Questions, answered honestly

No, and we want to be the first to tell you so. Track Your Partner is an entertainment prank. It plays a dramatic satellite animation and then cheerfully reveals that nobody was ever tracked.

We do not locate phones, we do not have a secret database, and we store nothing. The suspense is real theatre; the tracking is pure make-believe. See how it works for the full reveal.

No. The number you enter never leaves your browser. It powers the on-screen animation and then it is gone. Nothing is transmitted to us, nothing is written to a server, nothing is logged.

If you would like the deliberately boring, legally worded version, our privacy policy spells it out. Short version: we could not tell you who you searched for even if you begged us, because we genuinely do not have it.

Completely free. There is no subscription, no unlock, no "premium trace" that suddenly reveals real coordinates. There are no real coordinates to reveal.

The whole thing exists to make you gasp and then grin, and to send you off with a gentle nudge toward the better idea. That costs nothing, which is exactly what we charge.

That is precisely what it is for. Hand them your phone, let the radar sweep build its ridiculous tension, and enjoy the moment the gotcha lands.

The kind way to do it is to reveal the joke quickly and share the laugh, rather than letting anyone stew. A good prank ends in a hug, not a heart attack. Try it on yourself first at the tracker so you know the timing.

A small team with a soft spot for magic tricks and healthy relationships. We noticed how many people quietly search for ways to track a partner, and we wanted to catch that impulse and hand back something kinder.

So we built an elaborate, harmless hoax that ends by pointing you toward honesty. It is a joke with a hug inside it. Our about page tells the rest of the story.

It works anywhere you have a browser, because there is no app to install and nothing to grant permissions to. iPhone, Android, laptop, the dusty tablet in the kitchen, all fine.

Since we never actually touch a phone or a network, there is nothing platform-specific to break. The animation runs, the gotcha lands, and no device is ever contacted. Head to the tracker and see.

Great question, and the reason we lean on it so hard. Secretly tracking another adult is, in most places, legally risky and ethically wrong, regardless of your relationship to them. Consent is not optional and a shared phone plan is not permission.

Happily, this site makes the point moot by tracking no one at all. If you want the grounded, non-lawyer overview, read is it legal to track a partner.

First, be gentle with yourself. The urge to check up on someone almost always comes from fear, not malice, and fear is very human. But surveillance tends to corrode the very trust it is trying to protect.

The thing that actually rebuilds safety is slower and braver: an honest conversation. Our writing on the psychology of trust and our other articles are a kind place to start, and a good therapist is even better.

For the everyday case, a random person cannot locate you just by typing your number into a website. That is internet folklore, and it is the very myth we are gently poking fun at.

If you have specific, real concerns about a device or an abusive situation, please take them seriously and seek proper support and, where needed, law enforcement. Our article on switched-off phones covers what is and is not actually possible.

We thought hard about that, which is why the joke always lands somewhere kind. The trace never exposes anyone, never stores anything, and ends by nudging you toward trust and conversation rather than suspicion.

It is satire aimed at the impulse to surveil, not at any individual. If a prank can make a million people laugh and then quietly reconsider spying on someone they love, we think that is taste well spent. Judge for yourself via about tracking.

Not at all, as long as it is chosen freely by both of you and either of you can switch it off without it becoming a crisis. Shared location can be a warm, consensual thing.

It only tips into something unhealthy when it is demanded, secret, or used to monitor and control. Our piece on digital boundaries unpacks the difference between closeness and a leash.

Honestly, no, and we would not want it to. Even real location data is far too blunt to prove much, and evidence gathered by covert tracking can be illegal and inadmissible anyway.

More to the point, certainty about another person does not come from a map. If you are carrying that fear, the fastest way through is to talk, gently and directly. Our article on hidden signs offers a calmer perspective.

It is a piece of theatre built from easing curves, timed pings, and a satellite sweep tuned to make your heart thud at exactly the right moment. Every hesitation is deliberate.

Crucially, it all runs inside your own browser and contacts nothing on the outside. No satellites, no towers, no location ever computed. Our how it works page walks through the whole illusion, step by step.

In open sky, real GPS can be accurate to a few metres. Among tall buildings it can drift down the street, and indoors it collapses to a vague guess spanning tens or hundreds of metres.

That confident blue dot is quietly hiding a lot of uncertainty. Our tracking explainer and the article on how accurate phone location really is go into the honest, unglamorous details.

In practical terms, no. A genuinely powered-off phone is dark: it computes no GPS fix and talks to no towers, so there is nothing to locate. No website, ours included, can conjure a position out of silence.

The narrow exceptions involve phones that only appear off, which is a different thing. Our full article on switched-off phones lays out what is real and what is thriller fiction.

GPS is your phone quietly working out its own position by listening to satellites, and nothing is transmitted to make it happen. Cell-tower triangulation is the network estimating your position from which masts you are near.

The key point is that tower-based location sits behind legal safeguards and is not available to a curious member of the public with a phone number. Our GPS versus GSM explainer breaks it down.

No. We never ask for location permission, contacts, camera, or anything else, because the prank needs none of it. If a "tracking" site ever demanded deep permissions, that would be a genuine red flag worth walking away from.

All the drama is animation running locally. Nothing is requested, nothing is granted, nothing is sent. You can confirm the whole no-access promise on our privacy page.

Not in the way films and forwarded messages imply. A phone number alone does not hand a random website your live position, and the "type a number, see them on a map" trope is fiction, which is exactly what we are affectionately spoofing.

Real location technology is powerful but hedged with consent and legal limits for good reason. Our tracking overview explains what the technology can and, reassuringly, cannot do.