Update: Now $24.99.
Tile Mate iOS/Android Bluetooth Item Tracker For Just $12.49 After $12.50 Price Drop From Amazon
This was selling for $24.99 yesterday and is now the lowest price ever from Amazon.
You should always keep a tracker like an Airtag, Galaxy Smart Tag, or Tile Mate in your checked and carry-on luggage (as well as teffilin, purses, etc.), it can even be a good idea to leave one in your car! We get stories of lost tefilin nearly week and they are only rarely located. Having a tracker in your bag will make finding them much more likely!
I had a Tile Mate in our BabyBjörn Travel Crib’s bag and the bag’s straps were torn when they were checked as luggage on a United flight. United sent the bag to Rynn’s Luggage in Dallas to be repaired, but the repaired bag came back without the tracker.
I guess it’s a good reminder to remove it before a bag is repaired…or is it not?
I contacted United, who looped in Rynn’s Luggage, who asked for more information to help find the tracker. The Tile Mate moved locations daily and I sent them the tracking info to try to locate it:
They even called me to sound an alert on the device so they could try to find it.
In the end, they were not able to locate the device, but they authorized United to compensate me, and United offered me a choice of either a $75 travel certificate or 3,750 miles.
All’s well that ends well!
Have you been able to find your items thanks to a tracker like an Airtag or Tile Mate?
- VERSATILE TRACKER – Tile helps you keep track of your things. Attach the Tile Mate to everyday things like keys, backpacks or purses. Use our free app to find them.
- FIND NEARBY – Use the Tile app to ring your Tile when it’s within Bluetooth range, or ask your Smart Home device to find it for you.
- FIND FAR AWAY – When outside of Bluetooth range, use the Tile app to view your Tile’s most recent location on a map.
- FIND YOUR PHONE – Double press the button on your Tile to make your phone ring, even when it’s on silent.
- NOTIFY WHEN FOUND – Enlist the secure and anonymous help of the Tile Network to help find your things. If your lost Tile is found, If your Tile is lost, add your contact information so you can be reached when someone scans the QR code on your lost Tile.
- ANDROID, IOS & SMART HOME COMPATIBLE – Find your things with the free Tile app on both iOS and Android devices. Tile also works with Amazon Alexa, Hey Google and Siri
- TECH SPECS – Water-Resistant (IP67 rated), Up to 3-year non-replaceable battery, Up to 250 ft / 76 m Bluetooth range
- UPGRADE TO A PREMIUM PLAN: Get proactive Smart Alert notifications when you leave something behind, and with Item Reimbursement, if we can’t find your Tiled item, we reimburse you.
HT: abebee
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Is this better, worse or the same as the AirTag?
I believe that the Airtag is the gold standard, but as I don’t own any Apple devices and Airtag isn’t Android compatible, I don’t have any Airtag experience, so I can’t offer a comparison.
These have worked just fine for me so far.
What do you mean you don’t have any AirTag experience?
I tracked you all around Japan with my AirTag.
Stalker 😉
I combine the use of an AirTag+TilePro onto a joint keyring when I want checked-in items tracked. AirTags work more comprehensively at airports and on flights than Tile, but beyond the airport I find they compliment each other in terms of functionality for tracking/locating. Even at airports they can compliment each other.
While I have some standalone AirTags and standalone Tiles, I have a bunch of pre-paired up AirTag+TilePro keyrings that I toss into items that I want tracked but for which a GPS cell/satellite based tracker is less practical.
Cool story.
It was certainly an interesting experience.
About time that pixel have a good option
Tile has always worked perfectly with Pixel.
They do. https://blog.google/products/android/android-find-my-device/
Motorola, chipolo, and Pebblebee just announced trackers that work on Android find my network and meant for android
I’ve had both and it is not even close. AirTag is far superior!
That’s what I figured, can you give a quick comparison?
Not really much of an option though if you have Android.
Apple updates every time an Apple device with an internet connection comes within a few feet of it. There are billions of Apple devices on the planet, so naturally it is constantly updating. By contrast, Tile does not have anything close to that ecosystem thus it is slower to update. For instance, when I’m in a heavily populated place my AirTag updates every second effectively providing me its location in real time. This has not been my experience with Tile.
