Find My Friends Alternatives

Find My Friends is described as 'Use Find My Friends to keep track of your traveling companions when you’re on vacation. Or to see if the kids are home from school. Or to find the friends you’re meeting for dinner' and is an app in the travel & location category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Find My Friends for a variety of platforms, including Android, iPhone, iPad, Web-based and Android Tablet apps. The best Find My Friends alternative is Glympse, which is free. Other great apps like Find My Friends are Life360 Family Locator, iSharing, Forest: Tree Style Tab Manager and OwnTracks.

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  1. Glympse icon

    Glympse

     31 likes

    Glympse is the easy way to safely share your location in realtime. No sign-up needed. No social network to manage. Just send a Glympse to anyone via email, SMS, Facebook, or Twitter. Your location is only shared for the duration you specify and then stops.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Blackberry
    • Android Tablet
    • Windows Phone
    • iPad
    • Android Wear
    • Kindle Fire
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    Comments about Glympse as an Alternative to Find My Friends
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    Negative
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    the location is only shared on demand.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    Guest
    Negative
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    You can´t share location continuously, only for a max of 12 hrs and then you need to give permission again.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    Glympse icon
    • Glympse is Free and ProprietaryFind My Friends is also Free and Proprietary
  4. iSharing icon

    iSharing

     4 likes

    iSharing allows you to easily locate your friends and family from your Android phone, iPhone and iPad. iSharing uses the latest GPS technology available to provide the most accurate GPS locations.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
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  5. Forest: Tree Style Tab Manager icon

    Forest: Tree Style Tab Manager

     4 likes

    Forest is a simple app that lets you see who is at a specific place at a glance. Set up a forest for anywhere you like, tell your friends to join and see when they're in.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Microsoft Edge
    • Google Chrome
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  6. OwnTracks icon

    OwnTracks

     9 likes

    OwnTracks is your location companion, it allows you to keep track of your own location. You can build your private location diary or share it with your family and friends.

    23 OwnTracks alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
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    Comments about OwnTracks as an Alternative to Find My Friends
    Guest
    Negative
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    Only creates a location history, does not share current location information.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • OwnTracks is Free and Open SourceFind My Friends is Free and Proprietary
  7. People Tracker App icon

    People Tracker App

     3 likes

    People Tracker App allows you to stay connected to your employees, friends, family, co-workers... or anyone else you want to locate in real time.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
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  9. Spapp Monitoring icon

    Spapp Monitoring

     33 likes

    Spapp Monitoring is the next generation of smartphone surveillance software. This mobile tracker application records the incoming and outgoing phone calls, sms and surroundings. It tracks gps locations, the browser activity and messages from applications like Whatsapp, Facebook...

    74 Spapp Monitoring alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Android
    Setup
     
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    LockOnMe

     4 likes

    LockOnMe is a flexible location-sharing app, displaying targets and/or associated Points Of Interest on OpenStreetMap & fun radars (incl. a "Motion Tracker" inspired by Aliens2).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Android
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  11. Minutes Away Social icon

    Minutes Away Social

     3 likes

    Create an event, invite guests, accept invitations & start on time with Minutes Away Social. You are also able to track the real time location & ETA of guests.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • iPad
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  12. Miataru icon

    Miataru

     2 likes

    Miataru is Japanese and means "be found" or "to come across" and it's meant to be a set of tools to allow the user to track locations and choose how to work with the data as well as how data is stored if at all.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
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  13. GeoZilla icon

    GeoZilla

     16 likes

    Keep track of your family and friends on your phone throughout the day and stay emotionally connected via private chat messaging.

    34 GeoZilla alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    Battery Savvy Tracking
     
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