Family Locator App for South Africa

A family map where everyone chooses to be on it

Live locations, saved places, arrive and leave alerts. Pause or stop any time.

If you've been looking for a Life360-style family map that sits alongside the rest of your household admin, HeyKit has one built in. It lives in the HeyKit iPhone app and on the website's Where page. Nobody is put on the map by someone else: each person turns sharing on from their own phone, the phone asks permission first, and they can pause or stop whenever they like.

Sharing is each person's choice

Location sharing starts on the phone of the person being shared. iOS asks for permission before anything is sent, and the person can pause for an hour or switch it off completely from the same screen. A family admin can also pause or stop anyone's sharing, which helps when a child's phone needs a break from the map.

→Turned on from each person's own phone, never remotely
→The phone asks permission before sharing starts
→Pause for an hour, or stop any time
→A family admin can pause or stop anyone's sharing

Saved places with arrive and leave alerts

Add Home, School, Work or any other place by searching an address or dropping a pin, then set a radius that fits. For each place you decide whether you want a notification when someone arrives, when they leave, or both.

→Search an address or drop a pin
→Set a radius per place
→Choose arrive, leave or both, place by place

Share my trip, battery and last seen

Driving back late from Joburg or walking home from a friend's place? Tap Share my trip and the family gets precise live updates for the next hour. Day to day, the map also shows each person's battery level and when they were last seen, so a phone that died isn't mistaken for something worse.

Circles for people outside the family

A circle lets you share with people who aren't in your HeyKit family: grandparents, a lift club, a group of friends. Anyone joins with an invite link. Each circle has its own map and its own saved places, and you choose per circle whether they can see you. You can even hide from your own family and share only with a circle.

→Join by invite link, no family account needed
→Separate map and places for each circle
→Choose per circle whether you're visible

Works with your home alarm

If you've connected your alarm to HeyKit, the map can nudge you when everyone who shares their location has left home and the alarm isn't armed, and again when someone is nearly home and it's still armed.

What you can do with this

The school run without the texts

Set School as a place with an arrive alert. When Mia's phone gets there in the morning you get a notification, and nobody has to remember to send 'here'.

A lift club that runs itself

Make a circle for the three families in the lift club. Everyone joins from the invite link and sees each other on that circle's map, with its own pickup spots, while your family map stays private.

Grandparents who like to know

Thandi's parents are in a circle with her. They can see when she's home from work, and she can stop sharing with them for the weekend without touching anything else.

Common questions

Is it safe? Who can see where I am?

Only the people you've chosen. Your family sees you if you share with them, and each circle sees you only if you've switched that circle on. You can pause for an hour or stop at any time.

Does it drain my battery?

It's built to be light. In normal mode the phone sends an update roughly every 100 metres rather than constantly. Share my trip gives more precise updates for one hour, then goes back to normal.

How long is my location history kept?

Where someone has been is kept for 7 days and then deleted.

Can I share with people who aren't in my family?

Yes. Create a circle and send an invite link to grandparents, friends or a lift club. Each circle has its own map and places, and you decide per circle whether they see you.

Can my kids turn it off?

Each person can pause or stop sharing from their own phone. A family admin can also pause or stop anyone's sharing.