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Live location sharing
Real-time position shared inside private family circles you create or join with an invite code. Nobody outside the circle can see it.
🧰 Every feature, explained
One app for the moments
a phone call can't cover.
Zone Tick brings together live location, emergency alerts, automatic detection and family messaging — and lets you switch on only the parts your household actually wants. Everything below is in the app today, grouped by what it does, and marked Free or Premium.
🔒 Sensitive features off by default
🎤 Mic never always-on
🇦🇺 Data stored in Sydney
📱 iOS & Android
Free vs Premium at a glance
The safety essentials are free forever. Premium unlocks the deeper detection, longer history and removes ads.
🆓 Free Plan
Everything a household needs to get covered today.
- Emergency SOS & location sharing
- Crash / fall & inactivity alerts
- Live location with up to 2 family members
- Family updates: place, drive, run (1-day inbox)
- Chat history kept 7 days (groups and 1:1)
- Alert history (1 day)
- Up to 5 family groups
- Up to 20 members per circle
- Send alerts to 2 members
⭐ Premium
Everything in Free, plus:
- Safe zones / geofencing
- Scream & keyword detection
- Automatic voice recording
- Alert history (7 days)
- Group chats: keep 7–30 days
- 1:1 chats: delete after read, or keep 30 days
- Unlimited family groups (up to 250 per circle)
- Unlimited alerts & live sharing
- No ads
A Family Pack covers Premium for up to 6 Zone Tick accounts, with seats you can gift by invite code, email, phone or UID. Full breakdown on Pricing.
Location & family circles
Know where everyone is — inside a private group, never broadcast publicly.
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Family map
Every circle member on one map with their profile picture, plus turn-by-turn navigation straight to someone.
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Safe zones & geofencing
Draw a zone by tapping corners on the map — no coordinates to type. Get notified when someone arrives at or leaves Home, School or work.
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Offline location tracking
Positions are queued while you're out of signal and sync automatically the moment the connection comes back.
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Nearest police station
One tap finds the closest station and routes you there — surfaced right on the home screen during an emergency.
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Location view alerts
Optionally get a notification when a family member opens your live location. Transparency runs in both directions.
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Family circles
Free: create up to 5 groups with 20 members each. Premium: unlimited groups, up to 250 members per circle.
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Place, drive & run notices
Quiet updates when someone reaches a safe place, starts driving, or starts running — without anyone having to text.
Emergency & SOS
Getting help to the right people in one press — with SMS as a fallback.
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One-tap SOS
Alerts your default circle instantly, with your live position attached so nobody has to ask where you are.
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Selective SOS
Alert specific people rather than the whole circle, for situations that call for discretion.
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Emergency SMS backup
Texts reach the contacts you nominate even if they've never installed the app — because emergencies don't wait for downloads.
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Default SOS group
Alerts always go to the circle you chose, no matter which group you happen to be browsing at the time.
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Emergency contacts
Keep a named list of people to text on SOS, imported from your contacts or typed in manually.
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Alert history
A record of every alert raised and cancelled. 1 day on Free, 7 days on Premium.
Automatic detection
For the moments you can't press a button yourself. Every detection gives you a cancel window first.
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Crash detection
Reads the accelerometer and gyroscope to spot a vehicle impact. Sensitivity is yours to tune, anywhere from 2.5G to 25G.
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Inactivity monitoring
Flags a prolonged absence of movement or phone use, so nobody goes unnoticed for too long.
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Run / chase detection
Combines the pedometer with GPS speed and only escalates after 15 seconds of sustained running. Walking and driving are ignored.
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Scream detection
Listens for distress sounds during a timed session. Sensitivity is adjustable, and the mic stops automatically after a minute.
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Voice keyword detection
Reacts to "help" and other built-in phrases — plus custom phrases you add yourself, for the words your family would actually shout.
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Shake to activate
A shake opens a one-minute safety session. The rest of the time the microphone stays firmly off.
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Emergency voice recording
Captures up to a minute on your own phone when a session starts — useful context afterwards. Auto-deletes after 7 days.
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Always a cancel window
Nothing fires instantly. Every detection gives you seconds to say "I'm fine" before a single person is alerted.
Staying connected
The everyday reassurance between emergencies — which is most of the time.
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Family chat
Group and one-to-one messaging built in, so safety conversations aren't scattered across other apps.
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Chat retention controls
Choose how long messages live: 7–30 days for groups, or have 1:1 messages disappear the moment they're read.
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Daily check-ins
A two-second tap to tell your circle you're okay — with a mood and a short status if you want to say more.
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Check-in reminders
Gentle nudges on a schedule you set, so checking in becomes a habit rather than a chore.
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Family updates inbox
All the place, drive and status notices from your circle collected in one place instead of buried in notifications.
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Share a recording
Choose to send a saved safety recording to your circle — it only ever leaves your phone if you decide it should.
Control, privacy & extras
Your app, your rules — down to the colour of the SOS button.
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Granular privacy controls
Every sensitive feature ships switched off. Turn on only what your family wants, and revoke it any time.
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Custom notifications
Decide exactly which alerts reach you — messages, SOS, check-in reminders, family notices — and mute the rest.
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Custom SOS button colour
Make the emergency button unmistakably yours, so it's found by muscle memory under stress.
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Dark mode & haptics
Dark theme, vibration feedback and sound effects, all individually switchable.
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Delete your account
Right there in Settings. A 30-day restore window if you change your mind, then permanent erasure.
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Games
Sudoku and Snake built in — a small distraction for the people waiting, or for a restless kid in the car.
📲 Ready to set your family up?
Free to start, no card required. Install it on each phone, create a circle, and you're covered in about ten minutes.
⚠️ 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.