Pathshare GPS Location Sharing is an app by freshbits GmbH in the Social category. It has no native code, so it runs on any Android processor.
It asks for 16 permissions, 5 of them sensitive, including precise location, location in the background and find accounts on the device.
What's new in v2.0.8
+ 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.
Description
From the listing uploaded by “appupdater”.
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.
Security & authenticity
Security rating: Trusted
Signing certificate
Certificate issued to “freshbits GmbH”The developer's name — though anyone can put any name in a certificate.
Store checks and file details
Developer signature verifiedOct 17, 2021
Antivirus scan result not available
Signed byCN=Thomas Maurer, O=freshbits GmbH, L=Zurich, ST=Zurich, C=CH
Uploaded by “appupdater”Gold tier · 117,810 followers · uploading since 2020
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Permissions (16)
Pathshare GPS Location Sharing requests 16 permissions, 5 of them sensitive.
Find accounts on the deviceSensitiveandroid.permission.GET_ACCOUNTS
Location in the backgroundSensitiveandroid.permission.ACCESS_BACKGROUND_LOCATION
Pathshare GPS Location Sharing APK: questions and answers
Can I install this APK over the version I already have?
Only if it is signed with the same certificate as the copy on your phone and isn't an older version. If Android says “App not installed”, the certificates differ; uninstalling your copy first works but deletes its data unless it is backed up.
Is the Pathshare GPS Location Sharing APK safe?
No one can promise that a file is safe, but some things can be checked. The source store rates this file Trusted. After downloading, check that the file's MD5 is fb27a15f7a09387fbb81c89b9177ca7c.