Automatic crash detection, check-ins, and emergency alerts for your rides, runs, hikes, and gym workouts.
Available now on Google PlayBike, ride a motorcycle, run, walk, hike, drive, or kayak/canoe — GPS route on a map, distance, speed, duration, and elevation gain, plus heart rate and cadence from an optional paired Bluetooth sensor, saved to your session history.
A sudden spike in acceleration and rotation, confirmed by a sharp drop in GPS speed, triggers a countdown you can cancel if you're fine.
If the countdown runs out, your emergency contacts are notified automatically — by SMS and, for your primary contact, an automatic phone call.
Skip activity tracking entirely — just answer "still OK?" at whatever interval you choose, with the same emergency alert if you don't respond.
For workouts where your phone stays on the bench, not on you — confirm "I'm OK" yourself with a tap any time, and pair a heart-rate sensor for automatic detection too, with the same emergency alert if 15 minutes pass unanswered.
Predefined prompts like drink water, take vitamins, or stretch — or your own custom ones — running all day or just during a specific activity. Turn on escalation and an unanswered one triggers the same emergency alert as a crash.
Pair with one or more people's phones over Bluetooth so each of you can tell the other is still nearby — with an automatic alert to your own emergency contacts if you lose contact. Turn it on for a single session too, whatever the activity — if something happens, whoever comes looking can use your phone's Bluetooth signal to search the exact area, e.g. off-trail.
Import a GPX file and get turn-by-turn navigation with off-route alerts, or race a past ride as a ghost. Save routes to a library for reuse anytime.
Choose "Plan a route" when picking a navigation route and plan one right in the app, on Google Maps or MapLibre. Set a start (or your location), up to ten stops and a destination for walking, running, cycling or driving, avoid ferries and toll roads if you like, and the route goes straight to turn-by-turn navigation. Switch on "Save to library" to keep it for later. Nothing is sent until you tap Calculate route.
With a paired heart-rate sensor, a sustained abnormal reading — based on your age and resting heart rate — triggers its own alert, escalating to the same emergency pipeline as a crash if you don't respond. Not limited to workouts: it runs the same way during a Car or Motorcycle session, Check-in, or Guardian mode, so it can catch a medical event even when you're not exercising.
Pair an iGPSport SR Mini radar — the only model currently supported — for a live proximity bar showing traffic approaching from behind, and a close-pass alert that escalates to the same emergency pipeline as a crash if you don't respond.
Follow a structured workout during a Bike or Run session — one of the app's built-in plans, or your own imported as a FIT file — with live targets for heart rate, cadence, power, or speed, and a summary of how you did afterward. Build your own plan right in the app, including repeating interval blocks.
Walking or running on a treadmill? Distance and pace are estimated from your phone's step counter — or read directly from a paired Bluetooth treadmill for real speed and distance.
Connect your own Strava account to upload a finished workout — one at a time, or automatically if you turn that on. GPS-free sessions (treadmill, Gym) upload too, with real speed/heart-rate data and no route needed. Off by default; nothing is sent until you connect an account.
Guardian mode's remote location sharing can deliver its push notifications over UnifiedPush instead of Google/Firebase — pick any distributor app you like, or use Incident Detection's own built-in one, so no extra app install is required at all. Works fully even on phones with no Google Play Services at all, like GrapheneOS. See the Help & Guide for setup steps.
Pick MapLibre as your map source in Settings — powered by OpenStreetMap, CyclOSM, OpenFreeMap, MapToolKit, or MapTiler tiles instead of Google Maps — or let the app choose it automatically on a phone with no Google Play Services at all, like GrapheneOS. No account needed for any of them; only MapTiler requires an API key (the app's own, not yours) — nothing else Google-related involved in showing the map.
No account, no backend, no analytics, by default. Your routes, sessions, and contacts stay on your device — deleting a session or uninstalling removes them for good. Guardian mode only ever exchanges a random id and a display name directly over Bluetooth with each pairing partner — turning off broadcasting or removing a pairing always requires confirming it's you via your device's own screen lock, so no one else can silently disable it. The one opt-in exception is Strava upload, off unless you connect an account.
A separate companion app of utilities for trips and testing: a compass, GNSS and satellite info, go-to-point navigation, an online route planner whose routes you can send straight to Incident Detection as a GPX file, a frequency generator with an SOS tone, and a Location simulator that replays a GPX track as mock location — handy for trying Incident Detection out without leaving the house.
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