Thursday dinner, 7 pm. Four friends. One return plan.
In the beta group thread, agree dinner. The shared-plan preview keeps the place, time, participants and return choice together. Before leaving, choose a walk, a shared lift or an available ride provider. Next time, a permitted saved note can explain a suggestion: “You saved that this group prefers a short walk.”
Illustrative plan, no live trip or customer result. Messaging is in beta. Structured shared plans and automatic recaps are not generally available. SafeRide is live; eligibility and benefits depend on the program. Explore the plan example and its limits.
What is Hytch?
Hytch is a map-native group messenger for real-life coordination. Small groups use it to decide a plan, pin a place, and share a time-boxed location while they are on the way. SafeRide is live: the designated driver self-attests sobriety before friends join. Where a sponsor program is active, a verified outcome such as an arrival or a safe ride can unlock rewards under that program's rules. Hytch is on the App Store, with Nashville as its flagship city.
Beta and preview tools
SafeRide and Quests are live. Other tools in this catalog are beta or preview experiences whose availability must be confirmed for your release. A preview does not establish a live provider integration, fulfillment commitment, price or benefit.
Drop a Carrot
Pin a reward anywhere on the map.
Drop Reward Points at any location for a buddy or group to collect. Pick an amount, choose who can claim it, write a message, and drop. The carrot appears on your selected friends’ maps, and bigger rewards show up physically larger. Recipients tap the pin, get directions, and head there to claim.
- Choose amount: 100, 250, 500, or custom Reward Points
- Target a buddy group or an individual friend
- Pin to your current location or search for one
- Write a message, "Meet me here!" by default
- Recipients navigate to the pin to claim the reward
- Sponsor carrots add venue verification: GPS, QR scan, receipt, or social proof
Gift XP
Preview a gift of experience points for a friend.
The preview converts earned XP into Giftable XP and attaches a gift to a chat card. Recipient credit and spending availability require confirmation for the supported release. Pick a preset (100, 250, 500) or enter a custom amount. The gift lands in chat as a blue card with the amount, location, and your message.
- Convert regular XP to Giftable XP at 10:1 in the XP Shop
- Send from any DM or group chat
- Attach to a friend’s personal quest as a completion bonus
- Gift appears as a structured blue card in the conversation
Suggest a Plan
Propose a place and time. It pins to the map for the buddies you share it with.
Search for a venue, pick a day and time, and drop a plan into chat. It posts as a structured card and plants a fishing-pole pin on the home map. The Tasteprint engine can suggest venues ranked by group taste-match percentage. In Couples Mode the tool becomes "Schedule a Date" with adapted copy.
- Search any venue or location in app
- Day picker carousel (60 days) and 12-hour time wheel
- Tasteprint-powered venue suggestions with group match scores
- Add notes: dress code, logistics, parking
- Share to multiple groups and buddies at once
- Plan pins visible on the home map for all recipients
Tastemaker
Place reviews with labeled capture context.
Tastemaker is Hytch’s place-review layer. An In the Moment review uses the device location at capture rather than a place selected in search. That signal does not independently prove who was present. A Recall review for an earlier visit is labeled and dated as one, so readers know which kind they are seeing. Answer six guided prompts, attach photos per prompt, and your review drops as a plate icon on the map, shares into your chats, and can be discovered through Explore or Browse.
- Review evidence keeps its capture context and limits; location alone is not certainty
- Check in again at a place you have already reviewed
- Add a dated update that sits under the original review
- Earn a Regular badge at a spot after three visits
- Tastemaker Zones are curated geo-collections with subscriber pricing
Tell a Story
Drop a story on the map wherever life happens.
Answer up to six prompts about your experience, from what you consumed to confessions, regrets, and things you overheard, then pin the story to your GPS location. Stories show up as pen icons on the map and as tappable cards in chat. Write live, or in Recall mode about a past moment at a different place.
- Six prompts: consumed, talent, confessions, overheard, regrets, say more
- Attach photos per prompt or as a general set
- "In the Moment" pins to your GPS; "Recall" lets you search for a past location
- Share to groups, specific buddies, or make it public
- Swap the map icon between a pen and a note-paper cosmetic skin
- Collective stories with a buddy stay private to the pair
Send Flowers
Preview: a provider-fulfilled flower order from a chat.
The proposed flow selects a bouquet, delivery details, a card message and a date. Any actual order requires a supported provider, current availability, confirmed price and separate checkout. The provider owns fulfillment. This preview does not establish a live florist relationship.
- Browse up to 12 bouquets from the florist catalog
- Full delivery form: address, date, special instructions
- Handwritten card message included with the flowers
- Secure Stripe checkout with itemized total
- Order confirmation with provider tracking ID
Send a Letter
Preview: a provider-printed and mailed letter. Price confirmed before purchase.
The proposed flow collects a design, message, postal address and delivery preferences. Printing, postage and delivery belong to a separately supported provider. Current price, integration and fulfillment terms require confirmation before any order; no live Postable relationship is asserted by this preview.
- Available in direct messages only
- Card design selection with a custom handwritten message
- Full postal address form with autocomplete
- Optional scheduled delivery (minimum 8 days out)
- Secure Stripe checkout
Carpool and SafeRide
Coordinate the ride home. Rewards depend on the active program.
SafeRide connects a designated driver with friends who need a ride home. The driver self-attests sobriety, gets a 4-digit code, and waits for riders to join. Riders enter the code or scan a QR. The trip tracks automatically. Drivers and riders may earn Reward Points when an active sponsor program applies and its rules are met. Venue-originating bonuses depend on that program.
