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 Easy Phone Track.

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  1. Glympse icon

    Glympse

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    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.

    55 Glympse alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Blackberry
    • Android Tablet
    • Windows Phone
    • iPad
    • Android Wear
    • Kindle Fire
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    the location is only shared on demand.

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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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    • Some users think Glympse is a great Find My Friends alternative, some don't.

    • Glympse is the most popular Android, iPhone, iPad & Android Tablet alternative to Find My Friends.

    • Glympse is the most popular free alternative to Find My Friends.

    • Glympse is Free and ProprietaryFind My Friends is also Free and Proprietary
  4. iSharing icon

    iSharing

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    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.

    41 iSharing alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

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

    Forest: Tree Style Tab Manager

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    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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  7. OwnTracks icon

    OwnTracks

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    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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    Only creates a location history, does not share current location information.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • OwnTracks is the most popular Open Source alternative to Find My Friends.

    • OwnTracks is Free and Open SourceFind My Friends is Free and Proprietary
  9. People Tracker App icon

    People Tracker App

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    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

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
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    • People Tracker App is the most popular commercial alternative to Find My Friends.

    • People Tracker App is Paid and ProprietaryFind My Friends is Free and Proprietary
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    Spapp Monitoring

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    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...

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Android
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    LockOnMe

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    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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  12. Minutes Away Social icon

    Minutes Away Social

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    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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    • Minutes Away Social is the most popular Windows alternative to Find My Friends.

    • Minutes Away Social is Free and ProprietaryFind My Friends is also Free and Proprietary
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    Miataru

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    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.

    33 Miataru alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
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