Articles and recommendations of the user-generated local review site Qype can now also be read on the Apple iPhone. The location aware application Qype Radar is now available via the iTunes store for free. With Qype Radar on the iPhone users can search for interesting places and services nearby. This can be helpful when visiting and discovering a new city.

First, the respective present location of the user is determined by GPS, then Qype Radar shows the relevant entries with further information such as address, phone number, web address as well as photos and ratings of others. Alternatively, users can also search for entries pertaining not to their own but to another location.

Qype contains user generated reviews of more than four million locations in Germany, in German, English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese. The iPhone application Qype Radar contains more than 500,000 entries for places in Germany and other countries. Qype Radar for the Aple iPhone can be downloaded for free on http://www.qype.com/qype-radar. Users of the iPhone can also surf another version of the Qype website optimized for mobile phones. On m.qype.com reviews and recommendations can also be read with other cell phones.