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Map For Us
Live location, chat and SOS for the people you love, encrypted on your phone before anything leaves it. Our server only ever holds noise.
- 553
- bytes in every event, SOS included
- 14
- parts of one app
- 4
- kinds of screen: phone, watch, car, browser
- 0
- emails, phone numbers or passwords asked of you
How it keeps it yours
Same update. Two very different views.
Your circle reads a note, a place, a position. What reaches the server is sealed in the phone with a key the server never sees.
We can’t see where you are
Positions, saved places, names, photos, messages and alert text are all ciphertext to us.
Every event is the same size
Updates are padded to 553 bytes, so an SOS looks exactly like a routine check-in on the wire.
No email, phone number or password
Your identity is a key made on your phone. A recovery code brings it back on a new one.
No ads, trackers or analytics
Crash reports are off unless you send one, and you read the whole report first.
libsodium throughout: XChaCha20-Poly1305 for data, X25519 sealed boxes to hand each device the circle key, Ed25519 signatures, and an Argon2id-protected recovery code. The same encryption is written in TypeScript, Swift and Kotlin, and thousands of shared tests check that all three agree byte for byte.
Every feature
113 features, 14 groups
As mapforus.com describes them, shortened. Anything still in testing, or waiting on a store, says so beside its name.
Privacy and trust
Encrypted on the phone, and honest about the little the server does see.
- End-to-end encryptionLocation, places, chat, photos and alerts are sealed with a key only your circle holds.
- What we can seeA screen in the app lists, in plain words, what the server can and cannot learn about you.
- Safety numbersCompare a short code with another member to confirm nobody is listening in.
- Who holds the keySee every device that can read what you send to each circle, and export an access report.
- Who can see meOne screen lists everyone, in every circle, who can see you, and how many speed alerts are set on you.
- Precision dialChoose per circle how exactly you are seen, from your exact spot down to about 10 km.
- See me exactlyPick the few people who always get your exact position, whatever the dial says.
- Spoofing warningsMembers with self-reported positions or a phone clock that disagrees are flagged.
- Hide in app switcherBlanks the app’s preview in your recent-apps view.
- Consent-first crash reportsRead the whole report, with location and messages removed, before you choose to send it.
Live map
Where everyone is, how fresh it is, and how to reach them.
- Live family mapPositions, freshness, battery and speed, with grouping when people are close together.
- Follow and fit everyoneKeep the camera on one person as they move, or frame the whole circle in one tap.
- Map layersStandard, satellite, traffic and 3D, in a light, dark or automatic style.
- Refresh locationsOne tap asks every phone in the circle to send its position right now.
- Ask whereAsk one person for their location. They choose to share once or say not now.
- Stopped-answering warningWhen a phone goes quiet, the map says so instead of pretending it is up to date.
- FindA compass needle and distance that point straight at a member.
- Navigate to themOpen directions to any member in your maps app.
- Travelling togetherTwo people in the same car show as one trip, not two dots on top of each other.
- Member dayEvery stay and every trip in someone’s day, laid out as a timeline.
- Activity feedThe last 24 hours of check-ins, arrivals, drives, battery and safety events, with reactions.
- Low-battery alertsThe circle hears before a phone dies, not after.
- Sharing schedule and quiet hoursShare only during the hours you choose. Arrivals, check-ins and SOS still get through.
- Pause sharingPause everywhere, or stop sharing with just one circle.
- Growing-up planDated steps that loosen how closely a child is followed as they get older.
- Morning digestAn optional 7:30 am summary of the night.
- Delivery healthChecks permissions, battery savers and the send queue, with fixes for phones that kill background apps.
- Works offlineOpens straight to your last-known circles when there is no signal.
Places and errands
Home, school and work, known only to your circle.
- Arrival and departure alertsSaved places are encrypted too, so the server never learns where home is.
- Place suggestionsThe app notices a spot you visit often and offers to save it.
- Per-person alertsChoose arrivals, departures, journeys, messages, wellbeing and speed alerts for each member.
- Place automationsWhen you arrive or leave, check in, remind yourself, notify someone or start a walk. Runs only on your phone.
- Share your ETASend your arrival time to a saved place, estimated on your phone with no routing service involved.
- ErrandsTasks with a checklist tied to a place, an “I’m on it” button and a nudge if nobody picks one up.
- Parking spotSave where you parked, the level and bay, a meter countdown and the walk back.
Safety and SOS
For the moment you hope never comes, and the walk home before it.
