MeetMe iPhone app uses Yelp to help find a place to meet

Meeting someone for a business lunch? Catching up with old friends? Just need to find a place to grab coffee on the way to work? There’s an app for that! MeetMe is an iPhone application that helps you find places to eat, shop, drink, whatever between any two points. The idea is to help two people find a good place to meet somewhere between them, but you can also use it to find a good restaurant, motel or bar on the way to your destination.

MeetMe works by scouring Yelp’s directory of businesses and displaying results between two points. You enter in addresses for Point A and Point B, decide what kind of businesses you’d like to see listed, and map those businesses on a map. MeetMe will automatically adjust its results based on how close to Point A or Point B you’d like to meet. Again, your Point A and Point B could be the locations of you and your friend, or you can use it as a starting point and ending point for a trip.

Meeting places are displayed with Yelp ratings to help you decide which place is best for you. Once you set a meeting point, you can get driving directions to the location. You can even email the details to your colleague or a group of friends.

The app is all kinds of finger-friendly and the UI is quite polished. It’s apparent that MeetMe was developed with an intuitive UI in mind. The app has proven as good as it looks, too. Other meeting-place apps have suffered accuracy problems, but MeetMe has so far performed well.

Find MeetMe for $1.99 (iTunes link) on the AppStore.