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See your friends’ day. Then it disappears.
Training is easier when it is not solitary. The friend map is the social half of Heala — and it is built to forget.
- Where you are, right now
- Runs until you switch it off
- A dot that follows you
- Where friends have been today
- Deletes itself after 24 hours
- Sampled, with a freshness label
- Invisible in one tap
What you see
Friends who share with you, where they have been today, and how long ago each point was recorded. A lightweight trail — enough to feel connected, without turning it into live tracking.
What it does not keep
Twenty-four hours. Location history older than a day deletes itself.
Invisible in one tap. Go invisible and the map keeps working while you are off it. Stop sharing and every point you have left is deleted.
Only accepted friends. Visibility is decided on the server on every read, not by the app.
How it differs from Find My or a shared location
Find My and WhatsApp show a live pin: where you are, right now, until you turn it off. That is the right tool for meeting someone at a station and the wrong one for a training app, because it never stops being surveillance.
This map shows where somebody has been today, sampled rather than streamed, with a freshness label on every marker — "2h ago", not a dot that follows you. It is closer to reading someone’s day afterwards than to watching them move through it.
And it expires. A live location you forget to switch off runs forever; this one empties itself every 24 hours whether you remember or not.
The rest of the social side
Friend codes and QR to add people, 1:1 chat with photos and voice notes, and challenges you can set against a friend — most steps in a week, most sessions, whatever you agree.
None of it is public. There is no feed of strangers, no discovery, no follower count: you are only ever visible to people whose friend request you accepted.
Why a training app has a map at all
Retention in fitness apps is a solitary problem. Most days there is nothing to open the app for unless you are logging something, and logging is a chore before it is a habit.
A friend on the map is a reason to open it that has nothing to do with tracking — and the people who train with somebody else are the people who are still training in March.
Questions
Does it track me in the background all day?
No. Positions are sampled, not streamed — a point when you move a meaningful distance or stay somewhere a while — and collection is foreground plus the phone’s significant-location service, never continuous GPS.
Can strangers see me?
No. Only friends you have accepted, and only while you are sharing.
Do I have to use it?
No. Location sharing is off until you turn it on, and nothing is collected before that.
What happens to my location history?
Anything older than 24 hours is deleted. If you stop sharing, every point you have ever left is deleted at that moment.
Does it drain my battery?
It avoids the expensive pattern. There is no continuous GPS session — precise fixes only while the app is open, and the phone’s own low-power significant-location service otherwise.
The quiz is free, takes about four minutes and needs no card. It ends with your calorie target, your macros and a training week you can look at.
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