Parents of teenagers
They text back eventually. The map tells you they got to school before that.
- Arrival alerts
- Saved places
- History
Restate connessi, più forti insieme.
Your circle, live on the map.
PinUs è un'app gratuita e self-hosted per la condivisione della posizione, pensata per la famiglia e gli amici più stretti. Crea un circle, condividi la tua posizione in tempo reale e ricevi un avviso nel momento in cui qualcuno arriva a casa.
One Tuesday, one circle
Step through a normal day and watch what the map does on its own. No one had to text anybody.
Tap a time to jump to it
Live map
Everyone is still in
Three pins sitting on Home. Nothing to do, nothing to check — this is what most of the day looks like.
Places & arrival alerts
Maya arrived at School
You saved School as a place once. Now the circle gets told the moment she gets there, and nobody had to ask.
Live status
Dad is driving
His pin shows he is moving rather than sitting still, so you know not to call right now.
Battery alerts
Sam's phone is at 12%
A heads-up before his pin goes quiet, so a dark pin reads as a flat battery instead of something worse.
Circle chat
"Grabbing food — want anything?"
Chat lives on the same screen as the map, so asking takes one tap. Messages clear themselves after seven days.
History
Everyone back, nobody texted
The whole day is on the map if you want it — and it deletes itself after seven days if you do not.
Come funziona
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1
Crea un account
Registrati solo con nome, email e password — nessun numero di telefono richiesto.
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2
Crea o unisciti a un circle
Crea un circle e condividi il codice di invito, oppure inserisci un codice che qualcuno ti ha dato.
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3
Condividi la tua posizione
Consenti l'accesso alla posizione nel tuo browser. Tutti nel circle vedranno il tuo pin aggiornarsi in tempo reale.
Who can see all this?
Only the people you invited. That's not a setting you have to find — it's how circles work.
Members of a circle you joined.
Never sees you
- Other circles — even ones you're also in
- Advertisers and data brokers
- Anyone without your invite code
- Search engines and the public web
And you can go invisible any time without leaving the circle.
Who ends up using PinUs
Same map, very different reasons for opening it.
Two people, opposite schedules
Know when to start cooking without asking "how far away are you" for the fourth time.
- Live map
- Driving status
- Circle chat
Friends meeting somewhere new
Five people, five routes, one map. Nobody waits alone outside the wrong entrance.
- Live map
- Circle chat
- Invite codes
Checking on aging parents
A quiet arrival alert when they get home, instead of a phone call that feels like surveillance.
- Arrival alerts
- Battery alerts
- Invisible mode
Walking home on your own
Send one person a link that shows where you are until you're through the door — then it stops.
- Share links
- SOS
- Live map
A house full of people
Who's in, who's out, who's bringing dinner — settled without a group chat nobody reads.
- Saved places
- Circle chat
- Arrival alerts
What makes this different
Most family locator apps are free until they aren't. Here's the honest comparison — including where PinUs still falls short.
| Feature | PinUs | Typical locator app |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free, no tiers | Free tier, paid upgrades |
| Ads | None | Often, or upsells |
| Who holds your location data | The server your circle hosts | The company's servers |
| Sold to data brokers | Never | Read the fine print |
| Go invisible without leaving | Yes, anytime | Usually not |
| iPhone app | Not yet — browser only | Yes |
That last row is a real gap, not a spin. On iPhone, PinUs runs in the browser, and browsers stop sharing location when the tab closes. The Android app does keep sharing in the background.
Gratis per sempre. Nessuna app da installare. Configurazione in meno di un minuto.
Crea il tuo circle
Domande frequenti
Cos'è PinUs?
PinUs è un'app web per la condivisione della posizione pensata per famiglie e gruppi di amici. Le persone entrano a far parte di un "circle" condiviso, e ognuno in quel circle può vedere l'ultima posizione nota degli altri su una mappa in tempo reale, insieme agli avvisi di arrivo e partenza per i luoghi salvati.
PinUs funziona sia su iPhone che su Android?
Sì. PinUs funziona nel browser del telefono su entrambe le piattaforme, quindi non c'è nessuna app separata da scaricare per iOS o Android.
PinUs è gratuito?
Sì. PinUs non ha piani a pagamento, non ha pubblicità e non vende i tuoi dati — chi lo ospita lo fa girare sul proprio server invece di pagare un'azienda per il servizio.
Devo installare un'app?
No. PinUs funziona interamente nel tuo browser, mobile o desktop. Nessun download da uno store di applicazioni.
La condivisione della posizione funziona in background?
PinUs condivide la tua posizione mentre la scheda della dashboard è aperta e attiva. Non ti traccerà in background una volta chiusa la scheda o il browser — i browser non lo consentono senza un'app dedicata.
Chi può vedere la mia posizione?
Solo i membri dei circle a cui hai aderito. I dati sulla posizione non vengono mai condivisi tra circle diversi né mostrati a chi non ne fa parte.
You stop having to ask
PinUs tells your circle the things you'd otherwise be texting about.
- Maya arrived at Home Left School 22 min ago · 4.1 km · top 48 km/h
- Dad isn't at Work yet You asked to be told if he hadn't arrived by 09:15
- Sam's phone is at 12% His pin may stop updating soon
- Jo was doing 118 km/h On the drive between Home and Airport
- Maya sent an SOS Location shared with everyone in Family right now
Every alert stays inside the circle
Nobody outside it is notified, and activity logs delete themselves after 7 days.
This is the whole thing
One map, everyone on it, and the alerts that mean you stop asking. No dashboard to learn.
In closed testing
Google Play
On the roadmap
App Store
Crea il tuo circle
Gratis per sempre. Nessuna app da installare. Configurazione in meno di un minuto.