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Family Nest - Family Locator

GPS Tracker · Find My Kids

CoreVision Technologies L.L.C-FZ
No findings published
Download on theApp Store
App Store rating4.7★38.6K ratings
PriceFreeListed price
Age4+Store age rating
Size137 MBiPhone download
CategoryLifestyle
DeveloperCoreVision Technologies L.L.C-FZ

At a glance

Full report

Things to watch for 0

Nothing published. That is not a guarantee the app is problem-free.

Positives 0

No specific positive published.

From our automated analysis, 11 Oct 2026.

This analysis describes version 2.7.2 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-11 . The app may have changed since.

The store currently lists version 2.7.3, updated 2026-10-10.

The app has been updated since this analysis. The findings on this page describe version 2.7.2, not the version now listed on the store.

The developer’s release notes for the newer versions, where we hold them, are in Versions and dates analysed.

Preview

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Store screenshots supplied by the developer.

About this app

Know your family made it — to school, to work, back home — without a single "where are you?" text.

Family Nest shows the people you choose on a private, real-time map. Trusted by thousands of families with a 4.7-star rating. (Formerly Family360 — same app, new name, and Circles are now called Nests.)

FREE FOR EVERYONE

• Create private Nests and chat with the people who matter most

• See your family on the live map — always with their consent

• Share your live location on trips and commutes so loved ones know you're safe

• Place alerts for Home, School, and Work — know the moment someone arrives or leaves

• Overspeed alerts to help guide safer driving habits

• Phone locator — find your own lost or misplaced phone…

From the developer’s store description.

For developers and the curious

The full report

The evidence, sources, measurements and versions behind every label above.

Findings and evidence

No findings published
This assessment published no findings. That is a statement about what the evidence we had could show, not a clearance of the app.

What reviewers report

354 reviews read · 0 review-based observations

No review-based observation is published in this assessment. That does not establish that reviewers had no problems.

Measurements

5 measured · 3 not assessed

Supporting measurements. They are not a complete list of possible harms or positives. “Not assessed” means we could not measure it — never zero, never a pass.

From store data and reviews

Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
No theme reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
80–89% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.

In the app package we scanned

No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence, not a finding.

Sensitive permissions
Not assessed
No package has been scanned for this app
Analytics or tracking SDKs in the scanned package
Not assessed
No package has been scanned for this app
Advertising SDKs in the scanned package
Not assessed
No package has been scanned for this app

Measurement vocabulary 1.4 · how these are measured

Versions and dates analysed

Assessed 11 Oct 2026

This analysis describes version 2.7.2 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-11 . The app may have changed since.

The store currently lists version 2.7.3, updated 2026-10-10.

The app has been updated since this analysis. The findings on this page describe version 2.7.2, not the version now listed on the store.

Release notes for the newer versions, in the developer’s own words:

Version 2.7.3 · 2026-10-10
• Fixed a bug that caused the app to open unnecessary background network connections, which could drain battery and data. • Faster launch on older iPhones. • Smoother Add Place and Manage Alerts screens. • Stability fixes and performance improvements.

Store update history

Each store’s release notes, as the developer wrote them. They are the developer’s words, not ours.

App Store

Version 2.7.3 · 2026-10-10
• Fixed a bug that caused the app to open unnecessary background network connections, which could drain battery and data. • Faster launch on older iPhones. • Smoother Add Place and Manage Alerts screens. • Stability fixes and performance improvements.
Version 2.7.2 · 2026-10-04
An important fix for everyone on iOS 15 and iOS 16: the app could crash the moment it opened. That is fixed, and we're sorry for the trouble. Also fixed: chat messages that arrived while a conversation was closed could vanish from the conversation after the app was reopened, even though the chat list still showed them. They now stay, and any that went missing come back on the next open. Thank you for the reports that led us to both.
Version 2.6.9 · 2026-09-26
A big update for families: • Chat, rebuilt — send photos, see who replied last, and chat with family on Android too. • Share your live location with anyone by link — no app needed — for 15, 30 or 60 minutes. • Nest Drive — a weekly driving score with hard brakes, speeding and a shareable score card. • Smarter speed alerts — an alert when someone starts speeding, an update if it continues, and a summary of where and for how long (Premium). • Expect them by… — one tap on the Live Tracking ETA and you'll hear if they're late. • Use your iPad with the same account — it watches while your phone shares. • Joining a Nest no longer needs an account, and a recovery code brings your profile to a new…

Shortened here; the full notes are on the store listing.

Assessment record

Status
Automated analysis
App identifier
family-nest-apple-1537446782
Assessment date
11 Oct 2026
Sources used
3 independent signals: user reviews, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure
Reviews read
354
Package examined
No package scan
Measurement vocabulary
1.4
Human inspection
Not completed

Assessed 2026-10-11 from 354 user reviews, the store listing and its privacy label. We have not scanned the app's package, so nothing on this page was read from inside the app itself.

How this page was produced

Analyzed 2026-10-11 Version analyzed: 2.7.23 independent signals354 reviews scannedConfidence: HighNot human-reviewedVocabulary v1.13Methodology v1.3
Signals run: user reviews, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure. Not yet checked: SDKs in the app package, the app's own on-screen text and the app manifest.

Store facts

App Store

What the stores publish. Store ratings are the stores’ numbers, not Appworthy’s, and are never averaged across stores.

App Store

Store rating
4.67 ★ · 38,607 ratings
Version
2.7.3
Updated
10 Oct 2026
Price
Free
Age rating
4+
Size
137 MB
Open in App Store
Developer
CoreVision Technologies L.L.C-FZ
Category
Lifestyle
Listing price
Free

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Method and limits

What this report can and cannot show

How the automated analysis works

This assessment is produced automatically. Three independent signals are read — user reviews, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure — and each candidate finding is filed under the sources that support it.

No charge stands on one kind of evidence — with one published exception. A finding is either a measured fact that anyone can reproduce (an ad SDK is in the package; every subscription bills weekly; the privacy label omits a tracker we can see), or it is an interpretation — and an interpretation needs independent sources to agree before it reaches the catch list. The exception is a harm only users can see: a charge may publish from reviews alone, as “Reported by N users”, once enough reviewers raise it to clear that charge’s own published bar. That agreement rule is what replaced the human reviewer, not a model’s confidence.

There is no overall score, on purpose. A 0–99 number was published here until 2026-09-15. It was withdrawn because it discriminated too weakly to be the instrument — 44.7% of every pair of apps tied — and because a single number is a verdict where a count is an observation. What publishes instead is a row of measurements, each of which says what was counted and, where we could not look, says that instead.

Findings under One source only are real reports we do not stand behind as findings. They are shown because withholding them entirely would hide a genuine complaint, and labelled because publishing them as charges would be an accusation off a single source.

Limits of this report

  • A package scan is static. It identifies code and text in one Android build. It does not measure a live ad session, test a deletion request, or count the steps needed to cancel.
  • Reviews keep their sample. A review-only charge shows distinct reviewers, the share and the sample size, and is published only once it clears that label’s published threshold. Calibration labels are machine-drafted and not yet confirmed by a person.
  • Not assessed is a state. It is never a zero and never a pass.
  • A missing label is not a clean bill of health. It means the evidence did not support one, not that the app is problem-free.
Not yet human-reviewed. A hands-on test can confirm or contradict a finding and adds its own measurements; it does not change a measurement row. Hands-on inspections are not yet open.
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