Locate Guard vs Postfach

Locate Guard is a consent-based location sharing app for families, friends, and people you trust. Share your location on your terms, receive place alerts, and review important location activity. 【 LOCATION SHARING 】 To share your location, enter the invite code of the trusted person who should be allowed to view it. After you confirm the connection and grant location permission, that person can view your shared location. Location sharing is one-way. Entering someone’s invite code shares your location with that person, but does not give you access to their location. They must enter your invite code and choose to share if they want you to view their location. You can pause sharing, change the sharing schedule, or remove a trusted person at any time. 【 SHARING SCHEDULES 】 Set a separate sharing schedule for every trusted person: • Always allow location sharing • Choose specific days of the week • Set a shared start and end time • Pause sharing at any time Outside the selected schedule, no new location updates are shared. The viewer can see the last shared location, its update time, and when sharing will resume. 【 ZONES AND PLACE ALERTS 】 Create Home, Work, School, or a custom Zone. Add a person who already shares their location with you and choose whether to receive an alert when they arrive or leave. Zone alerts follow that person’s sharing schedule. If sharing is paused or unavailable, no new Zone alerts are generated. 【 ACTIVITY RECORDS 】 Review important location sharing events in one place: • Location sharing started, updated, paused, or stopped • A trusted person viewed your location • A person arrived at or left a Zone • An SOS alert was received Open a record to review its time, location, person, and current result. 【 SOS ALERTS 】 Send an SOS alert to trusted people together with your latest available location. Before sending, Locate Guard shows whether anyone is currently able to receive the alert. Locate Guard does not contact police, medical responders, or other emergency services. In an emergency, contact your local emergency number directly. 【 PHONE NUMBER INFORMATION AND SMS INVITATIONS 】 Enter a complete phone number to check its possible country or region and carrier. Results are estimates based on phone number information and do not show the live GPS location of the number holder or their device. Tap “Invite by SMS” to open the iOS Messages composer with the phone number and your invite code prefilled. The recipient can enter your code in Locate Guard if they choose to share their location with you. You can review, edit, or cancel the message before sending it. The message is never sent automatically. The entered phone number is used only for the current lookup and to prefill the SMS recipient. Locate Guard does not save it, link it to an account, or use it for advertising or profiling. 【 PRIVACY AND USER CONTROL 】 Locate Guard does not support secret or unauthorized location tracking. Location sharing begins only after the person sharing their location enters an invite code, confirms the connection, and grants permission. Location permission, including background location when enabled, supports active location sharing and Zone alerts. Notifications are used for sharing updates, Zone events, and SOS alerts. Users can manage permissions, change sharing schedules, pause sharing, or disconnect a trusted person at any time. Privacy Policy: https://as.location.codejoys.net/privacy_policy.html Terms of Use: https://as.location.codejoys.net/terms_of_use.html

We run no servers, so there is nothing of yours on one. A call from our hosting provider started it. They asked whether one of our important addresses had anything to do with a big cloud company — it didn't. It turned out the mail app we were using was routing through that company to deliver push notifications. We had tried nearly every mail app by then and were never quite happy, so we built our own. Here is why that call mattered. To push a notification for an ordinary IMAP account, an app has to keep your password — or a token that opens the same door — on its own server, and watch your mailbox from there. Postfach never does this. Your password stays in your Keychain, and new mail is announced by your own device once it has fetched it: on the Mac within seconds while the app is running, on the iPhone whenever iOS grants a check in the background. Instant push is the one thing we gave up, and that is why. WHAT IT DOES - Any IMAP account: Zimbra, Gmail, and the rest. Zimbra servers are found from the address alone. - Write, reply, forward, and send, with attachments. - All Inboxes: one list over every account, newest first, with each message acting on its own account. - Conversations, with replies from every folder gathered under the message you are looking at. - Every message kept on your device in full, so reading works offline and search finds words anywhere in years of mail in a fraction of a second. - Templates with placeholders for the replies you write again and again. - Folders: create, rename, move, and delete them, on the server. - Swipe to delete, flag, mark as junk, or archive. - New-mail notifications from your own device, once it has fetched, per account, and the unread count on the icon. - HTML mail rendered with scripts off and remote images blocked until you ask for them. - Light and dark appearance. English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, and Japanese. WHAT IT DOES NOT DO No analytics, no crash reporting, no advertising identifier, nothing measured and sent anywhere. No AI: no summaries, no smart replies, no sorted inbox, and no model of ours or anyone else's sees a word of your mail. No account with us, because there is nothing to have an account for. That is why the privacy label reads "Data Not Collected", and why there is no setting to turn any of it off: none of it is there. PRICING Every feature is free for 60 days. After that, sending and receiving mail need a single purchase, Postfach Pro — one price for your Mac, iPhone, and iPad, no subscription. Mail already on your device stays readable and searchable whether you buy or not.