If you’ve ever wanted to share your location with people you actually trust — without handing that data over to a corporation that turns around and sells it — Paralino might just be your new best friend.
What is Paralino?
Paralino is a private, end-to-end encrypted location sharing app available on iPhone and Android. The idea is beautifully simple: you share your real-time location with the people you choose, and absolutely nobody else can see it. Not advertisers, not data brokers, and — here’s the part that matters — not even Paralino itself.1
The company is based in Austria and operates under EU privacy law, which means your data is stored in Europe and governed by GDPR. That’s a meaningful difference from the US-based location apps that treat your whereabouts as a revenue stream.
Why it beats the alternatives
Most location sharing apps — Life360, Google Maps sharing, Find My Friends — collect your data, analyze it, and monetize it. Life360 was famously caught selling precise location data of its users, including teenagers, to data brokers.2 Paralino’s model is the opposite: no ads, no tracking, no data collection. The app is also open source, so anyone can verify those claims.3
What it can do
Beyond just showing where someone is, Paralino shows battery level, speed, elevation, and network status — genuinely useful when you’re trying to figure out if a family member is almost home or stuck in traffic. You can also set geofencing alerts so you get a notification when someone arrives at or leaves a specific place, like school or work.
Most importantly, sharing is fully on your terms. You can pause it, stop it, or limit it to a set window of time. Nobody sees your location unless you decide they do.
Who it’s for
Families who want to keep tabs on each other without feeding a data broker. Travelers who want to stay connected with friends back home. Anyone who’s ever felt uncomfortable with how much their location app knows about their daily life.
It’s free to use, takes minutes to set up, and actually respects your privacy. That’s a rare combo.
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1 Paralino, “Hello Paralino”
2 The Markup, “The Popular Family Safety App Life360 Is Selling Precise Location Data on Its Tens of Millions of Users”
3 Paralino, “Paralino: Private, End-to-End Encrypted Location Sharing for Families and Travellers”
