Phone Buddy Phone Lost Alert Downloads & RevenuePhone Buddy Phone Lost Alert · App Store
Phone Buddy Phone Lost Alert is #21 in Productivity Paid in Japan and charting in 24 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 9 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperFRE STUDIOS LLC
CategoryProductivity
Price4.99 USD
Released
Rating★ 4.2 (523)
Version7.9.0
Age rating4+
First seen by us
24 Sep 2026
24 Sep 2026Installs (est.)50k+ worldwide
Phone Buddy Phone Lost Alert update history & changes
Last change · 34 events since 1 Apr 2019Full timeline ↓📈Entered the top 10📈Entered the top 100📦Updated to version 7.9.0📦First update in 1065 days⭐Passed 1K ratings⭐Passed 1K ratings🆕First spotted by AppInsider🆕Its developer released another app: PRSN - The No Bots Social Feed
Full timeline · 33 events in the last 12 months
- 📈Phone Buddy Phone Lost Alert entered the top 10Top Paid · Productivity · MY
- 📈Phone Buddy Phone Lost Alert entered the top 100Top Paid · All Apps · MY
- 📈Phone Buddy Phone Lost Alert entered the top 10Top Paid · Productivity · IT
- ✏️Phone Buddy Phone Lost Alert: needs a newer iOSiOS 13.1 → iOS 18.1
- 📦Phone Buddy Phone Lost Alert updated to version 7.9.0Phone Buddy 7.9.0 is our biggest update yet. The app has been rebuilt from the inside out over the past several months, and this release brings that new foundation to your iPhone and Apple Watch, along with support for watchOS 27 and iPhone Duo.
WATCHOS 27
Phone Buddy is now fully compatible with watchOS 27. The watch face complication has been rebuilt on WidgetKit so it keeps showing your Phone Lost Alert status on the latest watchOS. Your existing complication slots move over automatically.
NEW BLUETOOTH ENGINE
The connection between your iPhone and Apple Watch runs on a brand-new engine. Phone Buddy now remembers your watch and the state of your alerts between launches, so reopening the app while your watch is out of range no longer turns your alerts off or shows a connection error. The app simply waits for your watch to return and lets you know when it is found.
IPHONE DUO
Phone Buddy supports iPhone Duo on both screens, folded and open, and adapts live when you fold or unfold the phone. Content stays clear of the floating tab bar and system controls, and the guides and setup videos fit the open screen comfortably.
SWIFT 6 AND MODERN CONCURRENCY
This one is invisible to you, but developers will know the effort it takes to bring a large legacy codebase, full of stacked completion blocks, into modern concurrency. Phone Buddy now builds in Swift 6 language mode with strict concurrency checking on every target. About 35,000 lines of Swift written the 2020 way, where every controller was its own framework delegate, with one global app controller was reached from countless call sites, and many flavors of (Bool, String?) completion handler stood in for errors, has now been rebuilt around a shared core package: five actors, nonisolated bridges that turn framework delegates into typed AsyncStreams, a composition root on each platform, and a typed wire between iPhone and Watch in place of string-keyed dictionaries. Every piece of mutable state now lives inside an actor or a Mutex, so the bug that used to surface as "flaky Bluetooth" or a "phantom alert" is a compile error today. Our first attempt compiled clean and crashed on launch. The real one took many weeks, one controller at a time. Final tally: zero @preconcurrency, zero nonisolated(unsafe), zero Timer.scheduledTimer, and a satisfying amount of deleted code.
This update also includes general stability and performance improvements.
Thanks again for using Phone Buddy! If you like our app please consider writing a review, it really helps :).
