Reassurance,right when it matters.

Ankom is Swedish and means “arrived” or“came/arrived.” It’s the past tense of ankomma, meaning “to arrive.”

Ankom is an iPhone app that sends a simple notification when someone arrives at or leaves a chosen place. It provides reassurance without requiring anyone to share their live location continuously.

No. Ankom monitors the boundaries of places you create, such as home, school, or work. It shares an arrival or departure update only when one of those boundaries is crossed—not a live map of your movements.

You decide who can access each place. Places are shared privately through iCloud with the people you invite, and you can change or remove their access whenever you choose.

Yes. Ankom uses Apple’s background location monitoring to detect arrivals and departures when the app isn’t open. For reliable alerts, allow Ankom to use your location Always in iPhone Settings and keep notifications enabled.

Yes. Each place can send an alert on arrival, departure, or both. You can also choose whether an alert should happen only once or every time the boundary is crossed.

Yes. Recipients can mute notifications from a shared place without leaving it. The owner can also pause notifications for individual recipients when an update is not needed.

Ankom is designed exclusively for iPhone and uses private iCloud sharing. Anyone creating, sharing, or accepting a place will need Ankom installed and must be signed into iCloud.

Ankom relies on Apple’s location services and geofencing technology. Alerts are designed for meaningful places rather than exact doorstep-level tracking, and timing can vary with the selected radius, signal conditions, device settings, and iOS background activity.