Pathshare GPS Location Sharing
Pathshare is a beautiful app that helps you share your path in realtime. It was designed to be simple to use and make realtime location sharing a safe experience. With Pathshare, you can easily setup a session with your friends and share your location for a defined period of time. You and only you are in control of for how long you want to be seen by other participants! And there is more: Pathshare will automatically stop sharing your location when the defined time expires. That’s safe and easy!
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* Best New App on Android Police ***
* Featured on CNN and many Tech Blogs ***
* Received Quality Label Swiss Made Software **WHEN TO USE PATHSHAREShare your realtime location the next time you are
• on a night out with friends
• stuck in a traffic jam and late for dinner
• on your way home: no texting while driving!
• heading to a professional meeting and want to make your business partner aware of your arrival
• want to know your kids are safe at school
• shopping with the girls and lost them in the mall
• skiing or snowboarding in a group and want to join on the other slopes
• in an emergency situation and want to let help find the exact locationPATHSHARE IS REALTIME LOCATION SHARING
• It's fast, it's realtime
• It's safe
• It's exceptionally easy to use
• You control how long you're sharing and when Pathshare stops automatically
• Pathshare runs on your Android device, your iPhone and your web browserHOW DOES IT WORK?
• Enter your name or nickname and you're ready to start sharing your location. No sign up or user accounts required.
• Tap on the round button to start sharing your location. It's as simple as that!
• To actually share your location, you need to enable your phone's location services and allow Pathshare to use them.
• Please allow Pathshare to read your address book so that you can share your location with your friends from within the app.
• Choose a time duration you want to share your location for. Pathshare will automatically stop sharing your location after this time expires.
• Send the invitation as a link via your favourite messaging app.
• Join a session by accepting the invitation you received from your friends. Simply tap on the link within the text message.
• Watch your friends move on the map in real time. See their speed. See their motion activity.
• Select a session participant from a session list to zoom to their location.
• Switch to satellite view.
• Zoom to all participants.
• Read notifications about nearby participants, session joins and leaves.MAIN FEATURES
• Realtime location sharing: Let your friends see you moving on the map in realtime.
• Group sessions: Share your path with an entire group from your address book.
• Device independent: Run Pathshare on iOS or Android
- or in a web browser on any phone or computer and watch your friends even if you don't have the app installed.
• Safety included with active duration control: No location sharing after you left the session or it has expired.
• Security enabled: All data is transmitted over SSL, which is the same protocol as your bank uses for its e-banking services.
• Simple usage: Easy to set up with no accounts required. Automatically runs in background.
• Notifications: You get notified when other participants join or leave a session, and when they are nearby.
• Global availability: Pathshare can be used at any location with GPS and data connection. People all over the globe use it since it is available in all app stores. The app already features English and German with many more languages to come.REQUIRED PERMISSIONS
• Location services: To let you share your location with your friends.
• Access network and internet: To connect to our servers.
• Storage access: To save user and current locations of participants on phone.
• Activity recognition: To show participants your motion activity type.
• Identity, notifications, vibrations, wake lock: To let you know about nearby participants via notifications.
Category : Social
Reviews (21)
Great at what it does. I use it almost daily. 5 stars if we could add simple label waypoints and an easy way to share GPS coordinates to people that dont have the app, even if we have to pay for those features. Now is a good time to take over motion x customers *hint hint. I know of about 18,000 fellow employees that are looking for the next best gps app.
Easy and simple. Unfortunately missing the key feature of 'GPS update period' which would save lots of battery. Also amazing is needs to send 18MB of data over 6 hrs... For just GPS and speed info.... Why????
great app used to work flawless.... but now wont run at all since up date to android 10....on a sonim xp8.... help!!!! only 1 star till fixed thanks update sept 16 still sits at intro screen and wont move on and skip is stalled as well still nov 2 update ....still not working on this sonim xp8 used to......#+$------$$-$-&&
Not a fan of the web interface with a big logo and a massive banner with links to download the app
Deleted and re installed but still can't past, the enter your name screen.... Keeps saying, please enter name regardless of what I enter
Best app
Love it!
I would constantly have to uninstall and reinstall the app. It would not save the duration time of each session that I wanted, it kept defaulting to 30 minutes
How can I get the latest update for Android? I have Version 1.9.5. I am not getting the same features as I-phone is and they are 2.5.3.
I am a little concerned about the terms and conditions that seem to permit the developers the right to do anything they please with your data, however, a if you can get over that it is better than anything in this class. Can't be touched by Glympse or the express version. It's clean, simple, functional and add free, similar to the now unsupported Mobi but better.
Pathshare? It's rather pointshare. Almost useless if you can't define destination for your share. Take a look at Glymplse. Learn. Develop new, better Glympse. Uff. Google is finally implementing this feature in Google maps.
Crashes in tunnels and by crossing the border 🛂 and changing sim cards - the observers just say that the dot stuck at the border. Glympse has no such problems but instead it has this stupid 4h limit... Hope they will fix pathshare. Random crashes are bad especially at the border as the family following my travel is scared that I was stopped for many hours and I need to call them every time to say I am okay.
I am most impressed by the way this app has combined simplicity, intuitive interface and powerful functionality. I would have given it five stars if this version included the Low Battery consumption eco mode of the professional version. I am training for a 12 hour trail run and it is vital that support and family can follow my progress. But the one dollar per day cost of the professional version is unreasonable for private use. I sympathize with your business needs but suggest you instead have a premium ve
Nice and does what I need. I have 2 wishes: 1) Keep GPS active while a session is created/joined. I will obviously not keep my phone awake the whole time I wish to share my position! For now, I use "GPS Keep" to keep it on. 2) Add some "Update frequency" option. I only have 100mb/month and too many updates eat my data plan.
Much easier to use then Glympse
This is a fantastic app. We will be using this with 67 users in 2 weeks for 5 days straight. Looking forward to see it perform.
Used to be a 5 star rating, but for the past month or so, all I've gotten is "communication error". Good program when it works.
Stuck on intro page. Can't skip. Keeps returning to the same screen.
Using it for cycling activities. Does the work with sober app and webapp. No ads. No accounts required. Simple to use... Continue in that way !
Does not allow me to even open the actual app. It has me on a continuous introduction loop that doesn't let me get out. Help?
Pretty much what I was looking for, but would really like the ability to change update intervals to preserve battery life. I'm going on a week long bicycle trip without signal for a chunk of it and wanted to send my family a ping every hour or half hour with my progress but didn't want to constantly run a real time GPS tracker to preserve phone battery.