LostHour

For the phones, tablets and computers in your home

The first hour after a device goes missing decides most of what happens next.

Lost Hour gets every device in your home ready to be found, and writes each one its own step-by-step plan: where to look it up, how to lock it, who to call, which numbers the police will ask for.

Run the free Ready CheckAbout 5 minutes per device It’s missing nowThe first hour, in order
The first hour for a missing iPhone, as Lost Hour lays it out
  1. 0:00Find it on a map
  2. 0:05Mark it as lost
  3. 0:15Call the carrier
  4. 0:25Change passwords
  5. 0:40Report a theft to the police
  6. 0:50Erase, last of all

Three things, done once, that change the first hour

  1. 01

    Turn the right switches on

    Find My, Find Hub or Find my device; a screen lock; a backup. The Ready Check shows the exact settings path for each kind of device, with the maker’s own help page beside it.

  2. 02

    Write the numbers down now

    Serial numbers and IMEIs are what police and carriers ask for, and you can’t read them off a phone you no longer have. Your plan keeps them, sealed under your private link.

  3. 03

    Know the order of steps

    Locate before you lock, lock before you call, and erase last: on Android a factory reset ends Find Hub, and Apple says an erase can’t be undone.

Pick the device. Get its checklist.

Free, no sign-up, nothing stored.

A private plan for the whole household

Start one with no account and no email: you get a private link. Add each device once, with its serial, IMEI, carrier and which account locates it, and tick off its Ready Check. Each device then has its own filled-in “it’s missing” page, and the household card prints every number on one sheet.

The device list is encrypted with a key that comes from your link. Lost Hour’s database stores only a fingerprint of the link, never the link itself, so a lost link can’t be recovered. What that protects, and what it doesn’t.

Start a plan, free

Prices

Free

$0

  • Ready Check for all 6 device kinds
  • “It’s missing now” steps, always free
  • A private plan of 2 devices with their playbooks

Most households

Lost Hour Pass

$1.95 a month

or $19.50 a year

  • Up to 12 devices in one plan
  • Printable household card: every serial, IMEI, carrier number and locate address
  • Download the plan (JSON)

Lost Hour Household

$3.95 a month

or $39.50 a year

  • Up to 30 devices: big families, home offices
  • Everything in the Pass

Free during preview. These are the prices Lost Hour will charge once payments open. Today nothing is charged, there is no payment form on the site, and every plan gets the Household limits.

Lost Hour is a planner: it does not track, lock or erase devices and installs nothing. Not an MDM or a device-management service.