# Glympse -Share your location

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Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id330316698](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id330316698)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id330316698`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Glympse Inc.
- **Category:** Navigation
- **Rating:** 4.80 / 5 (48,995 ratings)
- **Version:** 4.0.33
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-26
- **First published:** 2009-10-12
- **Size:** 59 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-21
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/glympse-share-your-location/id330316698)
- **Website:** [http://glympse.com](http://glympse.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [http://glympse.com/privacy](http://glympse.com/privacy)

## Description

Glympse makes it easy to temporarily share your live location with friends, family, coworkers, or clients — no sign-up required. Send a link and others see your real-time position on a map, from any device, with auto-expiring shares and privacy controls over who can view you and for how long.

Premium features let businesses add branding to shares and maps, while Secure Groups and Favorites simplify coordinating with family, teams, and customers. Viewers don’t need logins, and location data is short-lived by design. Note regional map limitations for non-app users in some areas.

## Rankings

- #6,232 — Overall
- #34 — location

## Review summary

Users find Glympse useful for live location sharing and arrival timing across devices, but stability and UX have declined. Repeated reliability glitches, foreground-only restrictions, increased ads and billing issues, login problems, and a more complex sharing workflow are common complaints. The app can be very helpful when it works, but consistency and ease of use have diminished in recent updates.

### Pros

- Easy sharing of live location with family and friends across iPhone and Android.
- Shows arrival time and distance, helping coordinate meetups.
- Generates a shareable location link, making it simple to send to others.
- Useful for travel, safety, and coordinating group activities (e.g., family trips, biking, ballooning).
- Free basic tracking with broad compatibility.

### Cons

- Reliability issues: glitches, freezing, not updating location or speed, or crashing.
- Foreground-only operation: recent updates require the app to be in the foreground to share location, reducing background tracking.
- Ads and billing problems: intrusive ads and charges after cancellation.
- Login/verification problems: difficulty logging in or verifying email, and accounts not recognized at times.
- Usability and workflow friction: more complex sharing process, harder to stop sharing, and limits like only 5 recipients.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id330316698)