SOS
One press and a confirm, so a pocket cannot send it. Your people get a push and an email with your last known position. Tap I am OK and they get the all-clear.
Beacon · Live location
Ride off the map. Stay on theirs.
Beacon shares your live location with the people you choose, for as long as you choose. Pause it at the café. If something goes wrong, they know.
Sharing needs Pro. Watching is free, and needs no account.
Maya Live
Updated 12 s ago
3 watching
How it works
Set it before the ride. Forget it during.
- 01
Before you roll
Pick who can watch: named people, your close friends, or your followers. Set how long, from 15 minutes to 24 hours. Anyone without the app gets a guest link.
- 02
Then forget about it
Phone in the jersey pocket. Your position goes out every 15 seconds, and every 60 seconds once the battery drops under 20%.
- 03
Pause at the café
Pause for the flat white. Your people see Paused, not a dot that mysteriously stopped. Resume when you roll out.
- 04
If it goes wrong
Stop moving for too long and Beacon asks if you are OK. No answer, and your people get an alert. Press SOS and they hear straight away.
Two sides of one share
You ride. They glance.
Your controls stay one tap away. Their view is a map, a status and the time of your last update, in any browser.
Beacon
SOSSharing live · specific people
Ends by itself in 5 h 12 min
Pause Stop sharing
Who's watching
- JonasOpened 2 min ago
- Mum · guest linkOpened 9 min ago
- Dad · guest linkNot opened yet
neverchill.com/beacon/live/…
Live location shared with NeverChill Beacon
Maya
Live · Last seen at 18:42
Maya Live
Updated 12 s ago
This page updates on its own. The link stops working as soon as the rider stops sharing.
When it matters
Quiet all ride. Loud when it counts.
Stopped moving
Still for longer than your limit, 12 minutes unless you change it? Beacon asks you first. No answer, and your people get a still-stopped alert. Ride on and they hear that too.
Signal lost
If your phone goes quiet, watchers see signal lost and your last known position. If it stays quiet, your people are alerted, and told again when you are back.
Alerts that get through. Muting NeverChill notifications never silences a Beacon safety push, and an SOS email always sends. Alerts go to the people you named or your close friends, never your whole follower list.
Honest about coverage. Beacon rides on mobile signal. Heading somewhere with none, like remote gravel or a bikepacking trip? Carry a satellite messenger too.
Who pays
Pro to share. Free to watch.
The rider carries the subscription. The people keeping an eye out never need one.
Sharing your location
Pro- Start a Beacon from your phone, for any ride
- Named people, close friends or followers
- Guest links for anyone without an account
- Pause, stop, SOS and the stopped-moving check
Watching a Beacon
Free- Open a guest link in any browser. No account, no download.
- Watch friends in the NeverChill app on a free account
- Safety alerts by push and email, never behind an upgrade
Privacy
Your dot, your rules.
A live location is the most personal thing an app can hold. Beacon shares it narrowly, briefly and on purpose.
- Off by default. Every share is one you started, for one ride.
- You choose who: up to 10 named people, your close friends, or your followers.
- It ends by itself when your time is up, and when you get back within 300 m of where you started. Change the distance or turn that off for any share.
- Guest links stop working when the share ends, and you can revoke any of them sooner.
- Who's watching is listed in the app, guest links included.
- Guest pages are never indexed by search engines and never cached.
Fair questions.
Do the people watching need the app?
No. Send a guest link and it opens in any browser, with no account and nothing to install. Friends with a free NeverChill account can also watch in the app.
Do guest-link watchers get the safety alerts?
No. A guest link is for watching. The page shows an SOS or a stopped-moving warning while it is open, but push and email alerts go only to the NeverChill accounts you picked: your named people, or your close friends. If someone must hear about an SOS, add them as one of those.
Who can see where I am?
Only the audience you picked for that share, and anyone you sent a guest link to. Nothing is public. When the share ends, pauses or runs out of time, your live position stops going out.
Does Beacon stop when I get home?
Beacon can end itself when you're back within 300 m of where you started. You choose the distance, or turn it off.
How hard is it on my battery?
Honest answer: live location uses GPS and mobile data, so it costs battery like any live tracker. Beacon sends an update every 15 seconds and slows to every 60 seconds below 20% charge. We have not published a per-hour figure yet. For a long day, start full or carry a small power bank.
What if my phone dies or loses signal?
Your watchers keep your last known position, marked as signal lost. If the silence lasts a few minutes, the people you picked get an alert, and another when your signal comes back.
Do I have to record the ride in NeverChill?
No. A Beacon is separate from an activity recording. Record on your bike computer, share from your phone. It works the same for a run or a hike.
Is Beacon free?
Sharing your location is part of Pro. Watching is free: guest links need no account at all, and safety alerts are never behind an upgrade.
Does this replace a PLB or a Garmin inReach?
No. Beacon uses your phone and its mobile signal, so it works wherever you have coverage and not where you do not. For true backcountry trips, carry a satellite messenger or a personal locator beacon too.
Tell someone where you are.
Sharing is Pro. Watching is free, and safety alerts always come through.