SOS Alert | Emergency & Safety

Raghav Maheshwari

About this app

SOS Alert is an emergency app which helps you out whenever your safety is at risk by reaching out to your emergency contacts and providing them with your current location.

FEATURES
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1. No Ads
2. Very basic user interface and easy to use
3. Dark theme
4. In case of an emergency, a link of your current location on Google Maps is sent to your emergency contacts so that they can locate you accurately
5. The Emergency Contacts and the SOS Message are stored locally on your device, therefore no one other than you have access to it
6. You can edit the SOS Message and add other useful information about yourself
7. SOS Widget for sending SOS Alert in just one tap

HOW DOES IT WORK?
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1. Whenever you are in an emergency, you need to press the SOS Widget or the SOS button in the app
2. As soon as you press the button/widget, a countdown of 3 seconds starts immediately (you can cancel the SOS Alert if you want to, before the countdown ends)
3. When the countdown ends, the app fetches your location from the GPS on your device and sends (through SMS) your location along with your SOS Message (which is pre-saved on your device) to the emergency contacts that you have registered in the app
4. The registered emergency contacts receive your SOS Message and a link of your current location as an SMS from your mobile number

Ratings and reviews

simple and straightforward. It would be nice if you could set optional messages, but I suppose in an emergency you wouldn't have time to select which message to send. A little discussion about this app with everyone on your contact list in advance is key.

Quite easy to register and easy yo use. Love it for quick alert. ***Note: I would suggest that we have a choice of who needs to be alerted, either one person or the rest of the group of contacts at once. (We operate with whatsapp groups and the contacts number is quite large) Also inform what's the maximum contacts allowed.

I butt dialed my parents with the SOS in the middle of the night...wasnt the "test experience" I planned for them! Whoops. Good news, it worked with accurate location. What I DID NOT like is it showed up in my standard text string on my phone as a sent text message (x3), so if I was in a bad situation, sent the SOS, then had my phone taken, there's evidence and proof that I sent help. Seems like it should be much more discrete and incognito.

What’s new

- Performance Improvements