I’ve also experienced better battery life with the AirTag than with my Tile.
“The all-new Find My Device is rolling out to Android devices around the world, starting in the U.S. and Canada. With a new, crowdsourced network of over a billion Android devices, Find My Device can help you find your misplaced Android devices and everyday items quickly and securely.”
So basically a more open source version of the Apple find my network?
While I’ve been waiting for this for quite some time, as I too do not own Apple devices, it does not seem to be up to snuff just yet. I just saw this story today https://9to5google.com/2024/07/07/android-find-my-device-airtag-mail-comparison/. Hopefully this will improve in time.
I wonder if the Tile devices are on sale because the new Find my device network is going to make them obsolete.
These are not compatible with the Find My Device network?
No, and they don’t plan on making it compatible.
Doesn’t work as well in Europe as there are more people with Android than iPhones. I had my luggage lost in Italy by the airline and although it eventually worked, it wasn’t that great.
It depends on where in Europe. They’ve worked just fine for me in much of Western and Northern Europe when I am within 40 miles of an airport with at least 3 common carrier flights to the US on some or most days of the week.
I found AirTag to be quite helpful a year and a half ago when on the return from Israel (JetBlue/AA deal from Dansdeals) at JFK.
We landed on 12/25/22 and the luggage/strollers were a mess. (Somebody had pulled the fire alarm so as to allow the airport staff a break for their Xmas party or something).
Even once luggage was on the carousels they were very uncommunicative as to what was going to be where and when. The AirTags allowed me to see which carousel my luggage was actually on and where the strollers were put (they weren’t communicating anything about gate checked paraphernalia).
Overall, AirTag is a big part of why I didn’t switch to Android.
Cool story above.
I’m new on the last year to air tag. Works well with iPhone and “find my” app.
One of the most subtle but (my) favorite features of air tag is you can “exclude” addresses to (not) get “you left it behind/it’s no longer with you” notices.
For example I exclude my home and parents address since I may go out to lunch and am not worried about leaving my backpack behind at my known/safe addresses.
I have both Airtags and the new Android trackers from Pebblebee. The Pebblebee hardware is really nice. It’s the same size as an Airtag and has LED lights and a sound emitter.
The big problem is that the Android “find my device” system is crippled for now. For some nebulous privacy reason they do not allow location to be logged unless several Android phones detect the device.
It’s buried in the settings as “high traffic areas only” by default.
But on airtag you can’t see history, only where it is now
You don’t get the history (periodical movement) of Tile tracker either except when buying a Tile subscription plan that has that feature.
With AirTags, some have rigged up their own history tracking method but it’s not an off-the-shelf commercial solution like it is with Tile.
The only thing I don’t like about it is that they charge you monthly fee in order to see device history more than a day old
Unless there is some app that allows you to track history for free
What is the cost to upgrade to a premium plan …seems you need to be on that plan to get reimbursed
I have a tile in my kids backpack so I can see when his bus is coming home. I find it pretty ineffective as it sometimes won’t update for a few hours, making it pointless
It didn’t let me add to cart, but now did. Thank you!
I put one on a lanyard and make my child wear it when they walk to a friend’s house in the neighborhood!
Smart!
Do we need the charge the trackers all the time?
No.
So what do you do when the battery is dying ?
With AirTags, the CR nickle-sized batteries are replaceable. Same with some — but not all — of the Tile trackers. For the Tiles trackers of the sort that aren’t designed for consumers to replace the batteries, when the battery dies, it’s time to turn the old one in (or trash it) for a new Tile tracker to replace the tracker with the dead battery.
We have 4 of the Samsung Galaxy tags and it’s good, (wish I had it in my tefillin bag when I lost them in Poland last year but I have them in my tefillin and talit bag now).
Do you not like those?
Tile was updated more often for me.
How does tile update? Why can sometimes pass a few hours till it updates?
It updates on the Tile network when it comes across devices using the Tile app with the app enabled/on and when it comes across some Amazon-affiliated devices of some sort that feed the Tile network. If the tracker doesn’t come across such devices, there is no update unless it’s within range of your own phone with the Tile app searching for it.
$24.88 now
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