Incident Detection
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Incident Detection

Automatic crash detection, check-ins, and emergency alerts for your rides, runs, hikes, and gym workouts.

Available now on Google Play

What it does

Session tracking

Bike, 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.

Crash detection

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.

Emergency alerts

If the countdown runs out, your emergency contacts are notified automatically — by SMS and, for your primary contact, an automatic phone call.

Check-in mode

Skip activity tracking entirely — just answer "still OK?" at whatever interval you choose, with the same emergency alert if you don't respond.

Gym mode

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.

Reminders

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.

Guardian mode

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 & follow routes

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.

Heart-rate alerts

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.

Bike radar alerts

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.

Works without GPS too

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.

Strava upload (optional)

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.

Local-first & private

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.

See it in action

Home screen with an activity picker (Bike selected) and a live map
Pick an activity and go
Possible crash detected — notifying emergency contacts in 26 seconds, with an I'm OK button
Cancel it, or contacts are notified
Live banner during a session warning that emergency alerts may not work right now because there is no cellular service
Warns you live if alerts can't get through
Guardian mode screen showing a paired buddy can currently see your location
Guardian mode
Check-in session in progress, periodic are-you-OK prompts with no route tracking
Check-in mode
Session history list, with a warning icon flagging sessions where an incident alert was triggered
History flags sessions with an alert
Session summary with synced pace, heart rate, and cadence charts and a tooltip
Pace, heart rate & cadence charts
Settings screen with notification, resend, and fall-detection-sensitivity options
Tune detection to your activity
Drink water reminder during a session, with a Done button and a Get help now option
In-session reminders, always with an out

Privacy, by design

Incident Detection doesn't have a server. Read exactly what the app does and doesn't do with your data.

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