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Live Beacon.
Share a link. They see you.
When you head into the backcountry, the people who love you would like to know where you are. PeakPulse lets you share a single web link — they see your live position, pace, and heart rate in any browser. No download. No account. No friction.
The problem with "share your live location"
Apple's Find My works great for the people in your Family Sharing group. But it's blunt: it shows your phone, not your workout. It doesn't know you're running. It doesn't show pace, heart rate, or how far you've come. And it requires the other person to have an iPhone and an Apple ID and be in your sharing list.
Most "live tracking" features in running apps require the recipient to install the same app. The friend you'd want to share with has Strava, but you have PeakPulse. The trailhead partner you just met has neither. The result is most people don't share, and the people who care about them sit at home wondering.
The web is the universal client. If they have a browser, they have your beacon.
How Live Beacon works
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Start the beacon when you start the workout
One tap on the recording screen. PeakPulse generates a fresh share code and link — different every workout, never reusable. You can configure beacon to auto-start with every workout, or only on-demand.
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Send the link any way you want
Text it, AirDrop it, paste it in a group chat, save it as a "share with mom" automation. Your trusted contacts list can auto-receive a link via push notification when you start — they tap, the beacon opens.
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They see your live workout in a browser
Your position on a map, updating in real time. Current pace, heart rate, elapsed time, elevation, distance. The whole workout, as it happens — no app required.
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The beacon ends when the workout ends
Stop the workout, the share link goes inactive. The viewer sees "workout complete" and the final summary. No permanent surveillance.
Built for safety, not surveillance
Every design decision in Live Beacon is shaped by one principle: you should be in control of who sees what, and for how long.
What the viewer sees
The beacon viewer is a clean, mobile-friendly web page at beacon.peakpulsefitness.app. It works in Safari, Chrome, Firefox, on iPhone, Android, laptop, anywhere there's a browser.
Resilience in dead zones
Trail running and mountain biking happen in places without cell signal. Live Beacon assumes that — it doesn't fail, it queues.
When you're offline, your phone or watch keeps recording the workout normally and stores beacon updates in a local outbox. The moment you reconnect — even briefly, even just a single bar — the outbox flushes to the server and viewers see the gap fill in. You never have to do anything manually.
Viewers see an honest indicator: "Last seen 4 minutes ago" rather than a frozen, stale dot. When you reconnect, the trail of positions appears on their map showing where you were the whole time.
Common questions
Do my contacts need a PeakPulse account to view my beacon?
No. They tap the link, the browser opens, and they're watching. That's the entire flow. The viewer is a regular web page — no install, no signup, no friction. This is intentional: emergency-adjacent features should have zero friction for the recipient.
What if I lose signal in the middle of the workout?
The beacon queues updates locally and pushes them when you reconnect. Viewers see your "last seen" timestamp during the gap and the full trail when signal returns. Recording and workout stats are unaffected — those are always on-device first.
Can I share with a group, not just one person?
Yes. The share link is just a URL — you can paste it into a group chat, share it on social, or send it to your trusted contacts list. Anyone with the link can view. The link is unique to that workout, so when the workout ends, it stops working.
Is my data secure?
Beacon data lives on PeakPulse servers only as long as the workout is active. After the workout ends, the live stream stops and the link goes inactive. You can also delete the workout's beacon history entirely from the app.
What's a "trusted contact"?
People you've saved in PeakPulse who get the beacon link automatically when you start a workout. They receive a push notification with the new link and a Live Activity that auto-opens it on their Lock Screen. They have to have PeakPulse installed to be in the list — but anyone you share the link with via text, AirDrop, etc., does not.
Does this drain my battery?
Modest impact. Beacon updates piggyback on the GPS samples PeakPulse is already taking. The extra cost is the cellular radio waking briefly to push updates. Total overhead on a typical four-hour workout is around 5-10% additional battery use.