Have a young driver? HeyPolo app is here to help you teach and give you peace of mind

A teenager with a driver’s license — that’s the closest equivalent we humans have to pushing the bird out of the nest. Giving kids autonomy can be a stressful process, and you still have the responsibility to teach them good habits, and you are still allowed to worry. So, location sharing apps for teens come to mind.

But which app strikes the right balance between giving the driver enough privacy and freedom, all the while giving you the appropriate tools to check in if everything is going fine?

Introducing HeyPolo: the family safety app

HeyPolo has been around for a while and is known as a feature-rich family safety app that respects personal autonomy, privacy, and user choice. Scheduled and contextual privacy windows elevate it above a “helicopter parent” app that is constantly sending information (and draining battery in the process).

Instead, it relies on the “check in” method. You can see if your teenager is at school or made it back home, and still have the peace of mind that the app’s emergency notifications, such as SOS shortcut or automatic crash detection, are always at the ready to ping you.

Its latest additions also make it the perfect teen driving safety app, as it uses the phone’s sensors to measure more than just location arrivals.

Learn about their driving habits, identify teaching moments

HeyPolo’s core philosophy is checking in without surveillance, and the app features are entirely consent-based. Assuming you are all on the same page, you can set the app up to give you pretty good information on your teen’s driving habits.

The app will use the phone’s sensors to look for rapid acceleration or speeding, harsh braking or cornering, and detect whether the teen is using their phone while in the driving seat, and show exactly where along their route these things happened. At the end of every drive, they will be assigned a driver score, and a weekly average at the end of every week.

You can use all that information to identify potential bad driving habits and proceed with the proper instruction.

If the teen needs a bit more privacy right now, they do have the freedom to turn off specific features. But if they don’t want to share their precise location, the option to show the general area they are in is still available.



However, automatic crash detection, and at-a-tap Emergency SOS are always available for your peace of mind.

Download HeyPolo on iOS or Android

Works across all phones

Your household may have a mix of Android phones and iPhones, and that’s the beauty of 3rd party family safety apps — HeyPolo can still keep you all connected in one place.

Additionally, since it’s rich on a variety of features, it replaces multiple other apps or 1st party phone features:

• Location sharing and history
• SOS alerts and emergency location sharing
• Crash detection
• Low battery alerts
• Multiple groups for different family members
• Flexible geofencing

Your location is not the product

Whenever you are choosing a family tracking app, privacy is probably always at the top of your mind. HeyPolo, developed by Surfshark, doesn’t turn your movement metrics into a product to sell to data brokers.

Whatever you share within your family groups is end-to-end encrypted. The privacy toggles make it easy to turn precise location tracking on and off on a whim. And the parenting features expect there to be a basis of trust and mutual understanding, instead of turning you into an inquisitor.

Try HeyPolo now

Download HeyPolo on iOS or Android

It works on a fair flat fee where only one member of a family group needs to be a paying subscriber. That’s $11.99 per month or $47.99 per year (breaks down to $4 per month).

That’ll unlock all the features for all members of your group, and keep you all connected and in touch no matter whether each member is on an Android or iPhone.