Are you a parent who is always worried about the safety of his kids or someone whose friends are never on time and won’t even reply to a text or a call? The times that you waited anxiously for your children to reach home safely or were left annoyed at the bar will be a thing of the past as we are here.
Now, you do not need to scores of texts and call again and again to inquire about the whereabouts of your family and friends as a simple smartphone application can do the trick for you. Here is a list of Android applications that you can use to track the real-time location of your loved ones.
#1. Familonet
Available for free at Apple App Store as well as Google Play Store, 'Familonet' is perhaps the best tracking app out there. If you are concerned about your privacy, then this is perhaps the best option for you as it does not connect with the Google or Facebook account. All you need to create an account here is your name and your phone number. You can also choose to stop broadcasting the location and get off the grid. It also has a notification option which tells you when one of your contacts arrives at a particular destination.
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#2. Find My Friends
In case your loved ones are using an iPhone, 'Find My Friends' app is another great option for you. From locating loved ones on a map and sharing your location with them to chatting with them and even get directions, this application does it all for you. We suggest you give it a try at least once before moving on to another app.
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#3. Life360 Family Locator
Similar to Google Plus, the Life360 Family Locator app uses ‘circles’ to manage your contacts. What you do is you create circles and add contacts to them and decide how much information you wish to share with each group. Every circle has a private map and every member of a circle can see another member’s location; hence, an ideal app from a family.
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#4. Foursquare Swarm: Check In
If you wish to turn sharing location fun for your friends and family, then Foursquare Swarm: Check In can be great. Whenever someone checks into a location, they earn points and the application displays a which ranks your contacts in terms of check ins. Furthermore, when you check into a location, you not only share your whereabouts with your friends but also get to know who is nearby.
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#5. Glympse
Glympse has developed a loyal fan following for itself, especially among professionals, over the past few years. It comes with an inbuilt messaging tool which lets you get in touch in an instant. Since it only gives a ‘glimpse’ at the location of the person you are trying to coordinate with, only lasting for about four hours at a time, it may not be the best option if you wish to track the real-time location of your kids.
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If you are looking for applications that can help you recover your lost iPhone or keep your precious data from getting into the wrong hands, then here is something that can help!
Which one of these have you found to be the most useful? Is there any other application that is having the doing the trick for you? Share it with us by leaving comments in the box below. We also have a poll for you, do not forget to vote there.
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