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Personal safety,intuitive and accessible.

Download GuardianLive to set a timer before you head out. If you don’t check in, the people you trust are alerted and can see where you are.

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Coming soon to the App Store and Google Play

Free to join. For adults 18 and older in the United States.

Everything happens around one timer.

You set it before you go and check in when you’re safe. If you don’t, the people on it get what they need to find you: where you were, what you were doing, and what you asked them to do.

A woman at night by the water, her face lit by her phone.
Timers plan

Set a timer before you go.

Tap a Quick Timer for 5 minutes, 30 minutes or an hour, or start one you saved with its own notes, instructions and contacts. When you get there, tap I am safe and enter your PIN.

Reminders arrive as the end gets close. The countdown runs on GuardianLive’s servers, not only on your phone, so if your battery dies or you lose signal after you start, your contacts are still alerted when it reaches zero.

Good for

  • The walk from the station
  • A first date
  • A run after dark
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Free for your contacts

If you don’t check in, they find out.

When your timer runs out, everyone on it is sent a notification. Opening it shows how long ago it ran out, your notes and instructions, any video, and your location trace: green while the timer ran, red after.

A button on the same page calls 911. Once a contact has checked on you, they can mark you safe, and the others on the timer are told who did.

Good for

  • Friends who worry
  • A partner on night shifts
  • Family in another city
A hand holding up a phone, filming a city street at night.
Streaming plan

Record, or go live, in one tap.

Start a timer with the camera on, or tap Go Live on one that’s running. Video uploads as you record, so whatever reaches the cloud is kept even if your phone is lost or broken.

The contacts on your timer can watch live, rewind and chat with you. Phones that can use both cameras at once record both. On a Discreet timer the video stays yours unless the timer runs out.

Good for

  • A late rideshare
  • An empty parking garage
  • A route you don’t know
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Free on every account

Two PINs, and one of them asks for help.

Your safety PIN ends a timer. Your emergency PIN looks exactly the same on your screen, but it quietly alerts all of your contacts and keeps sharing your location with them.

If someone makes you stop your timer, they see it stop. Your contacts see that you need help. Only a contact, or you with both PINs, can close the alert.

Good for

  • Being told to cancel your timer
  • Someone watching your screen
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Free

Share where you are with the people you pick.

Turn on location sharing for the contacts you choose and see theirs on the Map, between iPhone and Android. Each person shows when their location last updated, so a quiet phone never looks like a still one.

Turning sharing off, or taking someone off the list, needs your PIN, so nobody can switch it off behind your back.

Good for

  • Friends at a festival
  • A partner commuting late
  • Roommates

Free to join. A plan for your own timers.

Adding contacts, sharing your location and being there for someone else cost nothing. A plan lets you start your own timers, and record and go live on them.

Who the plan covers
How often you pay

Free

For everyone, always.

$0

Every account, with or without a plan.

Always included

  • Unlimited contacts
  • Location sharing and the Map
  • History and your past recordings
  • Both PINs and emergency alerts
  • Everything as someone’s contact: their alerts, their live video, marking them safe

Timers

For your own safety timers.

$2.99a month

For your account.

$29.99a year

For your account. Saves $5.89 a year.

$9.99a month

You and four of your contacts.

$99.99a year

You and four of your contacts. Saves $19.89 a year.

Start your own timers

  • Quick Timers and timers you save
  • Reminders before a timer ends
  • Your location trace while it runs
  • Your contacts alerted if you don’t check in
  • Alert Now, to alert them straight away

Includes Timers

Streaming

For timers with video.

$9.99a month

For your account.

$99.99a year

For your account. Saves $19.89 a year.

$29.99a month

You and four of your contacts.

$299.99a year

You and four of your contacts. Saves $59.89 a year.

Everything in Timers, plus

  • Record to the cloud on any timer
  • Go live to the contacts on it
  • Both cameras at once, where your phone can
  • Contacts can rewind and chat while you’re live

US prices. Plans are bought in the App Store or Google Play, inside the app, and renew until you cancel. Your emergency PIN works on every account, with or without a plan.

A timer for whatever you’re walking into.

Most of the moments people set a timer for turn out fine. Here are some of them, from a five-minute walk to the car to a three-hour train, each with the timer someone might save for it.

  1. A woman standing alone in an empty parking garage at night.

    Crossing a parking garage

    Start a five-minute timer with the camera on at the elevator, and check in once your doors are locked. Your contacts can watch the walk live, and if anything happens on the way, it’s already on video and uploading as you go.

    • Starts recording
  2. A woman with a tote bag walking down a city street at night.

    The walk from the station

    It’s usually fifteen minutes. Give yourself twenty, and your roommate can follow the timer until you’re through the door.

  3. A passenger in the back seat of a car, looking out of the window.

    A rideshare after midnight

    Put the car and the plate in the notes and start with the camera on. If you’re not home when it ends, your contacts have the plate, the route and the video.

    • Starts recording
  4. One hand passing a small item to another.

    Meeting a buyer from a listing

    Add the address and the buyer’s name before you go. Started as Discreet, nobody sees any of it unless you don’t check in.

    • Discreet
  5. A lit shop doorway on a dark street at night.

    Locking up alone

    Count the drawer, set the alarm, walk to the bus. One timer covers all of it, and Alert Now is a hold away if something feels wrong.

  6. A runner in silhouette on a rocky ridge at sunset.

    A trail run with patchy signal

    Your trace shows which way you went. If the timer runs out while you have no signal, your contacts are still alerted, with the last location your phone sent.

  7. Two people at a restaurant table by a window as the sun goes down.

    Meeting someone new

    Start it as Discreet so your friends see nothing unless it runs out. Put their name and the restaurant in the notes, so that’s the first thing they’d read.

    • Discreet
  8. A woman with a backpack and a coffee waiting on a train platform at night.

    Traveling alone at night

    Set it for the length of the trip and a little more. Your family can follow it from home, and if you don’t check in, they see where you are.

Each card takes its color from its timer’s length, the way the app colors your saved timers.

Be ready before you need it.

Setting up takes a few minutes: add the people you trust, choose your two PINs, and keep a timer ready for the next walk home.

Coming soon to the App Store and Google Play

Free to join. For adults 18 and older in the United States.