Open source alternatives to Life360

One project on starwire does the same job. Ranked by how much of what Life360 does each one covers, read from its README and website. Ties go to the most active.

What Life360 does

  1. Share live location with familycore
  2. Place alerts for arrivals and departurescore
  3. Location history
  4. Crash detection
  5. SOS alerts
  6. Driving reports

Each dot in the table is one job, in this order. Square dots are core jobs and count double. Full means yes, half means partly. "See the evidence" under a project shows the line behind each one. Coverage is what a project documents, not how well it works or how hard it is to move to. How we score this

ProjectCoversStarsCommits, 12 weeksLast releaseClosed vs openedSetupLicense
HaukRealtime location sharing server that you host yourself, written in Java Covers one part25%949+3
4
24 days ago80% Needs a server Apache-2.0
Covers 1 of 2 core jobs. Not shown: Place alerts for arrivals and departures; Location history; Crash detection; SOS alerts; Driving reports.See the evidence
  • Share live location with familycoreYesfully open source, self-hosted location sharing service
  • Place alerts for arrivals and departurescoreNot shownNeither the README nor the website mentions it.
  • Location historyNot shownNeither the README nor the website mentions it.
  • Crash detectionNot shownNeither the README nor the website mentions it.
  • SOS alertsNot shownNeither the README nor the website mentions it.
  • Driving reportsNot shownNeither the README nor the website mentions it.

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