The squad app for college nights out. Live location, auto check-ins, and a morning recap your friends vote on — locked until 10am.
No spam. One text when beta opens at UM.
"It's 1am. Your friend's phone is at 6%. Your group chat has 47 unread messages."
"You took 73 photos last night.
You remember 4 of them."
"Your mom just texted you for the third time."
Every photo your squad took last night, locked until 10am. Then your squad votes — Best Outfit, Main Character Energy, MVP of the Night, Funniest Moment.
Start a squad when you head out. Pick how long. Invite friends with a text link. Everyone sees each other until the night ends — then tracking stops. No always-on. No family plan energy.
The button you press at the end of the night. Books your Uber. Tells your squad you're leaving. Texts your mom when you make it back. (Only if you want.)
"I'm Silas, an 18-year-old freshman at the University of Montana."
In March 2025, I was in Mexico for spring break with ten friends.
We lost people for hours. We walked miles drunk through a country none of us knew. We woke up missing entire nights.
It was the best trip I've ever taken. It was also the scariest.
I came home, skipped studying for finals, and started building Nocturn instead.
I'm 18. I'm at UMontana. This is the app I wish we'd had.
Free for students. Always will be. There'll be a parent-facing premium plan eventually — but the student app stays free. We're not building a surveillance product.
Yes — but inviting them takes 10 seconds. Text link, they're in. No account required to join a squad as a guest.
We built it not to. Background location uses balanced accuracy — not GPS-at-full-blast. In testing, a 4-hour night uses less than 5% extra battery. And it stops the moment the session ends.
Squad-only. Auto-deletes when the night ends. We don't store location history. Your data doesn't leave the session.
No. Life360 is always-on family tracking — it never ends. Nocturn is opt-in, session-based, friend-only. You start it. You end it. When the night's over, so is the tracking. We're not a family surveillance product.
Tap "Remove me" on any photo in the recap. It disappears from everyone's view — not just yours. Consent is absolute. No screenshotting workarounds.
First 50 spots at UMontana open this month. We'll text when you're in.
50 spots. First come, first served.