Drive together: see each other on the map, and get an alert when someone pulls off.
Keep Hopalong open on screen to keep sharing: phones pause web apps when they're in the background or locked. The screen stays on while you're in a caravan.
Prototype. Directions can be wrong. Watch the road and follow posted signs.
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Pick a destination, then tap ☆ Save under the search box.
Kept on this phone only. Badges are earned after trips, never while you're moving.
You are at:
Calling is fastest. Texting 911 works in most of Pennsylvania; if a text doesn't go through, call.
These open your phone's own call or text; nothing is sent until you send it. The app doesn't contact anyone by itself.
A parent gets a short summary after each trip their teen starts in Hopalong. Both of you agree first, and either of you can stop at any time.
Make a code, then enter it on your teen's phone (Me → Family). You'll be asked to accept.
Code: Send it
After each trip you start in the app (driving, walking or biking), your parent gets:
Not shared: your live location, your route or where you stopped, and trips you don't start in the app. To let them follow a trip live, use 📲 Share trip, as always.
Keep the app open on screen during a trip; phones pause web apps in the background. Summaries are deleted after 90 days, or when either of you removes the link. A summary sent while there's no signal goes out once there is.
Test build for a small group in Pittsburgh. Directions can be wrong. Always follow road signs, signals and local laws, and don't handle the phone while driving.
Starting point: leave From empty to start where you are, or search for a place (right-click the map also works on a computer). Tap ◎ to go back to your location. If your From is somewhere you aren't, Start becomes ▶ Preview from start and plays the trip from there; once you're at your From, Start gives turn-by-turn directions.
Desk testing: set a starting point and destination, then tap Simulate to hear the turns without moving.
Weather: forecasts for points along the route at the time you're expected to pass them, refreshed every 20 minutes while navigating. Snow, ice, thunderstorms, heavy rain, fog and strong gusts are announced out loud. Weather data by Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0).
Icy hills: when the forecast has snow, freezing rain, or rain near freezing (or it's below freezing after recent rain or snow), route cards show how much of each route is steep (about a 10% grade or more). Safest and Fuel saver pick the route with the least; Fastest offers it. Before each steep stretch you hear a heads-up, and the banner shows it. Hills are worked out from terrain heights, which can be off on bridges and in tunnels.
Speed limits: while driving, the posted limit shows above the speedometer where OpenStreetMap has it. Where it doesn't, a dashed gray "likely limit" sign shows Pennsylvania's default for that kind of road (55 mph, 35 in towns and cities, 25 on residential streets); ramps and parking lots get none. A likely limit can be wrong, so it never sets off a speeding warning. If you stay more than 5 mph over a posted limit for a few seconds, the speedometer turns red and you hear one soft chime (at most every 2 minutes, and none with voice off). Always go by the signs on the road.
Services used (no account needed): map tiles from OpenFreeMap, map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, routing by Valhalla on the FOSSGIS public server (terrain heights © U.S. Geological Survey and U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), search by Photon (komoot), weather by Open-Meteo. These services log requests, including the start and end points of a route.
In Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and Allentown, route colors are street level: how many offenses were reported to that city's police in the last 12 months within about 500 feet of each street, weighted by type (robbery and assault count most; car break-ins count more for driving, less for walking). Green is the lowest 60% of that city, yellow the next 25%, red the top 15%. Night-time trips use night-time patterns.
Everywhere else in Pennsylvania, colors are town averages: each town's violent and property crimes per 1,000 residents, from the FBI's yearly counts for its police department. Green towns are home to the lowest 60% of Pennsylvanians, yellow the next 25%, red the top 15%. Towns patrolled by the State Police share their county's State Police rate. A town average says nothing about a particular street. Gray means no data.
Crash and deer hot spots come from PennDOT's statewide crash records. They are spoken warnings, not route colors, because busy roads have more crashes simply because more people drive them. Deer warnings play from dusk to dawn and all day in October to December.
Emergencies: routes steer clear of active reports of police activity, fires, closed roads and emergency scenes. If one is reported on your route while you drive, the app asks "Take a safer route?" and takes it unless you tap Stay on route within 15 seconds. Snow, ice and thunderstorms ahead get the same question; the app then looks for a route that stays clear of them, and tells you if there isn't one.
Map look: a warm day map, and a dark, low-glare night map that switches on at sunset where you are (sunrise and sunset are worked out on your phone). Choose Auto, Day or Night in Me → Settings. While walking, the map switches to a close, tilted street-level view with buildings in 3D, so sidewalks, crosswalks and paths are easy to see.
Walking at night: walking routes after dark prefer streets that OpenStreetMap marks as lit, and green dots show shops, restaurants and other places along the way that are open right now (from their listed hours; places with unclear hours are left out). Tap 📲 Walk with me to send someone a link to follow your walk live until you arrive.
Traffic is shown separately, as a purple glow under the route (lighter = slow, darker = stopped). For now it comes from drivers' reports of crashes, slowdowns, lane closures and construction.
Check on me: pick someone you trust and they get a text with a link that follows your trip. If you haven't arrived by your check-in time, your phone asks "Are you OK?" and their link warns them you're overdue, even if your phone has died. It alerts only the person you choose; it doesn't call 911.
Campus safety: walking and biking routes show blue-light emergency phones within about 500 feet (blue pins, from OpenStreetMap). On or to any of Pennsylvania's college campuses, the route panel shows that campus's police or security number with one tap to call, its escort service where the school lists one, and a button to show every blue-light phone on that campus. The 🆘 screen adds the campus number too. Numbers come from each school's own public safety page (linked) and are checked against it each semester; where we haven't checked a number, it says to call 911. Campus list from the US Department of Education.
