Family safety, minus the hovering
Know they’re okay. Without checking every five minutes.
Always watching, so you don’t have to.
NexZone lets you set simple, fair boundaries for the people you love: curfews, school hours, places that are off-limits. Then it stays quiet until something actually needs you.
- Set up in minutes
- Works on iPhone and Android
- Everyone knows they’re sharing
See it in action
NexZone in four minutes
Way Out, real emergency help, Co-Parenting, Aging Parents and Pets, start to finish.
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Sign in
Two ways in, one family account
Parents and kids sign in with the same family email and password. Each side shows what that person needs, and nothing more.
For parents
Parent Dashboard
See everyone on one map, set boundaries and curfews, and get only the alerts that matter.
- Live map and smart routines
- Boundaries, curfews and school hours
- Alerts and Way Out pickup requests
For kids & teens
My Zone
Your side of NexZone. See exactly what’s shared and which rules apply to you, and get out of any situation with one tap.
- The Way Out button
- Your rules and today’s plan
- Check in and share your location
New to NexZone? A parent creates the family account first.
How it works
Three steps to calmer evenings
No complicated setup and no spreadsheets of rules. Just the boundaries your family already talks about, written down once.
01
Add your family
Add each person and the phone they carry. Sharing is out in the open: everyone can see who sees them.
02
Agree on boundaries
Curfews, school hours, places that are off-limits. Set them together, and loosen them as kids grow up.
03
Hear only what matters
NexZone waits out quick pass-bys and GPS blips, then lets you know when a boundary is really crossed.
The NexZone difference
No more false alarms
Most location apps ping you the moment a dot touches a line, even when your teen just walked past a bar on the way to the bus. NexZone gives every place a grace period. Walk past? Nothing happens. Stay? You’ll know.
- Venue alerts only start on the property itself, not the sidewalk
- Grace periods you can tune for each kind of place
- Brief GPS jumps are ignored automatically
- Learns each family’s routine, so only the unusual gets through
Cuts across a liquor store lotOn the property for 15 seconds
No alertArrivesGrace period ends
Stays at a barStill there after 5 minutes
Alert sentArrivesGrace period ends
Way Out
A no-questions exit, built for teens
Saying no is hard. Leaving is harder. One tap on a disguised app and your teen gets a call from you with a reason they have to come home. You’re the bad guy; they keep their cool. And because you made the deal together, there are no questions asked. Ever.
- One tap on a disguised appYour teen picks what it looks like: a game, a music app, a social feed or the weather. It opens and works for a few seconds before the call comes in, so nobody can tell.
- A call from you, in secondsAn answerbot calls as Mom or Dad, pausing for your teen to answer. It can say you’re picking them up, or tell them to be home in ten minutes so there’s no car for friends to wait with.
- You get a pickup requestWith their live location and an excuse to use. If you can’t answer, your backup adult gets it.
- No questions askedThe request is erased after pickup. Talking about it later is their choice.
Unsafe, not just uncomfortable? Press and hold the disguised app and pick its emergency shortcut. It looks like any other app menu.
Included free in every plan
Features
Everything a busy family needs
Simple tools that cover the moments parents actually worry about.
Live location
See everyone on one map in real time, with battery level so you know why a phone went quiet.
Age-restricted places
Bars, clubs, dispensaries and liquor stores are flagged for anyone under the age limit.
Curfews
Separate school-night and weekend times, plus a gentle heads-up 15 minutes before.
School hours
Know if someone leaves campus during the school day, not every time they step into the parking lot.
Off-limit places
Mark any address or area. Search for it, tap the map, or use exactly where you’re standing.
Smart routines
Learns each person’s usual places and times, then tells you when someone is running late, somewhere new, or about to miss curfew.
Emergency
When it’s serious, help is already moving
Everything the big safety apps do in an emergency, plus the things they missed: a duress code, a silent SOS inside a disguised app, and a Medical ID responders actually get.
1They press SOS, crash, or go quiet
2Your family is alerted with live location
3A 24/7 response agent checks on them
4911 is sent to their exact spot, with their Medical ID
Free
SOS that can’t be faked out
Hold SOS for 3 seconds. A short countdown stops pocket presses, and only your teen’s safety code can cancel it.
Only on NexZone
Duress code
If someone forces them to cancel, a second code makes it look cancelled while help is quietly sent anyway.
Only on NexZone
Silent SOS
Built into the Way Out disguised app. No sound, no red screen. Family and responders are alerted, and the agent texts instead of calling.
Free alerts
Crash detection
Uses the phone’s motion sensors and speed. If they don’t answer in 20 seconds, you’re alerted with the speed and impact, and help is sent.
