GPS trackers for two homes
Shared care is a handover problem: school to house A, Wednesday to house B. It is not a licence to locate the other parent.
Search language here is raw: coparenting, custody, two homes. The useful product is boring. Two logins, one child, handovers you can see without a fight in the car park. The rest is what we will not help you do.
What two-home tracking is actually for
The walk is between two front doors
Arrive/leave at house A and house B is the weekday product. A secret trail of the other adult is not.
One parent’s login is a fight waiting
If only one adult can see the child, the device becomes leverage. Kin is authorised people, each on their own phone.
The child can see the map
That is the difference between a locator and a spy. If that is a problem, do not buy this.
A bag in the other parent’s car
A tracker on a child will show wherever the child is — including the other home. That is expected. Using it to infer the co-parent’s private life is the line.
What has to be true in both houses
Both parents can be authorised
If the product cannot do that without sharing a password, it will fail this household.
The wearer is not in the dark
Kin shows them the same location screen.
Places, not a diary
Kin does not keep a permanent breadcrumb trail. That is the wrong artefact for a custody dispute anyway.
School still exists
A third place — school — is usually the stable point between homes.
Handovers, not surveillance
Leave-school and arrive-at-house-B without a text war.
Then the pin is the other house. That is information about the bag, not a licence to visit uninvited.
Phone sharing with both parents may be enough. Hardware is for the child who has no phone.
If a parenting plan mentions location tools, follow that. This page cannot override it.
How Kin Watchdog works
Set up the tracker
Charge Kin One and switch it on. The SIM is already inside and already paid for — there is no carrier to call.
Add it to your family
Scan the code in the Kin app and name who wears it. Authorised family members see the same map on their own phones.
View location
Open the app for whether they arrived or left a place you named. Follow mode is a live position only while you are looking.
Create alerts
Draw a safe place — home, school, the yard. One nudge on arrival, one on leaving. Nothing in between.
Find the right tracker for your family
Kin One
Worn as a watch, collar, or lanyard. Not a phone, not a smartwatch, and not a monthly tracking subscription.
Two homes, one device
Can both parents see Kin One?
Yes, if both are authorised family members. That is the intended setup for two homes.
Can I hide it from the other parent?
You should not. A secret child locator in a separated household is how devices become evidence and how people get into legal trouble. We will not help you hide it.
Can I use it to see where my ex goes?
No. That is not the product, and it may be illegal. Do not.
Does Kin store a history I can print for court?
Kin does not keep a permanent breadcrumb trail. Do not buy it as a custody-evidence machine.
Is this legal?
Locating your own minor child is often treated differently from locating another adult. Rules vary. Read the legal/privacy guide and talk to a lawyer in your state. This is not advice.
What if only one of us agrees?
Then you do not have a shared-care locator. You have a conflict. A gadget will not settle it.
- Is it legal to GPS track your child — Kin Watchdog
- Kin One — Kin Watchdog
Both parents on the map, or not at all
If only one adult is meant to see it, that is a conversation — and maybe a lawyer — before a gadget.