# Real Time GPS Tracker

> Turns your smartphone into a GPS tracker device for online monitoring

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.app.realtimetracker](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.app.realtimetracker)

## Overview

- **ID:** `com.app.realtimetracker`
- **Platform:** Android
- **Type:** Android app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** SkyNavis
- **Category:** TRAVEL\_AND\_LOCAL
- **Downloads:** 211,429
- **Rating:** 3.94 / 5 (939 ratings)
- **Version:** 5.1.0
- **Last updated:** 2025-01-27
- **First published:** 2012-09-29
- **Publisher country:** HU
- **Size:** 43 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-12
- **Store listing:** [Google Play Store](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.app.realtimetracker)
- **Website:** [http://livegpstracks.com](http://livegpstracks.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://livegpstracks.com/docs/privacy-policy.html](https://livegpstracks.com/docs/privacy-policy.html)

## Description

**Real Time GPS Tracker** converts your smartphone into a powerful GPS tracking device, enabling real-time location sharing with family, friends, or colleagues. This extension seamlessly integrates with the LiveGPSTracks.com platform and the Mobile Dispatcher app, providing a user-friendly web service to monitor devices consciously and ethically.

Features include location sharing with explicit user consent, SOS panic button for emergencies, status check functions, and flexible configurations to optimize battery life. Users can record, save, and analyze routes in popular formats like GPX and KML. The extension enforces privacy by displaying persistent status notifications, ensuring users are aware when tracking is active, and strictly prohibits unauthorized or secret tracking. Its versatile application suits both personal use cases and business needs, offering a reliable and economical solution for GPS-based location tracking.

## Rankings

- #155,039 — Overall

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `android.permission.ACCESS_BACKGROUND_LOCATION`
- `android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION`
- `android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION`
- `android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE`
- `android.permission.ACCESS_WIFI_STATE`
- `android.permission.CHANGE_WIFI_STATE`
- `android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE`
- `android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE_DATA_SYNC`
- `android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE_LOCATION`
- `android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE_SPECIAL_USE`
- `android.permission.INTERNET`
- `android.permission.POST_NOTIFICATIONS`
- `android.permission.QUICKBOOT_POWERON`
- `android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE`
- `android.permission.RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED`
- `android.permission.REQUEST_IGNORE_BATTERY_OPTIMIZATIONS`
- `android.permission.SCHEDULE_EXACT_ALARM`
- `android.permission.VIBRATE`
- `android.permission.WAKE_LOCK`
- `android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE`
- `android.permission.WRITE_SETTINGS`
- `com.app.realtimetracker.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION`
- `com.google.android.c2dm.permission.RECEIVE`

## Review summary

Users generally praise the GPS tracking quality and ease of use, with many calling the app amazing. Recurrent downsides are heavy advertising and unclear or paid pricing, privacy concerns about data handling, reliability issues on Android car head units or when running in the background, and missing support for GPS/Bluetooth tagging features.

### Pros

- Good GPS tracking performance
- Easy to use / user-friendly
- Positive overall sentiment (amazing/awesome/great)

### Cons

- Excessive ads and unclear pricing
- Not free / paid access required
- Stability issues on Android car head units / background operation
- Privacy concerns about data sharing
- Missing support for GPS and Bluetooth tags

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.app.realtimetracker)