Comparison

Protego vs Documented

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Protego

This app provides real-time location tracking for family members, allowing users to set up safe zones and receive alerts. It offers a family bond spell to connect unlimited members and includes 30 days of location history. The service prioritizes privacy with enterprise-grade encryption.

Highlights
  • Real-time location sharing
  • Geofencing with instant notifications
  • 30 days of location history
  • Battery-efficient operation
  • Connect unlimited family members
  • Privacy-focused with encryption
Features
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Protego is a family locator and GPS tracker that turns location sharing into something your family will actually enjoy. See your kids, partner, parents and friends moving in real time across a hand-illustrated magic map: parchment paths, winding footprint trails, tiny castles on the horizon. Every person is a small animal in a wizard hat, every home and school a little enchanted landmark glowing on the family map. Where is everyone? Open the map and know. That small moment of relief, a dozen times a day — that's Protego. FAMILY LOCATOR ON A MAGIC MAP • Real-time location sharing for your whole family circle • Live GPS tracking with precise position and last-seen time • A hand-drawn magic map instead of boring blue dots • 7 magical avatars: Owl, Fox, Wolf, Raccoon, Panda, Cat and Frog FIND MY FAMILY, FIND MY KIDS, FIND MY FRIENDS One family tracker for parents, co-parents, teens, couples and friends. Find your kids after school, check that your teen made it to practice, see when your partner is heading home, or make sure grandma got home safe and put her feet up. Everyone you invite shares their location with you, and you with them — by choice, never in secret. PLACE ALERTS (GEOFENCING) Add home, school, work or grandma's house as magical places and get an instant alert when someone arrives or leaves. No more "are you there yet?" texts — the map taps you on the shoulder instead. LOCATION HISTORY Look back at 30 days of routes and journey chronicles: yesterday's adventures, drawn in little footprints across the map. Peace of mind for parents of teens, new drivers and anyone who worries. FAMILY CIRCLES Create a private family circle and invite the people you trust: family, co-parents, caregivers, close friends. A circle is a promise: only the people you choose, no one else. Free plan for 2 people with no time limit. Premium unlocks unlimited members, place alerts and location history. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your location data stays inside your circle. We never sell your family's data and never share it with advertisers. Location sharing in Protego is always visible to the person being located. Protego is a family safety app, not a spy app. Good magic doesn't spy. BATTERY-FRIENDLY GPS TRACKING Background location tracking tuned to go easy on your battery. The map works its quiet magic all day and still leaves you enough charge for the evening. WHO USES PROTEGO • Parents who want a kids location tracker without helicopter parenting • Families with teens who are always on the go • Co-parents coordinating shared custody • Couples and friends who like to share their location • Adult children checking in on aging parents • Anyone who grew up loving magical worlds WHY FAMILIES CHOOSE PROTEGO The same core family locator features you expect from a GPS tracker: live location, place alerts, location history. Wrapped in a map your kids will want to open. Family safety should feel good, not invasive. Checking on someone you love should feel like opening a storybook, not reading a report. FEATURES AT A GLANCE • Family locator app, family tracker and GPS location tracker • Real-time location sharing • Works as a kids tracker, teen tracker or couples tracker — always mutual, always visible • Find my kids, find my friends, find my family • Geofence place alerts on arrival and departure • 30-day location history • Private family circles, free for 2 • Magical avatars and an enchanted map Download Protego, invite your people into your circle, and start seeing your family on a map that finally feels like magic. Questions? Write to us from the app or at protegoapp.org. Answers come by hand, not by owl. Protego Premium is an auto-renewable subscription. It renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; manage or cancel it anytime in your Apple ID settings. Terms of Use: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1a8bN5NIE9tX1Os6xoeKa3EkW9sJJLh2UPjSFrIFIRZo/edit

About

Documented

This app securely logs parenting moments with automatic timestamps and optional location data. Entries are sealed to prevent tampering and can include notes, photos, and voice memos. An optional upgrade allows for secure PDF export for legal purposes.

