Adding friends

Open Menu → Friends.
Type their email address or phone number — it has to match the one on their Trailmonger account exactly.
Tap Add. They appear under Requested until they accept.

If nobody is found, tap Invite to Trailmonger, or use Menu → Invite friends to share your personal link. Anyone who joins from your link is connected to you automatically.

In the phone app, Find friends from contacts checks which of your contacts already use Trailmonger. Checking does not store your contacts.

Requests sent to you appear at the top of the Friends screen with Accept and Decline. To disconnect from someone, tap Remove beside their name.

Sharing your live location

Open Menu → Location Aware.
Under Live location sharing, choose how long: 1h, 4h, 8h, 12h, 24h or No limit.
Choose who can see it: All friends, or Only selected and tick the people.
Tap Start sharing.

Sharing ends on its own when the time is up. To end it sooner, come back and tap Stop sharing. To change the duration or the audience, stop and start again.

Only accepted friends can ever see your live location. Nothing is shared until you start it.
To keep sharing while the app is closed, location permission must be set to Always. Otherwise sharing pauses when you leave the app.
With no signal, your phone keeps logging positions and uploads them when you reconnect. Friends see your last known position in the meantime.
A No limit share runs until you stop it, uses coarser updates to save battery, and reminds you daily that it is still on.

Note: Sharing your location needs the phone app. The web map can show friends who are sharing with you, but cannot share yours.

Sending your exact location in an emergency

Open Menu → My Location & SOS, or tap the Compass tile at the top of the map. The sheet shows your coordinates, elevation, GPS accuracy and the direction you are facing.

Share my location… sends your position through any app on your phone. Copy coordinates puts them on the clipboard.
In the phone app, add Emergency contacts so you can text or call them from this screen. With two or more, Text everyone my location sends to all of them.
In the phone app, Call 911 and Text 911 with my location are at the bottom.

Note: Your coordinates come from GPS and show with no signal, but sending them — a text, a call — needs whatever coverage your phone has. Text-to-911 is not available in every area; if a text does not go through, call.

Setting up a safety zone alert

In the phone app, open Menu → Location Aware.
Choose a Safety radius — 25, 50, 100, 250 or 500 yards — and a Zone duration.
Tap Create alert zone here. The zone is centred on your current GPS position.

Your zones are listed under Your alert zones, where each can be paused, renewed or deleted. Shared Users lists the people whose positions you can currently see: blue is live, amber is last known, grey is too old to show on the map.

Note: Alerts depend on both phones having reported a position. With no signal they arrive after the phones reconnect, so treat a zone as a help, never as a guarantee that nobody is nearby.

Sharing waypoints, routes and activities

Waypoints with friends — Menu → My Data → Waypoint sharing → Share with friends. Choose All waypoints or one folder, tick the friends, and share. Remove a person from the same screen to stop sharing with them.
One item by link — Menu → My Data, tap Details on a route, area or waypoint, then Share. This makes a maps.trailmonger.com link you can send to anyone, whether or not they have the app.
A recorded activity — when you save a track, choose Private, Friends, or selected friends. To change it later, open Menu → Feed, tap the menu on your activity, and choose Sharing….

What someone receives is theirs to view, not to change: a shared item is marked Shared with you and cannot be edited or deleted by them. Someone who opens a link can add a copy to their own account.

More help

Browse the rest of the help center, check the FAQ, or contact Support.