Every family and friend group has the same conversation: “Where are you?”, and then the wait. The apps that answer it usually do it by tracking you all day, on servers that keep your history. LOOP takes the opposite approach. Nothing runs in the background, the people you choose can ask, and your phone answers only if you say yes, with your location sealed so that only they can read it. I built it for Indian families and friends first: small enough for budget phones, in Hindi and English, and true to India's official map.
Arpan Patra, IndoreAbout
Why LOOP exists
About
What LOOP will always be
1
No account
A random ID instead of your phone number or email.
2
No ads, no analytics
Nothing in the app watches what you do, and nothing is sold.
3
Nothing in the background
One reading when someone asks, then it stops.
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Made in India
Built for Indian families first, in Hindi and English.
About
How LOOP is built
- Android app
- Kotlin and Jetpack Compose, about 6 MB.
- Server
- A small Cloudflare Worker in Asia-Pacific that only relays sealed messages.
- Encryption
- P-256 and AES-256-GCM, done on the phones.
- Map
- OpenStreetMap data, with India's official borders drawn by LOOP.