Glympse - Share GPS location

Glympse

- September 7, 2016

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Description

Glympse is a fast, free, and simple way to share your location safely using GPS tracking in real time with friends and family!

No sign up required! Only those you share with can view your Glympse from any web-enabled device. Download Glympse today!

App Features:

✓ Easy: no sign up required or contact lists to manage
✓ Safe: your Glympse automatically expires
✓ Live: share location in real-time with dynamic map
✓ Open: share with anyone – no app required to view
✓ Passive: runs in the background
✓ Global: works anywhere you have GPS and a data connection

Use Glympse to:

✓ coordinate a social night out with friends
✓ let your spouse know your ETA when you’ll be home from work
✓ let your family know you are safe while running or cycling
✓ find friends at a concert festival
✓ provide a courtesy notice with ETA to a client when stuck in traffic
✓ share a charity run route with followers on Facebook or Twitter
✓ direct emergency personnel to you quickly

Note about PERMISSIONS: If you have any questions about which Android permissions we require or how we use them, please visit... http://glympse.com/perms

We LOVE TO HEAR FROM CUSTOMERS. If you have an issue or suggestion, please use the "Feedback" feature in the app.

Reviews

4.5

85,765 total

5 57,476

4 18,388

3 5,164

2 1,888

1 2,822

Mark Whitehead

Used to be a bit better I really like this, but it used to be more intuitive- it seems to take twice as many actions to start sharing your position. Personally I use it so the missus can ring for an ambulance if she sees my position stagnate for more than 15 minutes on a ride or run!

Chris van Voorst

Good app but hard on the battery Hey team! I like going for ALL DAY bicycle rides and was wondering if you could send a PING every five minutes instead of a steady GPS feed? Or have a setting that only notifies watchers if I am stopped for x number of minutes?

Camdy Shelton

4-Hour Limit! Useless for trips. You can only set a 4 hour limit, then you have to resend invites to anyone who is monitoring your GPS location. Not good for a teenager you're tracking or an elder senior citizen. They won't remember to invite everyone again while they are driving on a long trip. Absolutely useless.

Adam Umnikov

Surprisingly benign I was very disappointed when Google shut down Latitude. Glympse is the best substitute out there. It works as described, is cross-platform & doesn't decimate your battery. Locations are temporary/as-needed &, while default is 15 minutes, visibility duration can be set to whatever is desired/required. As a free app I thought there must be a catch, but I have yet to find one. This might just be one of the few truly functional & benign apps. Update:2 years later still use it all the time.

Thanks for support Ford Sync. Very useful tool. I am glad it works with Ford Sync. Thanks for this. As improvement i suggest glymps can work as background process and if i want to request someone location it would respond. So no need to share for location - just allow to be asked for location from specified people. Would be useful for kids phone l.

Julie Child

Really stupid You have to send a request to your family member to let you know where they are and they have to answer you. No help if you are trying to locate a teen or their lost phone. When my son answered me, it transmitted as some dude in Saudi Arabia. Worthless!

User reviews

Mark Whitehead September 11, 2016

Chris van Voorst September 21, 2016

Camdy Shelton September 12, 2016

Adam Umnikov September 17, 2016

September 11, 2016

Julie Child September 10, 2016

Bryan Barnett September 22, 2016

Good service, terrible UI I don't know what I did before Glympse, it provides an invaluable service to me and my wife. We can get great travel times and estimates with it. But this UI is terrible. Sending a Glympse requires me to go to 4 different screens and menus, each with very different places to tap on the screen. If there was a simpler UI design or favorite preset Glympses this app would get 5 stars.

Sean Foster September 22, 2016

Support sucks My GPS no longer shows my speed. Has been broke for about a year now. Will rate higher when speed is fixed. Nexus 6 running stock marshmallow 6.0.1 non rooted. Contacted support twice over a year span and got the same generic response. Hello, Thanks for your interest in Glympse! This is currently a known issue that occurs on a small number of devices, such as the Nexus 6. We have logged this bug and are working towards a resolution. Apologies for the inconvenience. Let us know if you have any other quest

Philip Frey September 26, 2016

Nice idea Brilliant idea. Not so brilliant realization. Sharing a glimpse is not intuitive enough yet. Going back to save a setting? Relevant buttons on the top left corner that is hard to reach when operating the phone with one hand?

lyndi bach September 28, 2016

Almost perfect Love the app. Only part that needs improvement is c when somewhere shares a glympse with you, you're not anle to see ETA, however when you click the weblink and open via web instead of app, you're able to see ETA. Why cant i see tjis on the actual app?

Laura C. September 16, 2016

I Really HATE YOU Still problematic...gives the movement for about 2 minites then stops in its tracks and about 5 mins later they're in a far away location, wtf. Its not safe to use at all! Toss it!! This thing has been driving me insane since the last update. Constant notification sounds so I have to disable this thing. Good, I really worry leaving my young teen daughter alone while doing community service, Please fix this i CAN NOT 100% uninstall Glympse because it preinstaled with my S6 and continues to run, HELP!!!!!!

