Send a text before you ride out. Whoever’s on the other end watches a live map with your name, your horse, and how long you’ve been out. No app for them to download. No account. Just a link.
You ride out alone more than you’d admit to your family. A trail loop. A conditioning ride. A quick school in the far arena. Most days nothing happens. But the days it might, the phone in your pocket is the only person who’d know.
So we built the safety feature that actually works when you need it — and skipped the one that doesn’t.
Set it up once, in about a minute. From then on, it’s a two-tap flow before every ride.
Before you swing a leg over, open the ride tracker and turn on Share My Location. You get a private link.
Paste it in an ordinary text to your spouse, barn manager, best friend. They don’t need the app. They don’t need to sign up.
Your live map, your name, your horse, elapsed time. Updates every few seconds. When the ride ends, the page says “safely back.”
Hit the emergency button. Their page instantly turns red with a call-to-action and your last known location. False alarm? Tap cancel, add a note. It flips green.
No app to install. Works in any web browser on any phone.
Live map. Elapsed time. Last update seconds ago. Just an ordinary heads-up: she’s riding and she’s fine.
Big red banner. Last known GPS coordinates. Instructions: try to call her; if you can’t, call local emergency services and share the location.
Ride ended normally. Map goes to the final route. No further updates. Peace of mind, no ambiguity.
Fall detection sounds like a horse-safety feature until you actually think about when you’d need it.
In an arena, at a lesson, at a show?
Someone’s already there. If you go down, help is 20 feet away and knows your name. You don’t need your phone to tell them.
Alone on a trail in the middle of nowhere?
You probably don’t have cell signal. The kind of app that pings an emergency service when it thinks you’ve fallen only works when it can actually call out — and that’s exactly where signal drops. Fall detection is silent right when you’d need it most.
Our approach turns the problem around: you tell one specific person you’re going out, and they can see exactly where you are the whole time. A specific human is watching your back — not an anonymous service. They know you. They can call your phone, drive to your barn, or call authorities with your live GPS coordinates.
Not an anonymous emergency service. Someone who knows you, knows your barn, knows your horse, and can act — call your phone, drive out, or call authorities with your last known location.
Other apps make your emergency contact install their app first. Ours works with an ordinary text message and a link. Grandma can be your safety contact.
Fall detection false-alarms every time you dismount to open a gate or drop your phone. We trust you to know when something’s actually wrong — and let you cancel it with a note if you change your mind.
Someone opening your link late still sees where you are and whether the ride ended normally. Not a moment-in-time ping — a running window on the whole ride.
Safety features that only work in the situations you’re least likely to need them aren’t safety features. They’re marketing.
We’d rather help you make sure one specific person always knows where you are when you’re out riding — and how to reach you.
The person who says “I’ll be back in a couple hours” and drives to a trailhead. This is the ride we built the feature for.
Long conditioning miles, unfamiliar terrain, terrible cell coverage. Give the crew back home a live window on the ride.
The parent gets the link. Kid rides. Parent isn’t hovering — but knows exactly where they are, and gets “safely back” when it’s over.
Text the link to the barn manager or a friend. Someone else knows you’re out on a hack even if the barn is otherwise empty.
Out on the range for hours, checking fence or moving cattle. Someone at the ranch house sees where you are without you having to check in by radio.
You can’t ride any less, but you can make it easier on the people who love you. One text before you ride. One less thing to worry about.
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No. That’s the whole point. The link opens in any web browser on any phone — no account, no download, no friction. Grandma, the barn manager, your teenager, your spouse — anyone with a phone can be your safety contact.
Your tracker keeps recording. When signal comes back, the follower’s page catches up with the missing minutes. If you hit the emergency button while offline, the alert fires the moment your phone reconnects — and the map shows the last known location before you went dark. This is more honest than fall-detection apps that pretend to work in dead zones.
It turns the follower’s page bright red with your name, your last GPS coordinates, and a call-to-action: try to reach you by phone; if you can’t, call local emergency services and share the location. It does not automatically call 911 — a specific human you chose does. That’s the whole design.
Tap cancel and type a quick note (“everything’s fine, sorry!”). The follower’s page flips from red to green with your message. No one panics, no one calls 911 by mistake.
Because it doesn’t work in the situations you’d actually need it. In an arena or at a lesson, help is already 20 feet away. Alone on a remote trail, cell signal is bad or gone — and fall detection can’t call out from a dead zone. It also false-alarms every time you dismount hard or drop your phone. Share My Location works before, during, and after the ride, and puts a specific human in charge who actually knows you.
Yes. Send the link to as many people as you want — spouse, barn manager, friend, all three. They each see the same live map. If something goes wrong, they all see the emergency banner and can coordinate.
The follower’s page shows “safely back” with the final route. The link goes dormant after that — open it later and they’ll see the ride ended normally. Nothing lingers or leaks.
Free with every Proper Strides plan. Turn it on before your next ride.
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