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24 alternatives to Open-Source Real-Time Location Tracking and Sharing Project in Flutter

Hey everyone! I’m thrilled to announce GroupTrack, an open-source project built with Flutter for real-time location tracking and sharing among users. Whether you’re keeping your family connected or ensuring safety among friends, GroupTrack offers a flexible solution for location-based features. What is GroupTrack? GroupTrack is a Flutter-based application designed to demonstrate effective real-time location tracking and sharing. It showcases how to manage continuous location updates in the foreground and background, implement geofencing, and customize maps to create an enhanced…

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Open-Source Real-Time Location Tracking and Sharing Project in Flutter launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Build live location sharing in your Android app. Contribute to hypertrack/live-app-android development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Building blocks for your location features

    2017 · hypertrack.com · its alternatives →

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    Flutter▲268

    Build beautiful native apps in record time

    2018 · flutter.dev · its alternatives →

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    Swarm 5.0▲426

    Keep up & meet up w/ your friends (pre-launch)

    2017 · swarmapp.com · its alternatives →

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    Broadcast your current location to any chat in real time

    2017 · telegram.org · its alternatives →

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    Meet people nearby using ephemeral video.

    2016 · flutter.me · its alternatives →

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    Private group travel made easy

    2017 · its alternatives →

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    Pathshare▲122

    Realtime location sharing app

    2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    The easiest way to share your location.

    2015 · transitory.me · its alternatives →

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    This proof-of-concept project combines: - Flutter, from Google; - ClojureDart, port of Clojure to Dart from Tensegritics; and - Matrix, a reactive framework from moi. So, yes, we can now program Flutter with a Lisp. Yay. Project includes dozens of working examples and a full implementation of the TodoMVC classic to help tire-kickers play around. Support installing freely available on the #matrix channel on the Clojurians Slack.

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Mapkin▲162

    The first GPS w/ crowdsourced voice guidance

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    Hatch▲137

    A photo-sharing experiment. Follows tags, not people. iOS 8.

    2014 · its alternatives →

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    Real-time location sharing for groups and events

    Mar 2026 · grouptrack.canopas.com · its alternatives →

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    Wife of an app-builder here. My husband quit his full time job at Apple to work full-time last year on a new social audio app where you are anonymous and there are no videos or images - people can only connect with their voice. The app has been up for just less than 2 months, and it was incredible to see 300 users from all around the world leave voice messages of support for each other. It definitely restored my faith in humanity, so much so that I decided to jump on board as a co-founder :) We are on a mission to end loneliness that is gripping our world today, and we hope you also come…

    2023 · bubblic.app · its alternatives →

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    Build live location sharing in your iOS app. Contribute to hypertrack/live-app-ios development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Beacon▲84

    Navigation sharing made simple and easy

    2021 · jatter.ai · its alternatives →

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    I hope you are doing better today than yesterday. (TLDR in the comments; or enjoy my story :) ) Why: About 11 months ago, I launched my app for the first time on Reddit's r/lonely because I had previously experienced loneliness myself during grad school. I wanted to reach out to people going through similar experiences by providing them with what would’ve helped me in the past. I felt this was an important mission for me and a much more rewarding one than my day job that I quit my job to work on the app full-time. It was necessary because I did not come from a programming background. I…

    2024 · main.d1lmgoealm7rq0.amplifyapp.com · its alternatives →

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    Live location sharing for people who just want to meet.

    Jun 2026 · fiveminbro.com · its alternatives →

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    Real-time group tracking with a live map & SOS & more

    Jun 2026 · its alternatives →

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    I'm doing a new Show HN[1] as we have now made this open source, and got some interest in comments in the past few days. We initially built this app for some friends in a co-living community - they were using pen and paper to track who's attending lunch - but it was error-prone. First I suggested a shared Google Sheets or Calendar, but that was also messy to maintain. Eventually, I developed something just for them. They used it for a couple of years, they loved it and wanted to use it for more things, too. So I took all the learnings from what was now the MVP, and with some friends we now…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I have been working on a new mountain biking app for the last year called Hangtime. It is a free ride computer app that uses a smartphone's GPS, accelerometer, gyroscope, and altimeter to track a mountain bike ride. After recording a ride, the user can go back and see their performance in turns, jumps, climbs, etc. Below is a video that shows off some of the app's features. https://youtu.be/TXiwzf-UJhQ I wasn't sure I could get the performance required from Flutter/Dart vs. native as a one hour ride generates well over a million data points from all of the sensor data.…

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    Share your current location as easy as possible. Create Longitude links and send to your friends whenever you need to see each others location. Shown in real-time on a beautiful map!

    2013 · longitude.me · its alternatives →

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    Flutter▲12

    Framework to build cross-platform mobile apps

    2015 · flutter.dev · its alternatives →

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    Hello HN! We're a new startup out of Vancouver, BC, Canada consisting of 2 people. We've spent the past 3 months building our product from the ground-up using Flutter/Dart, and are finally ready to start sharing it with the world! The idea to build Metriport was mainly driven by our own need for such a tool. There were a bunch of existing apps for journaling, habit tracking, water intake, health device integration, spending tracking, etc, but nothing that met our requirements: • Everything in one app: nothing would let us track whatever thing we could think of, with the data…

    2022 · metriport.ai · its alternatives →

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