{"id":67003,"date":"2014-05-22T15:00:01","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T13:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=67003"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:40:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:40:45","slug":"app-of-the-week-marco-polo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/app-of-the-week-marco-polo\/","title":{"rendered":"App of the Week: Marco Polo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Softonic&#8217;s <strong>App of the Week<\/strong> highlights some of the coolest, most unique, and most interesting mobile apps for <strong>iOS<\/strong> and <strong>Android<\/strong>. This week, everyone&#8217;s favorite childhood game lands on iOS to help you recover a misplaced iPhone. The name of the game? <strong>Marco Polo.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>How does it work? Simple. Just turn on the app and let it run in the background. If you misplace your phone, <strong>yell out &#8220;Marco&#8221;<\/strong>. Your phone responds with &#8220;Polo&#8221;, and voil\u00e0, you&#8217;ve found it. Hopefully, at least.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of Brightcove Player --><\/p>\n<div>\nDefault player\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\nBy use of this code snippet, I agree to the Brightcove Publisher T and C \nfound at https:\/\/accounts.brightcove.com\/en\/terms-and-conditions\/. \n--><\/p>\n<p><object><\/object><\/p>\n<p><!-- \nThis script tag will cause the Brightcove Players defined above it to be created as soon\nas the line is read by the browser. If you wish to have the player instantiated only after\nthe rest of the HTML is processed and the page load is complete, remove the line.\n--><br \/>\nbrightcove.createExperiences();<\/p>\n<p><!-- End of Brightcove Player --><\/p>\n<p>Of course, the app isn&#8217;t perfect, but the concept is fun. Yelling &#8220;Marco&#8221; doesn&#8217;t always illicit a response from the phone, and you have to be careful with pronunciation in order to get a reaction. You can, however, change the voice of the app to 30 different &#8220;Polo&#8221; responses, and you can even customize the keyword so that you can yell out anything from &#8220;Columbus&#8221; to &#8220;Magellan&#8221; to find your phone. Running the app in the background will also take up a lot of battery life.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not a replacement for your iPhone&#8217;s <strong>Find My Phone<\/strong> feature, but it&#8217;s a fun concept with $0.99 price tag that could just help you find that lost phone between couch cushions. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Download Marco Polo for iOS\" href=\"http:\/\/marco-polo.en.softonic.com\/iphone\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Download Marco Polo for iOS<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Make sure to check out some of our past App of the Week features.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"App of the Week: TuneIn Radio\" href=\"http:\/\/features.en.softonic.com\/app-of-the-week-tunein-radio\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TuneIn Radio for iOS<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"App of the Week: KMPlayer for iOS and Android (video)\" href=\"http:\/\/features.en.softonic.com\/app-of-the-week-kmplayer-for-ios-and-android-video\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KMPlayer for iOS and Android <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"App of the Week: Frontback\" href=\"http:\/\/features.en.softonic.com\/app-of-the-week-frontback\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Frontback for iOS <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Softonic&#8217;s App of the Week highlights some of the coolest, most unique, and most interesting mobile apps for iOS and Android. This week, everyone&#8217;s favorite childhood game lands on iOS to help you recover a misplaced iPhone. The name of the game? Marco Polo. How does it work? Simple. Just turn on the app and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/app-of-the-week-marco-polo\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;App of the Week: Marco Polo&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2039,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-67003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330714,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67003\/revisions\/330714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67003"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=67003"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=67003"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=67003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}