I recently came across a privacy friendly alternative to life360 location sharing app. It is called Paralino . Does anyone have any idea if it really is private or end to end encrypted as they claim? Or if anyone can recommend an old and time tested alternative to these service, that will be really h…

Have there been any independent audits of this service? If not the fact that they have a github and they’re not public nor any commits is done smells to me like honeypot.

I think it’s a new product. However, their website shows it was made in 2014. I couldn’t find any info about audits. You made a very good argument. I think I will stay away from this service for now. BTW do you know of any alternative to this service. A good E2EE location sharing app.

After some research: [image] OwnTracks Your location companion. OwnTracks has 17 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub. Does this solution work for you? if you have home assistant that’s a solution also instead of using owntracks

There is a more known and open source e2e encrypted location sharing app just like paralino which is called zood: https://github.com/zood/george It is also available on IzzyOnDroid repo.

Setting up a server… Now that’s something I don’t know how to do.

Hi all, I am the developer behind Paralino. It is a pretty new service, I just launched it few months ago so it is still somewhat in beta. I am working on it for quite some time already, but domain is with me since 2023. I guess some other company had it before since they no longer exists. Paralino…

Hi Zelimir, welcome! I absolutely understand that it’s a new project, and I don’t think anyone should hold that against you. Every great product has to start somewhere. I am very happy to see that you have plans to open-source the client app in Q2, 2025. I imagine that for myself, and many others h…

Thank you :raising_hands: I also personally prefer open sourced apps, so I want to do that for Paralino as soon as I am finished with some of the big features. Find my device functionality is gonna be part of personal device tracking, it is already in the roadmap → Paralino roadmap · GitHub Wipin…

Hi. I am so sorry for making assumptions about the service it is very nice that you have come out there and clear some doubts! I was gonna try my own too but you and zood has been beaten to the punch I guess so that’s my defeat. If anything I sincerely apologize I just wanted to keep them safe fr…

Hey, no problem at all, I totally get it. Kudos to you for being vigilant right away. I probably would have said the same by looking at GitHub page :grin:. I’ll try to be as transparent as possible, you can check privacy page and also architecure/whitepaper which is still in development though. It…

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zlmr (Zelimir) March 25, 2026, 8:15am 14

Just a quick update for anyone that stumbles upon it - Paralino has grown substantially in features since this discussion and as the most relevant thing for everyone here, fully de-googled Android version is finally up and running as of now: De-Googled Android App

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