The conversations that matter,
before they become crises.
Latitude gives your family a 10-minute weekly rhythm for the conversations that usually happen too late, too fast, or not at all β plus a shared source of truth for freedoms, responsibilities, and consequences. No location tracking. No message reading. No surveillance.
One rhythm, four moves
Surface it
Kids raise things softly with a weekly prompt. Parents capture stray topics in five seconds. Nothing waits for a blow-up.
Talk it through
A guided 10-minute check-in walks your open topics, then asks how everyone actually feels β with words a teenager will use.
Write it down
Decisions become agreements with responsibilities and stated consequences. Freedoms get granted, dated, and remembered.
Show up again
Next week is already scheduled before life gets noisy. Streaks make faithfulness visible; grace gets logged, not forgotten.
Everything the rhythm needs
Run a simple guided meeting with your topic boards as the agenda. Capture the week's mood, schedule the next touchpoint, and keep private parent notes only you can see.
Eighty feeling words, three rings deep, sized to each kid's age β so "I'm fine" can become overwhelmed, dismissed, or left out. Words a parent can actually respond to.
Kids make a real case β why now, what responsibility they'll carry, what shows they're ready. Parents answer yes, yes-with-conditions, not-yet-with-milestones, or no. Voice, not vote.
Agreements, house rules with the consequence stated up front, restoration paths back from mistakes, and explicit grace when you give it. Enforcement becomes a reference, not an argument.
Encouragement, scripture, milestones, photos, and God sightings in one shared family feed β plus wins worth celebrating and growth areas named without shame.
Prayer focuses per kid, a weekly prayer rhythm, life verses, and a running log of where you saw God move. A year of those is the story of God at work in your family.
Built on what actually protects kids
Four in ten U.S. high-schoolers report persistent sadness or hopelessness. The research is consistent about what helps β and it isn't more monitoring.
Youth-risk data links supportive adults, parental engagement, and family connectedness with lower mental-health risk. Latitude strengthens the connection itself, not the surveillance around it.
Developmental-relationships research names five elements β express care, challenge growth, provide support, expand possibilities, share power. The check-in, the Wall, and negotiated freedoms are those five, in software.
Family rules work when they fit your values, are discussed rather than dictated, and are revisited as kids mature. That's agreements with change history and house rules you archive, not delete.
Not another parental-control app
| Monitoring apps | Family organizers | Allowance apps | β¦ Latitude | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Owns | Alerts, blocking, location | Calendars, lists, meals | Chores, cards, savings | The weekly relationship rhythm |
| Kids experience it as | Being watched | Logistics | A paycheck | Being heard β and trusted with more |
| What compounds | Evasion skills | Schedules | Balances | Trust, week over week |
Latitude owns the layer those tools leave empty: what needs to be discussed, what was decided, what changed, and what your family does next.
$9/month
14-day free trial Β· one household, every feature
- Weekly check-ins with the feelings wheel & streaks
- Agreements, freedom requests & house rules
- Topic boards, the family wall & Things on My Mind
- Wins, growth areas & Know Your Kid profiles
- Prayer focuses & God sightings
- Parent and kid logins for the whole family
Founding pricing β billing is set up personally with each founding family while we're in early access.
Fair questions
Is this a monitoring app?
No β by design, permanently. Latitude has no location tracking, no message reading, no web filtering, no screen-time meters. Parents hold authority over structure (meetings, rules, membership); kids' voice, feelings, and identity pages are their own. The only private space in the app belongs to parents (their notes), and it's labeled, not hidden.
What ages does it work for?
Four to eighteen, with the experience tiered by age: little ones get a pictorial view on a parent's device, middle-graders get a simple login of their own, and teens get the full experience β including making their own case for new freedoms.
Do both parents see the same thing?
Yes β that's half the point. Both parents get every notification and see the same agreements, the same terms, the same history. Same-page parenting, literally.
What about my kids' data?
Kids' accounts are created and controlled by you. We don't sell data, don't advertise, and our analytics are first-party and content-blind β they never contain what your family writes. See the privacy policy.
Is Latitude a Christian app?
Yes, unapologetically β prayer rhythms, scripture, and God sightings are built in, not bolted on. The trust-and-responsibility core works for any family, but the app is built for families who want discipleship woven through it.