- SOSHold to start a countdown you can cancel. Your circle’s phones sound even in Do Not Disturb.
- SOS from anywhereStart it from a home-screen shortcut, a widget, the iPhone Action Button, a Live Activity, your watch or your car.
- Practise SOSA rehearsal that sends nothing, so the real one feels familiar.
- Respond to an SOSTell them you have seen it, navigate to them, and hear when they are safe.
- Check inOne tap to say you are fine, with an optional encrypted note.
- Walk with mePick a destination and a time. If you stall, the app asks if you are OK, then raises an SOS.
- Safety timerA countdown without a destination, started from the phone, watch or car.
- Crash checkWhile you drive, a sudden stop gets a prompt. No answer in a minute sends an SOS.
- Do Not DisturbEveryday alerts arrive quietly. SOS never does.
- NearbyLabsRecognise circle members in the same room over Bluetooth.
- RelayLabsOn Android, carry a member’s sealed updates when they have no signal.
Driving
Every drive on a map, and the habits behind it.
- DrivesDetected automatically and drawn in speed bands, with stops, top speed, distance and time.
- Drive eventsHard braking, rapid acceleration, quick starts, sharp turns and phone use while moving.
- Driving score0 to 100 by day, week and month, with a breakdown, trend, streaks and tips.
- Weekly reportDrives, night drives and the trend, with a CSV export.
- Speed alertsSet a private limit from 40 to 120 km/h. Only you are told, and they never learn who set it.
- Personal speed lineMarks stretches above your own threshold in your road log.
- Vehicle membersA dashboard phone becomes the car itself in your circle, with a big always-on screen.
Chat
A family group chat and private one-to-one threads, sealed like everything else.
- Circle chat and private threadsEnd-to-end encrypted, on the same keys as your location.
- Everything you expectReply, reply privately, edit, unsend, forward, copy, @mentions, reactions and search.
- Photos, voice and filesPictures in standard or HD, voice notes and documents up to 25 MB.
- View once and disappearingSend a picture that can be opened once, or let a chat clear itself.
- Read receipts, your choiceTurn them on or off. Mute, block or report anyone.
- Chats tabEvery conversation in one list, searchable by name or by what was said.
- Reply from the notificationAnswer a thread without opening the app.
Family care
For parents who live alone and the people who look after them.
- Wellbeing watchIf a phone sits still too long, caregivers are told one after another, with quiet hours respected.
- Medication remindersOne to four times a day, with taken and skip, and a count of what is still due.
- Family paysOne person’s plan covers the whole circle.
- Fall detectionLabsBeing tested on watches before it is turned on for everyone.
Circles and guests
As many circles as life needs, each with its own key.
- Many circlesFamily, friends, a trip. Choose which ones get your location.
- InvitesBy link or QR code, with an expiry, a one-person option and a revoke button.
- Guest passA four-hour link for the babysitter or a friend picking someone up.
- Event circlesCircles for a wedding or a trek that end themselves after the hour or day you choose.
- RolesOwner, member and limited. Limited members cannot see history or invite. Hand ownership over at any time.
- Encrypted profilesYour name and photo, set per circle and sealed like everything else.
- Your own nicknamesName someone on your phone only. Nobody else sees it.
History
Your past stays on your phone, under your control.
- JournalAn encrypted, searchable day-by-day record of trips and stays, kept on your phone.
- ExportAny month as GPX tracks, or as JSON with everything.
- Your yearDays tracked, journeys, the place you went most and your furthest trip, worked out on your phone.
- History controlsChoose how long history stays, erase the server’s copy in every circle, or wipe the phone’s.
Work and teamsTeam plan
For care staff, cleaners, couriers, field engineers, shops and security teams.
- Team circlesPick Family or Team when you create a circle. Team circles add the Work tab.
- Three-step setupInvite the team, add a site, set shifts, with presets for six kinds of work.
- Now boardWho is at work, not in yet, needs attention or is off, with late and no-show rules.
- Shifts and rotaSplit shifts, copy a week, publish, and see hour-by-hour coverage and its gaps.
- My shiftWorkers check in, take breaks, say they are running late and ask for changes.
- Private off shiftOff shift, location is dropped on the phone before it is ever encrypted. The employer cannot see it.
- Lone-worker check-insEvery 30, 60 or 120 minutes as a team rule, escalating to SOS if missed.
- Roll callAsk everyone “are you OK?”, with an optional meeting point.
