Where your family are, a place to talk, calls that ring like calls, directions to whoever you are meeting, and a way to find a lost phone — in one app. Nothing about any of it is tracked, sold, or shown to anyone you did not choose. Free for a month, then $1.99 a month for a family of four.
In family testing now. The app is Android and Wear OS (Google Play listing coming; an iPhone app is planned). Everyone — iPhone, computer, anyone — can use Radius in a web browser: the map, messages, arrivals, the family plan, find-my-phone. Only the Android app reports where you are. Built for the United States — where it works today. Already have it? Sign in on the web.
Already on Life360, GeoZilla, iSharing or Find My?
Name the people on your circle today and they are on your Radius plan the moment they sign in — up to six for $1.99 a month, seven to ten for $2.99, every feature, no ads, no tiers above you. We don't ask how many; we ask who.
How it starts
Location sharing goes wrong when somebody can be added without knowing, or watched without being able to watch back. Radius is built so neither is possible — and so that a family, not a form, is the thing you set up.
Google, or a code emailed to you. That is your family plan — free for thirty days, with you as its manager and nobody on it yet.
Type an email address or a phone number under Settings → Family plan. They get the app, sign in with that address, and they are linked to you and on your plan — nothing to approve on either side.
Where you are, where you have been, or nothing — set per person and changeable at any moment. Everybody on the plan sees each other; nobody outside it sees anyone unless you link them yourself.
A look inside
Drawn rather than screenshotted — a screenshot of a family map is a picture of where somebody really lives. Dan and Amy are invented; everything they are using is not.
What you get
Everyone sharing with you, with speed and battery, updating as they move — and what they are listening to, if they choose to show it.
Voice and video. They ring with the app closed and on the lock screen, with Answer and Decline right there; earbuds are used when they are in; the call keeps going when you switch apps or the screen sleeps.
One to one, with photos and video, reactions and replies, and read receipts done properly. No group chats, by design.
Turn-by-turn, spoken, with rerouting — to wherever they are right now, or to any place you have saved. No Google Maps, no per-trip cost.
Home, Work, Casey's House, the Walmart on Main Street. Each says who it is shared with. Be told when someone arrives at or leaves a place you both share.
Ten days as stays and journeys — "at Home, 8:12 AM – 4:40 PM" — not a trail of dots.
Everyone on your plan sees each other. Anyone on it can run their own family too, and those people see only who they were linked to.
Show the track playing under your name — Spotify, YouTube Music, Amazon Music, a podcast, any player, nothing to connect. Tap it on somebody else's name and it opens in your player.
A watch reports on its own, so leaving your phone behind does not lose you.
From any browser: see where it last was, and make it ring at full volume for a minute — even on silent — with a Stop button on its screen.
The same map and messages in a browser at radiusfamily.com/app, behind two-factor from your own authenticator app if you turn it on.
Every switch is yours: who sees you, how much, whether your music shows, when sharing pauses. While Radius shares your location a notice sits in your notifications that cannot be dismissed.
Pricing
Family plan
Free for 30 days first. No card to start.
Because it is not carrying a company. Radius draws its own maps and sends calls directly between phones, so there is no per-user cloud bill to recover every month.
Life360's useful tier is $149.99 a year. Over five years that is $750; Radius is about $120. The full comparison.