Snap Map vs Zenly, two takes on the friend map

Quick answer

Snap Map is a tracking layer inside Snapchat; Zenly was a dedicated friend map that closed in 2023; Parages keeps the friend connection but shows no live map and pings only when you're nearby.

Snap Map sits inside Snapchat, dropping your Bitmoji on a shared map for the friends you allow. Zenly was the standalone original, more precise and more social, before Snap acquired it and closed it in 2023. Snap built tracking into a chat app; Zenly made the map the whole point. Both put your live dot in front of friends by default. Ghost Mode exists, but the map is still the premise. Some people wanted the connection without the dot.

In one sentence

Parages pings you when you pass near a friend. It tracks nobody.

How it works

Add your friends

Their neighborhood, not their exact address. Only you see your list, and nothing is shared.

Live your life

No continuous tracking, no shared location. Parages sleeps in your pocket.

Get a hello

You pass near a friend, and your phone says “You’re 300 m from Thomas 👋”. Right when it matters.

On the same topic

zenly vs life360

life360 vs find my

google maps vs life360

find my vs google maps

zenly vs snapchat

parages vs life360

Frequently asked questions

Those apps share your live location with a group, all the time. Parages shares nothing. It checks on your own phone whether you are near a friend you added, and only then pings you.

Find My broadcasts your position to everyone you share with, continuously. Parages keeps your position on your device and sends it nowhere, so there is no map of you to leak or sell.

Be there at launch.

Parages is coming soon. Drop your email, we’ll tell you first. No spam, just the day it opens.

Join the waitlist