Features

Built for the first year of driving

Most family apps are built for everyone. Biting Point is built for the months between the first lesson and the first year with a full licence, when a family wants reassurance and a young driver wants to be trusted.

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Map and places

See the family on one map. Save places such as home, school or work and get an alert when someone arrives or leaves.

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Drives and score

Drives are recorded automatically from the phone's sensors. Each gets a coaching score built from hard braking, rapid acceleration, harsh cornering, phone handling and time over 70 mph.

Practice log

Log lessons and private practice against the DVSA average of 45 hours of lessons and 22 hours of private practice. Tick off night, rain, motorway, dual carriageway, country roads, town and parking.

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Crash countdown

If the sensors detect a possible crash, a countdown starts. If it is not cancelled, the family is alerted with the location and the phone offers a 999 button. There is no call centre.

Driver or passenger is your call

The app never guesses who was driving. You choose driver or passenger when a drive starts, and you can change it on the drive afterwards.

Theory practice

Practice questions written from The Highway Code, alongside a skills checklist drawn from the DVSA test syllabus so the learner and supervisor can see what still needs work.

Check in and SOS

A one-tap check in tells the family you have arrived. Hold to send an SOS with your location to everyone in the family.

Sharing you control

The young driver picks the mode: everything, approximate, drives only or paused. A Bubble timer hides the exact location for a set time without hiding the drive.

Compared

What Life360 does not do

Life360 and similar apps are general family locators. Biting Point covers the same ground on the map and adds the parts a learner household actually needs.

Feature	Biting Point	General family locators
Learner practice log	Hours against the DVSA average, with conditions covered	Not part of a general family locator
DVSA skills checklist	Drawn from the UK driving test syllabus	Not part of a general family locator
Theory questions	Written from The Highway Code	Not part of a general family locator
Who was driving	Chosen by the user, never guessed	Usually detected automatically by the app
Where data is kept	Hosted in the UK, each family ringfenced in the database	Depends on the provider. Check its privacy policy
Data brokers	Never. No ads, no analytics SDK, no data sold	Depends on the provider. Check its privacy policy

Life360 is a trademark of Life360, Inc. Biting Point is not affiliated with Life360. Statements about other apps describe their general category, not any specific product's current features.

Screens

What the family sees

Captures from the beta build on iPhone. Names and places shown are sample data.

Biting Point family map with members, saved places and the sharing mode shown — Family map with places.

Biting Point drives list showing recent drives with their scores — Drives and scores.

Biting Point single drive with the route, score breakdown and the driver or passenger toggle — One drive, with the driver toggle.

Biting Point practice log showing hours against the DVSA average and conditions covered — Practice log and conditions.

Biting Point theory practice question with multiple-choice answers — Theory practice.

Biting Point Me screen with sharing mode, Bubble timer, check in and SOS — Sharing mode, Bubble, check in and SOS.

Privacy first

Your family's data is your family's business

A family app only works if the young driver trusts it. Biting Point is built so that nothing leaves the family circle, and so that the young driver decides how much of their location the family sees.

Raw motion-sensor data is processed on the phone and is not uploaded. Phone handling is detected from motion alone. The app does not read calls, messages or what you do on the phone.

The full privacy notice sets out what is collected, why, where it is stored and for how long.

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Illustration of a teenage girl at the wheel of a car

No ads, no analytics SDKNothing in the app reports your behaviour to an advertising or analytics company.
No data brokersYour data is never sold, rented or shared with brokers, insurers or advertisers.
Hosted in the UKThe database runs in London. Location history is deleted after 90 days.
Each family ringfencedRow-level security in the database means one family cannot see another's data.
The young driver choosesEverything, approximate, drives only or paused. Parents see the mode, not a way round it.

Questions

Frequently asked

Does it work on Android?

Not yet. The beta is for iPhone running iOS 15 or later, distributed through TestFlight. An Android version is planned to follow. Email us if you would like to know when it is ready.

Does it drain the battery?

Any app that records drives uses location in the background, so it uses more battery than an app that does not. Biting Point processes motion on the phone and only sends position updates at the rate the sharing mode needs. Drives stop recording if the phone is in Low Power Mode, so we recommend charging in the car on long journeys. During the beta we are measuring battery use on real phones and will publish what we find.

Can my teenager pause it?

Yes. The young driver chooses the sharing mode: everything, approximate, drives only or paused. They can also start a Bubble timer, which hides their exact location for a set time. The family can see which mode is on, but cannot override it. We designed it this way because an app a young person cannot control is an app they will delete.

Is it a black box for insurance?

No. Biting Point does not share drive data with insurers, and the score is a coaching tool for the family, not an underwriting tool. We make no claims about insurance premiums. Drive data stays within the family circle unless you export it yourself.

What happens in a crash?

If the phone's sensors detect a possible crash, the app starts a countdown on the screen. If the driver cancels it, nothing is sent. If the countdown runs out, the family is alerted with the location and the phone offers a button to call 999. There is no call centre and nobody is dispatched by us. Detection depends on the phone, its sensors, signal and battery, so it must not be relied on as the only safety measure.

Support and privacy

Help with Biting Point

Questions about the beta, a drive that did not record, sharing modes or deleting your account? We answer directly.

Email chris@patientthread.com. We never ask for your Apple Account password or payment details.

Support page Privacy notice Terms of use

Biting Point is published by Patient Thread Ltd, registered in England and Wales (17167409). Apple, iPhone and TestFlight are trademarks of Apple Inc. DVSA and The Highway Code are the property of the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency and the Crown; Biting Point is not endorsed by either.

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