Any questions or comments? Email: [email protected]… more - 📦Phone Buddy Phone Lost Alert: first update in 1065 days
- 📈Phone Buddy Phone Lost Alert new best rank in the overall chart: #72Top Paid · All Apps · AR
- 📈Phone Buddy Phone Lost Alert entered the top 100Top Paid · All Apps · AR
- 📈Phone Buddy Phone Lost Alert entered the top 10 in 2 chartsTop Paid · Productivity · AR · Top Paid · Productivity · SA
- 📈Phone Buddy Phone Lost Alert entered the top 100Top Paid · Productivity · PL
- 📈Phone Buddy Phone Lost Alert entered the top 100Top Paid · Productivity · MX
- 📈Phone Buddy Phone Lost Alert entered the top 10Top Paid · Productivity · RU
- 📈Phone Buddy Phone Lost Alert charting in a new country in 6 chartsArgentina · Colombia · Malaysia · Philippines · +2 more
- 📈Phone Buddy Phone Lost Alert entered the top 100 in 4 chartsTop Paid · Productivity · CO · Top Paid · Productivity · MY · Top Paid · Productivity · PH · Top Paid · Productivity · SE
- 📈Phone Buddy Phone Lost Alert new best rank in the overall chart: #101Top Paid · All Apps · IT
- 📈Phone Buddy Phone Lost Alert entered the top 10Top Paid · Productivity · BR
- 📈Phone Buddy Phone Lost Alert entered the top 100Top Paid · Productivity · RU
- 📈Phone Buddy Phone Lost Alert entered the top 10Top Paid · Productivity · IN
- 📈Phone Buddy Phone Lost Alert new best rank in the overall chart: #104Top Paid · All Apps · IN
- 📈Phone Buddy Phone Lost Alert charting in a new countryIndia
- 📈Phone Buddy Phone Lost Alert entered the top 100Top Paid · Productivity · CN
- 📈Phone Buddy Phone Lost Alert charting in a new countryChina
- 📈Phone Buddy Phone Lost Alert entered the top 10Top Paid · Productivity · ES
- 📈Phone Buddy Phone Lost Alert entered the top 100Top Paid · Productivity · NL
- 📈Phone Buddy Phone Lost Alert entered the top 10Top Paid · Productivity · TW
- 🆕Phone Buddy Phone Lost Alert first spotted by AppInsider#54 in Top Paid · Productivity · United Kingdom
- 🆕Phone Buddy Phone Lost Alert: its developer released another app: PRSN - The No Bots Social Feed
- 🆕Phone Buddy Phone Lost Alert released on the App Store
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
Rating
4.2 ★
523 ratings
Measured
Best rank now
#21
Productivity PaidMeasured
New ratings a week
3.3
▲ +233% vs the 2 weeks before
Measured
Phone Buddy Phone Lost Alert at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data, 2026-11-04. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
A paid Apple Watch companion app that alerts users when their iPhone disconnects via Bluetooth, designed for individuals prone to misplacing devices. The app holds a strong #2 position in the Malaysian Productivity Paid charts and maintains visibility in top 100 lists across several other international markets including Italy, Japan, and Spain.
Similar apps: Find My, Tile, Life360
Phone Buddy Phone Lost Alert on the App Store
App details
App ID
1451559391
Publisher
FRE STUDIOS LLC
On the store since
Apr 2019
7 years on the store
Minimum OS
iOS 18.1+
iPhone XS and later
Devices
iPhone · iPad · Watch
Content rating
4+
Languages
1
EN
Size
34 MB
Also listed in
Utilities
App privacy Measured
Phone Buddy Phone Lost Alert declares it collects no data at all — the rarest and most private label on the App Store.
Declared label
Data Not Collected
As declared by the developer on the App Store — Apple requires every app to publish this label. We track changes over time.
