CROWDS5 Apps to Avoidthe

In a city of eight million  you’re never alone.

swarmsBut avoiding the Big Apple

overloadand escaping social media

innovative mobile appsis a whole lot simpler with these five

Density is a sleek, savvy traffic detection system that uses infrared distance sensors to anonymously detect when someone enters or exits a place of business, counting traffic at trendy bars, grocery stores...and maybe one day even at the DMV.

Density

The California-born device gives users an accurate gauge of the number of visitors at a given time, and is expected to roll out in New York by the end of this summer.

Anti-SocialAnti-Social is a mobile plug-in designed to

free us from our social media addiction.

It lets users set periods oftime, up to 8 hours in length,

during which all phonenotifications are disabled.

Which means social media games, ads, posts, comments, and photos are all tucked away for a scheduled block of serenity.

Avoid HumansIn response to the 90,000-strong crowd at SXSW last year, an Austin ad agency rolled out Avoid Humans to help ease anxiety amongst attendees.

The fast-growing app works to manage crowding in different categories like food, nightlife, and coffee with color-coded prompts of overcrowding danger: green is good and red means avoid at all costs.

Avoid the Shopping Crowds

Designed to keep the noble holiday shopper away from the swarms during the holidays, Avoid the Shopping Crowds partners with Facebook, Foursquare, and Twitter to monitor posts, check-ins and tweets.

The app then monitors where all the peopleare converging, and updates users where not

to be. Updates on shoppable locations featureprompts like “calm”, “busy”, and “forget it”. Theapp is available in the Netherlands but similar

apps are already developing in the U.S..

Google

Using its unrivaled algorithms and live analyses, tech giant Google has introduced a live app that helps you avoid the bars, restaurants, andother businesses with lines around the corner.

Piggy-backing off its Popular Times tool, whichlets users know when a business is at its busiest,Google’s latest iteration determines how crowdedthe neighborhood is within a specified hour, using

historical data on a business’s peak hours.

In an age and a city in which people interact as continuously with their devices as they do with each other, it should come as no surprise that apps, plugins, and tools are popping up everywhere to solve the issue of overcrowding.

And whether it’s stealing one last Indian summer day, or de-stressing over a pizza, a little patch of peace and quiet in the big city is worth some extra space on the home screen.

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