Hauk

Varden Development

About this app

Hauk lets you share your location in real-time with friends and family for a specified period of time. Meeting up with someone? Send them a Hauk link, and they can follow your location live on a map until you arrive to meet them.

This app requires that you have installed the Hauk backend on a server. Please see https://github.com/bilde2910/Hauk for backend installation instructions.

Required permissions:

* ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION - for getting your location, so that it can be shared
* FOREGROUND_SERVICE - for keeping the share running when the app is minimized
* INTERNET - for communicating with your Hauk backend server

Hauk does not share your location data to anywhere except the Hauk backend server you specify within the app. A unique link will be generated for your location share when you start sharing; anyone with this link will be able to see your location in real-time for as long as you are sharing.

Ratings and reviews

17 August 2023: The app and developer is still alive. Developer just updated it and it continues to be the best non google or "de-googled" live gps app available. Version: 1.6.2 Zero trackers June 9 2021: Fantastic!

Interesting project. Giving it 5 starts because the demo was easy to follow and worked the first time. Keep up the great work y'all.

So simple and useful. I use it all the time via my Raspberry Pi home webserver

What's new

This updated adds support for Android versions up to Android 13. Due to compatibility issues, support for Android 6 has also been dropped in this release for now.

For the full changelog, please see https://github.com/bilde2910/Hauk/releases.