Vicinity is a proximity-based social app — it tells you when friends are nearby without sharing anyone's exact location. Instead of a live map of your friends, you get a simple notification: someone you know is in your area.
The core idea
Most location-sharing apps give you a real-time pin of exactly where someone is standing. Vicinity works differently. It detects when you and a friend are within a certain radius of each other and sends a gentle notification to both of you. No exact coordinates are ever shared.
This means you can know that a friend is around — close enough to grab coffee or say hi — without either of you feeling tracked.
What Vicinity is not
Vicinity is not a real-time map. It will not show you a pin or a street address. It will not tell your friends where you've been. It does not record a history of your movements. The only thing it does is notify both parties when they're physically close.
How the friend system works
Proximity alerts are mutual — both people must be friends in the app for either of them to receive an alert. If you don't want someone to know you're nearby, simply don't add them as a friend, or remove them from your friends list.