A map-native
group messenger

Hytch is for small groups coordinating real life: shared plans, a live SafeRide home, and sponsor-funded verified outcomes.

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Hytch Chat's Features

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

Reward a friend’s effort with experience points.

Gift XP availability, conversion rates and recipient credit depend on the supported release and current terms. Confirm those terms before converting or sending points.

  • Check current conversion and recipient-credit terms
  • 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. Tasteprint venue recommendations are planned, with permitted group context and an explanation behind any future match score. 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
  • Planned Tasteprint venue recommendations with explainable source context
  • 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. In the Moment reviews use device location at capture; Recall reviews identify an earlier visit. Device location alone does not independently prove who was present. Answer six guided prompts, attach photos per prompt, and share the review to the audience you choose.

  • Review evidence keeps its capture context and limits
  • 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

Flower ordering from chat is planned.

Any order would require a supported provider, current availability, a confirmed price and separate checkout. The provider would handle fulfillment.

  • Planned provider catalog, subject to availability
  • Planned delivery details: address, date and provider instructions
  • Card options depend on the selected provider
  • Separate checkout with confirmed price and terms
  • Provider confirmation and tracking depend on the supported integration

Send a Letter

Letter ordering from chat is planned.

Printing, postage and delivery would be handled by a separately supported provider. Confirm the provider, price and delivery terms before ordering.

  • Planned for direct messages
  • Planned card and message options depend on the supported provider
  • Planned recipient and return-address details
  • Delivery scheduling depends on the selected provider
  • Separate checkout with confirmed provider terms

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. Drivers and riders may qualify for Reward Points under an active eligible program. MobileFlow owns SafeRide; Hytch provides the group experience and Arcus operates shared evidence and program controls. Self-attestation does not independently verify sobriety or guarantee safety.

  • 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 options depend on the active program and current terms.
  • 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
Group intelligence

Build on what your group chooses to save.

Selected notes, links and participant confirmations can inform the next plan. Suggestions should show the permitted context behind them.

Group Brain

Save it once. Ask for it anytime.

Group Brain is designed around selected notes, links and pins the group permits. Tasteprint recommendations are planned and should explain the saved context behind each suggestion.

  • Selected notes, links and pins the group permits
  • Review answers against the context your group selected
  • Planned Tasteprint recommendations with source context
  • Works in group chats and DMs

Memory Recaps

Keep the moments your group chooses.

Automatic shared-plan recaps are planned. A recap would preserve permitted notes and participant confirmations; it would not independently verify attendance, travel or a completed ride.

  • Planned automatic shared-plan recaps
  • Trip recaps replay the journey on the map
  • Context the group chooses to keep for its next plan
  • Choose the context you share. See the Privacy Policy for how personal information is processed and retained.

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.

Animation: a plan drops on the map and the group's routes converge on it.
Suggest a plan

Cast a Plan.
Dangle a Carrot.
Reel the Group In.

Suggest a place and time for your group. A carrot is a peer-to-peer incentive of Reward Points, governed by the active program and its eligibility rules. Location sharing follows the selected mode, audience and ending rule. Ongoing sharing continues until you stop it; journey and plan shares have their own ending rules. Recipients may retain what they see.

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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.

Start a thread with the people you are making plans with and use the planning tools available in your version. Location sharing follows the selected mode, audience and ending rule. Ongoing sharing continues until you stop it; journey and plan shares have their own ending rules. Recipients may retain what they see. Automatic shared-plan recaps are planned. Rewards require an active eligible program and qualifying evidence.

Hytch centers group conversations, shared destinations and coordinating the journey there and home. Planning and sharing options depend on the supported release. Group context is selected by its participants; structured shared-plan automation and automatic recaps are planned.

Hytch is free to download. Check the app for available features and current pricing. Premium options, provider purchases and funded benefits have separate availability, eligibility and terms.

SafeRide is MobileFlow’s sponsor-supported ride-home coordination program. Hytch provides the group experience; Arcus operates shared evidence and program controls. Drivers self-attest sobriety before friends join by code or QR. Rewards require an active eligible program. Self-attestation does not independently 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.