Private location sharing

Share your location.
Not your data.

Know where your family is —
without selling it to advertisers.

No data to sell.
No history to leak.

Mylo lets you stay connected with the small groups of people you actually trust. Your family. Your friends. Your team. Without giving up your privacy.

Free forever, no subscription required No ads, ever No account needed
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Mylo map showing the whole family as colorful avatar pins
Mylo notification showing a family member arrived home
Mylo showing sharing paused with no location history retained

I have kids ranging from teenagers to young adults, and not all of them use iPhones. I wanted to know when someone was going to arrive, not where they'd been all day.

Parenting is about trust, and trust goes both ways. Location sharing done right is a convenience for everyone: the kid doesn't have to remember to text, the parent doesn't have to wonder. It's not monitoring. It's just being a family that stays connected.

Oh, and they can see where I am too.

I built Mylo because nothing else worked the way I needed it to.

— Nate

Mylo showing family member arriving home

How it works

Three steps. That's it.

No sign-up flow, no friend requests to accept, no algorithm deciding who sees what.

1
Create a group, or join one
Start a group for your family, your friends, or your team — no account or email required.
2
Invite the people you trust
Share a QR code, a link, or a short code you can read aloud. Invites are single-use and expire in an hour.
3
See everyone. Know when it matters
Your group appears on a live map. Add named places and alerts to know the moment someone arrives.

Why Mylo

Built around a different idea.

Most location apps are built on your data. Mylo is built around the opposite idea — that your location is yours, and we'll share it only with exactly who you choose, when you choose to do so.

End-to-end encrypted
We see nothing — not your location, not your places, not who's in your group. Everything is encrypted on your device before it leaves. Not "encrypted in transit." Encrypted so we don't have the key.
No account
No email, no phone number, no password. Your identity is a recovery seed generated on your device — save it as a QR code or write it down. No login screens, ever.
Groups, not followers
Sharing happens inside closed groups you create. No public profile, no discoverability, no strangers. People you don't invite see nothing.
No ads. No analytics.
Mylo includes no third-party SDKs for advertising or analytics. We have no business model that depends on your data, and we intend to keep it that way.

Who it's for

Some groups share all the time. Others share when it counts. Mylo handles both.

Families

Always-on, ambient awareness. Know your people are home safe without anyone having to check in.

Friends & teams

Situational sharing when it matters — coordinating at an event, keeping tabs on a trip, making sure everyone got home. Events-only groups stay dark in between.

Privacy

We can't read your location. Even if we wanted to.

Mylo uses a per-group encryption key that lives only on the devices of group members. When you invite someone, your device derives a pairwise secret from your personal keypairs and uses it to deliver the group key directly to their device — the server passes an envelope it can't open. Our servers hold only an encrypted snapshot of where you are right now, not where you have been.

Remove a member and the key rotates automatically. The organizer's device re-encrypts group data under a new key and distributes it only to remaining members. They're locked out going forward — and since we store no history, there's nothing in the past to recover either.

This isn't a privacy policy we hope you'll trust. It's a technical constraint we've built into the architecture — and you don't have to take our word for it. The identity and group-encryption code Mylo runs in production is open source (MIT license): github.com/needyaz/identity and github.com/needyaz/groups.

What our servers see
  • Random user ID (not your name or email)
  • Random group IDs (not your group names)
  • Encrypted blobs (unreadable without your key)
  • Push notification tokens (for alerts, with encrypted payloads)
  • Timestamps (so devices know what's new)
We do not store your name, email, phone number, contacts, or any usage analytics tied to you — only anonymous, aggregate data. (An optional avatar photo you set is stored end-to-end encrypted, like everything else here.)

Want the full technical details?

The privacy policy covers exactly what data we store, how encryption works, what each permission is used for, and what happens to your data if you leave a group or lose your device.

See all features → Read the FAQ → Read the privacy policy → Security FAQ →

Pricing

Free to create. Subscribe for places & alerts.

Mylo is free to join, free to use, and free to create your first group — live location sharing included, no payment screen. A subscription lets you own up to 9 groups instead of 1, and unlocks named places with arrival & departure alerts, flight-landing alerts, and the background reliability that keeps sharing working even when the app is closed — for the whole group, on one subscription.

Free
Free
Create a group or join one — no subscription required.
  • Create and host 1 group — no payment screen, ever
  • Live location sharing with everyone in your group
  • Join any group you're invited to, always free
  • No expiration — stay on the free tier as long as you want
  • No ads, no analytics, no account required
Get Started Free

Free for 1 month, then billed at the rate above — cancel before your trial ends and you won't be charged. Prices in USD; billed through the App Store or Google Play.

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