- Carpool: post a ride request into chat with time, pickup, and destination
- Plan a Carpool: coordinate who is driving, departure, and ending location
- SafeRide: full designated-driver flow with code pairing and trip tracking
- Driver rating system after each ride
- Payout eligibility and available payment method confirmed for the active program
- Venue-originating benefits require an enabled program and qualifying evidence
Quests
Set a group mission with a goal, a unit, and an optional deadline.
Create trackable challenges like "Taco Tour: visit 3 taco spots" and post them into chat. Quests have a title, a numeric goal, and a unit of measure. In DMs, choose between a joint quest or a mission for your friend, with optional Gift XP attached as a completion reward. In self-chat, create Personal Quests for solo goals like running or hiking.
- Title, goal number, and unit of measure
- Optional deadline with date picker
- Suggestion chips: Taco Tour, Coffee Crawl, Park Hop, and more
- DM missions: create a quest for your friend with attached Gift XP
- Personal Quests in self-chat with solo-oriented suggestions
- Progress tracking in the chat card
SOS
Alert your group with your live location when something is wrong.
One tap sends a red alert card into the chat with your GPS coordinates, what is wrong, and how people can help. Anyone in the group can tap the card to open directions straight to you. The composer prominently reminds users to call 911 for actual emergencies.
- Two fields: "What is wrong?" and "How can they help?"
- GPS coordinates shared automatically
- Red-tinted card stands out in the chat feed
- Tapping the card opens driving directions to the sender
- Available in group chats and DMs
Your group learns. Keep what worked.
A useful next plan starts with context your group chose to keep. The beta group experience and proposed shared-plan flow use permissioned notes and preferences, with a reason you can inspect. A recap or suggestion does not prove who traveled or why.
Group Brain
Save it once. Ask for it anytime.
Save permitted links and notes into a shared group brain. Then ask questions in plain language and get answers drawn from what your group saved, whether that is the address from March, the song from the road trip, or the restaurant everyone loved. Group Intelligence can use permitted saved context; a suggestion should show the source it used. Automatic learning from every private conversation is not offered.
- Save permitted links and notes as group context
- Ask in plain language, answers come from what you saved
- Explainable suggestions from permitted saved context
- Works in group chats and DMs
Memory Recaps
A proposed recap for the next plan.
The proposed shared-plan recap would preserve permitted notes and participant confirmations for the next plan. Automatic generation is not generally available. A recap does not verify who traveled, completed a ride or changed behavior.
- Proposed: a recap after a shared plan closes
- Trip recaps replay the journey on the map
- Planning intel from what your group liked and repeated
- Choose permitted context; see the Privacy Policy for data handling
Additional features
Create Event
Full event creation, right from the chat.
Build a structured event with a title, description, cover image, start and end times, location, capacity limits, and guest approval settings. Events live in the Plans center calendar and can be associated with a group.
Plan Poll
See what has been suggested for each day this week.
A day-of-week filter view over your group’s recent Suggest a Plan posts. Flip through Monday to Sunday to see which venues have been proposed. An AI sparkle button can auto-generate a poll question and options from the group’s suggestions.
Drop Location
One tap. Your coordinates land in the chat.
Instantly shares your current GPS location as a pin in the conversation. No form, no picker: tap and it sends. Recipients see your coordinates and can open directions.
Schedule a Message
Schedule a message for later.
Write a message now, deliver it later. In self-chat, this becomes "Schedule to Self" for personal reminders.
Events Near Me
Browse what is happening nearby.
Surface local events from the area around you, from concerts to meetups to one-off happenings, and share them into your group conversation.
Coinflip
Cannot decide? Flip for it.
A quick decision-maker for when the group is deadlocked. Flip a coin right in the chat.
Cast a Plan.
Dangle a Carrot.
Reel the Group In.
Toss out a place and a time and it lands on everyone’s map. Dangle a carrot, a peer-to-peer incentive of Reward Points your friends collect when they get there. Whoever bites heads that way, and you watch the group close in on the same spot. Sharing is temporary by default, visible only to that group, and one tap turns it off.
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Questions about Hytch
Hytch is a map-native messenger that helps groups decide, coordinate, move, and experience more together. It combines chat, maps, and coordination tools in one place, with features like plan suggestions, polls, time-boxed location pulses, SafeRide designated-driver coordination, quests, and a group memory system.
You start a thread with the people you are already making plans with. Drop a Plan Pin to fix a place and a time, run a poll while the group is still deciding, and share a location pulse for a set window, 15 minutes to 2 hours, when someone asks how close everyone is. The pulse expires on its own, so nobody has to remember to turn it off. The proposed shared-plan recap would keep a permitted summary tied to the plan; automatic recaps are not a promise for every outing. SafeRide and rewards are optional layers on top: where a sponsor program is active, a verified outcome such as an arrival or a safe ride home can unlock Reward Points under that program's rules. No active program means no reward, and nothing is automatic.
Hytch centers the private group thread, a shared destination and the journey there and home. Messaging is in beta; structured shared plans and automatic recaps are previews. Permitted saved context can help explain the next suggestion. Availability depends on the release and program.
Hytch is free to download and use. Check current in-app terms for specific access and pricing. Messaging is in beta and other tools may be previews. Provider purchases, premium options and funded benefits have their own availability, eligibility and terms; this page does not promise every feature to every user.
SafeRide is a sponsor-supported safe-ride coordination program built into Hytch. The designated driver self-attests sobriety before friends join. The driver then gets a 4-digit code, and riders join. Both sides may earn Reward Points when a sponsor program is active. It is not ride-hailing. Hytch owns the group experience; Arcus owns the shared evidence and program controls. Self-attestation does not verify sobriety or guarantee safety.
Hytch is launching in Nashville, Tennessee as its flagship city. The app is available for iOS on the App Store. Nashville was chosen because it is social, mobile, fast-moving, and full of real-world coordination, the right kind of city for a map-native group messenger.
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