Android Giveaway of the Day - Kaizen Locator – Family SMS

How giveaway users activate:
Install free from Google Play (on both phones), claim a free key on the page (https://kaizen-apps.com/giveaway-locator.html), then in the app: Home screen -> three-dots menu (top-right) -> Activate Pro -> enter the key. The key must be activated by 31 August 2026 and is then valid for 1 year.

Kaizen Locator finds your family and friends over SMS - no internet, no servers, no tracking. And No Ads too.

Send one tap. A short Kaizen SMS goes out. Their phone replies with their location. That's it.

Designed for close circles - partners, parents, kids, teammates - not as a public tracker or a social network.

=== HOW IT WORKS ===

Add a trusted contact (any phone number).
Tap PING. One SMS leaves your phone, no data plan needed.
Their phone fetches a fresh GPS fix and SMSes the coordinates back.
You see their live location on a map: city, distance, freshness, even their battery %.

Both phones can work offline as long as the carrier delivers the SMS.

=== CONSENT FIRST, ALWAYS ===

Locator never silently shares anyone's location. Every contact starts on ASK EACH TIME - meaning when a ping arrives, the recipient sees a clear prompt:

Allow ONCE - reply just this time
Always allow - auto-reply to this contact only
Make FAMILY - auto-reply + this contact can ring an SOS alarm
Block - silently drop

You decide, per contact. The default is the strictest one.

=== EMERGENCY SOS ===

Long-press any contact you've marked FAMILY and pick SOS. A red alarm screen launches on their phone - even on silent or DND. When they acknowledge it, you get a confirmation. SOS is rate-limited to one per contact every 5 minutes so it can never be abused.

=== PRIVACY THAT'S ACTUALLY MEASURABLE ===

100% SMS - no servers, no account, no cloud. Works anywhere your carrier has coverage.
Only Kaizen-tagged SMS are parsed. Every other SMS on your phone is ignored byte-for-byte; we never read, log, or transmit them.
Trust list, ping history and contact photos all stay on your device.
No telemetry. No analytics. No ads. Ever.
Open privacy policy explains every permission line-by-line.

=== KEY FEATURES ===

One-tap location requests over SMS
Group ping - ask several contacts at once
Auto-retry - re-sends a ping or SOS once if no reply in 5 min
Peer battery indicator - see if their phone is about to die
Scheduled ping (Pro) - fire one ping at a chosen time
Address + reverse geocoding (city, state, country)
Distance and bearing from your current location
LIVE / STALE freshness tag - know if the GPS fix is current
Three brand themes - Teal, Purple, Blue
12 languages - English, Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Kannada, Arabic, Urdu, French, German, Chinese, Japanese
Auto-reply pause - mute outgoing replies during meetings or sleep
Block list with silent-drop counter

=== FREE VS PRO ===

Free includes:

3 trusted contacts
Standard pings + SOS
Full privacy + consent model

Pro unlocks:

Unlimited trusted contacts
Group ping
Scheduled ping
Recurring auto-ping
Priority support

One-time purchase. No subscription.

=== WHO THIS IS FOR ===

Parents tracking when kids reach home
Adult children checking on elderly parents
Couples coordinating pickups in low-signal areas
Hikers, drivers, road-trippers on patchy networks
Anyone who needs to find their people without exposing their life to the cloud

=== WHO THIS IS NOT FOR ===

Live continuous tracking (this is request/reply, not an always-on tracker)
Stalking, surveillance, or any non-consensual use - the consent prompts make that impossible by design

=== PERMISSIONS, EXPLAINED ===

SEND / RECEIVE / READ SMS - Kaizen sends and parses location-tagged messages. Other SMS are never read.
ACCESS_FINE / BACKGROUND_LOCATION - used only when a Kaizen-tagged SMS arrives; never continuously.
READ_CONTACTS - to show names instead of raw phone numbers (optional).
POST_NOTIFICATIONS - to alert you of incoming pings and SOS.
USE_FULL_SCREEN_INTENT - only for the SOS alarm UI on FAMILY contacts.

Support: support@kaizen-apps.com