Amya: Family Locator
Private family location, with sat nav to people, not places
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See where your family is right now, never where they've been. Amya is a private family locator for iPhone: end-to-end encrypted, no ads, no location history. Free: live location, Places with arrival and departure alerts, Expectations that only speak up if someone doesn't arrive, and Come Get Me. Amya+ (£2.99/month for the whole family) adds turn-by-turn navigation that follows a moving person, Apple Watch with a walking finder, Convoy for keeping cars together, and Tesla integration.
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PH · launched Oct 23, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 23%)
- Horizontal
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- iOS
- Parenting
- Privacy
Similar launches
See all 290 similar launches →Could you build this?
Partial A family location UI with alerts is vibe-codeable, but a native iPhone app with end-to-end encryption and reliable background location needs specialized mobile and cryptography work.
What it would actually take: A real version needs a native iOS app using Core Location with background updates, a backend that relays live location with end-to-end encryption so the server cannot read it, and key management across family members' devices. Place geofencing, arrival and departure detection, and reliable alerts need careful battery and accuracy tuning. This requires iOS engineers experienced in location, plus a cryptography-literate security review.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 290 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #52 of 291 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 336 days after the earliest competitor.
- Fam & a Half · ph · 2026-10-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- Guardian: Family GPS Tracker · ph · 2026-10-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Our Family Album · ph · 2026-10-21 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Same Page · ph · 2026-10-04 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Family Status Clock · ph · 2026-09-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Whereabouts · ph · 2026-09-29 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Been - Your Private Location Log · ph · 2026-09-11 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Alfred · ph · 2026-09-25 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.45
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More details
- External ID
- 1289204
- Company
- n/a
- Product
- Amya: Family Locator
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Cohort
- n/a
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.77
- All tags
- iOS, Parenting, Privacy
- AI summary
- private family location tracker with navigation to people
- Manually corrected
- No