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Live location sharing
Real-time position inside private family circles you create or join with an invite code.
🇦🇺 About Zone Tick
Family safety software,
built in Melbourne.
Zone Tick started from a question families ask every day: are the people I love okay right now? A phone call answers it most of the time. It doesn't answer it after a car crash, during a missed check-in, or in the moment someone can't reach their phone at all.
We built Zone Tick to cover those moments — without turning a safety app into a surveillance product. Every sensitive feature is off until you switch it on, location is visible only inside the circle you choose, and we make money from subscriptions and non-personalised ads rather than from selling anyone's data.
🔒 Privacy-first
🇦🇺 Australian-owned
🚫 No data selling
📱 iOS & Android
- 🏙️ Sydney Where your data is stored
- 🛡️ 20+ Safety features built in
- ⏱️ 7 days Then recordings self-delete
- 🚫 Zero Data brokers we sell to
Who builds it
Zone Tick is designed, built and maintained by one person. If you email support, he's who replies.
⚡ Founder & sole developer
Akshay Kumar
Founder — Zone Tick Pty Ltd
📍 Carnegie, Victoria, Australia
Akshay founded Zone Tick after looking at the family safety apps already on the market and disliking the trade-off they asked for: hand over your family's location history, and trust it won't be passed on. Zone Tick is his answer — live location that stays inside a circle you control, safety detection that runs on your own device, and no selling of personal data. He builds and maintains the whole product: the Flutter app for iOS and Android, the backend on Google Cloud, and this website.
The company
A registered Australian company, not an anonymous app listing.
- 🏛️ Legal entityZone Tick Pty Ltd
- 📍 Based inVictoria, Australia
- 🗄️ Data stored inGoogle Cloud Sydney (australia‑southeast1)
- 📱 PlatformsiOS & Android
- 💬 Supportsupport@zonetick.com
- 🔐 Privacy enquiriesprivacy@zonetick.com
Everything the app does
Zone Tick bundles the safety tools families actually use into one app. Some are free, some are Premium — see Pricing for the split.
📍 Location & circles
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Family map
See circle members with their profile pictures, and navigate straight to someone.
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Safe zones
Draw a geofence by tapping corners on the map — no coordinates. Get alerts on arrive and leave.
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Offline tracking
Positions queue up while you're out of signal and sync the moment the connection returns.
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Nearest police station
One tap to find and route to the closest station during an emergency.
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View notifications
Optionally get told when a family member opens your live location. Transparency both ways.
🆘 Emergency & SOS
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One-tap SOS
Alerts your default circle instantly with your live position attached.
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Selective SOS
Alert specific people rather than everyone, when the situation calls for discretion.
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SMS backup
Emergency texts reach the contacts you nominate even if they don't have the app installed.
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Default SOS group
Alerts always go to the right circle, no matter which one you happen to be viewing.
🤖 Automatic detection
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Crash detection
Accelerometer and gyroscope based, with sensitivity you can tune from 2.5G right up to 25G.
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Run / chase detection
Pedometer plus GPS speed, escalating only after 15 seconds of real running. Walking and driving are ignored.
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Voice & scream detection
Listens for "help" and phrases you add yourself, in short timed sessions — never always-on.
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Inactivity monitoring
Flags a prolonged lack of activity so nobody is left unnoticed for too long.
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Shake to activate
A shake starts a one-minute safety session. The microphone stays off the rest of the time.
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Always a cancel window
Every detection gives you a few seconds to cancel before a single person is alerted.
💞 Staying in touch
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Family chat
Group and one-to-one messaging, with message retention you control per conversation.
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Daily check-ins
Share a quick status and how you're feeling, so nobody has to guess.
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Family notices
Gentle updates for arriving at or leaving a safe place, starting to drive, or starting to run.
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Emergency recordings
Up to a minute saved on your own phone when a session starts. Auto-deleted after 7 days.
What it looks like
A few screens from the app running on a real device.
How we think about privacy
Safety features need sensitive permissions, so we'd rather be straight about the trade-offs than bury them in a policy nobody reads.
- Off by defaultLocation, microphone and motion features stay off until you deliberately enable them.
- The mic is not always onIt runs in short, timed sessions triggered by a shake or a detected event — and never during a phone call.
- Recordings stay on your phoneEmergency audio is stored locally and auto-deletes after 7 days, unless you choose to share one.
- No data selling, everFree-plan ads are non-personalised: ad networks are not permitted to build a profile from them, and never receive your location, audio or messages.
- Delete whenever you likeAccount deletion is in the app and on this site, with a 30-day restore window before permanent erasure.
The full detail — every data type, every service provider, retention periods, and your rights under GDPR, CCPA and the Australian Privacy Act — is in our Privacy Policy.
Getting started
Four steps, about ten minutes, and your household is covered.
- Install the appGet Zone Tick onto each household member's phone from the App Store or Google Play.
- Create your circleStart a private family circle and share the invite code with the people you trust.
- Add emergency contactsNominate SMS contacts and switch on only the alerts your family actually needs.
- Run a calm drillPractise an SOS once, so everyone knows exactly what happens before it matters.
Step-by-step articles are in our Family Safety Guides. For the full feature breakdown see Features.
👋 Questions? Talk to the person who built it.
No support ticket queue, no outsourced call centre. Email goes straight to Akshay.
⚠️ Zone Tick is a supplementary safety tool, not an emergency service. It depends on your phone, its battery, its sensors and a working network connection, and it can fail. Always call your local emergency number — 000 in Australia — in a life-threatening situation.