See Where She Went Today. Tomorrow It Is Gone.

A live dot on a map tells you less than people think. It tells you where someone is. It does not tell you whether they are fine.

“She is near the metro station” could mean she is walking home. It could also mean she has not moved in forty minutes at 11pm. Those are completely different situations, and a single dot cannot tell them apart.

That is why ORBII’s circle map now shows the day, not just the moment.

What the map shows now

Four members, four colours. A circle holds up to four people, and each one gets a fixed colour that never changes. Her route is always the same colour, so you can read a map with four people on it without squinting at labels.

The actual route, not a straight line. The map draws the path each person genuinely took today, following roads and turns, in their colour.

How long they stopped, and where. This is the part that carries the real information. ORBII marks each place someone stayed for more than a few minutes and shows how long they were there. “Stopped 8 minutes” at a bus stop is a bus. “Stopped 40 minutes” at the same bus stop is a question worth asking.

Their photo on the map. Each person’s profile picture sits inside a ring in their colour, so you recognise people rather than decoding pins.

Last known, marked as last known. When someone turns sharing off, you do not get a silent gap that leaves you guessing. You see their last known position, clearly labelled as off, with the time. Silence is the worst thing a safety app can give you.

And then midnight comes

Here is the part we care about most.

At 00:00 IST, the entire day’s trail is deleted.

Not archived. Not moved to cheaper storage. Not anonymised and kept for analytics. Deleted from the database by an automated job that runs every night.

The reasoning is simple. The purpose of your trail is to let the people who love you see where you went today. That purpose expires when the day does. Under India’s DPDP Act, you are only allowed to keep personal data as long as the purpose needs it, and one day is genuinely all this purpose needs.

There is a second reason, and it is more practical. A company that stores months of location data on thousands of women has built something dangerous, whatever its intentions. It can be breached. It can be subpoenaed. It can be sold by whoever owns the company in five years. The safest way to protect a year of your movements is to never be holding it.

We could not produce a map of where you were last Tuesday if someone demanded it. That is deliberate.

The part where we are honest with you

Continuous location sharing is exactly the feature that got other family-safety apps in trouble, and we are not going to pretend ORBII is above it while shipping it.

We built it because families asked for it and because the information is genuinely useful. So instead of refusing, we made it hard to misuse:

• It is off until you turn it on. Nobody can enable it for you. Not a parent, not a college that bought your licence, not us.
• You choose how long it runs, from a couple of hours up to always on, and one tap stops it.
• It is never invisible. Everyone in the circle sees who is currently sharing, and Android shows a permanent notification while it runs. There is no hidden mode, and we will never build one.
• Under-18s cannot be tracked at all. Indian law forbids it, so ORBII enforces it in the app. Their SOS still works exactly the same.
• We never sell location data. Not to brokers, not to advertisers, not to a college that pays for student licences. Colleges buying ORBII get no dashboard and no student data, ever.

A tracker someone resents gets uninstalled, or left at home on exactly the night it mattered. An app someone trusts stays in her pocket. The controls above are not a compromise on the feature. They are what makes the feature survive contact with a real relationship.

Places that matter

Alongside the map, you can draw a zone around a place: home, college, the hostel, work. When someone in your circle arrives or leaves, you are told.

Naming a place is one tap now, with presets for the places people actually save. And unlike the simple circles most apps offer, ORBII lets you draw the real shape of a campus, and set a time window so you are only alerted when it actually matters. A gate you leave at 4pm is a normal day. The same gate at 2am is not.

See how circles work, or download ORBII and set one up in about a minute.