PhoneTrack SMS
Location sharing over SMS — no internet, no account, no data required.
gideontek Location Tracker & Sharer
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Description
Location sharing that respects your privacy and your data plan. This phone track app (PhoneTrack SMS) responds to text message requests with your GPS coordinates — no internet required, no account needed, no data used.
It focuses on one thing and keeps it simple. A trusted contact texts your keyword and the phone texts back a location and an OpenStreetMap link. Need regular check-ins? Subscribe for periodic updates that include how far and which direction you've moved. The sender doesn't even need the app installed.
New requests are held in a PENDING state until you decide: APPROVED numbers always get a reply, BLOCKED numbers are quietly ignored. You don't have to think about it until you want to.
Features:
* One-shot location request: reply with GPS fix + OpenStreetMap link
* Subscriptions: periodic updates with heading and distance delta (e.g. ⇐314m)
* Approval gate: PENDING → APPROVED / BLOCKED
* Zero internet permission — SMS only, always
* No account, no cloud, no tracking
* Android 8.0 (API 26) and later
What’s new (1.1)
* Subscribe command now uses --time flag instead of --hours
* VS Code / VSCodium build and debug support added
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Permissions
What the app asks the system for. Android only grants sensitive access after you confirm it.
- Receive SMSProcess incoming text messages.
- Send SMSSend text messages (may cost money).
- Precise locationDetermine the location via GPS.
- Approximate locationDetermine the location via the network.
- Location in backgroundDetermine the location while the app is not open.
- Foreground serviceKeep running in the background, visible in the status bar.
- FOREGROUND_SERVICE_LOCATION
- Run at startupStart automatically after the device is switched on.
Show 2 more permissions
- NotificationsShow notifications.
- phonetrack.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION
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