About Family Nearby
Family Nearby is a family locator app for Android. It helps a family know that everyone got where they were going, without nagging, ads, or a drained battery.
Why it exists
Before building anything, we read 12,180 public reviews of family locator apps to learn what families actually dislike. The same complaints came up again and again:
- Too many notifications: over 2,000 reviews, about nagging prompts and alerts nobody asked for.
- Basics moved behind a paywall: about 1,700 reviews, often about arrive and leave alerts.
- Old locations that look current: about 1,600 reviews.
- Battery drain: over 1,100 reviews.
- No real person to talk to when something goes wrong.
Family Nearby is built to answer each of these.
The rules we build by
- The basics are free and stay free. The family map, refresh, arrive and leave alerts, check-ins and 7 days of history. A feature that is free today never moves behind a paywall.
- Honest about what it knows. Every location shows how old it is, and a quiet phone gets a reason, like low battery.
- No ads, and your data is never sold. No ad SDKs and no advertising id.
- Ask once, never nag. Each permission is asked once, with a clear reason. No hourly battery warnings.
- Sharing you can see. A phone that shares always shows it. Adults can pause or leave at any time.
- A person answers. Support replies within 48 hours.
Who makes it
Family Nearby is built by Md Jahangir Nabin, founder. New features are tested before they become available to every family; features labelled planned are not available yet.
Where it stands
The Android app is available now on Google Play. An iPhone app is planned, so families with both kinds of phone can use it. Get Family Nearby on Android to install it.
Contact
Write to us support.family.nearby@gmail.com. For privacy questions, see the privacy policy; to remove your data, see delete your account.
Not an emergency service. In an emergency, call your local emergency number.