Glympse – Share your location
Glympse is an app that lets you temporarily share your real-time location with family, friends, coworkers, and more. It visually answers the question, “Where are you?” Glympse gives people and businesses the power to securely and temporarily share real-time locations, regardless of the type of mobile device they own.
The app uses your phone's GPS feature to allow you to share your location in two ways:
Via a web-based map for a pre-determined period of time with anyone you choose who doesn't have the Glympse app
Within the Glympse app for a pre-determined period for those who, like you, have downloaded the Glympse app.
Sharing your location with someone is called “sending a Glympse.” A Glympse is sent as a link via text message. When recipients click on the Glympse link, they can view your location on a real-time map using any web-enabled device, provided you choose to share it with them.
Send a Glympse to let your friends know you’re on your way to meet them. Request a Glympse from a colleague who’s running late for a meeting. Set up a Glympse Tag with your cycling club. Create a Premium Glympse Tag for an upcoming local Santa Claus parade. Those you share with can view your Glympse on any web-enabled device, no sign-up or app required.
Glympse is a pioneer in location sharing. Since 2008, we’ve been providing solutions that enable communication between the right people, at the right time, when it matters most. Our solutions operate successfully with minimal data retention, and by default, we don’t keep, collect, or sell data.
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Glympse Private Groups
Glympse Private Groups is a Glympse feature that creates a private, invite-only group. You give members control over who can be a member. All members of a Group can share their location and request the location of other members – all visible only to those in the Group. Private Groups are ideal for sharing with family, carpools, sports teams, groups of friends, and more.
Glympse Tags
Glympse Tags is a Glympse feature that allows you to quickly view and share your location with multiple friends on a single, shared Glympse Map. Glympse Tags are public spaces (similar to Twitter/X hash tags) where anyone who knows the Tag name can view the Tag Map and add themselves to that map. When you view a Tag Map, what you see is a map of people who have opted in to join the Tag Map (example: !SmithFamilyReunion or !SeattleCyclingClub).