Phone Buddy Phone Lost Alert downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Apple publishes no download counts. App Store downloads come from chart positions and daily rating growth per country, calibrated on Google Play install counts; lifetime installs from ratings worldwide × installs per rating. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where Phone Buddy Phone Lost Alert's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
Retention · share of new users still active
Day 1
Day 7
Day 30
Time spent · per daily user
Average time spent Pro
min a day
Sessions a day Pro
Time per session Pro
min
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Japan | ProductivityPaid | #21 |
 United States | ProductivityPaid | #56 |
 France | ProductivityPaid | #16 |
 Germany | ProductivityPaid | #24 |
 India | ProductivityPaid | #20 |
| Japan | All AppsPaid | #182 |
 Taiwan | ProductivityPaid | #13 |
 South Korea | ProductivityPaid | #97 |
 Italy | ProductivityPaid | #52 |
 Canada | ProductivityPaid | #74 |
 Saudi Arabia | ProductivityPaid | #87 |
 Brazil | ProductivityPaid | #194 |
 Russia | ProductivityPaid | #163 |
 Spain | ProductivityPaid | #139 |
 Mexico | ProductivityPaid | #187 |
 Indonesia | ProductivityPaid | #168 |
 Poland | ProductivityPaid | #120 |
 Philippines | ProductivityPaid | #73 |
 United Arab Emirates | ProductivityPaid | #140 |
 Malaysia | ProductivityPaid | #60 |
 Netherlands | ProductivityPaid | #183 |
 Argentina | ProductivityPaid | #134 |
 Thailand | ProductivityPaid | #174 |
 Vietnam | ProductivityPaid | #142 |
 South Africa | ProductivityPaid | #149 |
Apps near Phone Buddy Phone Lost Alert on the chart
Productivity Paid, around #21.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Rating
4.2 ★
523 ratings
Measured
Ratings
523
Measured
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisNew ratings a week
3.3
▲ +233% vs the 2 weeks before
Written reviews a week
under 1
US App Store
Lifetime rating
4.1★
recent stars not readable yet: new ratings are a tiny share of the total
Review momentum
76/100
faster than 73% of Productivity apps
Review momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
What users say about Phone Buddy Phone Lost Alert
From the 52 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Users appreciate the app's core functionality for preventing lost phones but are frustrated by frequent false alarms and unreliable connectivity. Significant complaints focus on excessive battery drain on Apple Watches and settings that randomly disable themselves.
Mixed (46% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for being useful, and its features and content. The main complaints are about speed and performance, and price and subscriptions. Recent reviews are more positive than earlier ones.
What people like
- Useful: “But cool app I’ll recommend it”
- Features & content: “This actually should be a feature that Apple bills into the phone and the watch from the factory”
- Connection & sync: “The lost app fails to start alerting after recognizing the connection was lost”
- Price & subscription: “You pay a one time fee of $4.99”
Common complaints
- Speed & performance: “Uses a lot of battery power”
- Price & subscription: “Do not waste your money on this”
- Crashes & bugs: “And the core product simply doesn’t work”
- Features & content: “Also - no option for vibrate only?”
About Phone Buddy Phone Lost Alert
Macworld’s 2020 “Must-Have apps for your new Apple Watch” Phone Buddy Notifier is an Apple Watch app that alerts you when you lose bluetooth connection with your iPhone.
“All we want is the ability to get alerts on our Apple Watch when we leave our iPhone behind.” -Macworld
Step away from your iPhone and Phone Buddy notifies your Apple Watch the moment bluetooth connection is lost with your iPhone. It’s that easy.
This app is for the forgetful ones! If you’ve ever forgotten your iPhone, Phone Buddy Lost Phone Alert is the answer. Don’t forget your iPhone again using Lost Phone Alert.
Phone Buddy Alerts can be configured to display when your iPhone connection is lost, when you leave your Apple Watch behind, or when devices move apart with Distance Going Away Alerts! And for extra protection, you can enable the Lost Alert Loud Alarm to ensure you never miss a Lost Phone or Watch Left Behind notification.
If someone takes your iPhone, Phone Buddy will alert you with a Lost Phone Alert right on your Apple Watch. Lost Phone Alert is better than phone insurance since it helps prevent a loss!
Use Lost Phone Alert now and never lose your phone again!
Misplacing your iPhone is a thing of the past, find your iPhone easily using your Apple Watch with Signal Strength Monitor and Play Ring.
Misplace your Apple Watch? Phone Buddy has your back; you can trigger a sound to play on your watch from your iPhone using the Play Sound on Apple Watch feature and follow the sound to locate your watch.
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Phone Buddy is compatible with the following Bluetooth LE enabled Apple Watch models running WatchOS 6 or later: Apple Watch Series 2 - Series 9, Apple Watch SE, and Apple Watch Ultra - Ultra 2.
Privacy Policy: https://phonebuddy.app
Terms of Service: https://phonebuddy.app
Jason Cross. “10 must-have apps for your new Apple Watch: Take your little wrist computer to the next level with these great apps.” Macworld (2020): Web (https://www.macworld.com/article/3328398/10-must-have-apps-for-your-new-apple-watch.html). NOV 25, 2020
“All we want is the ability to get alerts on our Apple Watch when we leave our iPhone behind.” -Macworld
Step away from your iPhone and Phone Buddy notifies your Apple Watch the moment bluetooth connection is lost with your iPhone. It’s that easy.
