6 Location-Based Apps Worth Using

These days, location-based services (or LBS) for your smartphone are sprouting up faster than lima beans in a kindergarten classroom. But sometimes it’s hard to know which apps will make your life easier and which will just drain your battery. From hailing a cab to making sure you don’t miss a connection—or a deal—these six apps were designed with a busy woman in mind.

By Kathryn Williams

FriendThem

The cute guy who chatted you up in the Starbucks line, the potential investor you met at a conference—with this app, you don’t have to let connections like these slip away. Combining social networking and location data, Friendthem helps you find on Facebook people around you whose names you might not know or remember, and even lets you know if you have mutual friends. A female developer and psychologist made sure the privacy settings keep users safe from potential creepers. Similar apps: Sonar, Highlight and Banjo.