Rally Point

For meet-ups people drive a long way to reach — off-road runs, overland trips, rallies, track days, car shows. Fifteen people in six states, a group chat that scrolls past the important message, and nobody sure which channel they are supposed to be monitoring when they hit the dirt.

What it does

• Events that read correctly in every time zone

  A start, an optional end, a meeting point and an event time zone — so a rig leaving Phoenix and one leaving Denver both read the same 7:00 AM. The meeting point searches addresses as you type and keeps the coordinates, so tapping it later opens a pin rather than a text search. A six-character join code lets people in.

• A roster that answers the questions you would otherwise ask

  Going, maybe or out, plus each person's own arrival and departure window for the ones who can only make part of the weekend. Everybody carries a callsign, a home region, a vehicle and build notes — lift, tires, lockers, winch — so a trail leader can size up the group without a round of messages.

• Convoys and carpools

  A convoy is separate rigs running together; a carpool is sharing seats in one vehicle. Each has a staging point, a roll-out time and a route link. People sign themselves up as lead, driver, passenger or sweep, drivers declare open seats, passengers declare seats needed, and the app flags when a group is short.

• A radio plan nobody has to transcribe

  Service, channel, frequency and tone, with one channel marked primary. Picking “GMRS 16” fills in 462.5750 from a built-in FCC frequency table — FRS, GMRS, MURS, CB, 2m, 70cm — so nobody fat-fingers a digit. Licensing requirements for the services in use are spelled out, and the whole plan copies as plain text for the group chat or the dash.

• A garage that belongs to you, not to one trip

  Your rigs and your equipment, so the same winch is still there next time. Claim something on a gear list by pointing at the item you already own instead of typing it out again — and only that item becomes visible to the event.

• Safety checks that come due

  Nut and bolt torque, winch line and sling inspection, shackle wear, extinguisher service. Each falls due on time, on mileage, before every run, or any combination, and signing one off writes a dated record of what you found rather than resetting a counter. Checks due before a run surface on the event itself. Private, always.

• A gear list with the gaps showing

  What the group needs, how many, and who is bringing what. Items can be flagged critical — the run does not go without them — and open critical gaps surface on the event overview. New events can start from a built-in checklist rather than a blank page.

What it does not do yet

No in-app GPS route building and no live convoy tracking. Travel groups carry a route link — Google Maps, Gaia, onX, CalTopo — which is what people actually paste today. Push notifications are deferred. It is US-only on purpose rather than by accident.

Where you live stays where you live

The app is built so that the sensitive thing cannot leak, because for the most part there is nowhere in it to put that at full precision. Your home region is a town and a state, coarsened before it is written rather than only when it is shown. A saved home address is readable by you alone and is never drawn on a map. Travel figures are minutes, whole miles and a town name — and that is the entire list.

There is no analytics, no advertising, no tracking and no third-party SDK collecting anything. The privacy policy says what is stored, what deliberately is not, and who the app talks to.