Swiss location sharing app used around the globe

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21.05.2015

Launched one year ago, Pathshare is used today in 135 countries. With an Apple Watch app and the development of a simple to use location framework the growth will continue.

Pathshare is a realtime location sharing app for iPhone and Android and can also be used with a web browser on any computer. With Patshare users can share their location with a group of one or more or more participants in a secure way. Pathshare does not submit any phone numbers or other private data. Since the Pathshare users can choose their own name, there is no way to identify a real person. The safety includes an active duration control: The location is no longer shared when a user left the session or it has expired.

Pathshare App

The app is typically used for finding someone in a crowd for example at a festival, for meeting at a certain place without waiting time or for picking someone up. Stefan Schurgast, founder of freshbits – the start-up that has developed the app, provides another example from his everyday life: “I am using the app for example to know when a visitor arrives at my office so that I can receive him at the entrance and we can start our meeting instantly.” Another example that he gives has to do with public transport: “In the U.S. Pathshare is used for a Hop On Bus so that passengers waiting for the bus know where it is and how long they have to wait.”  

Pathshare can be used at any location with GPS and data connection. And today it is already used in 135 countries. The app is available in German, English, Chinese and Czech and French, Hindi and Tamil will follow shortly. New language versions are not the only way to grow for the Startup freshbits that has developed the app. Freshbits has also launched an Apple Watch app.

Pathshare Apple Watch

While sharing, users get an instant impression of where other participants are and how they are moving. A simple click on the participants list and their exact location can be seen on the map. As soon as someone is nearby, joins or leaves a session, there will be an instant notification on the Apple Watch.

In addition the freshbits team is working intensively on the many useful features of the Pathshare Location Services Platform with a simple to use location framework, location sharing services as well as geo trigger services. “These will be of great help for companies in logistics, marketing and many other industries”, comments Schurgast.

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