This app is for the forgetful ones! If you’ve ever forgotten your iPhone, Phone Buddy Lost Phone Alert is the answer. Don’t forget your iPhone again using Lost Phone Alert.
Phone Buddy Alerts can be configured to display when your iPhone connection is lost, when you leave your Apple Watch behind, or when devices move apart with Distance Going Away Alerts! And for extra protection, you can enable the Lost Alert Loud Alarm to ensure you never miss a Lost Phone or Watch Left Behind notification.
If someone takes your iPhone, Phone Buddy will alert you with a Lost Phone Alert right on your Apple Watch. Lost Phone Alert is better than phone insurance since it helps prevent a loss!
Use Lost Phone Alert now and never lose your phone again!
Misplacing your iPhone is a thing of the past, find your iPhone easily using your Apple Watch with Signal Strength Monitor and Play Ring.
Misplace your Apple Watch? Phone Buddy has your back; you can trigger a sound to play on your watch from your iPhone using the Play Sound on Apple Watch feature and follow the sound to locate your watch.
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Phone Buddy is compatible with the following Bluetooth LE enabled Apple Watch models running WatchOS 6 or later: Apple Watch Series 2 - Series 9, Apple Watch SE, and Apple Watch Ultra - Ultra 2.
Privacy Policy: https://phonebuddy.app
Terms of Service: https://phonebuddy.app
Jason Cross. “10 must-have apps for your new Apple Watch: Take your little wrist computer to the next level with these great apps.” Macworld (2020): Web (https://www.macworld.com/article/3328398/10-must-have-apps-for-your-new-apple-watch.html). NOV 25, 2020
Latest updates
7.9.0
Phone Buddy 7.9.0 is our biggest update yet. The app has been rebuilt from the inside out over the past several months, and this release brings that new foundation to your iPhone and Apple Watch, along with support for watchOS 27 and iPhone Duo.
WATCHOS 27
Phone Buddy is now fully compatible with watchOS 27. The watch face complication has been rebuilt on WidgetKit so it keeps showing your Phone Lost Alert status on the latest watchOS. Your existing complication slots move over automatically.
NEW BLUETOOTH ENGINE
The connection between your iPhone and Apple Watch runs on a brand-new engine. Phone Buddy now remembers your watch and the state of your alerts between launches, so reopening the app while your watch is out of range no longer turns your alerts off or shows a connection error. The app simply waits for your watch to return and lets you know when it is found.
IPHONE DUO
Phone Buddy supports iPhone Duo on both screens, folded and open, and adapts live when you fold or unfold the phone. Content stays clear of the floating tab bar and system controls, and the guides and setup videos fit the open screen comfortably.
SWIFT 6 AND MODERN CONCURRENCY
This one is invisible to you, but developers will know the effort it takes to bring a large legacy codebase, full of stacked completion blocks, into modern concurrency. Phone Buddy now builds in Swift 6 language mode with strict concurrency checking on every target. About 35,000 lines of Swift written the 2020 way, where every controller was its own framework delegate, with one global app controller was reached from countless call sites, and many flavors of (Bool, String?) completion handler stood in for errors, has now been rebuilt around a shared core package: five actors, nonisolated bridges that turn framework delegates into typed AsyncStreams, a composition root on each platform, and a typed wire between iPhone and Watch in place of string-keyed dictionaries. Every piece of mutable state now lives inside an actor or a Mutex, so the bug that used to surface as "flaky Bluetooth" or a "phantom alert" is a compile error today. Our first attempt compiled clean and crashed on launch. The real one took many weeks, one controller at a time. Final tally: zero @preconcurrency, zero nonisolated(unsafe), zero Timer.scheduledTimer, and a satisfying amount of deleted code.
This update also includes general stability and performance improvements.
Thanks again for using Phone Buddy! If you like our app please consider writing a review, it really helps :).
Any questions or comments? Email: [email protected]
7.6.1
Store changes
What Phone Buddy Phone Lost Alert changed on its store page: name, icon, screenshots, price, size, languages, requirements.
Needs a newer iOS
iOS 13.1 → iOS 18.1
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