I liked my Chipolo. But now that I’m disconnecting from Google’s network, it is kind of wasteful for me.

But I don’t think there is an alternative to Google and Apple’s network, unless you want to pay monthly satellite tracking / GPS subscription fees.

I have a Chipolo ONE Point attached to a keyring. I’ve been using it for ~1,5 year. I had to replace the battery once. It has never went off the grid, unlike some cheap tags that I also have. Chipolo is more expensive, but worth it in my opinion.

I’ve used Chipolo tags and they work well enough, but keep in mind that virtually all Bluetooth tracking tags - including Chipolo - use either Google or Apple’s tracking network so it’s hard to divest yourself of them entirely.

My experience of Chipolo tags that use Google’s network is that they work just as well the Pixel tag and AirTag for finding objects nearby, but because there are so many more Android Things than iThings about both Chipolo and Pixel tags are way better than AirTags for tracking down things in the wild.

I also used one a few years back. Worked great when trying to find my bike in the bike parking of Dutch train stations. I don’t really use it these days as I have learned to remember where I park my bike and I haven’t used any of the new ones with the Google/apple device locating integrations. I’d strongly recommend

Be aware : there are problems using Them with fairphone (at least when using e/os, but according to the forum also when using them in fairphone with Android) I tried and wasnt able to make Them run in fairphone 4