Life360.Grid.
A straightforward comparison of how Grid and Life360 handle the things that matter most: encryption, identity, map data, and what happens to your location after it leaves your phone.
| Capability | Life360 | Grid |
|---|---|---|
End-to-end encryption | Not encrypted | Matrix Olm / Megolm |
Open source | Proprietary | MPL-2.0 |
Self-hostable | No | Run your own homeserver |
Anonymous sign-up | Phone or email required | No phone, no email |
Private map tiles | Google Maps | Protomaps (our own tiles) |
Works on GrapheneOS / de-Googled Android | Needs Play Services | Our libre_location plugin |
Never sells your location | Sold — FTC settlement (2024) | Encrypted — we can’t |
No third-party tracking SDKs | Bundled tracking SDKs | None |
Grid renders maps with Protomaps tiles served from our own infrastructure — no Google Maps, no Apple Maps, no commercial tile provider. Grid runs on de-Googled Android (including GrapheneOS) because we ship our own location plugin, libre_location, which does not depend on Google Play Services. Life360's historical data sales are documented in the FTC settlement with X-Mode/Outlogic, who purchased location data from Life360.