Free Android App to Share Your Location Via SMS, Facebook
MapsToMe is a free Android app to share your location with your friends, colleagues, or family members, simply via SMS, Facebook, Twitter, Hike, WhatsApp or any other social media platform. Most of the times, it becomes difficult to share location and identify where the person is located exactly.
This Android app has made it easier, as it lets you share your location with any desired person in real time. This app does not require GPS or any sign-up, rather just requires your internet connection. This app lets you share your location to the already existing phone contacts or via social media network. This convenience definitely sorts out the issue faced by most of us while moving on to unknown location.
The best part of this Android app is that, it does not compel your friends or other close ones, with whom you are sharing your location to install this app on their Android device as well, which is quite a good factor. The only thing recipient person should have is internet connection, as it generates the URL, which can be opened in any internet browser.
You can share your location with suggested contacts as well as those who already exist in your contact list just via single click. You can also checkout the route to the location in order to reach the unknown new location, without any problem.
How to Share Your Location Using This Android App?
You can install this app from the link provided to you at the end of this review. You can immediately launch the app as it does not require any details or sign-up. All you need to have is enabled internet connection and phones location, and this app with generate your current location in few seconds soon after the launch.
The moments it generates your current location, it displays a "Share" option and a "Share" icon, which you can use accordingly.
You can tap on the "Share" option when you wish to share your location via SMS or native messaging app. The moment you tap on the option, it quickly displays all your contacts from where you can select multiple at once, without any restriction and share you location via messaging app.
Similarly, you can tap on "Share" icon to share your location via third party apps. The moment you tap on the icon, the entire list of third party app will be displayed on the screen, from which you can choose the desired one and perform the steps in order to share your location.
This app will generate your location in form of URL, which can be open in any browser or via MapsToMe, if the person is already having this app installed on the device.
We shall recommend you to keep this app locked so as to prevent unauthorized access. You can secure apps via apps locker application to avoid access to private apps.
My Verdict:
MapsToMe is one of the simplest app that I have come across that lets you share your location in the way you like. This is the most convenient way to share location no matter which device the receipt person is using, as it just requires your internet connection to track the location.
Grab this MapsToMe Android App here!
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