The phrase "allows users to locate" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a feature or functionality of a system, application, or tool that enables users to find something.
Example: "The new app allows users to locate nearby restaurants based on their preferences."
Alternatives: "enables users to find" or "permits users to discover".
In 2013, Chipotle released an Android app that allows users to locate nearby Chipotle locations, place an order, prepay with a credit or gift card, and access favorites and recent orders.
Highlight: From Description: "…[a] method that allows users to locate friends or other contacts, businesses, points of interest (POI's) or other locations, and manage this information in a user-friendly environment.
Mobike's orange-wheeled bikes have a GPS system that allows users to locate them using a map on the company's smartphone app.
Instead, it is once again Apple that seems to have cracked the problem, with Spotlight, a new feature in Tiger that allows users to locate anything on their computers, and "smart folders" that appear to build themselves.Mr Gates takes time to talk to journalists and puts up with their abuse; the press usually agrees that he is geeky and bullying.
Its products include Baidu Web Search, which allows users to locate information, products and services using Chinese-language search terms.
The app also comes with a remote ringer feature that allows users to locate their device once they are within close proximity of the phone.
Both Facebook and Twitter allow users to use the GPS feature of their phone to check in at their current location, and some specialized social-networking sites such as FourSquare allow users to locate friends nearby.
Its I-Nakba phone app will allow users to locate any Arab village that was abandoned during the 1948 war on an interactive map, learn about its history (including, in many cases, the Jewish presence that replaced it), and add photos, comments and data.
Both startups are sometimes called the "Uber of bikes" because they allow users to locate and unlock nearby bicycles though an app.
The hackathon group made up of Kevin Lay, Sid Bola, Nathanael Hardy and Ian McDowell used ARKit to bring AR visualizations into the app, allowing users to locate where their car is using a giant floating marker.
When it first launches, the MyTransHealth website will include a list of verified doctors in each city along with a detailed search feature allowing users to locate providers by the type of care they need.
