Comparison · checked September 2026

MyLoco vs Glympse

Both let you share your live location with a link that opens in any browser and expires. MyLoco is built around what happens when you’re done sharing it.

Glympse invented this category. It has let people send a live location link that expires since 2008, it is on iPhone and Android, and it is the name most people know for exactly this. It is a good product with a long track record, and this page doesn’t pretend otherwise.

So why does MyLoco exist? Because we think temporary location sharing should be even more temporary, simpler, and private by default: a share that ends without your help, a position that is erased the moment it ends, and nothing that follows you afterwards.

Side by side

Glympse column from Glympse’s own pages as of September 2026; details and dates under “How we checked.”

Why “temporary” is the whole difference

Glympse and MyLoco both put a timer on a share. The difference is what the timer means.

• When the share ends, the data ends. In MyLoco the position is erased the moment a share ends or is stopped, and the share record is deleted within a day. There is no history to browse, export or leak. Glympse’s privacy policy keeps personal location data for up to 48 hours and then uses it in aggregate. Both are honest policies; only one of them is “nothing.”
• Ending is the default, not a setting. Shares are 15, 30 or 60 minutes, or until you stop, and there is no extend button. If you need longer, you decide again and start a new share. That costs a tap; it also means a share can never quietly outlive the reason you started it.
• Nothing follows you. No accounts on either side, no advertising, no ad partner’s cookies in the app. The website runs analytics only on its marketing pages, only after consent, and never on a share page.
• The group version keeps the same promise. Everyone with the app shares on one live map, each on their own timer, and friends without the app can follow along in a browser with a watch link.

The long version of this argument is in Temporary location sharing, explained.

Where Glympse is ahead

A Glympse can run up to 12 hours and be extended while it runs, which suits a road trip or a long shift in a way MyLoco’s one-hour maximum does not. You can ask someone for their location instead of waiting for them to send it. The sender can set a destination so viewers see an ETA to it. Favorites make repeat sharing a tap. It is on iPhone today. And it has 17 years and a 4.8-star rating from about 49,000 App Store reviews behind it; MyLoco has a release from this month. If those features are what you need, Glympse is the better choice, and we would rather say so than pretend.

On iPhone

Glympse is available today. MyLoco’s iPhone version is with Apple for review. On Android, MyLoco is available now. If you’re on an iPhone and this page made sense to you, leave an email and we’ll send exactly one message the day it lands.

Building delivery or service tracking?

Don’t build location tracking. MyLoco for Business gives you an API that creates a temporary live tracking link your customer opens in a browser, with your name and logo on the page.

POST /v1/shares  →  tracking URL  →  live location for the customer
                 →  webhook when it ends  →  position deleted

Retention is off unless you turn it on (opt-in, up to 90 days, and it belongs to your business — the customer’s page says so). Plans start at $29/month after a free trial; the endpoints are on the API page. Glympse serves this market too: Premium Shares put your branding on shares sent from the app, Premium Tags make branded public event maps, and the enterprise platform covers large fleets and field-service operations with dispatch integrations. If you run a fleet with a dispatch system, look there. If you want one POST per job and prices on the page, look here.

Which one for what

• Meeting up, pickups, a date, a run: either. If you want the share to be over before you have to think about it, MyLoco. If you want to ask for someone’s location or share for half a day, Glympse.
• A group heading to one place: MyLoco if some of the group don’t have the app; Glympse Private Groups if everyone does.
• A small courier, trade or field-service business: MyLoco for Business for an API and a branded page per job. Glympse Premium Shares for branding on shares sent from the app; Glympse enterprise for a large fleet.
• A public event map (a parade, a food truck route): Glympse Premium Tags. MyLoco has no equivalent.
• iPhone: Glympse today; MyLoco when the review is done. Android: MyLoco now.

How we checked

Glympse facts come from Glympse’s own pages as of September 2026: the App Store listing (version 4.0.33, updated 26 August 2026), the app pages at app.glympse.com, the Glympse blog post on the timer feature (May 2024), and the privacy policy at corp.glympse.com (last revised November 2024). MyLoco facts describe the app as shipped. If something here is out of date, write to hello@myloco.app and we will fix it. Glympse is a trademark of Glympse Inc.; MyLoco is not affiliated with Glympse.

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