How to stay private and still see your friends
Quick answer
You do not have to choose between privacy and seeing friends. Parages keeps your location fully on-device and still taps you when you pass near someone you know.
Privacy and friendship feel like a trade only because most apps make them one. Drop the live maps and you also drop the easy run-ins, or so the apps want you to think. Parages breaks that bargain. It holds a private list of where your friends live and nudges you when you happen to be close, while the proximity check stays sealed on your phone. You share nothing, you are tracked by no one, and you still get the tap that turns a normal afternoon into a hello.
In one sentence
Parages pings you when you pass near a friend. It tracks nobody.