Glympse - Share GPS location

Temporary location sharing

Glympse - Share GPS location lets you send your live GPS position to another person for a limited period. It is suited to meeting friends, updating family during a journey, coordinating a carpool, or helping someone follow your arrival. Instead of keeping location sharing running all the time, you choose when to share and how long the link should remain active.

Useful for senders and recipients

The person receiving your location can follow it through a web link, so they do not necessarily need the Glympse app themselves. The shared view focuses on movement, map position and arrival information, making it practical for someone waiting at home, at a pickup point or along a route.

• Share a live journey with a chosen contact.
• Let the location broadcast end automatically after its selected time.
• Use private groups for people who need to coordinate together.
• Support service and delivery use cases with branded tracking experiences where available.

What to expect

Glympse is a focused navigation utility rather than a social network. Its main strength is control over short-term sharing and the low effort required from the recipient. That makes it a sensible choice for occasional journeys and organised meetups, especially when not everyone wants to install another location app. Coverage and map behaviour can vary by region, with limitations reported in China, Japan and South Korea. The interface is functional, though it may feel less polished than newer consumer mapping apps.

At a glance

Published by Glympse, Inc in Maps & Navigation, the app has a 4.1/5 rating from 115,203 reviews and 5,000,000+ installs. It is best for people who want to share where they are going without leaving an open-ended location trail.