# Gowalla

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/gowalla/  
**Website:** https://gowalla.com  
**APIs profiled:** 0

Gowalla is a location-based social check-in application that lets people keep up with their friends in the real world by checking in at places, sharing their location, and collecting stamps and passport-style travel memories. Originally launched in 2007 as a pioneering location-based social game, Gowalla was acquired by Facebook in 2011 and wound down in 2012, then relaunched by founder Josh Williams in March 2023 as an iOS app before active development was paused in April 2023. The app remains available on the App Store and continues to operate on a limited basis, recruiting early testers through its Street Team program. Gowalla historically published a Check-In API with OAuth 2 support (2010), but no public developer API, SDK, or documentation is available today. This profile was surfaced as a portfolio company of GV (Google Ventures) and added to the API Evangelist network as a consumer-sector lead.

## Kin Score — 5.0 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 5.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Security (1)

- **Gowalla Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DNSSEC

## Tags

Company, Consumer, Location, Social, Check-in, Mobile, Geolocation, Maps

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/gowalla/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.