Glympse - Share GPS location

Glympse, Inc

In-app purchases

About this app

Glympse is an app that lets you temporarily share your real-time location with family, friends, co-workers and more. It visually answers the question, “Where are you?” Glympse gives people and businesses power to share real-time locations safely, securely and temporarily, regardless of what type of mobile device they all have.

The app uses the GPS capability in your mobile phone to let you share your location in one of two ways:
Via a web-based map for a predetermined period with anyone you choose who does not have the Glympse app
Within the Glympse app for a predetermined period for those who, like you, have the Glympse app downloaded.

Sharing your location with someone is referred to as "sending a Glympse." A Glympse goes out as a link via text message. When recipients click on the Glympse link they can view your location on a map in real-time using any web-enabled device for as long as you choose to share with them.

Send a Glympse to let friends know you are on your way to meet them. Request a Glympse from a colleague who is running late to a meeting. Set up a Glympse Tag with your biking club. Create a Glympse Premium Tag for an upcoming local Santa parade. Those you share with can view your Glympse from any web-enabled device, no sign-up or app required.

Glympse is the pioneer of location-sharing. Since 2008, we have been providing solutions that offer communication between the right people at the right time when it matters most. Our solutions operate successfully with minimal data retention, and by default, we do not keep data, nor do we harvest or sell it.

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Features
Glympse Private Groups
Glympse Private Groups is a feature in Glympse that creates a private, invite-only Group. You give members control over who can be a member. All members of a Group can share their location and request the location of other members – all visible only to those in the Group. Private Groups are ideal for sharing with family, carpools, sporting teams, groups of friends and more.

Glympse Tags
Glympse Tags is a feature in Glympse that allows you to quickly view and share location with multiple friends on a single, shared Glympse map. Glympse Tags are public spaces (similar to Twitter/X hash tags) where anyone who knows the Tag name can view the tag map and add themselves to that map. When you view a tag map, what you are seeing is a map of people who have chosen to join the tag map (example: !SmithFamilyReunion or !SeattleCyclingClub).

Glympse Premium Tags
Glympse Premium Tags is our premium offering in Glympse that provides customization options to personalize and brand the Glympse experience. You can create a one-of-a-kind experience by uploading your logo and branding, map out certain routes you plan to make stops at, as well as other branding elements. Glympse Premium Tags is ideal for events such as community parades, Santa parades, food trucks, marathons, and so much more.

Ratings and reviews

Mostly good and has recently had a UI update. One really annoying thing though, when tracking someone until recently it showed their user ID and speed above their location, which was useful. Now you just get a pointless circle with no information. Bring the useful information back for a full 5 stars! The speed info was a good indication of traffic.

Usually a five star. But... today it gave me bad directions. Wanted to go to Blyton Park Race Track. Checked the location and driving time on Google Maps before I left. Upon leaving, created a Glympse for my friends, including the location. It *appeared* to find the correct place (certainly had the right name) and then asked if I wanted directions using Google Maps. I said yes: my mistake! Glympse had the wrong location for the destination, but when it transfers you to Maps, it navigates to the *address* it thinks you want. So Maps was navigating me to where Glympse had told it, not doing anything wrong. Luckily I got suspicious about halfway there that it was taking me to the wrong place (8 miles away from where I wanted to go), and restarted my Maps navigation to the correct destination. Glympse - please improve the quality of the map data that your software uses/licenses. Otherwise, the app works well for me and would usually get 5 stars.

Brilliant app, as a hot air balloon recovery vehicle we are able to follow the flight path and estimate where the balloon is flying to and likely to land. Overlayed onto maps we can see in advance where there are landing spots and so can drive ahead ready for them. Otherwise we have to use radio comms and paper maps to do this. Having to have or be a map reader and know how to convert coordinates onto a paper map is a lot less stressful. Its also great when travelling in convoy.

What's new

Bug fixes and minor enhancements.