If you don’t make it home, your friends will know.
Set a check-in before a first date, a late walk, or a night out. Miss it, and Panic sends your friends your plan, where you were and what you recorded. Get home safe and no alarm is ever sent.
Works in your phone’s browser. Your friends don’t need the app.
- Dinner
- Movie
- HomeMade it
Three steps, and the hard part happens without you.
- 1
Plan it
Add your stops, who you’re meeting and when you’ll be home. Or just start a 15-minute timer for the walk to your car.
- 2
Go
Check off each stop as you get there. Plans change? Post an update and move your home-by time. Something feels wrong? Snap a photo or say the plate number out loud.
- 3
Home, or help
Enter your PIN when you’re home and it’s over. Miss your time and Panic alerts your friends in the order you chose, even if your phone is gone.
Built for the moments you can’t type.
Hold to walk
Keep your thumb on the screen. Let go and you have 10 seconds to enter your PIN. If your phone is knocked away, the silence sets off the alarm.
Stops along the way
Dinner, then the laundromat, then home. Each stop can have its own time, so a missed stop raises the alarm hours before “home by”.
Photos, video, voice
Each one uploads as you take it. If your phone is taken mid-sentence, your friends still hear everything up to that moment.
An emergency code
If someone makes you cancel, enter your second code instead of your PIN. Panic looks like it turned off and quietly tells your friends you’re in trouble.
Friends in your order
Everyone at once, or two at a time until someone answers. By text, email or an automated call. The first friend to tap “I’m on it” stops Panic alerting more people, and everyone on the alert page sees who’s on it.
Share your location
With the friends you pick, for an hour, a night or until you stop. They see where you are now, never where you’ve been.
Place alerts
Home, school, work. Friends hear when you arrive or leave (by email, or by text if you turn texts on), without a tap, while Panic is open on your phone. The phone app will do it in the background.
Who you’re with
Their name, number, what they look like, even a photo. Sealed until it’s needed, so your friends know exactly who to look for.
Your friends get everything they need, in one link.
No app to install. The alert opens a page with your last location, the people you were with, your stops, your updates and every photo, video and voice note. It updates live while the alarm is on.
When you’re safe, everyone who was alerted gets an all-clear.
Jordan may need help
Jordan didn’t check in at “The bar” by 1:15 AM.
Get home safe, and nobody ever knows where you went.
Your plan, the people you meet, your updates, your location, photos and voice notes are sealed. Friends can only see them if an alarm goes off.
Check in safe and Panic deletes who you met, your updates, your location, photos and recordings (unless you choose to keep them). Deleted, not hidden: only a bare record stays in your History (when, its name and your stops). So you can be honest about where you’re going without worrying who will find out.
Try it free for 3 days. Plans from $6.99 a month.
No card needed. Every plan starts with the same 3-day trial: 2 friends, 2 videos and 10 everyday texts, no automated calls. Then choose a plan to keep going. Billed monthly. Cancel any time.
Swipe the table sideways to compare all four plans →
| Basic$6.99/moCancel any timeStart free trial | Pro Most protection$14.99/moCancel any timeStart free trial | Family 5 people$22.99/moCancel any timeStart free trial | Family Plus 10 people$34.99/moCancel any timeStart free trial | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alerts and check-ins | ||||
| Emergency contactsEach one alerted by text, email and (on Pro and up) a call | 2 | 5 | 8 each | 10 each |
| Alerts by text and email | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Automated phone calls to friends | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Timers, stops, hold button, panic button | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Emergency codeLooks like you canceled, quietly alerts friends | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Alarm runs on our serversFires on time even if your phone is smashed | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| AlarmsNever use up your texts. Fair use below. | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| One-tap templates | 10 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
| Everyday SMS a monthPlace alerts, links and updates, counted in SMS segments (a long text is 2–3). Off by default (email is free). Alarms never count. Up to 20 / 50 / 100 / 150 a day. | 65 | 100 | 200 shared | 350 shared |
| Everyday emails a monthThe same messages, by email. Alarm emails are never counted. | 65 | 150 | 300 shared | 500 shared |
| Text me an excuse to leave | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Location | ||||
| Share your location with friends you pick | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Places with arrive and leave alerts | 2 | 10 | 10 | 10 |
| History keptCheck-ins. Your location history keeps your newest 50 spots. | 45 days | 45 days | 45 days | 60 days |
| Recording | ||||
| Voice notes, photos and video in an alarm | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Record the walk to your car | 10 min | 15 min | 15 min | 15 min |
| Everyday video a monthFilm as long as your minutes last, saved every 2 seconds; Watch me counts. Alarm video never counts. | 15 min | 45 min | 120 min shared | 240 min shared |
| StorageAlarm recordings are always stored. | 1 GB | 3 GB | 6 GB shared | 12 GB shared |
| Watch me: friends watch you liveUp to 6 minutes a watch | 2 friends, 15 min a day | 2 friends, 30 min a day | 2 friends, 30 min a day | 2 friends, 30 min a day |
| Saved videos kept | 2 | 75 | 75 | 75 |
| Your people | ||||
| Friends reply on your alert page | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| People on the planEveryone gets their own private account | 1 | 1 | 5 | 10 |
After the 3-day trial, choose a plan to keep going. Cancel any time in Settings. Family: you plus 4 people; Family Plus: you plus 9. Everyone gets Pro’s features, and the family shares one allowance of everyday SMS, emails, video minutes and storage. Need more everyday texts? Add 100 for $4.99 any time; they never expire. We email you at 80% and when they run out.
Fair use: every alarm reaches every friend. Each alarm texts your first 25 friends (and calls them, on plans with calls) and emails the rest. After 6 alarms in a day, alarms skip the automated calls; after 20 in a day or 10 in 30 days, they go by email, except to friends with no email address, who still get a text.
Questions
What if my phone dies or gets smashed?
The alarm runs on our servers, not your phone. If your phone goes silent, the alarm still goes off on time.
Do my friends need the app?
No. They get a text, email or phone call with a link that opens in any browser.
Does Panic track me all the time?
No. Only while a check-in runs, or if you turn on location sharing (with friends you pick, or friends who see you in their Panic app) or place alerts, and you can stop any time. When you share your location, friends see your latest spot, not your history (if an alarm goes off, the alert page shows that check-in’s trail). Your own location history is yours to view, turn off or delete, and we never sell it. If police tell us you’re missing, we may share your location with them for a limited time (how).
Does Panic call 911?
No. Panic alerts the people you choose. If you’re in danger and can, call 911 yourself.
Is there an iPhone app?
Panic works in Safari and Chrome today, and you can add it to your home screen. A native iPhone app is on the way.