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Reply to: #954946 by Revolutionary Faery
Dec 30, 2017 8:26am
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Box Radar works just like you describe. It is not currently being actively supported and the current version is several years old but it works just fine for me to search for AQ boxes on my Android phone. It used to also work to display LbNA boxes but something changed a year or more ago and those boxes no longer show up for me. I'm looking at Box Radar right now and I see quite a few boxes in and around New Paltz that I have not yet located.

There is also a different app available for iPhone users.

Good luck with your dispute with the universe. I think I know how you feel.

PI Joe
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Reply to: #954946 by Revolutionary Faery
Dec 30, 2017 8:28am
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If you have a smartphone, you have that ability without an extra app. Just click on ‘simple search’ and next to the location box click the word ‘Here’. And it will bring up all of the nearby traditional boxes radiating from the point you are standing. You can make that search function a button on your home screen that makes it even easier.

Also, there are a couple of apps already out there. “Clue Tracker” is one.

I fought getting a smartphone at first, but after owning one I would never be without one again.
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Reply to: #954947 by PI Joe
Dec 30, 2017 9:06am
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The box radar app doesn't work with newer phones. It was nice because it organized the boxes neatly and made it easy to log then as found.
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Reply to: #954946 by Revolutionary Faery
Dec 30, 2017 9:22am
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Everyone else answered the app question pretty well, but I'll also point out that there is information in the help pages about app support.

Maybe the app could format the clue to make it easier to read on a fancy phone?

The clues on AQ already are formatted a bit differently to make it easier to read on fancy phones. I know a lot of AQ is not smartphone friendly--I've been updating subsystems for years now and fixing that as I go along, but the options to search for boxes and read clues have already been through that process. And with the "here" button on the search pages, it's actually pretty easy to run a search for nearby boxes in a readable manner on a smartphone. As long as you have cell phone coverage....

-- Ryan
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Reply to: #954949 by photopam
Dec 30, 2017 5:22pm
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I think my phone is pretty new and box radar still works for me. (Samsung s7 I think)