Location sharing for any team you trust.
Family, friends, or crew. Druptrails is built so your location is only ever seen by the people you've teamed with — never sold, never advertised against.
Three promises you can actually check.
Not a mission statement — concrete, verifiable commitments. And, for each, how it's enforced rather than merely intended.
We never sell or broker your location.
No data brokers. No "aggregated" resale buried in the fine print. Selling location data is not part of our business model — and never will be.
No ad-tech. No advertising business.
We run no ad network and build no advertising profile from where you go. There is no third-party SDK in the app watching alongside you.
Sharing is isolated at the broker level.
Your location is relayed only to teammates who share at least one team with you — enforced by ACL rules in the EMQX message broker itself. Even a flawed app query can't leak what the broker won't deliver.
One account. Many teams. Different rules for each.
Join your family, your climbing partners, and your shift at work — each its own team. You only ever share with people you've explicitly teamed with, and you can leave or revoke a team at any time.
Multi-team membership
Belong to as many teams as you like — family, friends, a work shift. Leave any of them in one tap and your location stops flowing instantly.
Role-based permissions
Owners, admins, and members. Decide who can invite people, who can view history, and who can manage the team.
Open, auditable foundation
Built on OwnTracks — an open protocol, encrypted in transit with TLS. Inspect it, self-host it, leave whenever you like. No black box.
Real-time map
See everyone on a team live, on a clean, uncluttered map. Updates arrive as fast as OwnTracks chooses to send them.
History, on your terms
Review where a tracker has been, with a retention window you set per tracker. Team owners and admins control member visibility. Export or delete your history at any time.
Geofencing
Mark the places that matter — home, school, the trailhead — and let a team know on arrival and departure. No third party in the loop.
A family-tracking app that doesn't sell your family.
In 2021, The Markup reported that Life360 — a family-safety app used by tens of millions — was selling its users' precise location data, much of it from children and families, to roughly a dozen data brokers. Its CEO described data as "an important part of our business model."1
That isn't one company's failing — it's an industry default. Google agreed to a $391.5 million settlement with 40 U.S. states in 2022 over misleading location-tracking practices: the largest multi-state privacy settlement in U.S. history.2 The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has since moved to bar data brokers from selling sensitive location data at all.3
Druptrails is built the other way around. There is no broker to sell to, because the architecture never pools your location for resale in the first place. Privacy isn't a clause we add — it's where the system starts.
We're careful with claims. The Markup reported on Life360's data sales, and Life360 disclosed the resulting litigation in its own SEC filings. We do not claim any regulator has sanctioned Life360 — the FTC's enforcement here has targeted location data brokers, industry-wide.
- The Markup, "The Popular Family Safety App Life360 Is Selling Precise Location Data on Its Tens of Millions of Users," Dec 6, 2021 — themarkup.org
- "Google settles with 40 states for $391.5 million over location tracking," Nov 14, 2022 — Fortune
- U.S. Federal Trade Commission, enforcement actions against location data brokers, 2024 — ftc.gov
A privacy page modeled on what reviewers reward.
Mozilla's *Privacy Not Included reviewers reward apps that say plainly what they collect, how long they keep it, and how to delete it. We wrote ours to clear that bar — in plain language, not legalese.
- What we collect
- Location updates from OwnTracks, your account email, and which teams you're in. That's the list.
- What we never collect
- Contacts, browsing, advertising identifiers, microphone. No third-party analytics SDKs.
- Retention
- You choose: 30 days, 90 days, 1 year, or keep-until-deleted — set per tracker. Team owners and admins also control how far back members can look.
- Deletion
- One-click account and data deletion. It actually deletes — no 30-day "soft delete" limbo.
- Who can see your location
- Only teammates on teams you've joined. Not advertisers. Not us, beyond running the service.
You are the customer, not the product.
— the one promise underneath the others
Every other commitment on this page follows from one decision: we make money from people who choose to pay us, not from people who buy access to where you've been. There is no ad layer to feed and no data partnership in the pipeline.
Druptrails costs money to run, so it will cost money at some point — and we will always keep a free tier, so you can stay on board without paying. When we email you, it'll be because something happened with your account. Not because we want to re-engage you.
- No ads. No third-party analytics. Not on this page, not in the app.
- Export anytime, delete anytime. Your full history, in one file or gone for good.
- Open foundations. Built on OwnTracks — inspect it, self-host it, leave whenever you like.
Pay if you want to. Stay either way.
The free tier covers what most families and small groups need — no essential feature is held hostage. Supporter is for heavier use, and for people who just want to keep the service running.
Free
Everything a family or a small group needs to share, safely.
- Up to 2 teams, with real-time map
- Team-only sharing, isolated at the broker
- 30 days of history
- Up to 3 geofenced places
- Full data export & one-click deletion
Supporter
Coming soonFor larger circles, longer history, and the people who believe in this.
- Everything in Free
- Unlimited teams & members
- History retention up to 2 years — you choose
- Unlimited geofences & role-based admin controls
- Priority support — from a person
Drupt Tails will always have a free tier. Paid plans help keep the service running — nothing essential is gated to manufacture anxiety.