
Glympse -Share your location 4+
Glympse Inc.
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Glympse makes it easy to temporarily share your live location with friends, family, coworkers, or clients — no sign-up required. Whether you're meeting friends, organizing a large event, coordinating a delivery, or managing mobile teams, Glympse gives you a fast, secure way to answer the question: “Where are you?”
Just send a Glympse link and let others see your real-time location on a map — from any device, no app needed. You control who sees you and for how long. Location sharing expires automatically. Glympse works seamlessly across popular mobile devices, so everyone stays connected.
This is real-time location sharing, done right. This is how you Share Your Where®.
Why Glympse?
No sign-ups required for end recipients
Cross-platform: works on any device or browser
Auto-expiring location sharing for privacy and peace of mind
Free to use, with optional Premium features for events and businesses
Everyday Uses
Let friends know when you’re on the way
Coordinate family meetups or school pickups
Track kids, carpools, or teams temporarily
Keep your customers informed with live ETAs
Replace vague texts with real-time clarity
Power event tracking with branded maps
Premium Features — Boost Your Brand, Power Your Events
Glympse Premium Shares
Perfect for businesses that want to look professional while improving operations. Premium Shares reduces call volume, increases transparency, and makes your brand stand out during every customer interaction. Add your logo, colors, links, and messaging to every location share. Ideal for:
Home services & HVAC
Limo & rideshare fleets
Couriers & mobile service teams
Appointment-based businesses
Glympse Premium Tags
Create a branded, trackable map for your next public event or mobile operation. Premium Tags help the public follow your journey in real time, all wrapped in your own look and feel. Customize it with your logo, route stops, and a memorable tag name (e.g. !SantaParade2025). Ideal for:
Food trucks & pop-up businesses
Parades & community events
Marathons & races
Traveling shows or rallies
Secure Group Sharing
Private Groups: Create invite-only Groups to share real-time locations among trusted members. It’s great for families, travel groups, and sports teams.
Glympse Favorites
Quickly share your location with the people you connect with most. Save your go-to contacts,like family, close friends, or coworkers, as Favorites for faster sharing with just a tap. No need to scroll or search every time.
Built for Privacy
We pioneered safe, temporary location sharing in 2008 — and we’ve stayed true to our values. Your data is never sold. Viewer links don’t require logins. Sharing is short-term by design.
Map display for non-app users may be imprecise in Japan, China, and South Korea due to regional mapping limitations. In-app users are not affected.
Download Glympse for free today and experience the smart, safe way to Share Your Where®.
Terms of Use: https://corp.glympse.com/terms/
What’s New
Version 4.0.17
Introducing our new Glympse Premium Shares feature and a new modern UI!
Ratings and Reviews
Awesome app
Glympse allows me and my wife to make most of our time. We both have to commute but only have one car. I cannot use public transport to work, so I use the car. I drop off my girl friend at the train stop every morning before I drive to work, however, picking her up in the evening is not that easy since I might be stuck in traffic or her bus/train is caught up by the rush hour. Being on each others' screen through Glympse makes it much easier to still time our pickup well. If she is running late, I go to the store adjacent to the train stop first. If I am running late, she walks towards the way she sees me taking on glympse.
Also, for longer driving without the other you can always make sure you know what's going on so that I can have dinner on the table by the time she is home for example. We seriously use Glympse every day. Just great!
Super App with occasional hiccups
2024 December Update: Not sure when this happened, but Glympse no longer sends your location unless it is running in the foreground. This makes it near useless to me now. Typically I’d send the Glympse to my family and then pull up my map app for the trip. Letting Glympse run in the background, so I could navigate highways and traffic with my favorite traffic app. Bummer. Looking for alternatives now. Dropping rating by a star so now rating it at a 3 star app.
2021 Update: My old review below had a request for creating a Glympse for more than 4 hours, they have done that. Not sure which update created this but now the app shows every recipient as NEVER VIEWED even if they have viewed. I get the notifications if they check the link, but the app continues to show them as NEVER VIEWED. A software fix is required.
Love it. Would like to see the ability create a longer time. 4 hours is not enough sometimes. After a recent update, when sending a Glympse via txt, the app says it was sent, but it really wasn't. If I reboot my phone, it starts working properly again--for a time. Then reverts to inaccurate "Glympse sent" messages.
I only want location-- NOT an app-determinedroute
I now understand this is a rather restrictive "navigation" appI that pre-determines a route. This restriction does not meet my need for an app that simply indicates my location without presumptive route "clutter". I need to inform another only my current location--not upon an app-determined route as the app's solution is most likely not my intent. I ride a mountain bike upon trails: even when choosing the bike icon; the app indicates dots upon most-direct roads to a destination I eventually intend to get to upon multiple select trails. So, sharing my location data that is laid upon an assumed route misleads the tag receiver. This can also apply to anyone who might be out for a joy-ride such as with family who might go to s movie, than a restaurant not yet predetermined and then shopping, etc; too much to preload!. If the app allows one to remove the predetermined route--I haven't found how to control that feature via extensive time in the online manual and searches to include whether the paid version of the app provides that capability. So, I'll go elsewhere for an app that simply provides location!
App Privacy
The developer, Glympse Inc., indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Used to Track You
The following data may be used to track you across apps and websites owned by other companies:
- Usage Data
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Location
- Contact Info
- Contacts
- User Content
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Glympse Inc.
- Size
- 60.8 MB
- Category
- Navigation
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Arabic, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Vietnamese
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Location
- This app may use your location even when it isn’t open, which can decrease battery life.
- Copyright
- © 2025 Glympse Inc.
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Premium Tag 1 $9.99
- Premium Public Tag 1 $99.99
- Premium Share Single Monthly $9.99
- Premium Share MultiUser Month $19.99
- Premium Tag 2 $9.99
- Premium Public Tag 2 $99.99
- Premium Public Tag 3 $99.99
- Premium Share Single Annual $99.99
- Premium Public Tag 4 $99.99
- Premium Share MultiUser Annual $199.99