Share your live location and say what you care about. Beside watches the map in the background and texts you the moment you're near it.
How it works
Messages opens with your first text already typed. Send it and that's the whole install. No app, no account.
Apple's own location sharing, right in Messages. Stop anytime.
Coffee, pharmacies, sneaker drops, golf deals. Beside searches in the background and texts you when you're near.
Real answers
What it is
No app, no account, no feed. Beside is a contact in your phone, and the whole product is the conversation.
Tell Beside what you love once. It checks your live location on a schedule and texts only when something nearby is worth stopping for.
Share your location once and Beside thinks in walking minutes, not search results. Suggestions start from where you're standing.
Behind every ping, Beside has already scanned the maps and the web for hours, deals and reviews. An alert means a real find, not just a pin nearby.
Menus, courses, rooms. Beside sends photos and audio as native carousels in Messages. Swipe through tonight's options like a friend texted them over.
The quiet back room, the oat milk, the 9am tee time. Beside keeps the thread, so you never explain twice.
Add Beside to the planning thread. It reads the room, proposes the plan, runs the poll, and books the winner.
"Remind me Thursday" actually happens Thursday. Beside schedules its own reminders, so plans don't die in the scroll.
Movie tickets, tee times, tables. Beside holds real booking tools, so "sounds good" turns into a confirmation in the same thread. No online booking? Beside books it for you over the phone, checking availability and confirming when you say go.
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driving out the LIE saturday, watch for tee time deals at Bethpage or Dyker Beach
Driving cadence widens the watch down the LIE. Deals arrive as a photo carousel with the tee time price right on each image. React to one and Beside books it.
walking Williamsburg to Bushwick, only flag pizza or bagels with 1,000+ reviews and 4.7 stars up
Walking pace keeps checks tight to your route, and the review bar is enforced with a rich ratings lookup. Only proven counters make the cut.
biking the Brooklyn Bridge and the Heights Promenade, ping me at the best skyline viewpoints
Biking cadence times each alert so the viewpoint is still ahead of you. Every spot lands as a map card. React to it and directions are in your thread.
morning loops in Prospect Park, find me a coffee stop near wherever I finish
Beside proposes three check cadences; react 1️⃣, 2️⃣ or 3️⃣ to pick one. A single tapback tunes the watch, no typing mid run.
when I'm near Smorgasburg or a top rated bodega or deli, tell me what's worth the line
A standing watch that stays quiet until a top rated counter is genuinely close, then sends a swipeable photo carousel of what to order.
on my L commute, tell me when a pop up opens near my stop
A standing watch pegged to your commute window. Routine checks run quietly in the background and only text you when something new clears the bar.
riding the East River Ferry, tell me where to hop off for the skyline
Viewpoints arrive as map cards while the boat is still moving. React to one and walking directions from the next landing are in your thread.
golden hour tonight in DUMBO or Domino Park, where's the shot?
Timed to tonight's golden hour. The best angles arrive as a reactable photo carousel. Tapback the frame you're chasing and directions follow.
driving New York to Nashville with the kids next week, find kid friendly hotels along my route and aim for a night in Virginia
Driving cadence looks ahead as the trip moves state by state. Beside watches for kid friendly hotels near the route and favors Virginia for the overnight stop before sending one worth booking.
Routine proximity checks run on free OpenStreetMap lookups. Photos, ratings, and review counts come from rich Google lookups, metered in credits like everything else. See pricing for how credits work.
Pricing
$0to start
1,000 free credits
1 standing watch
$10/month
1,000 credits / mo
2 standing watches
$25/month
2,500 credits / mo
5 standing watches
$50/month
5,000 credits / mo
10 standing watches
Every plan, Free included, has every feature: unlimited chat, scheduled checks down to every 5 minutes, web search, photo cards, bookings, referral credits. Bigger plans simply carry more credits and more standing watches, and you can top up on any plan; signup, top up, and referral credits never expire.
What credits buy
~25 credits
“find me a kid friendly hotel along the route.” One answer, timed to where you are. With photo place cards, ~55.
~700 credits / mo
“tell me when I'm near a standout coffee spot”, checked twice a day, every day.
~550 credits
Hourly alerts across a 2 day road trip: “ping me at the best skyline stops.” Frequency is the dial you control.
How credits work
Every message and scheduled check is metered from the model work it actually takes. Heavier asks cost more, light ones cost less.
Routine checks run on our fastest model with free OpenStreetMap lookups, so keeping watch costs a fraction of a conversation. Rich photo place cards use Google Maps data and are metered like everything else.
A check every 5 minutes costs 12× an hourly one. Slow a watch down, speed it up, or pause it. Just text Beside.
FAQ
Yes. The first time you text Beside, 1,000 free credits land on your number: no credit card, no account, no catch. They never expire; when they're gone, pick a plan (from $10/month) or top up.
A quick ask runs about 25 credits (~55 with photo place cards). A scheduled check has averaged about 13 credits in production. That's enough to try real use before choosing a monthly plan.
Each message and each scheduled check is metered from the actual work it takes: model tokens, web searches, rich map lookups, delivery, and a sliver of infrastructure. You only spend when Beside actually does something.
Monthly plan credits reset each billing cycle. But your signup credits, top ups, and referral credits never expire.
Yes. Text Beside “billing portal” and you can switch plans, update your card, or cancel in two taps. Your remaining credits keep working either way, and they never expire.
Yes, but only for standing-watch capacity: Free includes 1, Starter 2, Plus 5, and Pro 10. Every plan still includes checks as often as every 5 minutes, web search, photo cards, and bookings. You can top up credits on any plan.