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CLUSTER PHONE-LOST-SMS · 3 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2019-05-30

SMS remote phone finders

This cluster comprises mobile apps that locate, ring, lock, or wipe a lost phone via SMS commands or a self-hosted server, often without requiring internet. Only 2 dated entries exist before the index start, so the dated history is too thin to read a shape from; the cluster likely predates the index or has undated members. Traction leaders are Duper, FMD, and Finder, though all show 0 activity stars.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

MAY 2019: 1JAN 2021: 1SEP 2026: 1
MAY 2019SEP 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 1 hand-coded · 2 unlabelled

Operator · 3 open source

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 3 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01Duper0★28 daysliveopen sourceMobile app that lets a lost phone be located or made to ring remotely through SMS commands sent from any phone, without internet.
  2. 02FMD0★1 moliveopen sourceRemote device locator app that controls a lost phone via SMS or self-hosted server, including lock, ring, locate, and wipe.
  3. 03Finder0★6 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceMobile app that locates a lost or stolen phone by remotely requesting its GPS or network-based coordinates through SMS messages.

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