Scott Boms, creator of the new Where Now? app on iOS, writing about making the app back in January:
To my surprise, it didn’t take long to get an initial implementation of what I had in mind working and running on my own device. And from there it’s been fun to design the app iteratively in code. Swift UI is a blessing because it makes this fairly easy — allowing me to add new features and other improvements sometimes in just a matter of minutes.
Thoughtful and talented designers like Scott should make more of their own apps and I’m happy to see more people doing so.
Where Now? definitely looks useful. I installed it on my phone today. It is simple. You can manually or automatically save your private location history and be able to use it later. I can think of 100 reasons I will be able to use this app in my photography, hiking, traveling, fishing, and recently four-wheeling adventures.
Google Maps has/had a feature like this but I turned it off long ago. It is nice to have a private app from someone I trust.
I didn’t come into 2026 thinking that I’d make an app. In fact, I hadn’t considered such a thing in any serious way before, and yet, I managed to do it.
I can easily plug the data collected by Where Now? into my own remote and private API endpoint. If you don’t know what that is, don’t worry, Scott didn’t know how to build an app and he did. So get playing.