Family Plus
24/7 response & 911 dispatch
If no one in the family answers, a trained agent checks on them, calls you, and sends 911 to their exact location.
Family Plus
Roadside help
Flat tire, dead battery, lockout or empty tank. Help is sent to their location, and you can follow along until it arrives.
Free
Watch Over Me
Walking home late? Set a timer. If they don’t arrive or check in, NexZone asks if they’re okay, then raises the alarm.
Free
Medical ID
Allergies, medications and who to call, shared with responders only during an active emergency.
Free
Low-battery last location
When a phone is about to die, you get its last location first, so a dead battery never means a blank map.
Coming soon
What we’re building next
Tell us which of these you’d use. The most-wanted features get built first.
Coming soon
NexZone Tags
Small tags for keys, wallets, purses, backpacks and luggage that tell you when something gets left behind, plus a GPS tag for pets, little kids and grandparents.
Coming soon
Disaster alerts
Know when a wildfire, flood or severe storm is near anyone in your family, and check everyone in with one tap.
Coming soon
Safe driving reports
Weekly summaries of speeding, hard braking and phone use behind the wheel for new drivers.
Coming soon
Watch & tag pairing
Follow a younger child with a smartwatch or a tag in a backpack, no phone needed.
Coming soon
iPhone app
The full NexZone app with background location, lock-screen alerts and battery-friendly watching.
Coming soon
Android app
Instant notifications, background location and battery-friendly watching on Android phones.
Grows with you
Right for every stage of family life
The rules for a 10-year-old aren’t the rules for a 17-year-old. Each person gets their own.
Younger kids
First phone, first freedoms
- Arrived at school
- Home by dinner
- A short list of safe places
Teens
Independence with guardrails
- Weeknight and weekend curfews
- Age-restricted venues
- Off-limit addresses
Young adults & loved ones
Peace of mind, by choice
- Late drives and long commutes
- Check-ins instead of calls
- Rules you can pause anytime
Privacy & trust
Built on trust, not surveillance
Boundaries work best when everyone knows what they are. NexZone is designed for open conversations, not secret tracking.
No secret tracking
Everyone can see that they’re sharing and who they’re sharing with.
Alerts, not a play-by-play
You hear about the boundaries you agreed on, not every stop along the way.
Your data stays yours
Export everything anytime, or delete it for good.
Made for conversations
Every rule is visible to the people it applies to.
Co-parenting
Separated or divorced? Share the kids, not your location.
For co-parents who share custody. Each parent keeps their own household and login. You both see the kids; neither of you sees the other.
Custody schedule
2-2-3, week on/week off or every other weekend. Ask for a swap in the app and the other parent approves it there.
Alerts follow the schedule
Routine alerts go to the parent whose day it is. Emergencies always reach you both, wherever the kids are.
Exchange check-ins
“Arrived at Dad’s house, 6:04 PM” is recorded automatically, so there’s no arguing about who was late.
Your life stays yours
Your co-parent never sees your location, your partner, or anyone else in your home. Only the shared kids.
Private home, when it’s needed
For protective orders or safety moves, a home can hide the kids’ map pin. It needs both parents’ OK or a court order, so no one can make the kids disappear.
Who looked, and when
Both parents see every time either one checks the kids’ location. Keeping an eye on the kids never turns into keeping tabs on an ex.
Aging parents
Grandma stays independent. You know she’s okay.
For the sandwich generation: one family plan covers the kids and the grandparents. They’re adults, so they choose what’s shared and can turn anything off.
A daily “I’m okay”
One big button, once a day. Miss it and NexZone reminds her, then texts the family, then calls. No pendant to wear.
Falls and hospital stays
Fall detection with one-tap “I’m okay.” Medicine reminders where you see “taken,” never the medicine. A notice if she’s admitted to the ER.
Stop the scam calls
AI can fake a grandchild’s voice. The family safe word can’t be faked. And “Check with my family” sends you any request for money before she pays.
Take me home
With her OK or a health-care proxy, a gentle walking area and one big button with simple directions home. Driving help asks “is she okay?” Never a score.
A safer home
Smoke, carbon monoxide and water-leak alerts, smart locks, the security alarm and a stove left on. The thermostat tells an AC failure apart from settings that don’t make sense, which can be an early sign of confusion.
A care circle for siblings
Who’s on duty this week, handoff notes and a shared appointment calendar, so caring for Mom doesn’t all land on one person.
Daily check-ins, fall detection, the safe word and Medical ID are free. The care circle, driving help and thermostat alerts come with Family Plus.
Pets
Pets are family too.
