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Family Tracker
  • Price
    $3.99
  • CategoryLifestyle
  • First releasedJanuary 14, 2010
  • Versions3 archived
  • Installable3 of 3
  • AvailabilityStill on the App Store
  • SellerLogSat Software LLC

RequirementsCompatible with iPhone and iPod touch. Requires iOS 3.0 or later.

Customer Ratings

As of December 16, 2018
     
11 Ratings

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NEWS: Family Tracker was used to locate a missing child - see news report on: http://www.reuters.com/article/net-us-app-missing-idUSBRE8460GZ20120507

***SUPPORT NOTICE**** We do help everyone who contacts us via our [email protected] email address, but unfortunately most users give bad ratings without ever contacting us for support. Please do contact us if you have any issues, we're always there to help! ***************

Family Tracker allows you to track your wife, husband, children and fiancée. You can now find out where they are, at anytime, as long as they have their phones with them. Family Tracker is available for other platforms as well, so you can track (and be tracked by) other devices as well - check our website for more details.

Please note that starting with the new iOS4 and supported hardware, Family Tracker runs in the background at all times, and, unlike previous versions of Family Tracker, user intervention is **NOT** needed for you to track them. Family Tracker runs at all times, continuously updating the GPS location of the device. Even if the iPhone is rebooted, Family Tracker will automatically resume tracking and updating its position!

So how does this work?

Simple. Install Family Tracker on the iPhone/iPad you want to track. From then on, you can use either a web browser or via the Family Tracker app itself installed on your own iPhone/iPad to locate your family member.

If the device you wish to track does not support multitasking (for example, older iPhones 3G, iPads), you can still use Family Tracker to locate the family member. Using the web or your own iPhone, you will be able to "ping" the other iPhone. This is done by sending the other iPhone a (free) “Apple Push Notification” which will cause an alert to sound on your family member’s iPhone, even if the phone in is stand-by, just as would happen if the iPhone receives an SMS. As soon as this alert is acknowledged, their GPS position will be recorded, and their location will be updated on a map. If you are using an iPhone yourself to track them, you will be sent a Push Notification to inform you that the family member has accepted your "ping". These notifications will be automatically re-sent every 60 seconds until they are acknowledged. If the recipient is trying to ignore them or does not hear them, this repetition will help acknowledging them.

Family Tracker does not need to know your iPhone cell number to function, as it does not send SMS messages for notifications. Your email address is instead used to send free Apple Push Notifications to the iPhones being tracked. These notifications are free, specific to our Family Tracker application, and work anywhere in the world as long as the iPhone and/or iTouch being tracked has internet access via the cellular network or WiFi.

Notice: ***Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.*** For this reason, we strongly recommend users to configure Family Tracker to use the "Driving Only" accuracy in the GPS setting. This special mode updates the GPS location only when a significant location change occurs, which results in a tremendous gain in battery life.

Additional pro features, such as the ability to see the past locations for the previous 2 weeks, and the ability to set geofences so you are alerted when users that you track enter or leave certain areas are available via an optional iTunes subscription. Subscriptions automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Your iTunes account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period. Subscriptions are available for either $1.99/month, or $5.99/3 months, or $9.99/6 months or $19.99/year. Privacy policy & terms of use: http://logsat.com/family-tracker-privacy.asp

To install apps directly onto this device, it must be jailbroken with AppSync installed.
1.1.2
Requires iOS 3.1.2+
1.0 MB Install Download
1.1.3
Requires iOS 3.0+
March 8, 2010
821 KB Install Download
2.4
Requires iOS 3.1+
January 11, 2011
1.1 MB Install Download

Chart History

Top Paid · Lifestyle View chart ›
Peaked at #107 (August 30, 2021) · 5 archived captures · Mar 2011 – Aug 2021

Ratings Over Time

sampled from 6 archived captures
DateVersionRatingRatingsPrice
March 2, 2010 1.1 — 169 $1.99
September 5, 2011 2.4 — 689 $3.99
October 10, 2013 — — 720 $3.99
December 14, 2017 3.5.3 — 727 $3.99

From archived App Store listing data, captured by the Wayback Machine.

Archived Reviews

8 of 25
Waste of money!
     
by AKlovinlife · December 21, 2014

App hasn't worked once since I bought it. I even tried all the troubleshooting they suggest on their site and still nothing. I have had free apps that work better. Save your money

Great new features
     
by Fibercode · December 13, 2016

Thanks for the new geofencing features! Tracks great both the iPones and the Androids in my family

Worthless
     
by I hate this app jake · August 25, 2015

This app doesn't work unless the other person has an email account. If you're like most families and the kids are using your Apple account it's worthless. A waste of time and money. Don't get it.

Started ok and then sucked
     
by Teacherz Appz · May 30, 2014

At first all was well, then we couldn't get a ping or notification or fix for our kid's first outing with the gang on summer break. Suspicion aside when we checked it out, the app wasn't working at all! Disappointed! Want my 12$ back since I bought it for wife, kid and myself.

Worthless
     
by Skaboy71 · November 1, 2016

App is crap don't bother

Doesn't work.
     
by Chrisbrpm1 · July 22, 2015

The only thing that worked on this app was successfully billing me for the pro version. Doesn't send email invitations so the people you intend to track can't accept the invitation which is required for the process to work. Save your money.

Thumbs up from us!
     
by SpeedSkydiver · August 24, 2017

The app works great, we can track any phone we want, wether they’re Apple or Android. My wife, our daughters and myself all share the same iTunes account, so I only had to buy the app once and it works on all of our phones, and we can track whoever we want as long as they are running the app on their phones.

Two thumbs down!!
     
by davids1330 · May 7, 2014

I wasted my money on this app will not update. Get the find my iPhone app instead!!

Period reviews recovered from Apple's customer-review feeds via the Wayback Machine.