GOTOKY had a much smaller public footprint than the other devices of its era, and the record on it is thin. If you're here because you liked the idea and want something that works today, Nelos is the modern app to look at - the record below is for background.
Because the evidence is limited, this article is deliberately cautious: it separates "announced", "crowdfunded", "promised shipping" and "verified delivery", and does not infer a shutdown date or a bankruptcy.
GOTOKY was developed by Gotoky Communication, a company in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Its co-founders were Denis Loncar (CEO) and Katja Lipicnik (CMO). The company took part in the HighTechXL accelerator in 2015. The concept came about after Loncar was injured hiking with no signal.
Around September 2017, GOTOKY ran a Kickstarter campaign, "GOTOKY. Most advanced private off-grid communication network", with super-early-bird pledges from about EUR 55. The campaign passed a fairly modest goal and raised more than $38,000. A press release dated 8 November 2017 said the project was moving to Indiegogo InDemand for a further round of funding. The stated estimated delivery date was April 2018.
According to the campaign, the device paired to a phone over Bluetooth, used license-free UHF frequencies in the dual 868/915 MHz bands, promised voice and text (1-to-1 and group), an emergency button, offline topographic maps, navigation and tracking, and could store up to 1,000 messages on its own.
After the 2017-2018 announcement and funding period, coverage of GOTOKY goes quiet. From the public sources available, there are no verified reports of devices reaching backers at any meaningful scale, and no announcements about delays, about shipping, or about the project stopping.
As of this research (September 2026), the gotoky.com domain no longer hosts project content - it redirects to a listing offering the domain name for sale on a domain marketplace. In other words, the original website is gone.
There is no public evidence of a shutdown date or a bankruptcy. What can be said is: a project raised a modest sum in 2017, promised delivery in 2018, left no public evidence of a working product reaching backers, and its website has now disappeared.
If you liked the GOTOKY idea, Nelos is the modern app that delivers it today - group chat, offline maps, trackers and a Need Help button, on hardware that's actually sold. See GOTOKY Alternatives or go straight to Getting Started. If you backed GOTOKY and received nothing, that story isn't unusual in the 2016-2017 wave of crowdfunded off-grid devices.
Nelos brings group messaging, location sharing, and a shared group map with location updates to LoRa mesh — with no cell service, no server, and no account.
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