Use case · Location
The friend locator app
for festivals and nights out
Lost in the crowd between two stages, or arriving from all over town? Share your location with your friends for a few hours and find each other without twenty phone calls.
Find your friends, then stop sharing
One map for the group, switched on for the time you need it.
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Everyone on one map
Each friend who shares appears on the same map, so you see the whole group at once.
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Distances between you
The map shows how far apart everyone is: handy to pick the closest meeting point.
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From 15 minutes to 8 hours
A gig, an afternoon in town, a day on the slopes: choose the duration, and sharing ends by itself.
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Only with a yes
Ask the whole group and each friend accepts or declines; nobody is located without agreeing.
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Battery saver
For a long festival day, the Battery saver setting updates less often to spare your phone.
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Positions you can trust
A position older than a minute shows its age, such as “2 min ago”, so you know if it's fresh.
Finding your friends in YouTim
Pick a duration, let everyone accept or decline, then see who is where.
Share your location with friends in 3 steps
How to share your location with friends, for as long as you need
Sending a pin in a chat works once. At a festival, a concert or a night out, people move, phones die and the pin is out of date ten minutes later. A shared map that everyone switches on for a few hours does the job better.
A friend location sharing app for festivals and concerts
Between two stages, in a packed arena or on a busy campsite, the group map shows who is where. Distances between friends appear at a glance, so you can agree on the nearest meeting point instead of shouting into a phone. With the Battery saver setting, positions update every five minutes or so, which helps on a long day without a charger.
How to find friends in town or on the slopes
Everyone arriving from a different direction for a night out? Share for an hour and watch who is already at the pub and who is two streets away. On a ski day, each person picks their runs in the morning, and the map shows who is still up top when it's time to meet for lunch.
How do I add friends to share my location?
Friends join your YouTim through an invitation link, a text message, an email, the invitation code or the QR code. An email address, Google or Apple is enough to sign up; no phone number is needed. Once in, any member can share their own location, and an admin decides whether members may ask for the whole group's.
Shared with friends, never tracked
Sharing always has an end time, from 15 minutes to 8 hours, and you can stop yours whenever you like. YouTim keeps no trail of your movements: the map shows each person's latest position, only while the period lasts, and only to the members of your YouTim. For everything else your friends organise together, see our YouTim for friends page.
Frequently asked questions
Is the YouTim friend locator free?
Yes, completely free, with no ads and no in-app purchases, on iPhone, Android and the web.
How can I share my location with a friend?
Open the Location service in your shared YouTim, choose “Only me” and a duration. Your friends see you on the map and get a notification, with nothing to accept.
Can I see a friend's location without them knowing?
No. A friend appears on the map only if they share their own position or accept the group's request, and only for the chosen duration.
Does it keep working when my phone is in my pocket?
Yes, with the app, during a period you have accepted: sharing continues in the background and stops at the end of the period. In a web browser, it only works while the page is open.
Will it drain my battery?
You choose: Precise (every 20 seconds), Normal (every minute) or Battery saver (every 5 minutes, accurate to about 100 metres).
Does YouTim keep a record of where we went?
No. Only each person's latest position is shown, during the sharing period. No history of movements is kept.
YouTim
Your whole group in one place.