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Pathshare GPS Location Sharing APK

Latest Version 2.0.8 for Windows
Updated 2022-12-09

App information

Version 2.0.8 (#134)

Updated 2022-12-09

APK Size 6.1 MB

Requires Android Android 5.0+ (Lollipop)

Offered by freshbits GmbH

Category Free Social App

App id ch.freshbits.pathshare

Developer's notes Track and share your GPS location in realtime with anyone you choose.

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Latest updates

What's new in Pathshare GPS Location Sharing 2.0.8

+ Fix location background tracking issues

Hint: For Android 10+, please go to app settings > permissions > location and tap on “Allow all the time” if you want to use location tracking in the background.

Editor's review

Download the latest Pathshare GPS Location Sharing application, version 2.0.8, compatible with Windows 10/11 (using emulators such as Bluestacks), Android devices. This free Social app is developed by freshbits GmbH and is easy to download and install.

Previous versions, including 2.0.8, are also available. If you need help or have any problems, please let us know.

Description

ABOUT PATHSHARE

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!

** Best New App on Android Police **
** Featured on CNN and many Tech Blogs **
** Received Quality Label Swiss Made Software **

WHEN TO USE PATHSHARE

Share 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 location

PATHSHARE 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 browser

HOW DOES IT WORK?

• 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.

App permissions

Pathshare GPS Location Sharing 2.0.8 APK requires following permissions:

Allows access to the vibrator.

Allows applications to open network sockets.

Allows applications to access information about networks.

Allows an application to write to external storage.

Allows an app to access precise location.

Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.

Allows access to the list of accounts in the Accounts Service.

Permission an application must hold in order to use ACTION_REQUEST_IGNORE_BATTERY_OPTIMIZATIONS.

Allows an application to read from external storage.

Ratings and Reviews

Rating: 3.8/5 based on 2+ reviews

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2 ★ 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????

5 ★ Fantastic app. Works exactly as described. Super easy.

1 ★ Deleted and re installed but still can't past, the enter your name screen.... Keeps saying, please enter name regardless of what I enter

5 ★ Best app

1 ★ Keeps crashing.

5 ★ Love it!

5 ★ good

1 ★ 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

4 ★ 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.

1 ★ Can't start new session

4 ★ 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.

1 ★ 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.

4 ★ 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

4 ★ 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.

2 ★ 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.

Previous versions

Pathshare GPS Location Sharing 2.0.8 APK for Windows (#134, 6.1 MB)