Pebblebee Halo

Overview

The Pebblebee Halo is a different kind of product from the rest of the tracker shelf. It is a personal safety alarm first, built to be pulled apart in a hurry, at which point it runs a 130 dB siren, fires a 150 lumen strobe and pushes your live location to a Safety Circle of up to five contacts. Pebblebee put it on a keychain rather than in a pocket clip because the point is to have it in your hand without fumbling, and the pull-apart action is deliberately physical rather than an app button. Underneath the alarm it is still a Find My and Find Hub tracker. The same device can be located on the map, ring when you are near it, and take a left-behind alert, so it covers the everyday lost-keys job as well as the emergency one. Battery life is rated at up to 12 months per charge over USB-C, and the body is IP66, which is enough for rain and splashes but not for swimming. The trade-offs are cost and dependency. At $59.99 it is roughly twice an AirTag, and the live-location half of the feature set runs through Alert Live, which is bundled for 12 months and paid after that; item finding through Find My or Find Hub does not need the subscription. It is also sold in Graphite only. Buyers who want a cheap tag should skip it, while buyers who already carry a personal alarm or want one on a keychain get a tracker in the same shell.

✨ Key Highlights

• Pull the two halves apart and Halo blasts a 130 dB siren and a 150 lumen strobe while sharing live location with up to five trusted contacts
• Doubles as a normal item tracker on keys or a bag through Apple Find My on iPhone or Google Find Hub on Android
• IP66 body at 28 x 69 x 18 mm and 28 g, small enough to live on a keychain but clearly built around the alarm hardware
• USB-C rechargeable with up to 12 months per charge, so the safety features are always available without a battery swap
• A 12-month Alert Live subscription is bundled, after which the safety features need the paid service while item finding keeps working