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Best Family Location Tracking Apps for iPhone (2026)
Life360: Family Safety & GPS is the top-ranked of 39 family location tracking apps on iPhone, at S tier with 4.8/5 from 3,127,764 ratings.
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Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 3,127,764 ratings · score 99 - 2
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 36,293 ratings · score 95 - 3
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 38,605 ratings · score 94 - 4
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 23,510 ratings · score 94 - 5
Free + IAP · ★ 4.4 · 78,769 ratings · score 92
What belongs in this list
See where family members are and keep track of their locations for safety.
Not here: a general location sharing app for friends alone; a single-device find my phone feature alone; a trip or mileage tracker alone; a baby care log alone; a map app alone
More lists: Best Family Location Sharing Apps
How we pick
For this list we ask the App Store the same searches a person would, in several countries, and keep every app it returns. A model reads each app's listing and rejects the ones that only mention the use case. Every app that stays is scored out of 100 from four parts, each 0 to 100 and averaged with no weights: its App Store rating, how many people rated it, where the App Store itself ranks it for this list's searches, and how recently its current version shipped. An app showing Apple's Editors' Choice badge gets a fifth part of 100, which can only lift its score. Tiers follow fixed score bands: S from 90, A from 80, B from 70, C from 60, D from 50, F below. The list's leader is S if it scores 80 or more. On a list of 20 or more ranked apps, a tier from S to D takes in new apps only up to a quarter of the top 40: an app pushed out of a full tier falls to the next tier with room, and F takes the rest. An app already in a tier keeps its place while the tier is at most 2 apps over a quarter; past that, only the apps over that margin go down, lowest score first. Equal scores share a tier, and no app has a better tier than an app ranked above it. An app keeps its tier until its score passes the band edge by more than 1 point, or a full tier or the order above moves it. Only the top 40 of a list get a tier. Read the full method →
Compare every app
- 1Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 3,127,764 ratings · score 99 · best in class
- 2Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 36,293 ratings · score 95 · best in class
- 3Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 38,605 ratings · score 94 · best in class
- 4Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 23,510 ratings · score 94 · best in class
- 5Free + IAP · ★ 4.4 · 78,769 ratings · score 92 · best in class
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Free · ★ 4.4 · 75,938 ratings · score 92 · best in class - 7
Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 67,764 ratings · score 91 · best in class - 8
Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 51,439 ratings · score 90 · excellent - 9
Free + IAP · ★ 4.3 · 77,058 ratings · score 87 · excellent - 10
Free + IAP · ★ 4.9 · 7,191 ratings · score 86 · excellent - 11
Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 12,139 ratings · score 86 · excellent - 12
Free download · ★ 4.5 · 4,521 ratings · score 85 · excellent - 13
Free + IAP · ★ 4.3 · 21,558 ratings · score 83 · excellent - 14
Free download · ★ 4.6 · 5,169 ratings · score 83 · excellent - 15
Free download · ★ 4.6 · 22,577 ratings · score 80 · excellent - 16
Free · ★ 4.5 · 16,082 ratings · score 80 · good - 17
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 4,722 ratings · score 79 · good - 18
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 5,766 ratings · score 79 · good - 19
Free + IAP · ★ 4.4 · 17,821 ratings · score 79 · good - 20
Free download · ★ 4.6 · 4,528 ratings · score 79 · good - 21
Free + IAP · ★ 4.2 · 12,112 ratings · score 79 · good - 22
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 3,850 ratings · score 79 · good - 23
Free download · ★ 4.3 · 38,582 ratings · score 78 · good - 24
Free + IAP · ★ 4.4 · 17,955 ratings · score 77 · good - 25
Free + IAP · ★ 4.1 · 23,847 ratings · score 76 · good - 26
Free download · ★ 4.4 · 4,286 ratings · score 74 · situational - 27
Free + IAP · ★ 3.9 · 922 ratings · score 74 · situational - 28
Free download · ★ 4.2 · 5,293 ratings · score 72 · situational - 29
Free + IAP · ★ 4.3 · 96 ratings · score 71 · situational - 30
Free · ★ 4.7 · 13,444 ratings · score 69 · situational · provisional - 31
Free download · ★ 4.6 · 7,333 ratings · score 68 · situational · provisional - 32
Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 7,145 ratings · score 66 · situational - 33
Free download · ★ 4.4 · 2,904 ratings · score 64 · situational · provisional - 34
Free download · ★ 4.6 · 2,441 ratings · score 63 · situational · provisional - 35
Free download · ★ 4.5 · 6,748 ratings · score 61 · weak - 36
Free + IAP · ★ 4.0 · 5,923 ratings · score 60 · weak · provisional - 37
Free download · ★ 4.5 · 4,322 ratings · score 59 · weak - 38
Free · ★ 1.2 · 17,705 ratings · score 47 · avoid · provisional - 39
Free download · ★ 4.1 · 3,245 ratings · score 38 · avoid · provisional
New in the last 30 days
- Findmykids: GPS Phone Tracker (S)
- MixerBox BFF: Location Tracker (A)
- Phone Tracker - GPS Location (A)
- Phone Locator - Find My Family (A)
- Be Closer Phone GPS Tracker (A)
- My Family: Find Friends Phone (A)
- AT&T Secure Family® Parent (A)
- T-Mobile FamilyMode (B)
- Findio - GPS Phone Tracker (B)
- Phone Tracker: Location Finder (B)
- Familo: Find My Phone Tracker (B)
- Phone Locator 360: Find Family (B)
- mLite: Find my Friends Phone (B)
- Jagat-Find Family & Friends (B)
- Famio: Find My Family, Friends (B)
- Family Friend Locator: Carpin (B)
- Find My Family Friends & Phone (C)
- Find My Friends Phone - iMapp (C)
- Pingo by Findmykids (C)
- Garmin Jr.™ (C)
- Findup: Phone Location Tracker (C)
- Phone Tracker: Family Locator (C)
- Number tracker: Phone Location (C)
- Scout: Family Location 360 (D)
- Spy Phone ® Phone Tracker (D)
- Find My Phone, Friends Tracker (D)
- Verizon Family Companion (F)
- T-Mobile Safe & Found (F)
Questions people ask
- What is the best family location tracking app for iPhone?
- Life360: Family Safety & GPS, S tier, ranked #1 of 39, rated 4.8 by 3,127,764 people.
- Which family location tracking apps are free?
- 39 of 39 are free to download: Life360: Family Safety & GPS (S), iSharing: GPS Location Tracker (S), Family Nest - Family Locator (S), Findmykids: GPS Phone Tracker (S) and more. 20 of them sell in-app purchases. 4 report no in-app purchases.
- Which family location tracking app has the best App Store rating?
- MixerBox BFF: Location Tracker at 4.9 from 7,191 ratings.
- How many family location tracking apps reach S or A tier?
- 15 of 39. Tiers follow fixed score bands: S from 90, A from 80, B from 70, C from 60, D from 50, F below. The list's leader is S if it scores 80 or more. On a list of 20 or more ranked apps, a tier from S to D takes in new apps only up to a quarter of the top 40: an app pushed out of a full tier falls to the next tier with room, and F takes the rest. An app already in a tier keeps its place while the tier is at most 2 apps over a quarter; past that, only the apps over that margin go down, lowest score first. Equal scores share a tier, and no app has a better tier than an app ranked above it. An app keeps its tier until its score passes the band edge by more than 1 point, or a full tier or the order above moves it. Only the top 40 of a list get a tier.
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