When the Glympse app first came to Android, the idea of instantly sharing your exact location with someone was still novel. The function has lost much of its magic since, but it remains as useful as ever. Now the company is improving the service not by adding more features, but by gutting them out. The new Android-only Glympse Express app strips everything from the main app except for the essentials, the features you actually care about.

When you click on the Glympse Express icon in your drawer, you're presented with a list of contacts and social apps that you can share your location with. If a desired person or app isn't in the list, you're able to add it. After clicking on a destination, you select how long you want to share your location, and that's it. The recipient will receive a link that will open within a browser. Your open connections will appear in a list along the top of the app.

If you want to do something more with Glympse Express, anything at all, you will need to download the full app. But if you're like me, you won't have much of a reason to.

Glympse Launches Glympse Express for Instant Location Sharing on Android