Highlights
  • Sealed, timestamped entries
  • Log notes, photos, videos, voice memos
  • Automatic timestamp and GPS
  • Tamper-evident record keeping
  • Private by default, no account needed
  • Secure PDF export for legal sharing
Features
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Documented is a private record of how you show up for your kids. Log what happened (a handoff, a missed exchange, a first sentence, a doctor's visit) and it is sealed the second you save it. Time captured automatically. Place attached if you want it. Nothing you can quietly rewrite later, which is exactly what makes it worth something. WHY SEALED MATTERS A note you typed months after the fact is a memory. A record made at the time is a different thing. Every entry gets a SHA-256 fingerprint linked to the entry before it. Change one character and the chain no longer matches, and the app tells you. Edits can't be hidden. That's what tamper-evident means. Separately, each entry's fingerprint is sent to an independent Time-Stamping Authority, which signs a statement that it existed at that moment. The stamp is requested the moment the entry seals, and if your phone is offline it's obtained as soon as you reconnect. Only the fingerprint leaves your phone, never your words, your photos, your children's names, or where you were. A fingerprint can't be turned back into your content. BUILT FOR HOW THIS ACTUALLY HAPPENS Thirty seconds, one-handed, in a car park, before you forget. Write it, tag it, seal it. • Log notes, photos, videos, voice memos, receipts, and message screenshots • Tag which child, and which co-parent, each moment involved • Automatic timestamp and optional GPS, captured rather than typed • Corrections are amendments: the original stays, the correction sits beside it • Search and filter by child, category, or date PRIVATE BY DEFAULT No account. No sign-up. No password. Documented opens straight into your record. Your entries stay on your iPhone, and in your own iCloud storage if you turn sync on. We can't read them. Your co-parent is never contacted, never notified, and never given access. Naming someone in your record is a label on your record, nothing more. WHAT IT COSTS Documented is a subscription, with a 7-day free trial. The subscription is the app, not an add-on to it. Included, with no limits of any kind: writing new entries, sealing them, the independent timestamp, photos, videos, voice memos and receipts, iCloud sync of your own record, search, filtering, amendments, the PDF export, and encrypted sharing with your attorney. No entry limit. No attachment limit. No storage tier. Free, whether you subscribe or not: reading, searching and verifying everything already in your record. Nothing you have sealed is ever locked away from you, and if a trial ends without a purchase the record becomes read-only rather than closed. People who installed Documented before this change keep their original free terms permanently. WHEN YOU NEED TO PRODUCE IT Your whole record becomes one PDF, ready to hand to your attorney: every entry in order, with its seal, an integrity statement, and your attachments. Any single entry can go on its own. You can send that record to your attorney encrypted on your device, to a key only they hold. A NOTE ON WHAT THIS IS Documented is a record-keeping tool. We're not a law firm and we don't give legal advice. Whether any record is accepted is decided by a judge under the rules of evidence where you live. What we can do is make sure that when you wrote something down, it's provable that you wrote it down then, and that nobody, including you, quietly changed it since. If something is on the line, talk to a licensed attorney in your state. Privacy Policy: https://documented.co/privacy-policy Terms of Use: https://documented.co/terms

Screenshots

Protego4 screens
Documented4 screens

Verdict

The call

Protego and Documented both sit at 4.5 stars, but that hides the real split: 75% of Documented's written reviews are positive against 33% of Protego's. Documented also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 9 days) and chart position (#149 vs unranked). Protego's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (130 vs 40). On price, rating, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Protego sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per 7 days and Documented sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $17.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Protego against 4.6 for Documented. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 130 and 40 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 33% of Protego's written reviews are positive against 75% of Documented's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Protego ships an update every 9 days, Documented every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Protego versus Documented: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterProtegoDocumented
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (130 ratings)4.6 (40 ratings) — better
Positive reviews33.3% of reviews75.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings130 — better40
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysEvery 4 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank—#149 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size66 MB30 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHanna TsylindzRise Advertising LLC

Customer experience

Protego

All ratings122 ratings
Positive89.3%
Neutral0.8%
Negative9.8%
Written reviews12 reviews
Positive33.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative66.7%

Documented

All ratings40 ratings
Positive90.0%
Neutral2.5%
Negative7.5%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Protego

Subscriptions6
  • Protego Premium — Weekly3 Days trial$7.997 Days
  • GPS Location Tracker Monthly7 Days trial$7.991 Month
  • Protego GPS Tracker Monthly7 Days trial$9.991 Month
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  • Protego Premium — Monthly7 Days trial$14.991 Month
  • Family GPS Tracker Yearly7 Days trial$49.991 Year
  • Protego Premium — Yearly7 Days trial$59.991 Year
2 purchases

Documented

Subscriptions2
  • Documented Plus - Monthly7 Days trial$17.991 Month
  • Documented Plus - Yearly7 Days trial$179.991 Year

Questions

Is Protego free?
Protego is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Documented free?
Documented is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Protego or Documented?
Documented is rated higher. Protego averages 4.5 out of 5 from 130 ratings, while Documented averages 4.6 from 40 ratings.
Do Protego or Documented have ads?
Documented shows ads; Protego does not.
Which is updated more often, Protego or Documented?
Protego ships an update every 9 days, and Documented every 4 days. Most recently, Protego was updated on October 23, 2026 and Documented on October 8, 2026.

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