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.
How it works
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.
Who it's for
Always-on, ambient awareness. Know your people are home safe without anyone having to check in.
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.
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
We were overdue for a happy hour. I got there first, but the place we usually go was packed, so I found somewhere nearby and grabbed a table.
I texted everyone. Half of them were driving. The texts turned into phone calls, the phone calls turned into confusion, and by the time everyone found me we'd burned twenty minutes of the hour we actually had.
All I needed was for everyone to be able to see where I was.
Privacy
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.
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.
Pricing
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.
Launch offer: subscribe by Aug 31, 2026 and your first year is free — cancel before it renews and you won't be charged. Prices in USD; billed through the App Store or Google Play.
Available for iOS and Android.