Dead Man's Switch

Johannes Kleeschulte

About this app

Monitors the movements of your smartphone and sends alerts for emergencies.

Ratings and reviews

Movement detection seems to work well. I wish I was able to set multiple numbers for sms however, it only allows a single number which isn't ideal. 2-3 would be nice but you can always use a forwarding service. Notable battery drain. Lots of engrish as author seems to be German but it's easy enough to understand. Good peace of mind for my eventual passing. 4/5 purely due to only allowing one number. I'd also like an option to send an email to a small list of addresses. Otherwise great app!

One thing to note, if you activate the vibrate feature, which it defaults to being active then the vibration of your phone will flip the switch, suggesting you aren't dead. Need to turn this off. How long have I been looking for this exact thing! finally found the right combination of words to find this app. I work alone a lot and do dangerous things while working alone. All other similar apps I have found are for a company with "lone workers". this one is for personal use, thank you thank you!

Absolutely brilliant app. I have a chronic disability which has the (very rare) potential to be life threatening. This app just works. I set it to alert me by sound and vibrate if the phone doesn't move for 90m and to send a text to a relative 30m later. The only minor improvement would be the option to remove the words "Dead Man's Switch" from the GPS location text message as you can with the alert message. I don't want my elderly parents having a heart attack in the case of a false alarm! :)

What’s new

Bugfix: Settings Screen not scrolling on small devices