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react-native-background-geolocation

The most sophisticated cross-platform background location-tracking & geofencing module with battery-conscious motion-detection intelligence

v5.6.0, 7 Sept 2026MITCommonJSTypes: BundledMaps and geolocationReact
$ npm install react-native-background-geolocation

Key numbers

As of 25 Sept 2026
Weekly downloads
32.8k
+116% over 12 months
Gzip bundle size
-
No Bundlephobia data
Dependencies
3
Direct, from package.json
Last release
17 days ago
v5.6.0
GitHub stars
2.9k
446 forks
Open issues / PRs
20 / 7
Contributors
-
Commits, last 52 weeks
174

Downloads

Last week 2026-09-15 to 2026-09-21
020k40k60kSept 2025Mar 2026Sept 2026High 57.6k (28 Jul 2026)Low 12.9k (23 Dec 2025)
Weekly npm downloads, one point per week, weeks starting 23 Sept 2025 to 15 Sept 2026. The y axis starts at zero.

32,810 downloads last week, 175,487 in the last month. The 12-month change of +116% compares the average of the last 4 weeks with the first 4 weeks of the series.

Releases, last 12 months
-
Latest version
5.6.0, 7 Sept 202617 days ago
First published
-
Last push to GitHub
25 Sept 2026same day as the snapshot
Repository archived
No
Open issues
20
Open pull requests
7
Commits, last 52 weeks
174
Dependents on npm
6

Major versions

-

Recent releases

-

Module format
CommonJSFrom package.json type, main and exports fields
TypeScript types
Bundled
Node.js engine range
Not declared
Runtimes
-
Unpacked size (npm)
514 kB
Dependencies (3)
tslib@babel/runtime@transistorsoft/background-geolocation-types
npm install react-native-background-geolocation
  • jsDelivrhttps://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/react-native-background-geolocation@5.6.0/
  • unpkghttps://unpkg.com/react-native-background-geolocation@5.6.0/
  • esm.shhttps://esm.sh/react-native-background-geolocation@5.6.0
PackageWeekly downloadsGzipLast releaseModuleComparison
@rnmapbox/maps163k-2 months agoCommonJS-
Sources: npm registry, npm downloads API, GitHub API. Data fetched 25 Sept 2026.

Indexability: Indexed.