Krug: Family Location Sharing

Krug is a private location-sharing app for family and close friends, live on the map. See where your child is, whether they made it to school and when they head home, and if they lose their phone, ring it even on silent. Create a small circle of people you trust, invite them with a link and see each other on the map. No ads, no data sale.

🗺 WHAT IT DOES

• Live location: circle members on the map, with battery level and movement status (walking, driving, still)
• SOS button: send an emergency signal with your location to all members in one tap; with no internet it opens your messaging app with your location already filled in
• Crash detection (optional): if the phone detects a possible car crash, it sends an SOS to your circle after a countdown
• Places: get notified when a member arrives home, at school or at work, or leaves
• Location history and driving reports: route, speed, duration
• Weather, air quality and UV at a member's location
• Driving distance and arrival estimate to a member
• Invite by link: whoever opens it joins the circle right after installing

👨‍👩‍👧 FOR A CHILD'S PHONE (optional)

The circle owner invites a child with a dedicated invite. While the account is marked as a child it cannot pause location sharing on its own; the parent can remove that mark at any time. The child can delete their account at any time, and the parent is notified when that happens. With the Usage access permission, granted on the child's phone itself, the parent sees daily screen time and most-used apps (Premium) and can be notified when the child's phone goes silent or passes a daily limit. Find phone (free) rings the child's phone loudly even on silent. The parent also sees the child's phone status: sound off, GPS off or missing permissions, with instructions on what to fix. Krug on the child's phone always shows a persistent notification while sharing. It never reads messages, calls or app content.

⭐ PREMIUM

Location sharing, SOS, crash detection and Find phone are free. Premium (a Google Play subscription, monthly or yearly, 7 days free for new users, no card required) unlocks: location history up to 30 days, more places, driving and speeding reports, battery alerts, a weekly summary, map styles, more circles of your own, screen time and child phone alerts.

🔋 BATTERY-SMART

Krug detects whether you are walking, driving or still and adjusts how often it reads GPS. Sharing keeps working while the phone is locked, with a persistent notification.

🔒 PRIVACY FIRST

• Your location is visible only to the members of your circles
• No ads, no selling data to advertisers or data brokers
• Data is stored in the EU region (Google Firebase)
• Pause sharing in one tap, delete your account in the app or at krugapp.com/delete-account.html

🆘 SOS: IMPORTANT

SOS alerts MEMBERS OF YOUR CIRCLE, not emergency services. In a real emergency call your local emergency number (112 in Europe, 911 in the US) before or in addition to using Krug SOS.

📋 PERMISSIONS AND WHY

• Location (precise, including background): location sharing, places, trips
• Notifications, including full-screen: SOS and member alerts
• Activity recognition: smarter battery use and trip detection
• Battery optimization exemption: so the phone does not stop sharing
• Usage access (optional, child's phone only): screen time

All permissions can be revoked in Android settings.

📧 CONTACT
[email protected]

🌐 PRIVACY AND TERMS
Privacy policy: https://krugapp.com/privacy.html
Terms of use: https://krugapp.com/terms.html