Private location sharing for the people in your Circle. On Android, in closed testing.
Places
Give it a name and a radius. Home, school, a grandparent's house.
Departures
Crossing the edge of the ring is a departure, and it lands in Activity.
Arrivals
Arrivals and departures reach your phone as a notification.
History
Pick any of the last 30 days and watch the route play back.
Circles
30days
History
Nothing from before you joined. Everything older than 30 days is deleted automatically.
Your controls
Privacy
Only to your Circles, only while sharing is on.
That is how an arrival is spotted.
Stored under a key of your own.
Deleted automatically.
It is not end-to-end encryption. The server reads your live position, because spotting an arrival needs it. The encryption protects stored history.
The app takes a person's age choice at its word and does not check it.
Compare
Only what each company says on its own pages. Where family180 is behind, the table says so.
Checked on 31 October 2026 on each company's own pages; they may have changed since. "Not checked" means we did not find it there, so we say so instead of guessing.
The table scrolls sideways: swipe it to see all four apps.
| family180 | Life360 | Google Maps location sharing | Apple Find My | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Phones | Android only. No iPhone app yet | iPhone (iOS 17.4 or newer) and Android 10 or newer | Android and iPhone | Apple devices: iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Mac |
| What you sign up with | Name, email and password. No phone number | A phone number that can receive SMS where phone log-in is offered (US, CA, UK, NA, KR), and an email address | A Google Account | An Apple Account |
| Arrival and departure alerts | Yes, for every Place in the Circle, with no set limit on Places | 2 Place Alerts on Free, 5 on Silver, unlimited on Gold and Platinum | Yes, up to 5 for each person who shares with you | Yes. Recurring alerts need the friend's approval |
| Location history | Up to 30 days, replayed one day at a time on a map | 2 days on Free, 7 on Silver, 30 on Gold and Platinum | Not checked | Not checked |
| History from before you joined | Never shown | A new Circle may see your history from the retention window, including time in other Circles | Not checked | Not checked |
| Delete your history, keep the account | Yes, in Settings | Not possible when checked; deleting the account deletes history | Not checked | Not checked |
| Paid plans | None. There is no payment system | Free, Silver, Gold and Platinum | Not checked | Not checked |
| SOS, crash detection, driving reports | Not yet (planned) | SOS alerts and Free Crash Detection in the app. Emergency dispatch and per-driver reports on paid plans in some countries | Not checked | Not checked |
Android only for now. There is no iPhone version yet.
Not from a public Google Play listing. A small group is testing it in a closed test.
There are no paid plans and no payment system. Every feature is there for every Member.
Only people in a Circle you joined. While your phone shares, Android shows an ongoing notification, and you can pause at any time.
Not yet. Both are planned, along with driving reports and Circle chat. None is in the app today.
In the app, open Settings and choose Delete everything. History is also removed after 30 days.
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