The private alternative to Life360.
Both apps keep your family connected with live location, place alerts and history. The difference is what happens to your data along the way.
Life360 is the best-known family locator, and it earns that place with a deep feature set: place alerts, location history, driving reports, crash detection, Tile item tracking and insurance packages. It is also a highly profitable advertising business that pays for itself with your data, and the apps ship with third-party analytics and ad SDKs.
Paralino takes the opposite approach while not lacking in quality and features: a focused, clean and private subscription-only app where every location is end-to-end encrypted before it leaves your phone. No ads, no data selling, no shady business practices.
Differences that matter.
Choose exactly what you share, and with whom.
Paralino has no compromise when it comes to sharing control: privacy zones that blur your position automatically in areas you choose, approximate sharing when a general area is enough, and full control over what exact data you want to share.
Encrypted before it leaves the phone.
Locations you and your family share through Life360 are readable by Life360 and are analyzed to serve you more ads. Paralino can not access your location data, it is fully locked up on your phone before it is sent to other people.
Paralino
- you are the customer
- no ads
- no data selling
- no profiling
Life360
- you are the product
- ads & ad SDKs
- location data sold
- third-party analytics
The same closeness, without the trade-off.
Comparison based on publicly available information. Life360 is a trademark of its respective owner.
When Life360 can make sense for you.
Life360 is a mature product with safety and insurance features Paralino doesn't try to replicate. It may be the better fit if these apply:
Is Paralino a good alternative to Life360?
Absolutely. If you mainly use Life360 for live location, place alerts and history, Paralino covers those with much more on top.
Can Life360 see my family's location?
Yes. Life360 reads your and your family’s locations to provide you with certain features and it analyzes your location history to serve you ads.
Can Paralino see my location?
No. Paralino cannot on a technical level access your location, it is fully locked up on your phone before it is sent to other people.
Does Paralino have driving reports or crash detection?
No. Paralino shows speed as part of device metrics, but doesn’t offer driving scores, crash detection or roadside assistance.
Can I move my family from Life360 to Paralino?
Yes. Paralino is available on both Android and iOS and it is easy to set up.
How Paralino stacks up elsewhere.
See the same feature-by-feature breakdown against the other apps families usually weigh up.