The problem with every other safety app
What exists today
A button, and someone paid to answer it. Both require you to be calm enough, free enough and quick enough to reach for your phone and press.
That is the one moment you least need a safety app.
SOS.VU
Nothing to reach for. It is already listening, and it starts on its own.
Your hands are free for the thing that is actually happening.
The slide is not how you call for help
It is how you stop it. When SOS.VU starts, you get a moment to slide it away — because a safety app that fires when you are fine, and cannot be stopped quickly, gets deleted by the end of the week.
Slide one way to cancel. Slide the other to start it yourself, if you want to. Either way you are never hunting for a button.
What happens, in order
It knows your voice
Not any voice. Yours.
It learns what you sound like, so it gets better at telling your distress from a television, an argument two doors down, or a dog.
It keeps going
Escalates without you
Your people first, and further from there — while you are doing something more urgent than operating a phone.
It stays with you
When the signal doesn't
Built for the walk home, the stairwell, the car park — places where a product that assumes a good connection quietly does nothing.
What it will never tell you
It never says help is on the way. It cannot know that, and no software can. It tells you exactly what it knows — who was notified, what was sent, what is still trying — and nothing more.
There is no monitoring centre here. No staffed room, no dispatch team. Anyone telling you otherwise is selling you a call centre. We would rather tell you the truth about a smaller thing.
Why invite-only
Because we would rather listen closely to a few people than launch at everyone. We are working with a small number of users and with police, and we are changing the product on what they tell us.
Both app stores have approved the app. It is early, and we are saying so.
Ask for an invite
One email when there is a place for you. Nothing else, ever.