Features

Places, and who gets told.

A saved place is a spot the space recognises. What it announces, and to whom, is yours to set.

01Saving

Home, the pub, a studio

Pick the spot on a map, name it, give it an icon and choose how close somebody needs to be. The radius matters more than people expect: a very small one causes repeated alerts as the phone drifts in and out, rather than fewer.

  • Any place in the space, saved once, shared by everyone
  • Visit counts build up over time
  • Edit or delete it later from Manage places
Adding a place in Circl with a detection radius
02Alerts

Per place, and per person

Each place has its own arrival and departure alerts. Below them, a per member list lets you switch each person's in and out alerts off for that place alone.

  • Arrival and departure controlled separately
  • Turn one person's alerts off without affecting anyone else
  • Your own notification settings still override everything
Per place arrival and departure alerts in Circl
03Quiet

Places that announce nobody

Mark a place quiet and Circl still recognises it, still counts your time there, and tells nobody you arrived. A clinic, a workplace, a house you visit often.

  • No alerts and no entry in the activity feed
  • Applies to the place, not to you: the live map is unchanged
  • Quiet hours mute the whole space overnight instead
Saved places in Circl with visit counts
Early access

Circl is invite only while it is in beta.