Foursquare split into two apps in 2014, and now they’re killing one of them°.

What you need to know:

• Foursquare City Guide (restaurant finder) = shutting down
• Swarm (check-in app) = stays alive

Swarm remaining alive is good news for me — I use it daily to track where I’ve been. It builds a nice personal location history without any effort.

The City Guide app had value. When traveling it often pointed me to restaurants that weren’t in the top Google or TripAdvisor results — useful when struggling to book a table.

Foursquare as a company isn’t going anywhere. They’ve transformed into a location data provider, powering features in apps like Snapchat and Uber. The City Guide shutdown just makes that B2B shift a bit more official.