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Miss Zenly? Here's a map for your crew

Outft puts your Buds on a map so you can see who's close and meet up. It's private, it has ghost mode, and it's coming to iPhone and Android on the same day.

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Updated October 23, 2026

What happened to Zenly

In August 2022, Snap said it was shutting Zenly down1 to focus its mapping on one service, the Snap Map inside Snapchat.2 Zenly was set to shut down on February 3, 2023.3 A lot of people still miss having a map that was just for their crew.

What Outft gives you

Start an Outft

Buds are your friends on Outft. An outft is your crew of 2 to 8: invite your Buds, and they show up on your map and you on theirs.

See who's close

See where your outft is and where they're heading, so you can meet up fast.

You pick how much

Buds see nothing until you share with them, and then only your neighborhood unless you choose to show more.

Ghost mode

Pause sharing with your Buds whenever you want. Nobody gets un-Budded, and you turn it back on when you're ready.

The honest part: parents

In Outft, a parent is a Honcho. If you're under 13, a parent sets up your account. Your Honchos can see where you are, even in ghost mode, because ghost mode is a break from Buds, not from family.

Nothing is hidden from you, though. You can always see exactly what each Honcho can see, and when they checked. Honchos never see your photos, and never see where your Buds are. See the kids' page

Private by design

Saddle up your family

Outft is coming soon to iPhone and Android, both on the same day. Free to download. The basic safety features cost families nothing, and kids never pay.

Sources

  1. The Pragmatic Engineer, "Zenly" (2022)
  2. TechCrunch, "Zenly is still hugely popular, so why's Snap shutting it down?" (September 1, 2022)
  3. TechCrunch, "Zenly was the best social app and it will sadly shut down on February 3rd" (December 5, 2022)

Snapchat, Snap Map and Zenly are trademarks of Snap Inc. Outft isn't affiliated with or endorsed by Snap Inc. What we say about other companies' apps comes from the public sources above, checked October 2026.

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