# TribeSentry: Family Locator — Kid & teen GPS with SOS alerts

> Kid & teen GPS with SOS alerts (iPhone/iPad app by yuval dror.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/tribesentry-family-locator/id6798410492 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [yuval dror](https://appshunter.io/developer/6798410494)
- Category: Lifestyle, Navigation
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 26 MB
- Languages: American English, Arabic, French (France), German (Germany), Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian and 2 more
- Released: 2026-08-27
- Data updated: 2026-10-24

## What is TribeSentry?

Everyone you love on one live map — and it keeps working when the signal doesn't.

TribeSentry is a family safety app: live location, SOS, crash detection and arrival alerts for the people you actually worry about. Parents, teens, grandparents, and the driver who said they'd text when they got there.

KNOW THEY GOT THERE, WITHOUT ASKING
Set up Home, School, Work or Grandma's, and get an alert when someone arrives or leaves. TribeSentry also learns the usual times — so if someone hasn't reached home when they normally would have, you hear about it instead of finding out later. It is built from arrival times, never from a record of where anyone has been.

SOS THAT STILL WORKS WITH NO SIGNAL
One tap alerts everyone, with exactly where you are. If there is no data connection at all, it falls back to a text message carrying your coordinates — a text gets through on a signal far too weak to load anything. Most safety apps stop working at exactly that point.

WATCHING GOES BOTH WAYS
Every time somebody opens your location, you can see it: who, and when. That is the difference between a family agreement and a tracking device. It is also why teenagers stop switching the app off.

WORKS WHERE OTHER TRACKERS GO BLANK
Download your maps ahead of time and TribeSentry keeps going with no reception at all — the tunnel on the school run, the campsite, the trip abroad with roaming off. Offline map downloads are part of TribeSentry+.

A BATTERY THAT LASTS THE DAY
Below 20% we report less often so your phone keeps sharing for hours longer. A phone that dies stops sharing altogether, which is the worst outcome for everybody. Parked phones report every five minutes rather than continuously, and iOS is left free to rest the GPS whenever you hold still.

ONLY THE PEOPLE YOU LET IN
A parent approves every single person who joins. Until then they see nothing at all — not the map, not the member list, not one location. An invite code is a request, not a key.

CRASH DETECTION, INCLUDED
If a phone detects what looks like a car crash, the family is alerted automatically, with the location. It is part of the free app, not a paid tier. It is a sensor heuristic and not a substitute for emergency services.

WHAT YOU GET
• Live location for the whole family, on one map
• Territories — Home, School, Work, Gym and more, with an alert when someone arrives or leaves
• Late-arrival alerts, learned from your own routine
• Meeting point — one pin the whole family can navigate to
• SOS — one tap alerts everyone, and falls back to a text with no data
• Crash detection, free for everyone
• "Who checked on me" — see everyone who opened your location
• Speeding alerts — a separate limit for each person, so it can be on for the new driver and off for you
• Low-battery alerts, and a battery saver that keeps you sharing for longer
• Route playback — see the journey somebody took, not just where they ended up
• Offline maps for no signal (TribeSentry+)
• Dark mode, and 11 languages including right-to-left

YOUR LOCATION IS NOT THE PRODUCT
We do not sell your family's location data. Location history is deleted automatically after 7 days. Everyone chooses when to share and can stop at any moment — and the family is told sharing is off, rather than shown a stale pin. You can delete your account, and everything attached to it, from inside the app.

EASY ENOUGH FOR GRANDPARENTS
Invite with a code or share over WhatsApp or SMS, and approve each person with one tap. Inside the app your family group is called a Tribe, and you can have more than one — the household, and the grandparents.

FREE, WITH AN OPTIONAL UPGRADE
The safety features are free, including SOS and crash detection. TribeSentry+ adds the full 7-day history playback and offline map downloads, and removes ads.

Continued use of GPS running in the background can decrease battery life.

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| TribeSentry+ Yearly | $39.99 | per year |
| TribeSentry+ Monthly | $4.99 | per month |


## Is TribeSentry safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess TribeSentry.

## Is TribeSentry legit?

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


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.0.18 — 2026-10-23

Two fixes for positions going stale.

If the location stream stopped while the app was in the background, nothing restarted it: your tribe saw you frozen where you were, timestamped as though it were live, until you reopened the app. It now restarts itself, and opening the app takes a fresh position at once.

And when location is set to “While Using the App”, TribeSentry now says so instead of claiming to track — nothing can be shared once the app is closed.

### 1.0.17 — 2026-10-23

Walking now updates on the map three times as often, so someone on foot moves smoothly instead of jumping from corner to corner. And when a phone can only get a rough position — indoors, or on a weak signal — the map keeps the last good one rather than moving the pin somewhere nobody has been.

### 1.0.16 — 2026-10-18

Choose your map: Automatic, Street map or Satellite. Automatic now shows imagery when you zoom right in and the street map when you pull back.

The street map carries far more detail — smaller roads and their names from further out, buildings, and park, water and house-number labels.

### 1.0.15 — 2026-10-11

Small release: the app now asks for a rating — once, and only after it has actually been useful, never during an SOS.

### 1.0.14 — 2026-10-02

Street names are back on the map. A font change in the last update stopped them drawing at all, which left the map without a single label on it.

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