Built by a dad of four

Your family's location
stays in your family.

A dad found out what Life360's data business was doing with his kids' location — selling it to insurance companies, data brokers, hedge funds. He built VeraMap instead. Our server never sees your location. Selling your data isn't a policy choice we made. It's a mathematical impossibility.

How the encryption works

Free forever  ·  No data selling. Ever.  ·  iOS & Android

Family Loop
4 members · All active
E
Emma
Home · Austin
J
Jake
Driving · 32 mph
S
Sophie
School
9:41
E
You
Home · now
J
Jake
32 mph
S
Sophie
School
All safe
Map
Loops
Places
Reports
How it actually works

Most apps say they protect you.
Here's the difference.

When you join VeraMap, your phone creates its own secret code — like a combination only your family knows. That combination never leaves your device. It's saved privately on your phone, not on our servers.

When your location updates, it gets scrambled using that combination on your phone before it goes anywhere. By the time it reaches our servers, it's already unreadable — and we don't have the combination to reverse it.

When you invite someone to your loop, your phone personally seals a copy of the combination just for them — addressed to their device and nobody else's. Our server just passes the sealed envelope. It never sees what's inside.

If someone leaves your loop, the combination changes completely. Their old copy becomes useless. They can't read a single update after the moment they leave.

This is what "encrypted" actually means. It's not a setting we turned on. It's the architecture — your location is scrambled before it ever leaves your hands, and only the people you chose can unscramble it.

What their server stores
Actual payload their server receives
uid: user_48291047
lat: 37.3382° N
lng: -121.8863° W
address: "2847 Elm St, Austin TX"
place: "Lincoln Elementary School"
speed: 0
device_id: "iPhone-A8F3…"
ts: 1748921847
Fully readable. Fully sellable. Your child's exact location, in plain text, on someone else's server.
Every address your family visits, stored and readable
Daily patterns, routines, your kids' school — all visible
Available for sale. Exposed in a breach.
What VeraMap's server stores
Actual payload our server receives
uid: a3f8…c12d
ts: 1748921847
payload: T6q+Kkm6uuwZuq8mLSjiV97yKr99jFASmoC98aExmFxo6N7ckEeEZ1RoboQjJj0rVHKfZxYFZ8OJxKmIuoNxhjqc7fG22TLmiwtHZDsRq7TVEie985NcWrmM4HUdRYWh3ie/3Sv7VnM+vHTlqJSPdk9owDehKPOfPvL10AeEOPh6
This is everything we can see. There's no location in here. There's no way to get one out.
Your phone locked it before it left your hands
Only your loop members hold the key to read it
No addresses. No movement history. No patterns.
Nothing to sell. Nothing to steal.

One payload doesn't look like much. But location updates every 30 seconds. That's 2,880 data points every single day. Over a year, over a million precise records — every school run, every late night, every doctor's visit. Not a snapshot. A complete record of your family's life. Stored. Sold. Potentially stolen.

The mark

The star in our logo is
True North.

Sailors and explorers have navigated by the North Star for thousands of years. Not because it's the brightest — because it's the one that never moves. When everything else shifts, True North holds.

Vera is Latin for true. The 4-point star inside our pin is the navigator's mark. We put it there because that's the standard we built this to — a family location app that tells you the truth, exactly as it is, and never sells it to anyone.

Your family is your True North. We just built the map.

What's inside

Everything your family needs.
Nothing you don't.

Built around the moments that matter — knowing everyone got home, staying connected without feeling watched.

Live Map
Where is everyone,
right now.
See your whole loop on one live map. Real-time, encrypted, and only shared within your family.
Emma arrived at Home
Austin, TX · GPS confirmed
just now
Jake · 32 mph
ETA Home · 8 min
en route
Arrival Alerts
Know they got home safe.
Automatic alerts when loop members arrive at or leave saved places. No checking. No wondering. Just knowing.
Everyone's home.
Ghost Mode
Pause when
you need to.
Any member can pause their location at any time. Trust built in.
Ghost Mode · On
Loops
Groups built for families.
Create separate loops for family, carpool, friends. Each one private.
E
J
S
A
Family Loop
Plus only
Driving reports.
Speed, routes, and safety scores — the full story of how your family moves.
92 safe
Simple setup

Up and running in
three minutes.

No configuration. Just download, loop in your people, and go.

1
Download free
iOS or Android. Free to download. Account setup takes about 60 seconds.
2
Loop in your people
Send a link. They join. You're connected. Works whether they already have the app or not.
3
Know they're safe
Live map, arrival alerts, and the peace of mind you actually came here for.
Your voice & needs matter

We know what
we're building.
You keep us honest.

Suggest anything. Vote on what matters to you. We build the most-wanted first and the list is always public — so you can see exactly where things stand.

You're not a user here. You're part of how this gets built.

Suggest anything
Feature ideas, UX changes, things that are just slightly wrong. All of it welcome.
Vote on what matters to you
Every family member's vote counts the same. No weighted votes, no VIP feedback lanes.
We build top to bottom
Most votes ships first. Every time. We publish the list so you can see exactly where things stand.
847
Arrival alerts with custom messages
Let members set a custom note that sends when they arrive at a place
Shipping next
612
Speed limit alerts for teen drivers
Notify a parent when a loop member exceeds a set speed for more than 30s
In progress
489
Scheduled location sharing windows
Automatically share only during school hours, after dark, etc.
Under review
341
Apple Watch complication
See who's home at a glance from your wrist
Open
298
Low battery alerts for loop members
Get notified when someone's phone drops below 20%
Open
Real families

The app families
actually agree on.

"

I switched from Life360 after I found out they were selling our kids' location data to insurance companies. VeraMap just works — and I actually trust it now.

S
Sarah M.
Mom of 3 · Austin, TX
"

My husband travels for work two weeks a month. VeraMap means the kids and I always know he landed, he's in the car, he's close. It sounds small but it isn't.

R
Rachel K.
Mom of 2 · Denver, CO
"

The design actually feels like it was made for a mom. Not a security product. Not a tracker. Something warm and easy that I'm happy to have on my phone.

J
Jamie T.
Parent of 4 · Portland, OR
The honest deal

We wish this was free
for every family.
We got pretty close.

Free covers what actually matters. Plus is how we stay in business. That's the whole model.

Free
$0
forever, no credit card

The essential thing — where is my family right now. Fully encrypted. Always. We built this tier because every family deserves to know their people are safe, regardless of what they can afford.

  • Live location for up to 5 members
  • Arrival & departure alerts
  • Ghost Mode for all members
  • 3 saved places
  • End-to-end encryption · Always

No venture capital subsidy. No data business running quietly in the background. No roadside assistance bundle designed to justify the price. Just a product that does one thing well, and the families who believe in it enough to keep it running.

If the free tier is all you need, use it. That's what it's there for.

We can't out-spend them.
We can out-care them.

Free gets you the essential thing: where is my family right now. Built by a dad who got angry enough to do something about it. No data selling. No compromises.

We can't read your location — by design

Get VeraMap Free

Download for the device you carry. End-to-end encrypted by design — free forever for the essential thing.

Launching to the App Store and Google Play in the next few weeks. We'll flip these links the moment they're live.

VeraMap

Free forever · No data selling. Ever. · iOS & Android