Beacon: Find Your People
Find your group with no signal
Only for iPhone
Free · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
No signal at the festival? Beacon still finds your friends. It relays your location phone to phone over Bluetooth, points an arrow right at them, and has one press SOS.
Beacon keeps your group together at a festival, even when there is no signal.
When 100,000 phones crush one cell tower, everything else stops. Texts won't send. Find My won't refresh. Snap Map freezes. Beacon keeps working, because it carries your group's live location from phone to phone over Bluetooth. No bars needed.
WORKS WHEN THE SIGNAL DIES
This is what makes Beacon different. The moment data drops, nearby phones relay everyone's position to each other over Bluetooth and peer to peer Wi-Fi, even hopping through strangers' phones to reach you. Those handoffs are encrypted, so the phones carrying your location can never read it. Beacon shows you when it is holding on this way and how many nearby phones are keeping you connected.
A RADAR, NOT A MAP
A dot on a map is useless in a dark, moving crowd. Beacon points a live arrow straight at the person you pick, with their exact distance, and gets precise to the last few metres using Ultra Wideband. For the final steps it runs warmer and colder over Bluetooth, and it buzzes you the moment you are within 50 metres.
ONE PRESS SOS
Hold the SOS button and your whole group instantly gets your live location and a loud alarm that cuts through, even if their phone is locked and Beacon is closed. Beacon also warns you if your own alerts are switched off, so a friend's SOS can always reach you.
STAY TOGETHER
Drop a meeting point everyone can walk to. Nudge a friend who has drifted off to buzz their phone. Talk in a group chat that keeps working offline, carried over the same phone to phone network as your locations.
THE WHOLE FESTIVAL, BUILT IN
Search your festival and get the full lineup by day and stage, with set times and a now playing marker. Star the sets you want and Beacon reminds you before they start. See which of your friends are going to each set, follow your favourite artists to hear when they join a lineup, and get picks for who to catch next. The food and bar pins are on the map too.
SMART WITH YOUR BATTERY
Beacon saves power by default and only turns on full precision while you are actively finding someone. It also shows each friend's battery, so you know who is about to go dark.
JOIN IN 30 SECONDS
No account. No phone number. No sign up. Share a six character code or scan a QR and you are together before you reach the gate. Add an email only if you want to save your regular people for next time.
YOURS AND YOURS ALONE
Your location is only ever seen by your group, only while you are in a session, and it is deleted the moment you leave. Never sold, no ads, no trackers. Go invisible whenever you want, with a clear reminder while you are hidden.
Beacon is free.
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The developer, James Chatland Lopez-Pozas, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Location
- Contact Info
- User Content
- Identifiers
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Information
- Seller
- James Chatland Lopez-Pozas
- Size
- 5.2 MB
- Category
- Social Networking
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 16.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 16.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 13.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Location
- This app may use your location even when it isn’t open, which can decrease device battery life.
- Age Rating
13+
- 13+
- Contains
Messaging and Chat
User-Generated Content
- Copyright
- © 2026 James Chatland