Find your crew when the network can't.
Lost your friends in a sea of people and your phone shows no bars? findme walks you straight back to them — even when the festival network is jammed and texts won't send.
On your phone? This link sends you to the right store automatically.
Pick a friend or a meeting point — the screen becomes an arrow.
Three ways to close the distance
findme hands you off between three technologies as you get closer, so there is never a gap where nothing works.
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Map
Everyone's phone works out its own GPS fix and publishes a tiny encrypted ping whenever any trickle of signal exists. Your crew shows up as live dots on a map you saved before the gates opened, each with an honest "last seen 4 min ago".
Any distance · needs a trickle of signal -
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Bluetooth radar
Get within about thirty metres and the phones find each other directly — no network at all, not even a trickle. The radar warms from cold to hot as you close in.
~30 m · no network needed -
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Precision arrow
For the last few metres, Ultra-Wideband draws an AirTag-style arrow with live distance that points exactly at your friend, through the crowd between you.
Last ~10 m · UWB-capable phones
Built for the moment the crowd swallows everyone
Festivals, concerts, raves, campgrounds, theme parks, hikes and big venues — anywhere thousands of phones choke the towers and "where are you?" never delivers.
Offline maps
Search your venue and pan around once before you go — every tile you look at is saved to the phone, with a coverage meter that fills as you browse.
Honest live dots
Every crew member is a dot with a real staleness label. "Maya · 320 m NE · live" or "last seen 4 min ago" — findme never pretends a stale position is fresh.
Compass arrow
Tap anyone and the map turns into an arrow that physically points at them from any distance, with live distance and walking time.
Shared meeting point
Long-press the map to drop a flag and the whole crew gets an arrow to the same spot. Move it or remove it and everyone follows along.
Bluetooth radar
Inside about thirty metres the phones talk directly. Hot, warm and cold zones tighten as you close the gap — with the network completely dead.
Ultra-Wideband lock-on
On UWB-capable phones (iPhone 11 and newer, and Android flagships) the last few metres get a precision arrow and a live distance countdown.
Made to be read at arm's length, at night
Big type, high contrast, and one clear answer per screen — because you are reading it one-handed with a drink in the other.
Your crew, live on one map
One pin the whole crew walks to
The last stretch, as an arrow
A crew is a secret you hand out yourself
findme has no accounts to hack and no user database to leak, because it never builds one. Location sharing is a key you pass to people you trust, and take back by walking away.
- No accounts, ever. No sign-up, no email, no phone number. Creating a crew generates a random key on your phone.
- The invite is the key. Share a crew by QR code or link. Joining always needs an explicit confirm.
- End-to-end encrypted. Positions are sealed with ChaCha20-Poly1305. The server stores ciphertext under a random crew id and can't read any of it.
- Untrackable in the air. Bluetooth advertisements carry a token that rotates every fifteen minutes, so outsiders can't follow a stable ID around.
- Foreground only. Your position moves only while the app is open on screen. There is no background tracking.
- Leaving deletes the key. Leave a crew and it's gone from your phone. Nothing to revoke, nothing left behind.
Questions people actually ask
Does it really work with no signal?
Partly, and findme is precise about which part. GPS itself never needs a network, so your own position and your saved offline map always work. Sharing positions across the venue needs some trickle of connectivity — findme's pings are about sixty bytes so they get through congestion that defeats messaging apps. When there is truly nothing, the Bluetooth radar and the Ultra-Wideband arrow take over within about thirty metres, phone to phone, with no network involved at all.
Do my friends need the app too?
Yes. findme works phone to phone inside a crew, so everyone you want to find needs it installed and needs to have joined your crew. Set it up before you arrive — it takes one QR scan per person, and it's much easier to do over coffee than in a crowd.
Do I need to create an account?
No. There is no sign-up at all. Creating a crew generates a random key on your device, and sharing that crew is just sharing a QR code or a link. Nothing identifies you to us.
Can findme track me in the background?
No — by design and by what the operating systems allow. Your position is only published while the app is open on screen. Close it and you stop appearing to your crew.
Which phones get the precision arrow?
Ultra-Wideband lock-on needs UWB hardware on both phones: iPhone 11 and newer, or a UWB-capable Android flagship. Today it works between two iPhones or between two Androids; iPhone-to-Android UWB is on the roadmap. Every other phone still gets the map, the compass arrow and the Bluetooth radar.
How do I download the venue map?
Search for your venue in the app, tap "Save offline", then pan and zoom around the area for a minute. A coverage meter fills as you browse, and everything you looked at stays on the phone. No account or map key required.
What does it cost?
findme is free. It is on the App Store today, and the Android release is on its way to Google Play.
Stop shouting names over the bass
Set your crew up before the gates open. Then just walk to your people.