- End-to-end encryptedOnly the people you share with can see your location.
- Never sold or sharedNot to advertisers, data brokers or insurers.
- No ads, everSo there's nothing to sell your attention to.
- History you chooseNone, 24 hours or 7 days. Never longer.
How it works
- Your phone locks your location before it leaves. It's end-to-end encrypted, and only the phones of the people you share with hold the keys to read it.
- Our servers pass along what they can't read. They relay encrypted updates between your family's phones. A break-in at our servers is meant to find scrambled data, not where anyone is.
- The thinking happens on your phone. Arrival checks, your saved places and driving summaries are worked out on the phone, so our servers never learn where home or school is.
- Photos lose their location first. Location and other hidden details are stripped from a photo on your phone before it's encrypted.
What we never do
- Sell, rent or share your data with anyone, for money or for marketing
- Show ads, or use your phone's advertising ID
- Put ad, analytics or data-broker code in the app
- Keep your location history longer than you chose
- Make anyone findable: no public profiles, no username search, no "people you may know"
- Track anyone in secret. A kid always knows Outft is on and who can see them
Controls you have
Who can see me
One screen lists everyone who can see your location and exactly what each of them sees, and lets you change it.
Approximate by default
Buds see nothing until you choose to share with them, and then only your neighborhood unless you choose to show more.
Ghost mode
Take a break from your Buds whenever you like. A kid's Honchos can still see them, and the app always says so.
Lock it
Turn on a Face ID lock, so nobody who picks up your phone can change who sees you.
Why this matters for a location app
Where you go says a lot: home, school, work, the doctor, the people you see. Family location data has been sold before. In 2021, The Markup reported that Life360 was selling precise location data from its users to about a dozen data brokers.1 In 2022 Life360 said it would stop selling precise location to most of them, while keeping a deal with Allstate's Arity.2 In 2025 the Texas Attorney General sued Allstate and Arity, alleging they collected driving data through software in apps including Life360; Allstate denies it.3
Outft can't sell your location, because we can't read it. More Life360 complaints, and how Outft handles them
How we make money
Family subscriptions, never ads. Outft is free to download, safety basics are free for every family, and kids are always free. Family Premium adds more for Honchos.