EchoMap lets you capture memories by place and reconnect through locations, not timelines. Pause somewhere that matters, pin it, and the place itself becomes the way back to the people who were there too.
Built place-first and privacy-first — every feature answers to both.
Every memory is a pin on a live dark map — camera flights, your position with an honest uncertainty ring, and places worth going back to. All of it at cloaked coordinates.
Publish a place and it becomes a room. Global rooms are open to anyone, instantly. Friends rooms open only to your connections — enforced by the server, not just the UI.
🌍 GLOBAL · 🔒 FRIENDS · PRIVATEConnect only through shared places, never randomly. When two people accept each other, a Moment is minted for both — the memory of the connection itself.
Up to three profile photos, and every one must come from the in-app camera in the moment. No gallery, no uploads of saved pictures of someone else — catfishing has no door here.
ANTI-CATFISH BY DESIGNPin where you stand — OpenStreetMap names the place, you add your note ( in brackets ). Or choose auto-add: stay somewhere 5, 10, or 15 minutes and it becomes a memory by itself.
Choose how coarse your pins are — block (~150 m), district (~1.2 km) or city (~5 km). Change it any time; every published pin moves with it.
A café, a park bench, the restaurant where something happened. EchoMap can notice a real stay on its own, or wait for you.
The map names the place; you add what it meant. Write it, keep it private, or send it out as a room.
People join your place's chat — openly for global rooms, by connection for friends rooms. Every connection is optional, temporary, and reversible.
No. Everything drawn on any map goes through on-device cloaking first: your position is quantised to a grid cell and the pin is published at that cell's centre. Repeated observation cannot average it away — everyone in the cell publishes the same point. You choose how coarse: block (~150 m), district (~1.2 km) or city (~5 km). The one exception is a named venue at block level, where the pin sits on the café or shop itself — because that is the place other people are looking for.
Profile tab, scroll to the bottom, DELETE ACCOUNT, confirm. That removes your account, memories, notes, folders, photos and published pins straight away — no email, no waiting. If you have already uninstalled the app, this section explains how to ask, and lists the two things that are kept and why.
When you publish a place, its setting decides the door. A Global room appears on everyone's map and anyone can join the chat instantly. A Friends room appears with a lock — only people you have accepted as connections can enter, and that's enforced by the server rules, not just the interface. Private places are never published at all.
Profile photos can only be taken with the in-app camera, live, in the moment. There is no gallery picker and the app holds no storage permission — a saved picture of someone else physically cannot become a profile photo.
No. EchoMap never requests background location. Auto-add of places (if you enable it) works only while the app is open, and you can keep everything fully manual.
A request goes from one phone to the other. The other person sees it and accepts or declines — for real, on their own device. On accept, both phones mint a Moment: a memory of the connection itself, stamped with where it happened.
EchoMap is free. There are no ads and no trackers, and personal data is never sold or shared with third parties — that's a design decision, not a plan pending revenue.
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Your memories, notes, folders and the true coordinates of your places are stored under your own account in Firebase, readable only by you under the security rules. Your profile is a different thing: username, display name, bio, age, gender and your profile photos are readable by any signed-in user, because that is what makes you findable in search and recognisable on a person card. Treat those as public.
True coordinates of your memories are stored only in your own private data. Anything drawn on a map goes through on-device cloaking first: your position is quantised to a grid cell — ~150 m, ~1.2 km or ~5 km across, your choice — and the pin is published at that cell's centre, so repeated observation cannot recover where you really are. Your location salt is stored where only your account can read it. Location is read only while the app is open — EchoMap does not request background location. Auto-capture of places can be turned off at any time on the Profile tab. When you pin a place, your precise coordinates are sent to OpenStreetMap's Nominatim service to ask what is there; that is the one path on which an unblurred position leaves your phone, and it carries nothing that identifies you. Full detail is in the Privacy Policy.
Profile photos can only be taken with the in-app camera. They are stored on your device and also shared so people at the same place can see who you are (name, age, and up to three live photos). EchoMap holds no gallery permission, so it cannot read your existing pictures.
When you send or accept a connection request, a shared record is created containing both usernames and the request status. It is readable only by the two people in it.
No advertising, no analytics trackers, no selling or sharing of personal data with third parties, no reading of your contacts or your photo gallery, and no automated scanning of your messages. One administrator account — the developer's — can open a reported conversation or room to act on a report of abuse; that is the only way anyone else reads what you send, and it is described in the full policy.
You choose the location blur level (block to city), can switch auto-capture off, can retake or remove your photos at any time, and can sign out. DELETE ACCOUNT on the Profile tab removes your account and its data from EchoMap — see how to delete your account for what is removed, what is kept, and how to ask if you no longer have the app installed.
If this policy changes, the new version will be shown here with an updated date before it applies.
By creating a presence on EchoMap or entering as a guest, you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, do not use the app.
EchoMap lets you capture memories by place and reconnect through locations. Features may change as the product grows. Material changes will be shown in the app.
You are responsible for the username and password you create and for everything done under your presence. Guest sessions are tied to the device and may not be recoverable if the app is removed.
Do not impersonate others, harass anyone, post unlawful content, or attempt to uncover another person's true location. Profile photos must be of you — that is the entire point of the camera-only rule.
Your memories, notes, and photos remain yours. You grant EchoMap only the licence needed to store your content and show it back to you and to the people you explicitly connect with.
Positions shown on maps are deliberately blurred, but no system makes sharing your general area risk-free. Use the privacy levels, keep sensitive places out of the app, and connect only with people you trust.
You may stop using EchoMap at any time by signing out and deleting the app. EchoMap may suspend accounts that break these terms.
EchoMap is provided "as is", without warranties of any kind. To the maximum extent permitted by law, EchoMap is not liable for indirect or consequential damages arising from use of the app.
These terms may change as the product grows. Material changes will be shown in the app before they take effect.
The fastest route, and it removes everything immediately. Open EchoMap, go to the Profile tab, scroll to the bottom, tap DELETE ACCOUNT and confirm. If you signed in with a username you will be asked for your password first; with Google, you confirm through Google.
Email support@echomap.space from the address on your account, or tell us the username you used, with the subject Delete my EchoMap account. We reply to confirm once it is done. Allow up to 30 days, though it is usually the same week.
All of it, permanently: your account and sign-in details; your display name, username, bio, age and gender; your profile photos; every memory, note and folder you created, including the true coordinates that only ever existed in your own data; your published place pins — sealed FOREVER memories included — which stop appearing on other people's maps; your connections; and your notification token, so the app can no longer reach your device.
And your messages, everywhere. Every message you sent, in your own rooms and in other people's, is deleted — with the photos attached to them. Each of your direct conversations is removed in full, for both people: the other person does not keep a copy. The review text you left at places goes too.
Star ratings, with your name taken off. A rating is a fact about a place, and a café's average is not yours to take away on the way out. So the star stays; the words, your name and the link back to your account are removed. A review that was only words, with no star, is deleted outright.
Moderation records. If you were reported, or reported someone, that report is kept for as long as it is needed to keep other people safe. It holds the account identifiers and display names of both people, the reason chosen, and any details typed by whoever filed it.
Nothing else. No backup held aside, no analytics profile, nothing sold or shared — EchoMap has no advertising or analytics SDKs at all.
You do not have to delete the account to remove things. In the app you can swipe any memory away, delete individual notes and folders, retake or remove your profile photos, turn FIND ME ON THE MAP off so nothing of yours is published, and block anyone you would rather not see.