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, Forest: Tree Style Tab Manager, OwnTracks and iSharing.

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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...

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Find My Friends alternatives page was last updated Sep 9, 2022
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  1. Glympse icon
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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.

    54 Glympse alternatives

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Blackberry
    • Android Tablet
    • Windows Phone
    • iPad
    • Android Wear
    • Kindle Fire

    Glympse Features

    1.  Call recording
    2.  Surrounding recording
    3.  GPS Location Tracking

    Glympse VS Find My Friends

     
    Comments about Glympse as an Alternative to Find My Friends
    Guest
    Negative Jul 18, 2015
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    the location is only shared on demand.

    Guest
    Negative Jan 10, 2020
    0

    You can´t share location continuously, only for a max of 12 hrs and then you need to give permission again.

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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
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    Easily and privately stay connected with loved ones with invite-only circles that let you share locations and get notified of changes.

    51 Life360 Family Locator alternatives

    License model

    • FreemiumProprietary

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Blackberry

    Life360 Family Locator Features

    1. IFTTT icon  IFTTT Integration
    2.  GPS Location Tracking
    3.  Smart alerts
    4.  Integrated Chat
    5.  Location-based

    Life360 Family Locator VS Find My Friends

     
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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.

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • GB flagUnited Kingdom

    Platforms

    • Microsoft Edge
    • Google Chrome

    Forest: Tree Style Tab Manager Features

    1.  Location-based

    Forest: Tree Style Tab Manager VS Find My Friends

     
  4. OwnTracks icon
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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.

    18 OwnTracks alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Country of Origin

    • International

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad

    OwnTracks Features

    OwnTracks VS Find My Friends

     
    Comments about OwnTracks as an Alternative to Find My Friends
    Guest
    Negative Aug 9, 2019
    0

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

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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
  5. iSharing icon
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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.

    38 iSharing alternatives

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone

    iSharing Features

    1.  Push to talk

    iSharing VS Find My Friends

     
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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.

    44 People Tracker App alternatives

    License model

    Application type

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad

    People Tracker App Features

    1.  GPS Location Tracking

    People Tracker App VS Find My Friends

     
    • 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 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...

    73 Spapp Monitoring alternatives

    License model

    Platforms

    • Android

    Spapp Monitoring Features

    1.  Whatsapp call recording
    2.  Website Monitoring
    3.  Mobile tracker

    Spapp Monitoring VS Find My Friends

     
  8. LockOnMe icon
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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).

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Platforms

    • Android

    LockOnMe VS Find My Friends

     
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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.

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Country of Origin

    • GB flagUnited Kingdom

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • iPad

    Minutes Away Social Features

    1.  Live Push Notifications
    2.  Weather Alerts
    3. Google Maps icon  Google Maps integration

    Minutes Away Social VS Find My Friends

     
    • 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
  10. Miataru icon
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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.

    License model

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad

    Miataru Features

    1.  GPS Location Tracking

    Miataru VS Find My Friends

     
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    Locate friends and family by mobile phone number or email address for free.

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android

    Samly - Gps Location Tracker Features

    1.  GPS Location Tracking
    2.  Location-based

    Samly - Gps Location Tracker VS Find My Friends

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

    License model

    • FreemiumProprietary

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • GB flagUnited Kingdom

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone

    GeoZilla Features

    GeoZilla VS Find My Friends

     
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