Arrival alarms, and departure alarms with Plus
Ring when you enter a zone, when you leave it, or both. Use it once, every day, or on the days you commute. How to set and test a GPS location alarm on Android.
Bus and train stop alarm app: sleep through the ride, not your stop.
A GPS location alarm that rings as you get close to your stop, even when your phone is locked. Start free with two alarms, no account needed, and test it once with your phone locked before your first trip.
On Android today. The iPhone app is coming to the App Store soon.
Choose the place. Set the distance. Put the phone away.
Five screens from the app.
Built around one job: ring at the place, not the time.
A clock alarm guesses when you will arrive. LocatAlert rings when your bus or train actually reaches the zone you set.
Set your signal500 m
Wake me within
100 m300 m500 m1 km
50 m5 km
Your distance, 50 m to 5 km
A small radius for a walk to the shop, a wide one for a fast train. See the warning each radius gives on a bus or train.
- Far from your stopA low-power position check every few minutes.
- A few km outChecks come closer together as you approach.
- Last ~400 m before the zonePrecise GPS, continuously, then off again.
Precise GPS only near your stop
Far from your stop, the phone checks position rarely and cheaply. Precise GPS switches on only in the last stretch, so most of a long trip runs on low-power checks.
Friends see only the tasks you choose to send, never your alarm list or live location.
Task from Sam Rivera
Grab the concert tickets
Madison Square Garden · 300 m
Not nowAccept task
People, without tracking
Send a friend a place and a task. They choose whether to accept it. Nobody's continuous location is shared, in either direction.
Hey Siri, wake me up at Central Station with LocatAlert.
- Turn off my LocatAlert alarms
- Which LocatAlert alarms are on
Siri, with the iPhone app
Coming with the iPhone release: arm a saved place, check which alarms are on, or switch them all off by voice.
Free as a guest
- Two alarms armed at once, no account
- Arrival alarms, once or every day
- Four alarm sounds, ringing with the phone locked
Plus
- Unlimited alarms
- Arrive, leave or both
- The days you pick, and every alarm sound
Family
- Everything in Plus
- Tasks you send ring on their phone, even with the app closed
Allow location all the time, notifications and alarms, and let LocatAlert ignore battery optimization. Then test it once with your phone locked before your first trip. Add an account and friends can send you places. Plus and Family are monthly or yearly subscriptions in the app.
Your GPS trail stays on your device.
Distance checks run on the phone, against the places and radii you saved. Your GPS stream is not uploaded to our servers, and background location is used only while an armed alarm is watching for arrival or departure.
- We never sell your data.
- We never share it with data brokers or advertisers.
- We do not track you across other apps or websites.
Questions before you start
Will the location alarm ring when my phone is locked?
Yes. With location, notification and alarm permissions enabled, LocatAlert rings with sound while your phone is locked. On Android it opens a full-screen alarm over the lock screen. On iPhone with iOS 26 or later and Lock Screen alarms allowed, it rings as a system alarm on the Lock Screen. On older iOS, or if you decline, it rings as repeated time-sensitive notifications with your alarm sound.
Can I choose how far before my stop the alarm rings?
Yes. Set a radius around the destination, from 50 m to 5 km. A wider radius gives more warning: at 80 km/h, 1 km gives about 45 seconds and 3 km about 2 minutes 15 seconds. The bus stop alarm guide has the full table.
Is LocatAlert free?
Two alarms are free. With location, notification and alarm permissions on, it rings even with the app closed; test it once before your first trip. You can start as a guest without an account. Plus adds unlimited alarms, arrive/leave/both triggers, the days you pick and every alarm sound. Family is everything in Plus, and tasks you send ring as a real alarm on their phone. Prices are shown in the app for your region.
Does a GPS alarm drain the battery?
LocatAlert is built to keep it low. Far from your destination it checks position rarely and cheaply. Precise GPS switches on only in the last stretch before your stop, then switches back off.
Does it share my live location with friends?
No. LocatAlert can send a specific place-based task to a person you choose, and they decide whether to accept it. It does not expose a continuous live-location feed.
Take the nap. Keep the stop.
Get it on Google Play and start with two free alarms, no account needed.
On Android today. The iPhone app is coming to the App Store soon.