First the phone, then texting, now Ripple Tag. Patent Pending Ripple Tag is a free Android GPS app that lets you securely share your location and see your friends’ locations – then communicate with each other in real time. It’s location sharing that is as simple as sending a text message – and it’s 100% free!
Select Location Sharing OptionsYou simply select which friends you want to share (and see) locations with by looking them up in your address book or typing in their mobile phone number. There are also a few other simple session options you can set.
SendNext, you send them a message and allow them to accept your invitation and join your Ripple Tag “session”.
See and connectVoila! Everyone who accepts the invitation is shown on the map in real-time, and can now connect and chat with one another. Finally, an Android friend locator app that’s free and easy.Unlike other free GPS apps, you are in complete control of your session. You can set how long it lasts and who you invite. Ripple Tag is a completely secure and private location sharing app. When the timer runs out on your session it ends. You can set a session to last for 5 minutes or 5 days or forever. It’s all up to you.
Other features of Ripple Tag:Multiple Sessions – Have a session with your family, another for business, and another for friends. Have as many as you want.Groups – You save your friends into your favorite groups for easy session start.Directions – Meeting with a friend? Just select their icon and get directions right to them.In app communication – Select your friends icon and you text or call them privatelyHide your location – Don’t want to be found for a while? You can hide your location in one session or all your sessions or you can leave a session anytime you choose.Social Integration – Want everyone to know where you are? Just publish it in app with Facebook or Twitter.Meet up with your friends – Need to select a meeting location? Just use the search function, find a place to meet, and set it as the destination, everyone in the session sees it and knows where to go.Group communication – Use the chat feature to talk to everyone in the session
VERSION HISTORY
- Version 1.0.4 posted on 2011-07-07
- Version 1.0.1 posted on 2011-06-08
Several fixes and updates
Program Details
- Category: Communications > Other
- Publisher: Ripple Mobile LLC
- License: Free Trial
- Price: N/A
- Version: 1.0.4
- Platform: android