HeyPolo app offers parents real-time teen driving data and family safety alerts

The report describes the driving feature as what separates HeyPolo from a basic location-sharing service such as Apple's Find My. Every trip a teenage driver takes is tracked and scored, and parents can see how fast the teen drove, whether a smartphone was being used behind the wheel, whether there was sudden braking or rapid increases in speed, and whether any serious driving events were detected. A Driving Score assigns each trip a number based on actual driving behavior, according to 9to5Mac. The report says this gives parents data they can use to have a conversation if driving is poor and to watch the score improve as habits improve.

HeyPolo also detects crashes and notifies parents automatically, the report says. Arrival alerts are sent when a teenager reaches school, sports practice, a friend's house or home, so parents do not have to wait for a text or call. The report says locations are updated on a five-second interval.

One HeyPolo subscription covers an entire family with no per-person fees, according to the report. The app works across iPhone and Android, which the report says makes it suitable for mixed-device households. HeyPolo is built by the team behind Surfshark, and the report says there is privacy infrastructure behind it. It says the company does not sell user data, users control what they share with whom and when sharing stops, and all data is deleted every seven days.

The report says HeyPolo comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee and no lock-in. It also says 9to5Mac readers can get 67 percent off HeyPolo through a link, bringing an annual plan to $3.99 a month for an entire family. Setup requires downloading the app, creating a family group and inviting family members, according to the report, and takes only a few minutes.

The 9to5Mac article presents HeyPolo as an example of technology improving safety for teenage drivers compared with a generation ago, when parents had no way to know how fast their teen was driving or when they arrived. The report says the app is more than a paid version of Apple's Find My service because of its driving safety features.