Privacy-first proximity
Know when the right people are around. Turn a quick wave into coffee, a plan, or something spontaneous — without broadcasting exactly where you are.
The feeling
Mad Buddy turns proximity into a softer social signal. People feel more present as they get closer, while the geography stays private.
A Muddy becomes more present as they get closer, without exposing an exact distance.
Show you are open to a hello, or ask whether meeting up sounds good.
Turn the moment into an actual commitment instead of another chat that goes nowhere.
Around you
Close enough to connect.
You’ll see broad proximity ranges such as “Just around,” never coordinates, routes or exact distances. Enough to know a Muddy is nearby without revealing precisely where they are.
Two ways to connect
Mad Buddy separates trusted friendship from deliberate discovery, so the social context is always clear.
Muddies
A Muddy is a friendship both people approve. Once connected, Glow can give you a rough sense that they are around — never a map, pin or exact distance.
Linkr
Switch on a Linkr session when you want to discover someone new. You choose when discovery is active, and a real connection still requires mutual choice.
Different social contexts. The same privacy standard: Mad Buddy gives people enough context to decide whether to connect, not enough detail to follow one another around.
From maybe to actually meeting
UpFor captures the moment. Plans make it real. Everything around them helps the right people coordinate without turning Mad Buddy into another endless feed.
UpFor · right now
Temporary intent, with an audience and an expiry. It says “I could do something” without pretending it is already a commitment.
Plan · committed
When
Today · 5:30 PM
Who
4 Muddies going
Chat
Ready with the plan
Next
Meet, then mark it done
A Plan becomes the shared commitment — with the people, context, and conversation needed to actually show up.
Shared experiences people can discover or attend together.
Organise the Muddies who belong together.
Keep the conversation attached to the people and plans that matter.
A safety-focused arrival experience without turning friends into trackers.
Privacy is the product
Mad Buddy deliberately withholds the pieces that turn social awareness into surveillance.
You can know
You never get
Pause proximity visibility when you want privacy. Control should be immediate and understandable.
Real life is the point
Add the people you trust. Choose when to be visible. See what becomes possible when digital friendship has a way back into the real world.