Why location sharing drains your battery

Quick answer

Leave location sharing on for a day and you know the result: dead battery by noon.

Leave location sharing on for a day and you know the result: dead battery by noon. It makes sense, since these apps poll the GPS nonstop to track everyone live. Parages works differently. It follows no one in real time, so it never needs to wake the GPS over and over. It just checks now and then, right on your phone, whether a contact is nearby. Your battery holds, your location stays private.

In one sentence

Parages pings you when you pass near a friend. It tracks nobody.

How it works

Add your friends

Their neighborhood, not their exact address. Only you see your list, and nothing is shared.

Live your life

No continuous tracking, no shared location. Parages sleeps in your pocket.

Get a hello

You pass near a friend, and your phone says “You’re 300 m from Thomas 👋”. Right when it matters.

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Frequently asked questions

You note roughly where your friends live. Your phone watches for when you come within a few hundred metres of one of them and sends a quiet notification. No one shares a live location.

Yes, that is the whole design. The proximity check runs locally on your phone, so you are alerted while your position never leaves the device.

Be there at launch.

Parages is coming soon. Drop your email, we’ll tell you first. No spam, just the day it opens.