- ReportsTime at sites, site visits, mileage and client visits, exported as CSV or ready for PDF.
- RemindersShift reminders, a daily wrap-up and a weekly summary.
- Verified visitsA visit receipt signed by the phone’s secure hardware, shared as a link anyone can check in a browser.
- Handover receiptsTwo phones scan each other to sign that they were together.
- Key rotationRotate the team key, with weekly reminders to keep things tidy.
- Clock in from the wrist or dashClock in and out from a watch or the car screen.
Watch and car
The important buttons, wherever your hands are.
- Wear OSSOS, check-in, quick status, ETA, safety timer, places, doses, errands, Find, voice notes and clock in.
- Standalone Wear OS watchShares your location with no phone nearby, as a linked device with its own keys.
- Apple WatchThe same actions, plus a complication and a check-in control.
- Tiles and complicationsGlanceable status on the watch face.
- Meet-up needle and wrist voice notesFind each other in a crowd, and talk instead of typing.
- Android AutoPlaces, pickups, SOS, check-in and status, with messages read aloud if you allow it.
- Widgets and Live ActivitiesPeople and presence on the home screen. Walks and ETAs on the lock screen, with SOS and stop.
- Siri shortcutsAsk Siri to share your ETA or status.
- CarPlayComingBuilt and waiting for Apple’s approval.
Make it yours
It should feel like your app, not ours.
- Twelve themesCognac Oak, Aurora, Midnight Gold, Racing Green, Lapis Navy, Velvet Damson, Burnt Copper, Arctic Teal, Matte Graphite, Crimson Reserve, Nordic Slate and Golden Olive.
- Light, dark or systemPlus your own accent colour and a photo background.
- Glass levelsClear, balanced, frosted or solid panels.
- Twelve app iconsA home-screen icon to match every theme.
- Units and soundsKilometres or miles, and your pick of alert sounds.
- Built for everyoneAccessibility is checked on every screen, and layouts mirror for right-to-left reading.
On the web
The same app and the same encryption, in any browser.
- Full web appLive map, circles, chat and settings at www.mapforus.com.
- Desktop layoutA wide map with a side rail, made for a big screen.
- Link a browserScan a QR code with your phone and check that four words match.
- Check a visit receiptAnyone can verify a signed visit in their browser, no account needed.
Your account
Nothing to remember except one code you write down.
- Recovery codeSix groups of four characters restore your account on a new phone. Replace it whenever you like.
- Linked devicesSee every phone, watch and browser on your account. Removing one rotates the keys.
- App lockFace, fingerprint or passcode, immediately or after one or five minutes.
- Delete your accountFrom the app, or on the web with your recovery code.
- Help inside the appTalk to support from settings, with optional diagnostics that have personal details removed.
Devices
One circle, every screen
Each device carries its own keys, so losing one costs you nothing but the device.
- Phone
- Android and iPhone, with widgets, shortcuts and Live Activities.
- Watch
- Wear OS, standalone or paired, and Apple Watch.
- Car
- Android Auto today. CarPlay is waiting on Apple.
- Browser
- The full app at www.mapforus.com, linked to your phone with a QR code.
Plans
One plan for the whole family
Every plan has the same encryption and every family feature. Paying buys room for more people, not more privacy.
Pearl
For two.
US$2.99₹149a month
- Up to 2 people in each circle you own
- 2.5 GB each for photos, voice notes and files
- Up to a year of encrypted history
SapphireMost popular
For a family.
US$5.99₹299a month
- Up to 4 people in each circle you own
- 5 GB each for photos, voice notes and files
- Up to a year of encrypted history
Diamond
For a bigger family.
US$9.99₹499a month
- Up to 8 people in each circle you own
- 10 GB each for photos, voice notes and files
- Up to a year of encrypted history
Team
For businesses with people in the field.
US$6₹199a seat a month, plus tax
- 3, 5 or 10 people, one seat each
- 20 GB each for photos, voice notes and files
- Up to two years of encrypted history
- The Work tab: shifts, the Now board, lone-worker check-ins, roll call and timesheets
- Monthly and yearly family plans start with a 7-day free trial, once per family; cancel before it ends and you are not charged. Team is monthly or yearly, with no trial.
- The person who owns a circle pays, and everyone they invite to it is covered. A guest pass counts as one of the people while it lasts.
- Plans are bought in the App Store or Google Play, which charge in your currency. Family prices include tax; Team prices do not.
Yearly, two- and three-year prices, and five more currencies, are on mapforus.com ↗