Crowd Connected vs Foursquare
Crowd Connected
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| Figure | Crowd Connected | Foursquare |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | $25/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| iOS | Yes | Yes |
| Android | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 20 | 13 |
| Spec score · Location Intelligence Software | 9.3 (#1) | 9.3 (#2) |
| Founded | 2013 | 2009 |
| Integrations | Documented integrations include MapsPeople, Mazemap, Mappedin, Point Maps, Visioglobe, Pushwoosh, Airship, Salesforce, OneSignal, AWS Pinpoint, AWS SNS, APNS, Expo and Firebase. | Foursquare says its data is delivered through more than 550 integrated partners, including AWS and The Trade Desk. |
| Rating on G2 | 3.5 out of 5 from 3 reviews for the Crowd Connected product profile. | G2 lists 16 Foursquare product reviews; its visible ratings distribution shows 14 five-star and 2 four-star reviews. |
| SDKs | Crowd Connected publishes mobile SDK documentation for iOS and Android, including integration guides, API references and migration material. | Official developer documentation lists Movement SDK for iOS and Android, Studio Data SDK and Map SDK for webpages and Jupyter notebooks. |
| What it does | Crowd Connected provides indoor and outdoor positioning, blue-dot navigation, footfall analytics, asset and wearable tracking in one platform. | Foursquare is a geospatial intelligence platform for marketing, spatial analysis, developer applications and points-of-interest data. |
Plans
Crowd Connected
- FreeFree
- Permanent Indoor Positioning FreeFree
- Permanent Indoor Positioning Standard0.05 USD/EUR a year
- Standard$0.05 a year
- Attendee Tracking (UK)£8, paid once
- Attendee Tracking (US)$10, paid once
- Permanent Indoor Positioning Starter55 USD/EUR a month
- Basic$2,000 a year
- Permanent Indoor Positioning Basic2,000 USD/EUR a year
- Event Apps SDK Small8,500 USD/EUR, paid once
Foursquare
- FSQ Spatial Desktop – BasicFree
- FSQ Spatial Desktop BasicFree
- FSQ Spatial Studio – CommunityFree
- FSQ Spatial Studio CommunityFree
- Places API Pro (0–500 calls)Free
- FSQ Spatial Desktop – Standard$25 a month
- FSQ Spatial Desktop Standard$25 a month
- FSQ Spatial Desktop – Pro$100 a month
- FSQ Spatial Desktop Pro$100 a month
- FSQ Spatial Workbench Developer$250 a month
In their own words
Crowd Connected
Crowd Connected provides indoor and outdoor positioning, blue dot navigation, footfall analytics, and tracking for assets and wearables. For event attendee tracking, battery-powered Bluetooth beacons detect wearable tags and record attendance, arrival time, dwell time, and movement without badge scanning. Its analytics include near-real-time heatmaps, map regions, and device-count and dwell-time charts. Indoor positioning combines Bluetooth beacons with machine learning to self-calibrate, without manual calibration or fingerprinting. A single location SDK supports indoor and outdoor positioning in mobile apps. MapsPeople and Mazemap are integrated, and the platform can import IMDF maps from Mappedin, Point Maps, and Visioglobe; PNG and JPEG uploads are also supported. Apps can restrict background data collection to selected places and times. The service is offered on Android, iOS, web, and API. Crowd Connected Ltd, founded in 2013, is headquartered in Guildford, Surrey, UK. Its permanent indoor positioning plans list different area capacities and support levels, from limited email support to managed service.
Foursquare
Foursquare provides location intelligence tools for marketers, developers, analysts, and machine learning engineers. Attribution measures advertising impact across media plans and platforms. Audience builds customizable targeting groups from real-world behaviors, and Proximity supports real-time geo-contextual targeting with custom geofences. Places APIs supply real-time place data for applications and nearby venue discovery.
For spatial analysis, Spatial Workbench brings SQL workbooks, geospatial computing, dashboards, and interactive maps into a browser workspace. It uses pre-provisioned MotherDuck instances and builds maps with Kepler.gl. Foursquare Studio connects to Snowflake and BigQuery, plus QGIS, Grafana, and kepler.gl. It also offers REST API and Python library access, and supports importing and exporting CSV, GeoJSON, Shapefiles, and Vector Tiles. Places API charges by volume on a pay-as-you-go basis, with up to 10,000 free calls on Pro endpoints. Foursquare has free plans, a 30-day trial, and paid plans from $25/mo. The listed platforms are API and web; the company was founded in 2009.