Bluelane

I’ve been using this app for years to share progress with friends and family during hikes or road trips. Take some time to experiment with the app over the course of a couple of weeks and find the settings that work best for you. You can choose from high precision, at the cost of more battery and data or you can choose smart mode which is still very accurate but saves a lot of battery and data because it only updates on significant position changes. With the new Siri shortcuts added, you can now even share a trip with friends and family without taking your hands off the wheel. You can also generate a link and share it anywhere, via message, social media, whatever you want just paste the link. Excellent app.

I've tested this app with a friend who lives across the country from me, and he was able to track in real time my entire day's travel; even showing my various speeds on various roads and the amount of miles driven for that route. Be aware though, that if you use your iPhone during tracking, tracking will pause for the person watching you on the PC map, but it resumes again, and "catches up" with the route tracing when the call is complete. However, using the Magicjack app or any other "data" type phone service on the iPhone does not affect the tracking. Both of us were amazed with the accuacy of this app and how easy it is to use. Simply click "share" and send a link either by email or message, and the person you want to track you can then click the link and be taken directly to a live map. It works GREAT and worth the purchase fee.

My wife is a runner and I am her photographer. Problem is it is difficult to get pics of your runner if you don't know where they are on the course. I was very skeptical about this App especially with the $4.99 price tag. I was concerned that this App would not update regularly enough to be useful, but this App performed above my expectation. My initial test realized my hope that this app was tracking in real time. I watched my wife run to the end of the block and turn down the next street and the blip on my phone mimicked her exact location and movement with little or no delay. This App worked perfectly to track my wife at the Twin Cities Marathon and know exactly where she was the whole time. I got some great photos as a result. Well worth the price tag for me and my family. I knew when to start taking photos and my kids knew right when to start cheering for mom! Loved that you can share the live track with non-app user on a simple browser with a short URL. Many of my wife's friends were able to virtually participate in her achievement and cheer her on via Facebook. I would love to see continued improvements in this App and the online data available on the web. Would love to see track data stats online like: pace/speed, average speed, max speed, start time, end time, duration, distance, altitude, altitude gain. Wish I could see my geolocation in relation to the tracker, this would be handy in finding each other after an event. Would also be great to knowing that the Track App had been stopped or ended by the App user. Thank you for a great App that works like I hoped!