10 best location sharing apps for Android - Android

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There are plenty of reasons to share your location with friends and family. Here are the best location sharing apps!

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Where you are is really important. A lot of the rhetoric these days is about hiding your location from big companies like Facebook, Google, and other advertising platforms. However, you may want to share your location to your friends and family for various reasons. Some families like to keep track of one another for safety reasons. You may want to send your friend your location so they can come get you or find you. Whatever the case, there are location sharing apps available to you. Here are the best location sharing apps for Android!

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  1. Facebook Messenger
  2. Find My Kids
  3. GeoZilla
  4. Glympse
  5. Google Maps
  1. Life360
  2. My GPS Location
  3. Snapchat
  4. Carrier family locators
  5. Most GPS apps

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Facebook Messenger

Price: Free

Facebook Messenger is one of several good messenger apps with built-in location sharing. The app has to know your location for it, so it may not be a good option if you don’t trust Facebook. Otherwise, it’s actually quite easy. Just share your location and your friends can click on it and open a map. It’s a nice feature for quickly sharing a location without leaving it exposed to your friends or family. Of course, Facebook still knows so it may not be the best option for some folks.

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Facebook Messenger screenshot 2020


Find My Kids

Price: Free / $2.99 per month / $16.99 per year / $25.99 once

Find My Kids is a parental control app to help parents keep track of their kids’ location. You can see where the kids go and where they’ve been. It works pretty simply. The app opens and immediately displays the information to the best of its abilities. There is also an integrated chat, various security controls, and you can monitor the battery of your child’s phone. You can choose between a single price or a subscription. The $25.99 once license only works on three phones at once though.

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Find My Kids screenshot


GeoZilla

Price: Free / $59.99 per year

GeoZilla is a family locator app for everyone. It shows you where the kids are and it shows the kids where you are. The parents can also check location histories and the app has a chat function as well. It works pretty well even if it’s a tad basic. You can augment the experience with the company’s GPS tracker but it works just fine on your phone without the tracker. You can try it for free for three days before the $59.99 per year subscription kicks in so make sure you test it thoroughly.

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GeoZilla screenshot


Glympse

Price: Free

Glympse is another location sharing service and it’s not half bad. It uses its name as a verb for easier clarification. You send a Glympse to someone and they see where you are. Obviously, you can receive Glympses from others. This works as a location sharing app like most others. It also has the ability to set up events so you can see where everybody is on the big day. Most the complaints for this one are intermittent connectivity issues. Make sure you have a good Internet connection or it may not work right.

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Glympse screenshot


Google Maps

Price: Free

Google Maps is sort of the default option. Its location sharing function is actually really good and it’s probably the best alternative to Apple’s Find My location sharing. You simply add your friends or family to your Google Contacts. From there you open Google Maps, tap the profile image in the top right, and select the Location Sharing option. We like this option because you can set it for both temporary or permanent access. Plus, it’s reasonably accurate. Here is Google’s official tutorial in case you need to set it up.

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09/07/2020 01:30 AM