, Norway, Italy, Portugal, and New Zealand
• Personal bucket list: Save and track visited places like a travel achievement system
• Plan epic road trips through countries like Iceland and Argentina with our comprehensive location database
• Join a bustling community of over 166.000 photography and travel enthusiasts
• Discover photo spots from Berlin's urban landscapes to New Zealand's natural wonders
• Get essential details for each location including crowd levels, best visiting times, and sunrise/sunset info
• Built-in road trip planner with maps and local tips to ensure smooth adventures
• Track visited countries and locations to build your travel achievements
• Find popular spots or hidden spots off the beaten path - perfect for geocaching enthusiasts
• Customize your experience with light and dark mode
• Share your discoveries with fellow travelers (via www.locationscout.net)
• Earn money by making your photos licensable (via www.locationscout.net)

Whether you're planning a road trip through the fjords of Norway, exploring the coast of Portugal, or seeking hidden spots in Berlin, Locationscout helps you discover and track incredible places. Use it as your bucket list manager and trip planner to scope out destinations before you visit. From the glaciers of Iceland to the valleys of Argentina, find the perfect spots for photography and adventure.

Our passionate community has curated locations across countries worldwide, making it easy to find scenic spots whether you're an experienced photographer or just starting out. Like geocaching, but for amazing photo locations, Locationscout helps you track visited places and discover new ones.

Download Locationscout now for free and start planning your next adventure!

-- Manuel, Founder & Solo Developer of Locationscout
P.S. For questions please visit www.locationscout.net/app/support. You can find our terms at www.locationscout.net/terms and our privacy at www.locationscout.net/privacy.

## Key features

- Discover 233,000+ photo spots worldwide
- Create and manage a personal bucket list
- Plan epic road trips with integrated maps
- Track visited countries and locations
- Get detailed location insights and tips
- Find popular and hidden spots
- Join a community of travel enthusiasts

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Premium (1 month) | $8.99 | per month |
| Premium (1 year) | $54.99 | per year |
| Premium (1 year) - Launch Deal | $43.99 | per year |
| Premium Annual | $59.99 | per year |
| Premium Monthly | $9.99 | per month |


## Chart rankings

- #181 in Top Grossing · Travel (US App Store)

## Recent user reviews (10 of 102)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/locationscout-photo-spots/id1474484447/reviews.md

### 5/5 — Love this App

*2026-08-16*

I use this a lot in my travel planning. The information passed from other photographers is crucial when traveling out of country 🩷

### 5/5 — Just what I was looking for

*2026-07-14*

I’ve been looking for a good photo spot app and I’ve found it in Locationscout. It has been brilliant for planning trips to new locations, providing inspiration as well as practical details on getting the shot. Good to see active developers too, bringing new features since I subscribed. I’ve added some new locations I found along the way and look forward to using this app on all my trips in the future.

**Developer response:** Thank you so much for your kind words, I really appreciate it. The next huge update to the app will go live this week and I'm 100% sure you will like it because it will make all your future trips even easier to plan. Please feel free to reach out at any time if you ever feel something is missing, because I deeply care about improving the platform on a daily basis. Safe travels and all the best to you! -- Manuel

### 5/5 — Tolle App

*2026-07-12*

Die App ist echt super um tolle Orte in deiner Umgebung zu finden, aber auch für den Urlaub sind viele Fotos in verschiedenen Ländern und Regionen dabei. Die Fotografen der Fotos geben auch Tipps wie und wann man die Fotos schießen kann und man bekommt auch Inspiration und neue Blickwinkel für eigene Fotos. Echt zu empfehlen wenn man coole Orte und Motive sucht!

**Developer response:** Ich danke dir vielmals für deine Bewertung und wünsche dir ganz viele tolle Reisen, bei denen dir meine App hilft, ein paar Spots zu finden, die du dein Leben nicht vergessen wirst. Alles Liebe aus dem Rheinland, Manuel

### 5/5 — My favorite photo scouting app

*2026-07-09*

I can’t express the joy this app has given me since it launched. I am always on the hunt for interesting spots to go play around with my camera and it was very hard to find good locations to go to without scouring very niche forums. This app has allowed me to plan during my week what locations I can check out on the weekend with such ease now. The developer has done an absolutely amazing job!

