Family & friends safety
SFamily keeps the people you love within reach — where they are, whether they arrived safely, and one tap to raise the alarm if they did not.
Built for families and close friends. Nothing is shared until you turn it on, and you can stop at any moment.
Android in closed testing now · iOS coming soon
What it does
Each feature is off until you switch it on, and each one can be switched off again just as easily.
Sharing stays off until you start it, for a set time or until you stop. See everyone sharing with you on one map, with their last update and battery level. Stopping takes effect at once, and nobody is told that you stopped.
Immediate. Your family is alerted with your position and your emergency message. A private SOS PIN cancels a false alarm without anybody having to reach you first.
For a walk home, a late journey, a meeting with someone you don't know. Set a countdown and choose who to contact, in order. If you don't answer, the first person is asked to check on you; if they don't respond in time, it moves to the next. The moment someone says "I've got this", everybody else is stood down.
A simple "I'm fine" for the people who worry. Set a time, answer with one tap. Miss it, and the contacts you chose are told.
One-to-one and group chats with photos, files, voice notes and shared locations. Star what matters, reply to a single message, forward and delete.
Ask people near you for help, and be asked. Off until you turn it on, never shown at an exact address, and pausable any time.
Medicine, appointments, school runs — for you, or for someone else in your family. They ring on the phone instead of sitting unread in a list.
Every person has a code. Show it or share the picture, and somebody standing next to you can add you in one scan instead of spelling out a username.
Driving, studying, sleeping, travelling. Your family sees it next to your photo, so they know whether now is a good moment to call.
Getting started
Sign in with your phone number and a one-time code. No password to forget, and no social account required.
Invite the people who should be able to see you — scan their QR code or search their username. Each person accepts before anything is shared.
Turn on live location when you want it, set a check-in time, save the places that matter. Everything stays off until you decide otherwise.
Privacy
A safety app that was careless with your data would be a contradiction. These are commitments, not settings buried three screens deep.
Only the people you have added can see your location. Blocking someone hides you from them completely, and they are not told.
Your data is not sold, and it is not used for advertising. SFamily carries no advertising ID and no third-party analytics or tracking libraries.
Close your account from inside the app, or from our website if you've already uninstalled. Location history is kept for 90 days; stories disappear after about 24 hours.
SFamily collects location data even when the app is closed or not in use, so your family can see you on the map while you are sharing, your SOS carries where you are, and your saved places know when you come and go. You choose who sees it, every time.
Any post, story, message, profile or help request can be reported, and you can block the person in the same step. Reports are private — the other person is never told who reported them.
SFamily is for people aged 13 and up. Under-18s should use it with a parent or guardian who knows they have it.
Questions
No. Sharing is off until you start it, and you choose who and for how long. When you stop, it stops immediately — and nobody is notified that you stopped.
Location only runs while you are actively sharing, and the app slows its updates when you are not moving. When sharing is off, SFamily isn't tracking anything.
The contacts you chose are told, in the order you set. Each person is given time to respond before it moves to the next. As soon as one of them confirms they're handling it, everyone else is stood down.
Yes. "Family" is whoever you add — a partner, a flatmate, a parent, a group of friends walking home. The permissions work the same way for all of them.
It's in development. Android is in closed testing now, and iOS follows. Write to us if you'd like to know when it lands.
Profile → Delete account, inside the app. If you've already uninstalled it, you can request deletion from our website without reinstalling.
Support
Something broken, a question about your data, or a request to close your account — write to us and we'll come back to you.
