Baxta - Personal Safety App

8BHSOLUTIONS PTY LTD

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About this app

Whether you are travelling, live alone, walking through an unsafe neighbourhood, on an awkward date or just feeling unsafe; providing the necessary information to enable your family and trusted network to help you is not as easy as it may seem.

Baxta is a privacy focused personal safety, contact/family locator and GPS tracker. It automates the collection and sharing of information to keep your family and emergency contacts up to date.

Baxta's philosophy is to give you absolute control over your privacy. By default, Baxta does not share any of your information without your command. You control when and what Baxta does for you.

FREE features

* Emergency alerts without the need for internet connection
* Automatically call your safety contact in an emergency
* Automatically notify multiple safety contacts in an emergency
* Add unlimited number of emergency contacts
* One-touch button to activate emergency alert
* Activate emergency alert by shaking your device
* Activate emergency alert by press the power button multiple times
* Share your current GPS location
* One-touch navigation to your contact’s location via integration with Google Maps

Premium features

Secure Real time Sessions
GPS tracker and family locator. Continuously share your GPS location, travel speed and other device information in real time.
Each session is secured, only your invitees for the session can access your shared information.
You control exactly when a session starts and ends.

Session History
All sessions are securely stored for 30 days.
Available to search and view at any time.

Request Contact Location
Send a request to any of your contacts to get their current location.

Stay tuned, many more features will be added to Baxta to help you stay safe.

Ratings and reviews

I *really* like this app! Before installing it and testing, I was concerned that it might not be able to notify my primary contact, who uses an iphone, but upon testing, I saw that the emergency contact person doesn't have to have an Android for the basic SMS and/or emergency voice calling features to work when sent from an Android phone -- probably just the "real time sessions" need both phones to have the app. If you're able to do an iphone app so my contact and me can to the real time sessions, I definitely upgrade to the paid version. ** One feature I would really like to see implemented is the possibility of having the app turn on the Location service if it isn't already on when a user needs to send an emergency message. That would allow the phone battery to last so much longer, rather than having to always have Location on. I don't know if that is something that an app can control without direct user manual input. Is that a possibility at all?? Anyway, great app, very flexible for the user, simple to set up options. Definitely five stars...

Very reliable. Unlike other apps, the accuracy of the location is very high. I ran the real time session for a couple of days, without any gaps in tracking. Only slight drawback is that my contacts seem to gets an update every 1 - 2 minutes, and there isn't a setting to make it more frequent.

I've been using the free version for a while. What attracted me was that the power button and shake device to activate emergency feature was offered for free, while other apps required a paid subscription to use the same feature. With this new version, I have decided to buy the subscription to use the real time tracking as well. The price is about 50% cheaper than other apps with similar features. I got to say the developers are very generous. Thank you guys.

What's new

* NEW - The ability to customize your profile image and that of your contacts
* UPDATE - Improved location triangulation on some devices with Android 11+
* FIX - Emergency event not recorded correctly in session history if the Emergency setting > "Start Realtime Session" was disabled