**Developer response:** Wow, thank you so much for your kind words. You made my day and I really appreciate it that you are a part of this journey and community. All the best to you and lots of beautiful places to explore! -- Manuel

### 5/5 — Bestes Tool für Reisfotografie

*2026-07-07*

Wie oft habe ich früher nach dem Urlaub festgestellt, dass ich an einem schönen Motiv in einer Seitenstraße vorbeigelaufen bin oder eine andere Perspektive das Foto von Grund auf geändert höre. Mit Locationscout das Problem der Vergangenheit an :-)

**Developer response:** Vielen Dank für deine tolle Bewertung! :-) Genau dafür habe ich Locationscout entwickelt: Damit man die schönsten Fotospots und Perspektiven nicht erst entdeckt, wenn der Urlaub schon vorbei ist. Es freut mich sehr zu hören, dass die App dir dabei hilft. Ich wünsche dir weiterhin viele unvergessliche Fototouren und großartige Aufnahmen! -- Manuel

### 4/5 — Indispensable

*2026-07-07*

Sans conteste, l’application indispensable à tout photographe amateur, permet, peu importe l’endroit où vous êtes , de trouver le spot idéal avec les horaires , le parking le plus proche et le matériel nécessaire.. que demander de mieux ??

**Developer response:** Merci beaucoup pour ce superbe retour ! :-) Ça me fait vraiment plaisir de lire que LocationScout vous accompagne partout pour trouver le bon spot, avec toutes les informations utiles pour préparer une sortie photo. J'espère que l'application continuera à vous inspirer et je vous souhaite de nombreuses belles découvertes et de superbes photos ! -- Manuel

### 5/5 — Looking for inspiration?

*2026-06-29*

A general travel guide will rarely satisfy when you travel for the love of photography. LocationScout will take you by the hand - suggest where you should go for inspirational images, the best time of day and angle for your shot, when crowds might be an issue and even where you can park in many cases. Review images from contributors and submit your own. You can easily find other spots in the vicinity if things don’t work out.  Imitation and sharing are all part of one of the greatest and affordable hobbies. Manuel is there to support and guide you and welcomes ideas for improving his already amazing app.

**Developer response:** Thank you so much for your incredibly kind words and for taking the time to write such a thoughtful review. It really means a lot to hear that Locationscout has become a valuable companion for your photography trips.

My goal has always been to build something specifically for photographers, not just another travel guide, so it's wonderful to hear that features like the best time to shoot, parking information, nearby spots, and the community photos are making a real difference.

I'm especially grateful that you mentioned the support and openness to new ideas. Many of the features in the app exist because of feedback from photographers like you, and I hope we can continue making Locationscout even better together.

Thank you for being part of the community, and I wish you many unforgettable photography adventures!
-- Manuel

### 1/5 — Junk App

*2026-06-28*

Over 90% of the locations are locked behind a paywall. Not worth the money.

**Developer response:** Thanks for your feedback. The vast majority of Locationscout can already be used for free, including exploring and viewing 274,000+ entries, all for free via the Explore tab or Search. Premium simply unlocks additional planning features for photographers who travel regularly.

If it isn't worth it for your needs, that's completely okay. But saying it isn't worth the money because Premium features require a subscription is a bit like saying a cinema ticket isn't worth it because you can't enter the movie without buying one. The free version remains available for everyone, while Premium helps fund new content and development, and keeps the app completely ad-free.

As a solo developer, I have to finance more than 12 years of continuous development somehow. I deliberately chose subscriptions instead of ads because I would rather spend my time improving the platform than finding more places to show advertisements, and I don't want to rely on ad networks that monetize users' data. If you're curious about how much I added over the years, there's a transparent changelog at locationscout.net/whats-new

### 2/5 — Disappointing

*2026-06-23*

Sorry, nope.  I wanted this app to be a simple to use tool for planning photo trips, and collating bucket lists and it may have the functionality to achieve that but the pricing is grossly excessive.  When I get Lightroom for about £100 a year, this little app is ridiculous at £60 or so.  Bearing in mind its value hinges on the users enriching the database, we are being charged to input our own data effectively.  Nope - not happening, however good the app may be.

**Developer response:** Thanks for your honest feedback. I completely understand comparing subscription costs across photography tools.

One thing worth mentioning is that all photo spots are already available for free. Premium is optional and helps fund ongoing development, curation, weather data, maps, trip planning features, navigation, personal support (even on weekends), and an ad-free experience, even for you as a free user. All thousands of updates are transparently listed here (www.locationscout.net/whats-new) and you can actively request features from a developer who actually cares about you.

While many spots are submitted by the community, a great deal of work also goes into reviewing, maintaining, improving, and enriching the database. Over the years, I've manually made hundreds of thousands of content improvements to help photographers get useful information beyond just a pin on a map.

As an independent developer serving a niche photography community, the economics are quite different from software used by millions of customers. Unlike editing software, the value of a location discovery platform is often measured by the trips it helps plan and the places it helps photographers discover while saving countless hours of research. If you aren't traveling this much, I would recommend staying on the free plan and only upgrading to Premium on a trip. Then it's only 9,99 for the entire year. Still, I appreciate the feedback and will continue working to increase the value of Premium on a daily basis.

