Compared
Family location apps are subscriptions too — but priced per family at $8 to $25 a month, with free tiers deliberately thin: two saved places and two days of history is the usual shape, so the things you actually wanted are the things you pay monthly for. Radius is one small price, everything included, and every feature works during the free month.
| Radius | Life360 | GeoZilla | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 / month, up to 4 people · $2.99 up to 10 | $9.99–$29.99 / month per circle | about $79.99 / year |
| Over five years | about $120 | $600 – $1,800 | about $400 |
| Switching from the other | Bring everyone, keep everyone — up to 6 on the $1.99, 7–10 for $2.99 (how) | — | — |
| Free tier | 30 days, everything | 2 places, 2 days of history | Limited |
| Location history | 10 days, all plans | 2 days free; 30 days on Gold ($14.99/mo) | Unlimited on Premium |
| Named places | Unlimited | 2 free; unlimited on Gold | Limited on free |
| Messaging, photos and video | Included | Chat included | Chat included |
| Video and voice calls | Included, phone to phone | Not offered | Not offered |
| Phones | Android; iPhone planned | Android and iPhone | Android and iPhone |
| Where directions work | The whole United States | Wherever Google/Apple maps do | Wherever Google/Apple maps do |
| Smartwatch app | Included (Wear OS) | Separate hardware sold | Limited |
| Advertising | None | On the free tier | On the free tier |
| Location data sold or shared | Never. There is no revenue in it — you already paid | Read their privacy policy | Read their privacy policy |
| Map provider told where you are | No — maps come from Radius's own server | Commercial maps API | Commercial maps API |
| Delete everything, for real | One button; files removed from disk | See their policy | See their policy |
A monthly price is designed to feel small, so here is the same sum for everybody. Life360's Gold tier — the one with the 30 days of history and unlimited places most families actually want — is $15.99 a month, which is about $960 over five years (less on an annual rate; its 2025 report puts 2.8 million circles on a paid tier). Radius over the same five years is about $120, with every feature included and nothing above it to upgrade to.
Competitors' prices and features as published in August 2026, using their cheaper annual rates. They change, so check before you decide — and read any location app's privacy policy, including this one's. That is the whole point.
Beyond price
Life360 keeps location history for up to 30 days depending on your tier. Its privacy policy also states that it "provides certain business partners the right to commercialize aggregated and de-identified data to, for example, help insurers or municipal authorities understand and predict driving behavior at scale, and/or to help retailers make decisions on where to open new locations" — with an opt-out under Traffic & Retail Insights in the app's privacy settings.
Radius has no such clause and no such partners. Nothing about you is commercialised in any form, aggregated or otherwise, because there is no revenue in it — your family pays $1.99 a month and that is the entire business model.
Quoted from Life360's own published privacy policy, August 2026 — read it yourself. Policies change; check the current one before you decide, including ours.