Safe by Design — Adventure With Confidence
Thred™ is built for real-world meetups, which means privacy and safety are built into every layer, not bolted on as an afterthought.
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Mark your home, your workplace, or anywhere else as a Private Location, and every route you export or publish is trimmed around it. You set the hidden radius yourself, from about an eighth of a mile to a full mile, and the app shows it in both meters and miles.
The trim is built to survive a determined look. The visible track stops short of the zone rather than pointing at its edge, a stretch that passes a Private Location mid-route is cut too, and a trimmed GPX file carries no timestamps, so pace cannot be used to work out where the hidden part ends. Each zone is centered on its own random offset, so comparing many exports never adds up to a front door.
- Keep as many Private Locations as you need, and rename, resize, or remove them any time.
- Set each zone's radius in 100-meter steps. New zones start at about a quarter mile.
- Every GPX export is trimmed, whether it comes from Saved Routes or an activity page.
- The route on a feed post, and its flyby, are trimmed for everyone who views them. Only you ever see the full track.
- An adventure that starts inside a Private Location cannot be published to the feed at all, and if Thred cannot confirm your zones it refuses to export rather than guess.
Private Locations are free and apply everywhere. GPX export itself is part of the Explorer plan.
Real Accounts, Not Anonymous Ones
Every Thred account is tied to a confirmed email address and an 18-plus birthday check, with an optional phone number you can add from My Account. That creates a baseline of accountability across the community, while a username-only identity keeps your real name out of it. The people you meet are real, and so is your privacy.
Block and Report From Anywhere
Block or Report User lives in the menu on every profile and every chat. A block takes effect immediately: they vanish from Discover and can no longer message you. A report opens a support ticket reviewed by the Thred team.
- Block from a profile or a conversation. No ambiguity, no waiting.
- Report a user from any profile or chat, or a post or member from inside a group, in two taps.
- Child Safety reports have their own category, badged for the review team.
- Review and unblock anyone from Blocked Users under Settings, then Privacy & Permissions.
- Connection requests are rate-limited to 10 an hour and 30 a day, so nobody can carpet-bomb the community.
Your Feed Is Your Crew
The home feed is built from the people you have connected with, and theirs from their connections. Nothing you save is broadcast by default.
- Saved routes stay private until you attach them to a post or an event.
- Every event carries its own visibility setting, so you decide whether it is public, for connections, for a group, or invite-only.
- Username-first discovery keeps your real name out of search entirely.
Public, connections-only, group and unlisted events are free to create on the Explorer plan; invite-only events are part of that plan too.
Permissions You Can See and Change
Location, camera, and photo library access are requested only when a feature needs them, and every request can be skipped. Settings, then Privacy & Permissions shows the current state of each one alongside your Blocked Users and Private Locations, so the controls that protect you live on one screen.
Know the Moment You Leave the Trail
Getting lost rarely announces itself. It starts with a wrong fork you never noticed. Switch on Route Tracking for any saved route and Thred watches the line for you, then tells you the moment you drift off it — while you are still close enough for it to be a short walk back.
- Turn tracking on per route, right from the route card. It is your call, route by route.
- Set how far off the line counts as off-trail. The alert buffer starts at 40 feet.
- Choose sound and vibration, vibration only for quiet places, or no alert at all.
- Get told once, or keep being told at an interval you set, for when one buzz is easy to miss.
See Fire and Smoke Before You Go
Active fire boundaries and smoke forecasts, right on your map. Check what is burning and where the smoke is headed before you commit to a trailhead. See the full map layer lineup.
- Observed smoke is shaded light, medium, or heavy, so you can see how bad the air is on the way.
- Active fire perimeters are drawn to their real boundary, not a pin on a town.
- Fire detections are graded by confidence, so a first report is not mistaken for a confirmed burn.
The Avalanche Forecast, On the Map You Are Already Reading
Winter backcountry decisions get made at the trailhead, usually on a phone, often with one bar. Switch on the avalanche layer and the official forecast is shaded straight onto your map, so the danger rating for the zone you are standing in is not a separate tab you forgot to open.
- Forecasts come from the regional avalanche centers, through avalanche.org. Thred does not invent a rating of its own.
- The full five-level scale, from Low to Extreme, shaded by zone and colored the way you already read it.
- Tap a zone for the travel advice, the likelihood of natural and human-triggered slides, and the size to expect.
- Lost signal keeps the last forecast Thred downloaded, because being offline is exactly when you want it.
- A forecast that has expired stops being drawn. A lapsed “Considerable” never poses as today's call.
The layer is an aid to your planning, not a substitute for it. Read the full forecast from your regional center, travel with trained partners and rescue gear, and turn around when the day tells you to. For slope angle and terrain planning, see the planning tools.
The Warning That Turns You Around
A forecast tells you what the day looks like. An alert tells you to go home. In the US, Thred pulls active watches and warnings from the National Weather Service and puts them at the top of the forecast for the exact spot you tapped, so a Winter Storm Warning finds you before the weather does.
- Official National Weather Service watches and warnings, not a guess from a forecast model.
- Ranked by severity from Minor to Extreme, each with its own color and icon so the worst one reads first.
- Open one for the official instruction, how certain it is, and the window it covers.
- Offline, you keep the last conditions Thred saved, labeled with how old they are so you can weigh them.
- If alerts cannot be loaded, Thred says so. An empty list is never dressed up as an all clear.
Alert coverage follows the National Weather Service, so it applies to US locations. For forecasts along a whole route, and the rest of the planning tools, see adventure planning.
Frequently Asked Questions About Thred Safety & Privacy
How does Thred hide my home address on shared routes?
Add your home, workplace, or anywhere else as a Private Location in Settings, then Privacy & Permissions. Every GPX export, published route, and flyby is trimmed around that zone, including stretches that pass it mid-route, and an adventure that starts inside one cannot be published at all. You choose the hidden radius, from roughly an eighth of a mile to a full mile. Private Locations are free; GPX export itself is part of the Explorer plan.
What happens when I block someone on Thred?
They disappear from Discover immediately and can no longer message you. You can review and unblock anyone from Blocked Users in Settings, then Privacy & Permissions.
How do I report someone?
Open the menu on any profile or chat and choose Report User. That opens a support ticket reviewed by the Thred team, with a dedicated Child Safety category. Inside a group you can report an individual post or member the same way.
Will Thred tell me if I wander off my route?
Yes, if you switch on Route Tracking for that route. Thred watches the line and alerts you once you are further off it than your alert buffer, which starts at 40 feet. You choose sound and vibration, vibration only, or no alert, and whether it tells you once or keeps reminding you at an interval you set.
How does Thred prevent spam and unwanted connection requests?
Connection requests are rate-limited to 10 per hour and 30 per day. Anyone who hits the limit sees a clear notice and cannot send more until the window resets.
Who can see my routes and posts on Thred?
Your home feed is built from the people you have connected with. Saved routes stay private until you share them, and every event carries its own visibility setting.
What keeps my account safe if I lose my phone?
Thred can lock behind Face ID, fingerprint, or your device passcode. Offline, a biometric check every seven days keeps you signed in, and a device that never passes one locks out 30 days after its last proof of identity.
How is my data secured on Thred?
Access rules are enforced on Thred servers, not just in the app, and they are applied to every single record. Even if a device asked for something it should not see, the answer comes back empty.
Adventure With Confidence
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