WeTap Drinking Fountain Finder 4+
WeTap
Designed for iPad
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- Free
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Description
WeTap is a drinking water fountain locator!
Use the app to find free tap water near you or to map a drinking fountain that you've found in order to share it with others.
Find Water Fountains - Thirsty? Don't want to buy bottled water? Free, quality drinking water is probably available somewhere nearby. Just open WeTap and you'll immediately be shown water fountains near your current location that have already been mapped.
Share Drinking Fountain Locations with Others - If you find a water fountain, you can share it with other WeTap users by entering a few pieces of information. WeTap makes it quick and easy to help everyone find public drinking fountains.
Help Create Positive Change - Whether you're in your own neighborhood or looking for water in an unfamiliar city, you can help to encourage improved public water access. Add water fountains that are broken to the map and this important data can be shared with local city officials in order to help them improve community drinking fountains and public tap water access.
- Help the environment by reducing single-use plastic bottle waste.
- Save money by drinking free tap water instead of buying bottled water.
- Avoid PCBs and other chemicals found in bottled water.
- Help encourage the improvement of public water fountains.
- Promote water access as a human right.
WeTap hopes to accomplish many goals with one simple application. Start using WeTap today and join the community of people helping to make drinking water more accessible in parks, schools, sports stadiums, and for thirsty people everywhere!
What’s New
Version 2.0.3
Updated add fountain flow. Simply sign in and click the plus button to add a fountain right where you're standing!
Updated messaging system - In the fountain details pop-up, click the message icon to share a note about the fountain.
Ratings and Reviews
Nearly there
A great app, in the summer I do 30-40 mile cycles and this app is great for finding taps/fountains.
My only complaints are:
1) you can’t modify existing data, I have some better photos of nearby fountains but can only add a new ones, not edit existing.
2) you can’t add notes/comments about fountains. One near me was out of action for a few months - would have been nice to add a ‘maintenance in progress’ message.
Great idea not fully functional
Love the idea but added two taps today and camera was black. Couldn’t change in settings or save without photo
Great idea, still in its infancy, but has a lot of promise!
08 Nov ‘20
As another reviewer has noted, it is a great shame that this app never got further developed, or that it is possible to add to the existing data, for example to add photographs, or change the status of a fountain that is currently out of action. It has all the potential to be a five star app; such a shame that it apparently got abandoned immediately after “birth”
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15 Jul '15
On Sunday, out of the blue, all of the water fountains suddenly reappeared on the map, and suddenly the app was usable again! To celebrate, I walked the 4km into town and made a point of tracking and drinking from every single drinking fountain on the way, many of which I had never even noticed before, despite having walked that route many dozens of times. WeTap fills a great little niche in an often overcrowded app market and its database seems to be very comprehensive, at least if Zürich, Switzerland is anything to go by. Two stars reinstated.
However, this is very much a first attempt at a drinking fountains app. Yes, it allows you to add new fountains if they are not marked on the map, and also to take a photograph of the fountain, which is a nice touch. However, if you make an error in the "add" process, there is no way to correct the error, nor is it possible to add a photograph of an existing fountain, nor is it possible to provide status updates, such as if a fountain is not working, or simply not there any more.
I have written to the developer with these suggestions, and I hope that her response will be as quick as it has been in the last week. This app should be in the app toolkit of every keen walker, but it won't really come into its own until the users are able to contribute updates to the database. I look forward to developments!
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12 Jul '15
Have twice contacted the developer, but no response. Seems the app is dead.
With no data of drinking fountains, WeTap is just a map, and I already have a couple of map programs on my phone. One star reluctantly removed, but would be really happy to be a beta tester to make it work.
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26 Jun '15
I installed this app about a month and a half ago, and on the day of installation, it worked like a dream, showing me at all map scales all of the drinking fountains in my local area (Zürich, Switzerland).
However, the next time that I came to use it, it had lost all of its data, and was now nothing more than a map.
I logged out and logged back in again, deleted the app and reinstalled it, all to no avail. Nothing I have been able to do is bringing the database back. Which is a shame, because the idea is great. I even installed it from cold on my iPad mini, but again no database. And at the time of installation I had full cellular and wifi coverage.
Giving one star to something that does not work would be fair, but that would downplay the excellence of the idea. However, once it works, it will be a four or five star app.
App Privacy
The developer, WeTap, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Location
- Contact Info
- Identifiers
- Diagnostics
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Information
- Provider
- WeTap
- Size
- 46.5 MB
- Category
- Lifestyle
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © WeTap.org 2023
- Price
- Free