Easily Share Your Location With Friends & Family With My Spot Pro
Location based services are very popular nowadays with Gowalla and FourSquare leading the charge. It's great to check in and share where you are but sometimes doing so means everyone knows your location. My Spot Pro is a convenient tool when you want to inform just a specific group of friends as to your whereabouts.
My Spot Pro is a tracking app that allows you to broadcast your GPS coordinates to friends and families with just a few taps. Instead of pulling out your phone to call or text, you can use the app to easily inform your buddies that you're down the street finding parking or to let your family know that your plane just landed. You have control to customize who sees what and you can even post it to your Facebook or Twitter as status updates.
You can bookmark up to 20 locations that you commonly frequent for easy access later on and customize each with contacts and your own unique status messages. Along with your location coordinates, you can attach a photo or audio recording to provide further details of where you are.
Similar to the Silent Bodyguard app we featured earlier this week, My Spot Pro has integrated a panic button to inform your contacts if you find yourself in an emergency situation. Activating this feature transmits an SOS message along with your coordinates to your most important contacts. And like Silent Bodyguard, the app will continue to broadcast your location every minute so long as the app remains open.
Although the app handles your GPS tracking and notification needs well, there was one annoyance. My Spot Pro updates can only be delivered to email addresses. Transmitting location updates via text would have been ideal since not everyone has access to email on their phones. Granted, there are methods to sending an email to a phone's mobile number but it's an extra step for the end user.
My Spot Pro is $1.99 on the App Store. You can also pick up a free version simply called My Spot. It will provide you with GPS coordinates but you won't be able to broadcast it or share on social networks. It does however, offer the panic button feature so if anything, it can be a great, free alternative to Silent Bodyguard.