Personal safety app
A personal safety app turns a smartphone into a safety device: an SOS trigger, safety timers, check-ins, and live location shared with responders.
For many roles, the phone people already carry is the most practical safety device. A good safety app puts an alarm two gestures away (slide-to-alert, triple-tap), runs timers and welfare check-ins in the background, and streams location and audio to whoever responds when something fires.
Apps have honest limits. They depend on the phone being charged, in reach, and usable mid-incident - conditions that aggression scenarios routinely break. In the FY26 Duress data, app-based activations skew heavily toward lower-risk, precautionary use, while wearable devices carry more of the confirmed emergencies. That is not an argument against apps; it is an argument for matching the tool to the risk.
The strongest deployments treat the app as the software layer of a system: app-only for lower-risk staff, app plus a wearable trigger for client-facing roles, all reporting into the same monitored response.