🚚 Truck mode: enter your truck's height, weight, length, axles and any hazardous load in Options, and routes avoid low bridges, weight limits and roads closed to trucks where OpenStreetMap records them. Map data can be missing or out of date: always obey posted clearance and weight signs. Arrive by (in Options, any mode) shows when to leave, with spare time added, and whether leaving now is on time. Fleets: drivers join one caravan; a dispatcher opens the dispatch page with its code to see every truck's delivery as On time, At risk or Late, and can text a customer when one is running late.
Search suggests places as you type: your saved places and nearby places first, then everything else. Business listings include our weekly copy of Overture Maps places (© Overture Maps Foundation, CDLA Permissive 2.0), which has many local businesses OpenStreetMap is missing. Type part of a name ("giant ea") or a street with a house number ("212 forb") and pick from the list.
Walking routes keep to sidewalks, footpaths and crosswalks where the map has them, and stay out of alleys, driveways and parking lots. Where a street's sidewalk isn't drawn separately on the map, the route line follows the street: use the sidewalk.
Tunnels and dead zones: if your phone loses GPS mid-trip (the Fort Pitt or Liberty Tubes, say), the dot keeps moving along the route at your last speed, turns are still called out, and the banner says the position is estimated. The route is already on your phone, so no signal is needed to keep going. The banner shows a big arrow for each turn, and the next one too when two come close together. If the routing server is busy, the app tries again by itself.
Biking: choose Bike for routes that keep to trails, bike lanes and quiet streets, go easy on hills (and stay off steep ones when roads may be icy), avoid rough surfaces and prefer lit streets after dark. The map shows trails (light green), bike lanes and marked bike streets (dark green) and quiet neighborhood streets (dotted). Each route card says how much of the ride is on trails and lanes and how much is on busy roads. Route colors use the walking patterns, since on a bike you're out in the open. All from OpenStreetMap; lanes and trails can be missing or out of date, so watch the road.
🆘 Emergency: while walking or biking, an SOS button sits on the map (and it's in Me any time). So it can't go off by accident, a tap does nothing; press and hold it for 3 seconds. The emergency screen shows your street address and coordinates to read to a dispatcher, with buttons to call 911, text 911 with your location filled in, or text your location to your Check on me contact. Your phone makes the call or sends the text; the app never contacts anyone by itself.
Family: a parent and teen link with a one-time code, and both agree. After each trip the teen starts in the app, the parent gets a summary: arrived safely or not, time, distance, and for driving, minutes over the speed limit, hard brakes and phone use while moving (estimated from the phone's speed and screen taps). No live location. Either can stop at any time. A parent's app tells them when a trip comes in while it's open; it can't alert a phone where the app is closed.
Road reports show up for everyone within seconds. Reporting something that's already on the map counts as a confirmation instead of a second pin. Each report shows how many people confirmed it, and it comes down when more people passing by say it's gone than say it's still there.
Fewer reported incidents does not guarantee safety. Reported crime reflects where police patrol and where people report, as well as where crime happens. Busy streets show more reports partly because more people are there. Campus police, Port Authority and other departments are not included, and areas outside city limits show "no data".
Picks the route expected to burn the least fuel, estimated from each road's typical speed and the number of turns and stops, for a typical car. It's an estimate, not a measurement, and never adds more than your Safest-mode time limit.
Nearby places come from our own copy of OpenStreetMap for Pennsylvania (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL), refreshed every week so results show instantly even when public map servers are busy. A place that opened in the last week may be missing. Prices and charger availability aren't included.
Directions that look out for you.
The app needs your location to give directions, warn you about what's ahead and find places nearby.
It stays on your phone, unless you choose to share a trip, join a caravan or make a report.
Next, your phone asks for permission. Choose Allow (or "While using the app").
This is a test version. Directions and colors can be wrong: always follow road signs and laws, and don't use the phone while driving. It is not an emergency service; in an emergency, call 911.
Last updated November 2, 2026. Test version: to be reviewed by a lawyer before a public launch.
We never sell or share your location or your trips, show ads, or use advertising or analytics trackers.
Your location while you use the app, saved places, your Check on me contact, and your settings. Clearing this site's data in your browser deletes them.
To work, the app asks these services for maps, directions, search results and weather: OpenFreeMap (map), Valhalla on the FOSSGIS server (directions: your start, stops and destination; while driving, also the route ahead, to look up speed limits), Photon by komoot (search, and your street address when you open the 🆘 Emergency screen), Open-Meteo (weather along the route) and the US Census (address lookup). They receive those requests and handle them under their own policies.
"Something wrong?" reports go only to whoever you send them to, and never include your location.
Pick someone you trust. They get a text with a link that follows your trip. If you haven't arrived by , this phone asks if you're OK, and their link warns them you're overdue, even if your phone dies or loses signal.
Saved on this phone only. Keep Hopalong open during the trip so it can ask if you're OK; the screen stays on. This doesn't call 911. In an emergency, call 911.
Tell us what happened. The report also includes the app version, your phone and browser, whether location is working and any recent errors. It never includes where you are.
Send it by text or email to the person who invited you to test.
Your location stays on your phone unless you share a trip or join a caravan.
Indoors, finding you can take a minute. You can always type a starting point in From instead.
A leave-at time plans the weather and arrival time for that departure. Arrive by shows when to leave, with spare time added because traffic predictions aren't included yet.
Routes avoid low bridges, weight limits and roads closed to trucks, where the map has them. Map data can be missing or out of date: always obey posted clearance and weight signs.