In short
Parages is a privacy-first app that nudges you when you pass near a friend you added, without ever sharing anyone’s live location. Proximity is worked out on your own phone, so your position never reaches a server.
What if your phone just told you?
You drive through a small town. Your childhood friend moved there last year. You were 300 metres apart. You never knew.
Parages would have nudged you.
Your phone is full of people you loved and never see anymore. No falling out, just life moving on.
Parages tells you which ones are nearby, today.
A weekend in Paris, alone, no plan. Three people you know live less than 2 km away. You have no idea.
Parages would have told you who was around.
You run errands, you take the metro, you go about your day. Never knowing you brush past people you would love to see again.
Parages catches those near-misses.
Welcome to Parages
Parages pings you when you pass near a friend. It tracks nobody.
You travel, you move, friends end up everywhere. Parages keeps your private map of them, so you never walk past someone you love without knowing it.
How it works
Parages nudges you when you pass near a friend’s place. Think of it as a private address book that taps you on the shoulder. It tracks nobody.
Parages pings you when you pass near a friend. It tracks nobody.
Their neighborhood, not their exact address. Only you see your list, and nothing is shared.
No continuous tracking, no shared location. Parages sleeps in your pocket.
You pass near a friend, and your phone says “You’re 300 m from Thomas 👋”. Right when it matters.
The app
No map spying on you, no endless settings. You add your friends, you live your life, and when one of them is nearby, your phone taps you on the shoulder. The rest, Parages handles quietly, without ever knowing where you are.
You add them by their neighbourhood, never their exact address. They don't need the app or to accept anything: they never even know they are in your book. Only you can see it.
You go out, you wander, you live your life. The moment you come within a few hundred metres of a friend, their point lights up on your private map. No location is shared: it all runs on your phone.
“Léa is nearby, 250 m away.” A quiet nudge, right when the chance to see her is actually there. Up to you. Or not.
The proximity check runs on your phone. Your location goes nowhere.
Your address book is encrypted, visible to you alone.
No history of your trips, ever recorded.
No live location shared, with anyone.
No ads, no data sold to anyone.
Runs in the background without draining your battery.
The difference
Life360, Snap Map, Find My all share your live location. Parages does the opposite. Nobody sees where you are. You just note where your friends live, in a book only you can read, and the app pings you at the right moment. No trip history, no surveillance, no data sold.
Join the waitlist
Parages is coming soon. Drop your email, we’ll tell you first. No spam, just the day it opens.
Join the waitlistThe real questions
Those apps share your live location with a group, all the time. Parages shares nothing. It checks on your own phone whether you are near a friend you added, and only then pings you.
No. Parages never shares or stores your live location. It only checks, on your own phone, whether you are close to a friend you added, and pings you if so.
Never. Nobody sees your location. The whole point is that you stay invisible while still not missing the people you know.
No. You can add a friend just by noting roughly where they live. They never know they are in your private book.
There will be a free plan that covers the core feature: getting pinged when you pass near a friend. A paid tier will add history and travel stats later.
You note where your friends live. When your phone notices you are within a few hundred metres of one of them, it sends you a quiet notification.
Waitlist
Join the waitlist. We'll let you know the moment Parages opens, no spam.
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