14 DAY TRIAL // Trapster has announced version 4.0 of its iPhone application, noting significant additions, such as an enhanced way to increase user confidence, a brand-new Caravan feature, new trap types, and an improved user interface. Since the service is completely free, the Trapster iPhone application is also a free download available from the iTunes App Store.
Trapster is currently the most popular driving-related mobile app in the world (both in cumulative and ongoing daily downloads – on average 15,000 new users per day and 5,000 new traps reported each day), with more than three million users and more than 1.2 million traps reported worldwide, according to the company behind the service.
As the first location-based application that alerts users in real-time when they approach speed traps, it directs user-provided data to other service users. Turn-by-turn directions, real-time traffic details, accident reports, gas stations, banks, rest stops, and even a local search feature make up the Trapster service. Here’s a video presentation of Trapster to better understand what it’s all about.
“Knowing traps are up-to-date and accurate is incredibly important for Trapster users. Thus, we've built Patrol, a feature that places a blue line on roads that other Trapster users have recently driven down,” the folks at Trapster reveal. “This inherently raises the confidence factor on the road. We've also added 'road hazard' alerts, including accidents, road closures, road kill (a serious safety issue in some places), children at play, brush fire, dangerous intersections, icy and flooded roads, and construction zones, for example,” the company says.
Via a newly added Caravan feature, Trapster users can see friends and fellow service users in real time on the map, and send audio, photo, and other messages, either to one friend or the entire group, or Caravan.