Put the dog on the family map, get an alert the minute he slips out of the yard, and stop asking “did anyone feed the cat?”
Photo: Stephan de Maranthi / Unsplash
Rocky is homeIn the yard · collar 72%
BreakfastSophie · 7:10 AM
Out of the yard? You know now.
Pair a GPS collar and set the yard. If your dog gets out, the whole family gets an alert with where he is and which way he’s heading.
Lost-pet mode
The collar updates every few seconds, nearby NexZone families get his description (never your address), sightings come straight to you, and there’s a poster ready to share.
Who fed the dog?
One care list for the whole family: breakfast, dinner, walks and the litter box, checked off with who did it and when. No more double dinners.
Walks, and hot pavement
See the dog on the map with whichever kid is walking him. On hot days NexZone warns that pavement can burn paws, and when to walk instead.
Pet Medical ID
Microchip number, vet, allergies, medicines and vaccine due dates in one place, ready to share with a vet, a sitter or whoever finds your pet.
Sitters and responders
Give a sitter access to the care list and collar map that ends on its own. If an alarm goes out from home, responders hear which pets are inside.
Coming soon
NexZone Tags
Small tags for keys, wallets, purses, backpacks and luggage that tell you when something gets left behind. Plus a GPS tag for pets, kids without phones and grandparents, right on the family map.
Pet profiles, the care list and Pet Medical ID are free. Collar tracking, escape alerts, lost-pet mode and sitter access come with Family Plus. GPS collar sold separately.
Pricing
Simple plans for every family
Priced like the family-safety apps you already know, with Way Out, smart routines and a teen side they’ll actually keep on. Safety features are never behind a paywall.
Free
$0
For getting started
- Unlimited family members
- Live map
- 2 places
- 2 days of location history
- Grace-period alerts, no false alarms
- Way Out no-questions exit
- SOS, crash detection & Watch Over Me alerts to your family
- Medical ID
- Pet profiles, care list & Pet Medical ID
- Daily check-ins & fall detection for grandparents
Most popular
Family Plus
$16.99/month
For busy households
- Unlimited places
- Curfews & school hours
- Smart routines: running late, somewhere new, curfew heads-up
- 30-day location history
- Invite a co-parent or grandparent
- Care circle for aging parents
- Pet collar map, escape alerts & lost-pet mode
- The full Way Out: natural Mom & Dad voices, your own recorded voice, disguised apps, text thread and come-home mode
- 24/7 response agents & 911 dispatch for SOS, crashes and silent alerts
- Roadside help: tire, battery, lockout and fuel
Family Premium
$24.99/month
For total peace of mind
- Everything in Family Plus
- AI voice match for Way Out calls
- Watch & tag pairing
- NexZone Tags for keys, bags & pets Coming soon
- Free towing up to 100 miles
- Priority response: an agent is on the line in seconds
- Priority support
- Disaster alerts Coming soon
FAQ
Questions parents ask us
What if my teen just walks past a bar?
Nothing happens. Venue alerts only start when someone is on the property itself, and only after a grace period you control. Walking by on the sidewalk never triggers an alert.
What is Way Out, and will my teen get in trouble for using it?
Way Out lets your teen leave an uncomfortable situation without losing face. One tap on a disguised app brings a call from you saying they have to come home, and sends you a pickup request with their location. When you set it up, you and your teen agree on the rules: no questions that night, no punishment, and they decide whether to talk about it later. The request is erased after pickup.
Does the Way Out call sound real?
Yes. It’s a short answerbot conversation in a mom or dad voice, with pauses for your teen to answer, so they can talk back out loud in front of friends. With listening on, it responds to what they say. You can also record the lines in your own voice.
Couldn’t my teen use Way Out just to leave a boring party?
Yes, and that’s fine. The point is that leaving is always easy. A teen who uses it for small things is far more likely to use it when it really matters.
Will they know they’re sharing their location?
Yes. NexZone is built for open, agreed-upon sharing. Each person can see who is able to see them and which rules apply to them.
Can I set different rules for different kids?
Yes. Every boundary has its own list of who it applies to, so a 14-year-old and a 17-year-old can have different curfews and different places to avoid.
Can I pause a rule for a special night?
Yes. Every boundary has an on/off switch, so prom night or a sleepover doesn’t mean rewriting your rules.
Will it drain their battery?
You choose how often locations refresh. Longer intervals use less battery, and you can see each phone’s battery level right on the map.
What do I need to get started?
A phone with location turned on for each person you add. You can check on everyone from your own phone or a laptop.
Fewer worries. Fewer false alarms.
Set up your family in a few minutes, or look around the demo family first.