# Nahbei — Know when friends are nearby

> Know when friends are nearby (iPhone/iPad app by David Gertis.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/nahbei/id6816487952 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [David Gertis](https://appshunter.io/developer/6776713161)
- Category: Travel, Social Networking
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 17+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 13 MB
- Languages: American English, German (Germany)
- Released: 2026-10-20
- Data updated: 2026-10-25

## What is Nahbei?

Nahbei lets you know when a friend happens to be in your area or when your trips cross – and lets them know too. Nothing else: no feed, no chat, no live map.

HOW IT WORKS
• You connect with friends yourself: with a QR code in person or with an invite link. Both of you confirm before either of you sees anything.
• Nahbei notices in the background when you're in the same area – say a friend is in your city for the weekend, or you both happen to be in Lisbon.
• How you get in touch is up to you. “Message” opens the share sheet with a prepared text for the app of your choice.

TRIPS THAT CROSS
• Dictate: “October 3 to 8 in Hamburg, then until the 12th in Vienna” – the list builds while you speak. Speech recognition runs on your iPhone.
• From your calendar: flights with a route, train rides, hotels, vacations and other events with a destination at least 40 km from home (adjustable) become suggestions; your calendar is read on your iPhone only. Nothing is shared until you confirm – one tap shares them all.
• Or add trips by hand, with Siri or from the share sheet – for example from a booking confirmation.
• The trip map shows where your friends are headed and where your paths cross – only friends who agreed to appear on it, and only what someone shared by hand. Where someone is right now is never shown on a map.
• “Who’s there?” shows before a trip who in your circle lives there, will be there or is there right now.

YOUR RULES
• Turn visibility on or off for each friend, pause everything, or “Home only” – with no location in the background at all.
• Quiet hours, 10 pm to 7 am by default: alerts arrive quietly. Plus “Quiet alerts” for 3 hours or until 7 am, and per friend the choice between All, Trips only and Quiet.
• Block someone at any time: Nahbei then accepts no request, code or link from them.
• Widget for the Home Screen and the Lock Screen.

PRIVACY
• Your location is rounded on your iPhone to a cell of about 5 km – coarser with approximate location. Friends see the cell, the city and the country – never an address.
• Location and trips are end-to-end encrypted and readable only by friends you have confirmed. In iCloud, neither we nor Apple can read them; place names and the center of your cell are resolved by Apple’s maps service.
• No account. iCloud is only a mailbox for encrypted data; your location never passes through a server of ours.
• No ads, no tracking.
• “Delete all my data” in Settings disconnects you from all your friends – they’ll be told – and deletes what Nahbei stored for you in iCloud and everything on this iPhone.
• Only if you explicitly confirm it does a dictated text go to Claude (Anthropic) via our server, with the date and your time zone. Flight numbers without a route are looked up only if you turn this on for your calendar – then flight number and date go via our server to the flight schedule service AeroDataBox.

GOOD TO KNOW
• Nahbei works between friends: they need Nahbei too – on their own iPhone, with their own iCloud account.
• Try it first: the demo shows Nahbei with sample friends, without sharing anything.
• To notice in the background when you're close, Nahbei needs the “Always” location permission. It only uses Apple's energy-efficient detection of significant location changes, no continuous GPS. With “While Using”, Nahbei detects proximity only while it’s open; without location access you share only your home and your trips.
• iOS doesn't always wake Nahbei right after you move – so an alert may arrive a little later.
• If you haven’t opened Nahbei for 30 days, it asks on the last Sunday of the month at 6 pm whether your travel plans are still up to date.

## Is Nahbei safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Nahbei.

## Is Nahbei legit?

Nahbei has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Nahbei is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 1 release)

### 1.0.4 — 2026-10-20

No release notes.

## More apps by David Gertis

- [Lift – Strength Log](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/lift-strength-log/id6776713691)
- [Vita – Food & Body](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/vita-food-and-body/id6779511638)

All apps by David Gertis: https://appshunter.io/developer/6776713161

## Related topics

[nahbei](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/nahbei)

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