TICE – Secure GPS Location Sha

TICE Software UG (haftungsbeschränkt)

About this app

Locate your friends, family, and colleagues with TICE when meeting up. Share your live location while preserving your privacy.

Start a secure meeting and send the invitation link to the people you want to meet up with. See yourself and the others on a private map in real-time. Set a meeting point, communicate with the others, and see how everyone gets together. Meet up with a single person or big groups. With TICE, messages like “where are you?” and “when do you arrive?” are a thing of the past.

Looking for an easy way to meet up but you want your location to stay private? We were, too. That is why we protect all your sensitive data and messages with modern end-to-end encryption. We do not ask for any personal details – no phone number or e-mail address needed. Use TICE completely anonymous with our strong privacy-by-design approach. A huge step towards sustainable user data handling on the internet.

FEATURES
• View the real-time location of friends or family members on the map
• Create meetups of unlimited sizes
• Be safe with 100% secure end-to-end encryption
• Send group chat messages
• Get real-time notifications
• Meet up with iPhone users, as TICE is platform independent

SIMPLE COORDINATION
Invite to a TICE meetup, the participants can see each other in real-time on a private map. Chat with the group to communicate details of your meeting and coordinate effectively.

MEETING POINTS
Set a meeting point for everyone. See how the participants arrive at the chosen place.

PRIVATE AND SECURE
The architecture of TICE is based on privacy-by-design. Real end-to-end encryption guarantees a high level of protection of user data.

ANONYMOUS
Using the app is completely anonymous. No personal contact details, no mobile phone number, or e-mail address.

FULL CONTROL
You always keep full and fine-grained control over sharing your location. Choose the contacts you want to share it with and disable it anytime.

FOR EVERYONE AND ANYONE
TICE is universal. Use it for private meetings with your family, locate friends, or coordinate your companies staff.

100% FREE
TICE is a project developed out of passion. We have the goal to create more awareness for a responsible and secure way of handling data on the internet. TICE is the secure alternative we always wanted to have. We do not track your location and we do not sell your information.

TICE was funded by the EXIST founder scholarship in 2019 in Germany. We are looking for further support and partnerships enabling sustainable growth of TICE.

USE CASES
• Family, friends and acquaintances
• Coordination of small and big groups
• Meeting up at concerts, festivals, and other crowded places
• Effective outdoor meetings

BECOME A PART OF THE TICE MOVEMENT
Official website: https://ticeapp.com
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Ratings and reviews

This app is an OK alternative over Life360. Mostly it is missing the boundaries feature that notifies arrivals and departures and a form of satellite or hybrid maps. On Android, even if If I set it to Always on Location, and the app is swiped away, the device does not appear on the other member devices. On IOS it is the opposite, there is no option to allow Location to be on Always. I will edit this when changes have been made .

A way to edit group member's would be nice. There's no way to rename or remove members of the group. The only thing available is creating a new group. There's also no way to get direction for one member's location. However, the address and location on map is updating quite regularly in real time, I'd say every 3 seconds or so. Needs improvement but appreciate the privacy policy, no account needed to set it up. Just send the group link and member's join and give themselves a nickname.

Does not work unless everyone has the app open. Background functionality doesn't work. Uses a bunch of data. Link affiliation doesn't turn on by default so you have to do it manually to join groups sent to you and help everyone with it if they don't know how to turn in link association. Requires your own mapbox api key and mapbox may be part of the cause of the high data issue of it's pulling high quality map tiles instead of lower quality ones (and appears to be doing so)

What's new

TICE is now compatible with Android devices without Google Play Services.

If you encounter a bug or want to share your thoughts on TICE feel free to reach out to us.