Pointly - sms location sharing
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About Pointly - sms location sharing
This is a BETA version, but looking for wider feedback than limited group.
Share your location to your family, friends, loved ones, privately, all via SMS!
App lets to share your location on demand when requested by other members of your private group. No data plan needed, all happens through SMS! Internet Permission only to send Crash Reports.
Integrates with Tasker / AutoVoice to trigger locating a family member with ease without touching a thing!
1. Setup a task in Tasker to open the app.
2. Use some variable like "%avcommnofilter" in the Data field.
3. Setup AutoVoice plugin to invoke this task. AutoVoice command can be something like "locate my", "find my", "where are you" etc.
4. When you say these commands followed by who you want to find like "locate my son", the app automatically launches a location find for that person. All happens automatically.
Data is not sent to any cloud servers. Does not run in background, so does not drain your battery. Totally on-demand.
More features coming soon.
Email me for your feedback, issue resolution and new feature requests. Please remember, this is still in BETA.
Share your location to your family, friends, loved ones, privately, all via SMS!
App lets to share your location on demand when requested by other members of your private group. No data plan needed, all happens through SMS! Internet Permission only to send Crash Reports.
Integrates with Tasker / AutoVoice to trigger locating a family member with ease without touching a thing!
1. Setup a task in Tasker to open the app.
2. Use some variable like "%avcommnofilter" in the Data field.
3. Setup AutoVoice plugin to invoke this task. AutoVoice command can be something like "locate my", "find my", "where are you" etc.
4. When you say these commands followed by who you want to find like "locate my son", the app automatically launches a location find for that person. All happens automatically.
Data is not sent to any cloud servers. Does not run in background, so does not drain your battery. Totally on-demand.
More features coming soon.
Email me for your feedback, issue resolution and new feature requests. Please remember, this is still in BETA.
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What's Changed
Ability to send / push location on-demand.
Works with iOS as well. iOS app coming soon.
Ability to send / push location on-demand.
Works with iOS as well. iOS app coming soon.
More downloads Pointly - sms location sharing reached 100 - 500 downloads
More downloads Pointly - sms location sharing reached 50 - 100 downloads
Version update Pointly - sms location sharing was updated to version 1.0
More downloads Pointly - sms location sharing reached 10 - 50 downloads
What are users saying about Pointly - sms location sharing
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Works exactly as advertised !!! It's really a neat trick to use SMS (Text) to share location. You can both share and query.
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Excellent app for a country like India which has less internet penetration....
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Excellent app for country like India which have less internet penetration....
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Works great even in area with low data coverage.
by T####:
Looks like I works fine. Simple app that works.