Alex F September 16, 2016

Issues expiring a share Starting about a week ago, I noticed that the app is having a real delay in stopping a shared Glympse. It used to be very fast, not so much now.

kcmurphy72 September 14, 2016

Great for travel anxiety I have a friend who has a terrible time driving around town. She has an anxiety attack if she feels that nobody knows where she is if she's running errands and her car breaks down or something like that. Now all she has to do is send me a glympse with the shortcut on her home screwed, and she feels much better knowing that somebody can see exactly where she is, but only one she wants them to

Brian Schaaf September 13, 2016

Needs improvements Too many steps involved to see a glympse and to send a glympse. New version pops up a different page and makes me manually switch to app to see a glympse. Also, it should be much easier to set up a group and invite other users to the group.

Daniel Rice September 8, 2016

Not as good as it used to be. No longer automatically recalculates your route or your timings, and doesn't even show speed. The viewing options for the map are also gone. The core functionality is there, but that's it.

Graham Smale September 16, 2016

Love it. Except.... This is awesome. I use it all the time. I only wish there was a way to see who has the app, and request through that instead of it sending a text. Maybe I'm doing something wrong

Chelsea Lomicka September 11, 2016

Awesome app that works for any phone I love that I can send this two iPhone or Android and everyone guess it. The only thing I would request is a way to easily see who has viewed your trip.

Gary Coupe September 7, 2016

Useful, reliable, easy to use.....& free! Incredibly easy to use, both for me & anyone viewing / tracking my location (no need for the 'viewer' to install anything). It will use some power, but its reasonable, and runs nicely in the background. I use it to give ETAs when meeting people & a quick, accurate way to give them my, or find thier location, especially in unfamiliar places. This app is perfect for keeping an eye on family (especially kids), when knowing where someone is provides safety & peace of mind. One of my 'must have' apps.

Christopher Kagen September 25, 2016

Cool functions, glitched twice In two days of use, twice it thought I was somewhere other than where I was, and once it stopped tracking me for about 5 min (while Google Maps still tracked me, so GPS was working). Other than that, it worked well for synching up two groups on a bike trip.

Heather Bennett September 10, 2016

Awesome! A true life saver in more ways then one. The Cajun Navy Relief used this to help save many lives during the flooding.

September 20, 2016

Does the job. Wholly removes the need for the "When are you getting here?" "Not sure, traffic is worse than I expected." phone calls.

Fixit Mug September 15, 2016

Great for the worrywarts I love that I can share information through this app, to help calm the fears of my relatives and friends , who worried about me traveling alone.

Emmanuel Reyes September 10, 2016

Still No Google sync I like most of the features of this app. Sadly there is no sync with your Google account just Facebook. Will be nice so save the favorite when you sync your account.

sam elloit September 16, 2016

On a Samsung 4 it decided to quit No vehicle no streets no traffic no nothing. Uninstall reinstall erased formatted did it all same s*** different day.

Kevin Down September 15, 2016

Great 4 my commute home My Friday night commute home is 130 miles. I work in Nevada and drive over the Sierra Nevadas to California late Friday nights. This app provides a way for my family to see where I am and how long it will be before I am home. It works reliably and accurately.

September 15, 2016

ETA 2.0 Gone are the days of I will be there at ____ oh wait no I just made a stop now it's +10 min. Great app with a easy to use interface.

Finn Herzfeld September 13, 2016

Pretty good Leaves me wanting small changes, such as the ability to run my own server (privacy and such). Excellent idea and pretty good execution over all

Liz Foeller September 13, 2016

Great App especially for safety For those who travel for work, its a great way to let other know your ETA and remain hands free.

nathiya srinivasan September 8, 2016

I'm very satisfied with glimpse. But it shows maximum 4hours only. If we want to see a whole day what should we do or some other app will do that ah?

Kristina Anderson September 10, 2016

Awesome I love this app. I use it with friends to let them know eta. Very awesome when your making dinner for friends but you don't want dinner to be cold or gross by the time they get there. Love it!

David Hughes September 12, 2016

Excellent, my family uses it daily. My wife sends us a Glympse when she is leaving work so we know when to expect her.

Linda Varnadore September 25, 2016

I don't like to be told i have to turn on my GPS on my phone for my friends to see my location why can't i just have my location turned on?if I turn on GPS it kills my battery quick???

Brad R September 19, 2016

Dog finding champions. We now use glympse in case the dog goes missing. It enables is to coordinate our search better.

Mike Palmer September 25, 2016

Great I use this app for keeping students/parents informed of our location on school trips. It's great!

Joshua Teixeira September 16, 2016

Great replacement for Latitude! I love the real-time updates and group sharing. My only wish, like so many others, is a longer viewing window for trips longer than 4h.

Jacob Hayslett September 19, 2016

Great App The only thing I wish it had was being built into messaging app like it was on my Verizon phone other then that this app is amazing!

Neal Hughes September 11, 2016

Clunky interface but works very well Xperia Z5 compact

James Freeman September 18, 2016

Awesome App Pretty accurate and serves its purpose very well.... Works great on my android S4

Steven Deeds September 12, 2016

Easy to use Simple way to share your location with family or friends. Easier than Waze IMHO.

Logan September 26, 2016

Awesome for commutes I commute 35 miles to work. Sometimes it takes me 30 minutes to get home, sometimes 50 depending on traffic. This app is a great way to let my wife know where I am, how fast I am going, and give her a decent idea of when I will be home. Awesome app!