Two simple wristbands that alert you when parent and child get too far apart. No GPS. No app. No subscription.
Product visualization · final design may change.
In development · No payment today.
Estimated launch price: $79 for the pair
Includes both wristbands. No subscription.
✓Parent band vibrates on your wrist
✓You choose the distance setting
✓No GPS, no app for core use
✓Both bands included, no subscription
Product visualization · final design may change.
Parent + child pair
Both bands are included as one pair.
Wrist vibration alert
The signal reaches you, not a screen.
No GPS
No location tracking of any kind.
No subscription
Nothing recurring to manage.
Product visualization · final design may change.
The moment
Busy places change in a second.
A gate change, a crowd, a turn toward something interesting. Your child steps a few paces ahead and the sightline is gone — not lost, just out of view.
In that second you do not want to unlock a phone, open a map and wait for a dot to settle. You want one immediate signal that the gap has opened, so you can look up and close it yourself.
That is the single moment Yoonear is being designed around — and the only thing we are testing.
How it works
Put them on. Press one button. Stay present.
01
Wear both bands
One band on your wrist, one on theirs. Nothing to install, no account to make.
02
Choose a distance
Pick a distance setting that fits where you are — a boardwalk is not a terminal.
03
Feel the alert
If the boundary is crossed, the parent band vibrates so you can look up right away.
The concept is designed to alert in the moment a distance threshold is crossed — not to locate anyone afterwards. Distance options and real-world performance are still being worked out and have not been tested or published.
The product
Two bands. One job.
One band is the parent band: it is the one that alerts you. One band is the child band: it simply stays on their wrist. Neither has a screen to read, a feed to check, or a menu to learn.
Parent band
Vibrates when the distance you set is crossed.
Child band
Worn on the wrist. Nothing for them to operate.
Screenless by design
No display, no notifications, no games.
One button
The interaction we are designing toward is a single press.
Both bands are included in the pair. No subscription.
Product visualization · final design may change.
Where it would be used
Open space, moving crowds, wide horizons.
The places where a few extra steps stop being a few extra steps.
Product visualization · final design may change.
Airports
Long terminals, gate changes, moving crowds.
Beaches
Wide open sand where distance grows quietly.
Theme parks
Queues, exits and thousands of similar silhouettes.
Campgrounds
Loops of tents that all look the same at dusk.
Shopping centers
Aisles, corners and fast-changing sightlines.
Busy city spaces
Sidewalks, markets, transit platforms.
How it compares
A different job than a GPS watch or a tracker.
These are honest differences, not criticisms. GPS watches and item trackers are built to locate. Yoonear is being designed to signal in the moment a distance change — it does not provide location or help you recover anything.
Comparison of the Yoonear concept, GPS smartwatches and item trackers
Capability
Yoonear concept
GPS smartwatch
Item tracker
Alerts when a distance threshold is crossed
Yes
Varies by product
Varies by product
Requires looking at a phone or map
No
Typically yes
Typically yes
GPS location tracking
No
Yes
No (network-based finding)
App or account for core use
No
Yes
Yes
Subscription
No
Often
Usually no
Eyes up
The alert should reach your wrist, not your screen.
A phone pulls your attention into your hands: unlock, find the app, read, interpret. A vibration does none of that. It arrives where you already are and points you back at the room, the boardwalk or the terminal in front of you.
Keeping the phone in the pocket is the point. Yoonear is meant to be one signal in one moment — and then to disappear again.
What's included
The Yoonear pair
✓One parent band
✓One child band
✓No subscription.
✓No app required for core use
Estimated launch price
$79
Estimated launch price: $79 for the pair
Includes both wristbands. No subscription.
In development · No payment today.
Final specifications and availability may change.
Why one feature
Everything we left out is deliberate.
Family tech usually grows: maps, messages, games, a service to renew. Each addition is one more thing to set up before the moment you actually needed it.
No maps to read
Nothing to interpret while your child keeps moving.
No messages or games
The child band is not a device to play with.
No ongoing service
Nothing to renew, nothing to lapse.
Honest validation
Help decide whether this gets built
Yoonear is in development and is not for sale. Early-access responses are how we decide whether to build it. After you join, three optional questions follow — where you would use it, a broad child age range, and your biggest concern. They are stored separately from your email, and we never ask for child names, exact ages, photos or locations.
FAQ
Straight answers
One pair. One signal. One job.
A parent band and a child band, included together. No subscription, no location tracking, nothing to install.
