my friend and i just got smart phones and he wants to use his phone to cache with. we were wondering about the best app to get hopefully for free. he got the Motorola Bionic and i have the I phone. any suggestions?

Thanks

Aye there me Hearty, Ye be wantin c:geo to be sure. It be free, so nay plunderin to be had. It be all this old salt be usin, savvy?

Ye be wantin to make sure ye be usin the open source version, or ye be suckin bilge water all day!

c:geo for the Android phone and the Groundspeak app for the iPhone. I used the iPhone app to find two Wherigo caches and two traditional caches (when we didn't have our GPSrs with us). I don't think I would ever want to use a smart phone for geocaching (vs a GPSr), but they are great for looking up caches on the fly and posting field notes after each cache find (or DNF).

thanks i was basically wanting for "on the fly" caching.. the c:geo one had bad reviews saying it worked only for a few days then stopped. but thanks ill check em out.

We have been having trouble with our GPSr lately (we might have overloaded it with too many PQs, oops!) and have found C:geo to be invaluable. We have probably found as many caches in the last month with C:geo as we have without it. (We have Android phones.)
The groundspeak app works fine, but we really like the live map function on c:geo--and it tends to be more accurate, and it loads faster.

We also have had ZERO issues logging from C:Geo. Also, full cache info is easier to access.

thank you

I had to come back and add more kudos to c:geo. We placed a cache today, and found that the 'show circles' option on the live map is an excellent tool for placing caches! It shows a 528 foot radius around all caches nearby--thereby eliminating the "your cache is too close to another" reviewer note. We were VERY pleased with it!

Disregard...It turns out the circles were NOT our friends today! We'll be out moving our cache tomorrow!

Aye Team Sydnes, but it still be a grand n glorious tool fer plunderin!