Life360’s free tier is deliberately crippled to push the $99.99+/year Plus and Platinum plans — and the company has a well-documented history of selling aggregated location data to data brokers. FamPing does the same core job — pings every 5 minutes, named-place arrival/departure alerts, a real-time family map — on a server only you control, with a $39 introductory price locked for the first 1,000 licenses before it moves to $299.

• 5-minute location pings — Every family member’s phone reports position automatically to your dashboard.
• Named-place geofences — Mark home, school, work — get an alert the moment someone arrives or leaves, no third party ever sees the address.
• Full-day path per member — The same stop-clustering engine as Door Tracker draws each family member’s day as a route with numbered, timed stops.
• Multiple family members, no per-seat fee — Add everyone in the household on one license — Life360 gates member count behind paid tiers.
• Android app for family phones — Simple login, background ping with a visible indicator, battery-friendly interval.
• No data-broker business model — There’s no ad network or data-sale revenue stream to fund — the app has no business reason to look at what it collects.

Runs as a Windows desktop app or on any $5 VPS (Docker included).

What’s included:

• Full source code (MIT): https://github.com/bensblueprints/famping
• Lifetime v1 updates
• Setup guide (README quick start)