Compared
Most family location apps charge $8 to $25 a month. Their free versions are thin, usually two saved places and two days of history, so the features you really want cost extra every month. Radius is one low price with everything included, and every feature works during your free month too.
| Radius | Life360 | GeoZilla | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 / month or $29.99 / year, up to 4 people · $3.99 / month or $39.99 / year, up to 10 · Solo $12.99 / year | $9.99 Silver · $16.99 Gold · $24.99 Platinum, per month (App Store prices, September 2026) | About $79.99 / year |
| Over five years | About $179 paying monthly, or $150 on the yearly plan | About $1,020 (Gold) to $1,500 (Platinum) paying monthly | About $400 |
| Switching from the other | Bring everyone and keep everyone! Up to 6 people for $2.99, or 7 to 10 for $3.99 (how it works) | n/a | n/a |
| Free tier | 30 days with everything | 2 places, 2 days of history | Limited |
| Location history | 10 days on every plan | 2 days free, 30 days on Gold ($16.99/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 |
| SOS button | Included. Press and hold, and you get five seconds to cancel. Then a full-volume alarm goes off on the phones of the people you chose, with your location. On Android it even sounds on silent. It alarms their phones. It doesn't call 911 for you | Included, with emergency dispatch on paid tiers | Included |
| Crash detection | Included. It asks if you're OK, and alerts your people if you don't answer | Crash alerts are free. Having Life360 call 911 for you needs Gold | Not something we could confirm |
| A location link for someone without the app | Included. No app or account needed. They see one dot, where you are right now, and nothing else. It ends when you arrive, or after 8 hours at most | Yes, temporary share links | Not something we could confirm |
| A check-in that raises the alarm by itself | Watch me get there. If you haven't said you're fine by the time you set, your phone asks you first, then your people get the alarm. Our server keeps the clock, so it still works if your phone dies | No-show alerts. You're told if someone hasn't arrived somewhere by a set time | Check-ins you send yourself |
| See who looked at your location | Yes. Your own card shows who opened your card or your history, and how often | Not offered | Not offered |
| Roadside assistance, ID-theft cover, Bluetooth trackers | Not offered, by choice (more below) | Bundled into Gold and Platinum | Not something we could confirm |
| What you keep | Your chats and photos, for as long as you like. Save them to your phone or your own Google Drive | History windows by tier | Not something we could confirm |
| Phones | Android and iPhone, both in testing (Google Play's testing track and TestFlight), and coming to both stores soon | Android and iPhone | Android and iPhone |
| Where directions work | All 50 states | Wherever Google or Apple maps work | Wherever Google or Apple maps work |
| Outside companies inside the app | No trackers. No ad networks, no marketing trackers and no driving-data companies. The few outside services Radius uses each do one job: map tiles, phone notifications, weather.gov for weather alerts, Cloudflare for chat photos and Didit for a parent's ID check. None of them gets your family's history | Ad networks, marketing trackers and two driving-data companies, found in their Android app in September 2026 | Read their privacy policy |
| Advertising | None, anywhere. No ads, no ad networks and nothing sold. Your subscription is how we make money | Part of how Life360 makes money, with ads on the free tier | On the free tier |
| Location data sold or shared | Never. You pay for Radius, so there's no reason to sell anything | Read their privacy policy | Read their privacy policy |
| Map provider told where you are | Only the map tiles. Positions and directions stay on Radius's servers in the United States. (For weather alerts, we ask weather.gov about the area a person is in) | Commercial maps API | Commercial maps API |
| Delete everything, for real | Two buttons at the bottom of Settings. Clear your location history or your messages and keep your account, or delete your account and everything in it. It's deleted from the server for good | Their privacy policy | Their privacy policy |
This is the bottom of Settings in the demo. Delete location history and Delete all messages each clear one kind of data, and your account stays. Delete my account removes your account and everything in it from the server, including messages, photos, history, places and every connection. It can't be undone. There's no form to fill out and nobody to email. The same buttons are in the web app, and if you can't sign in anymore, here's how to delete your account.
A monthly price can look small, so here's the five-year total for each. Life360 Gold is the tier with 30 days of history and unlimited places, the things most families want. It's $16.99 a month on the App Store. Over five years, that's about $1,020. Platinum, at $24.99, comes to about $1,500. Radius over the same five years, also paid monthly, is about $179. Pay yearly at $29.99 and it's just $150 for your whole family. Every feature is included, and there's nothing more to upgrade to. (We're comparing like for like here: both totals are what a family pays month by month.)
Life360's prices are its App Store prices, September 2026. Other details are as published in August and September 2026. Prices and features change, so check before you decide. And take a look at any location app's privacy policy, including ours.
Beyond price
Life360 keeps location history for up to 30 days, depending on your tier. Its privacy policy also says 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". You can opt out under Traffic & Retail Insights in the app's privacy settings.
Radius has no clause like that and no partners like that. We never sell or share anything about you, not even aggregated data. Your family pays $2.99 a month, and that's how Radius makes its money.
Quoted from Life360's published privacy policy, August 2026. Read it yourself. Policies change, so check the current one before you decide, including ours.
What we won't add
A few rows in that table go Life360's way right now, and we want you to see them. Life360 is on both public app stores. Radius is in testing now, and coming to both stores soon. Life360's paid tiers will call 911 for you. Radius's SOS sets off an alarm on the phones of the people you chose and puts a Call 911 button right in front of you, but it doesn't call anyone by itself. Radius's directions cover the United States only. And we're leaving out roadside assistance, identity-theft insurance and Bluetooth-tracker bundles on purpose. Those turn a family safety app into an insurance sale with pricey tiers. With Radius you get one price and every feature, for everyone on your plan. If a feature is worth having, everybody gets it.
Seen enough?
Bring your whole family over from Life360 or GeoZilla. Get every feature for $2.99 a month, with no ads and no tiers. Your first 30 days are free.
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