Email waits until morning.
A text doesn’t.
Email is free, texting is paid. That’s the whole line — and the watchdog, the timer, the full document and two people are on the free side of it, forever, for everyone.
We’d rather say this plainly than sell around it: an email at 11pm does not wake anyone. It lands in a promotions tab, it waits until morning, sometimes it gets filtered. If the person you’d want woken is a phone person, that’s what you’re paying for.
- The overdue watchdog
- Two people, told by email, in order
- Every activity template
- The full document, photos and all
- Share it yourself, any way you like
- Photos deleted automatically
- Everything in free
- Text messages — read at 11pm, when email isn’t
- The nag that interrupts you arrives by text
- Five people instead of two
- Multi-day trips, with a check-in per day
- Send updates while you're out
- Saved party and vehicle details
- A trip log that keeps itself
Why isn’t it all free?
Because texts cost real money and email doesn’t. Every message we send to a phone costs us a few cents; email is close to nothing at any volume. Twenty dollars a year covers the texts with enough left over to keep the servers running and the timers firing.
That’s the accounting reason. The better reason is that the two channels aren’t equally good, and we’d rather charge for the one that works at 11pm than pretend they’re the same.
Why isn’t the alarm paid?
Because charging for the alarm would make this a hostage situation rather than a safety net. The watchdog is free forever — if you never pay us a cent, someone still gets told when you don’t come back.
What happens if I stop paying mid-trip?
Nothing, until you’re home. Any trip already filed keeps everything it was filed with — text messages, your whole contact list, the lot. We’d rather eat the cost than quietly downgrade someone who is out in the field.
Your recipients never pay. They don’t need an account or an app, and we will never market to them. They were kind enough to be on your list; that’s not an audience.
No annual price rises. The price you subscribe at is the price you keep for as long as you stay subscribed.
Cancelling keeps your data. Your plans, your people and your trip log stay exactly where they are. You drop back to free — you don’t start over.