There are a number of ways to share your location with family and friends, from Apple’s built-in Find My app to location pins in messaging apps like WhatsApp. HeyPolo It aims to provide smarter features, including greater privacy controls, than are available in the Tap My app.
The app was developed by the team behind leading VPN provider Surfshark and offers seven key features.
Apple’s Find My app, of course, was originally known as Find My Friends and was designed to track the locations of your family and friends. It’s still a great way to do it, but it’s not as smart.
For example, when you choose to share your location, the only options available to you are for an hour, until the end of the day, or indefinitely. If you need to share your location later in the day, it’s easy to forget about it and end up sharing your location indefinitely. There is also no option to decide how precisely to share the location: it always shares the exact location.
HeyPolo is a third-party app designed to offer more control without compromising privacy, and indeed actively enhances it. Typical users include parents and teenagers who want to stay in touch, couples who check in securely without the pressure to share more than they want, friends who can find each other on nights out or traveling together, carers and elderly family members and co-workers on site or field visits.
Main features
Precise control of timings
Instead of being limited to a few fixed times, you can set exact start and end times. After the expiration time, tracking is automatically stopped without any action.
Location accuracy control
If you are trying to meet someone, you can share my exact location as in Find me. However, if you want someone to know your general location, you can choose to share it less precisely. The choice is always yours.
Unlimited groups
If you want to share your location with the same people regularly, you don’t have to manually select them each time. You can create groups for family, friends, travel or work. All you need to do is subscribe to the app – anyone can see your space without being a member.
Smart notifications
When someone shares their location with you, you don’t need to manually log into the app to track them. You can automatically receive SOS alerts and be notified when a friend or family member enters or leaves a designated area. You always have complete control over which alerts you receive and from whom.
Travel date
You can choose to make your travel history available to group members or not as you choose. Again, you are always in control.
Driving behavior
If you have teenage drivers in your family, the app offers you the ability to monitor their driving speed and habits. As always, you have complete control over the alerts you choose to receive.
Your place will never be sold
It’s pretty common these days for app developers to sell location data to data brokers. HeyPolo will never do that. All location data is encrypted in transit and the company will never sell, monetize or otherwise exploit user location data.
7-day free trial
You can try HeyPolo for yourself with a no-obligation seven-day free trial. If you choose to subscribe, the annual plan costs $3.99 per month for $47.88 per year. If you are dissatisfied with the service for any reason, there is a 30-day money-back guarantee.
HeyPolo offers unlimited calls on one plan and is available for both iOS and Android. Use this link for a seven-day free trial.
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