How it works

How it works — follow the steps in order. The host track walks through building a dropping from scratch; the hiker track walks through taking part in one. Every option is explained where you meet it.

Hiker — step by step

Get an account

▸Install the app to your home screen when asked (you can tick 'don't ask again').
▸Sign in with email + password, Google, or continue as a guest. Guests can upgrade to a full account later from Profile.
▸You must accept the Terms of Use before your first sign-in. The app is provided as-is, without warranties.
▸Set language (EN/NL) and theme (light/dark/system) in Profile — they follow you across devices.

Join the dropping

▸Scan the QR code or open the invite link your host shares.
▸Pick your name from the host's prepared list (recommended) so your phone links to the right person. Not on the list? Tap 'Join as new member'.
▸Already in another team? You get a 'switch teams?' confirmation before moving.
▸Allow location permission — without it your host and group can't see you.

Read the briefing (Instructions tab)

▸After joining you land on the Instructions tab with the host's general briefing for this dropping.
▸Tap Start at the bottom to move to the map when you're ready to walk.

Walk the route (Map tab)

▸The map shows your live position, your group members, and the checkpoints in your group's order (the host can give your group a custom route).
▸The next target is highlighted. Optionally the distance to it is shown — this is a per-dropping / per-checkpoint setting of your host.
▸The compass button switches between north-up and heading-up. On phones with a magnetometer the map rotates with the device.
▸Entering the radius of the next checkpoint registers your visit automatically.

Checkpoint messages

▸'To here' — guidance your host wrote for the leg towards a checkpoint; it appears as soon as that checkpoint becomes your next target.
▸'On arrival' and any link or extra instructions are released the moment you enter the radius.
▸All of these also land in your notification history so you can reread them.

Chat & notifications (Chat tab)

▸Send to Everyone in the dropping, or Private to host.
▸Reply to any message — the reply goes to the sender by default, and you can change the recipient first.
▸You only ever see messages meant for you: your group, the whole dropping, or your own private host thread.
▸Incoming messages pop up as a toast with sound and vibration; the Notifications filter keeps the full history.

Hunter mode (if enabled)

▸If your host runs hunter mode, a bar at the top of the screen fills from green to red as the host gets closer to you.
▸A quarter-full bar means the host is exactly at the configured alert distance. The host can also choose to show the distance in metres, or hide the bar entirely.
▸You never see the host on the map — only the proximity signal.

Profile, privacy & help

▸Change display name, phone (visible only to your host), language, theme and password in Profile.
▸Your location is shared only inside your dropping. Deleting your account wipes personal info; anonymised tracks stay with the dropping.
▸Request the host role from Profile — a super admin approves it.
▸Report bugs or request features with the form at the bottom of this page; you'll see the reply in your feedback thread.

Host — build a dropping

Become a host

▸Any registered user can request the host role from Profile.
▸A super admin reviews it; the status shows on your profile. Once approved, the Manage screen appears.

Create the dropping

▸Manage → new dropping: give it a name. It starts in Draft, so nothing is live yet.
▸Open the settings menu by tapping the dropping name (or the pencil icon) — this is where name, branding, briefing, co-host invites, status and mode options live.

Personalise it (settings → branding)

▸Upload a logo from your device (any image, max 1MB) and crop/zoom it before saving.
▸Pick a colour from the palette. Everyone taking part in this dropping sees your logo and colour.

Write the briefing

▸The general briefing is the first thing hikers see after joining (their Instructions tab).
▸Use it for rules, timing, emergency numbers and what to do when something goes wrong.

Place checkpoints

▸Checkpoints tab → Add checkpoint, then tap the map. Set the radius that counts as 'arrived'.
Per-checkpoint options
- ▸'To here' — message shown to the group while this checkpoint is their next target.
- ▸'On arrival' — message pushed the moment the group enters the radius.
- ▸Instructions and a link/URL, also released on arrival.
- ▸Show distance — inherits the dropping-level default; changing it here locks the dropping template so new checkpoints default to off.
▸Reorder the list to set the default sequence for everyone.

Draw the boundaries

▸Checkpoints tab → Set boundaries: the map zooms out to fit all checkpoints and you draw a freehand line around the area.
▸The boundary is visible to hosts only. When a hiker or group crosses it you get an automatic alert in chat.

Create groups & routes

▸Groups tab: name each group and add the planned members up front so hikers can pick their own name when joining.
Custom route
- ▸Multiselect the checkpoints for that group — the order you tap them is the order they walk; arrows let you reshuffle.
- ▸The first is that group's start, the last their finish. Not every checkpoint has to be included.
- ▸Leave it empty to use the default checkpoint order.
- ▸If a group enters a checkpoint that isn't their next one, you get a silent deviation alert — the hikers don't.

Invite people

▸Invites tab: generate single-use or multi-use QR codes / links per group. Anyone joining through it lands in that group.
▸Show a QR full-screen for fast scanning in the field.
Co-host invites
- ▸Create a dedicated co-host invite from the settings menu.
- ▸Choose which tabs the co-host may see and whether they may change the dropping status.
- ▸Open an invite to see its QR plus the exact rights it grants.

Go live

▸Next to the status badge in the header: play starts the dropping, pause sends it back to Draft, stop ends it.
▸Hikers can only track and chat while the dropping is live.

Monitor (Live tab)

▸Real-time map of every group. A group's position is the average of its clustered, recently-moving members, so a single stale phone doesn't skew it.
▸Tap a group to expand its members with their last position update; tap a member to centre the map on them and open their detail card (name, group, phone, last seen).
▸Tap anywhere else to return to the normal map view.

Chat with everyone

▸The header messages button (with unread badge) opens the chat tab.
▸Filter: All / Unread / a specific group / Notifications.
▸The + button starts a new message: pick a group, expand it to pick one member, or pick the co-host group / a single co-host.
▸Replies default to the sender; you can change the recipient or forward any message to another person or group.
▸Only the intended recipients can read a message.

Hunter mode (optional)

▸Enable it in settings and set an alert distance in metres. Your own location is then tracked too.
▸Hikers get a proximity bar that fills as you close in — a quarter-full bar equals your configured distance.
▸Separate toggles let you show/hide the bar and show/hide the distance in metres.
▸Hikers never see you on the map; you see them.

Debrief (History tab)

▸Replay the recorded tracks and the checkpoint visit log per group: who reached what, and when.
▸Group phone numbers stay available for emergencies.

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