Plans, not panic buttons
Five situations, each written for the person it is happening to. Nothing here needs an account, an app, or having planned ahead — every step is something you can do with the phone already in your hand.
Someone is following me
On foot, in a cab or auto, or in your own car — now.
Do not go home. Going home tells whoever is following you where you live, and it takes you somewhere with fewer people rather …
5 stepsCab, auto and ride safety
Before you get in, and while you are in one.
Check the number plate before the car, not after. The single most common failure is getting into the wrong vehicle. Read the plate against the app, out loud, be…
5 stepsGetting home late
Planned, before you leave — takes two minutes.
Decide the route while you are still somewhere safe. Choosing between two streets is easy at 9pm and hard at 1am. Pick the longer, busier one now and you will not …
4 stepsHarassment at work
Written for the person it is happening to, not for the employer.
Write it down today, before anything else. Date, time, what was said or done, who else was present. Memory of a specific incident fades within days, and …
5 stepsSomeone is stalking me online
Repeated contact, fake accounts, or your photos being used.
Capture it before you block. Blocking is the right move and it usually destroys the record. Screenshot the profile, the messages and the UR…
5 steps
What this will not do
No panic button, and no live location sharing. Both are unreliable in a browser — a backgrounded tab stops receiving position updates and a locked phone stops running the page at all. A safety product that offers a panic button which silently fails is worse than one that never offered it. That is a refusal, not a gap.
You keep your own evidence. Each plan says what to write down and why it matters later. We do not store it for you: harassment evidence is the most sensitive thing a person can hand over, and it is safest in your own hands.