-- Manuel

### 1/5 — Cannot cancel -

*2026-05-16*

I signed for the free trial. It looked really useful. I was unable to use it - other commitments.. so I tried to cancel. Before the free period was up. No where could I find a notice saying how- that was accurate. If you have premium then what is standard. I have no idea what I am signed up for. All I expect us to get charged in a few dates for something I wanted to cancel. Same old story. Buy it if you want just ignore the free try out. If you sign up you bought it. Mistepresentation…

**Developer response:** Hey John, again, I’m sorry that this was frustrating for you. That’s definitely not the experience I want anyone to have. I replied to your email within 45 minutes on a weekend because I genuinely try to help as quickly as possible when someone has issues with a subscription or trial.

To clarify for others reading this: subscriptions on iPhone/iPad are managed entirely by Apple through the App Store. Unfortunately, developers cannot directly cancel subscriptions for users or change Apple’s subscription system.

Like other iOS apps, you can cancel in under a minute through the App Store. Inside the app, there’s also a direct shortcut with just 2 steps, making the app cancelable in less than 30 seconds:

1) Open “Settings / Premium”
2) Tap “Manage Subscription”

This opens your active App Store subscription directly, where you can cancel or disable renewal immediately.

I also send a welcome email when starting a trial that includes:
1) direct contact information to me personally
2) a large step-by-step explanation on how to cancel anytime because I really care that this is as easy as possible

There is additionally a detailed help page explaining cancellation for both Apple and Android. On the web, there is even a 30-day money-back guarantee because I care so much about providing real value to users like you. I can't give that via the App Store, but I absolutely would if I could.

I’m always open to improving the experience further, so I truly appreciate constructive feedback about where the process felt unclear. I didn't receive an answer from you via email yet, but I would be very thankful to learn what exactly I could add on top of what I'm already doing to make it even easier. The other reviews and my always detailed and personal feedback should show you that this isn't an empty phrase and that I actually care, even on weekends.

I understand the frustration around subscriptions in general, but I hope it’s also visible that I responded quickly, provided direct support, and already offer multiple clear ways to manage or cancel Premium at any time.

All the best to you,
Manuel

## Frequently asked questions about Locationscout

### What does Locationscout do?

Locationscout is a travel app that helps you discover and plan your adventures. It functions as a bucket list manager, trip planner, and a finder for amazing photo spots around the world. You can explore over 233,000 locations, save places to your list, and track your travel achievements.

### What are the key features of Locationscout?

Key features include discovering over 233,000 photo spots, creating a personal bucket list, planning road trips with maps and tips, tracking visited countries, and accessing detailed information for each location such as crowd levels and best visiting times.

### Is Locationscout free to use?

The app is free to download and use, offering a vast database of locations and planning tools. It also includes in-app purchases, which may offer additional features or content for users who wish to enhance their experience.

### What kind of information can I find for each location?

For each location, you can find essential details like local insights, travel tips, photography equipment recommendations, exact spot coordinates, parking information, crowd levels, and sunrise/sunset times. This comprehensive data helps in planning your visit effectively.

### Who would benefit from using Locationscout?

This app is ideal for photographers looking for unique photo opportunities, road trip enthusiasts planning multi-country journeys, nature lovers seeking scenic spots, geocaching fans, and anyone who wants to organize their travel dreams and discover new destinations.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 3.7.0 — 2026-07-17

* Introducing 'Along Route' - The Ultimate Road Trip Hack
Just enter your start and destination to instantly discover the best spots along your journey. Honestly, I'm completely surprised myself by what a massive game-changer this is when I tested it.

* Is it worth the detour?
You'll now see distances displayed right on the image grid. But here's the genius part: it's not the distance from you, it's the bee-line distance from your route!

* Spot type filters are now multi-select

### 3.6.0 — 2026-07-02

*** Around Me 2.0 is here! ***
I've completely reimagined the app's most powerful planning tool to help you discover amazing places faster than ever. With a beautiful new design, powerful filters, a new radius slider, and up to 5x faster loading, planning your next adventure now feels even more effortless. I've also introduced a new Free Mode, allowing you to move the map freely and explore anywhere in the world.

### 3.5.0 — 2026-06-16

- Board Map Rework
I added all the great new features from the location and country maps to the board maps as well, including the filters, the search, and the new image grid.

- Some smaller usability improvements and bug fixes

I hope you had a great start to this summer!
Manuel

### 3.4.4 — 2026-05-06

* Live Position & Instant Routing
You can now see your current position on any map. To make planning even more powerful, the app instantly calculates and displays the route and estimated travel time for nearby spots.

* Share Board
You can now share your favorite spots with friends directly from the app. Sharing your favorite spots has never been easier!

### 3.4.0 — 2026-04-23

* Live Position & Instant Routing
You can now see your current position on any map. To make planning even more powerful, the app instantly calculates and displays the route and estimated travel time for nearby spots.

* Share Board
You can now share your favorite spots with friends directly from the app. Sharing your favorite spots has never been easier!

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