Stay Safe

A radar for crime risk, not speed cameras

What it does

One screen, one job

Open the app and see the risk level for exactly where you are: green, yellow, orange, red, or black, each relative to the covered city or county around it — a one-line explanation comes with it.

What to watch out for

Each area also shows its most common crime, such as pickpocketing, car break-ins or bike theft, with a few practical tips to avoid it. Shoplifting, fraud and drug offences are left out on purpose: they are often the most numerous, but nobody walking through can be their victim. Where a source separates domestic violence, that is left out too, because it happens at home, not on the street.

Stay warned on the move

Turn on background alerts and get a notification when you walk, cycle, or drive into a riskier area, even with the app closed. Off by default, and explained before it ever asks for the permission it needs.

Safety buttons that work anywhere

Share your live location: family or a friend follow you on a map in any browser — no app, no account — for 1 hour, 8 hours or until you stop. Or call the police emergency number for the country you are in — after a confirmation step, through your phone's own dialler. Both work with or without coverage, anywhere on earth. We show no number at all for a country whose emergency number we have not verified, rather than a guess.

It works offline once you've been there

The first time you're in a covered area, the app downloads that area's data once. After that it works with no connection at all. No account, and the risk level is worked out on your device. Your location leaves it only while you share it live, and is deleted when sharing ends.

Coverage

Each area is scored only against its own official crime data — from the police, prosecutors or the statistics office. New areas appear in the app without an update to install. Sources publish at different rates — some every month, some once a year, and Scotland's neighbourhood figures date from 2017/18 — so the app always shows which period an area's data covers.

Everywhere else, 184 countries are rated as a whole, against each other, by their intentional homicide rate (UNODC, via the World Bank) — the one crime figure that means the same thing in every country. The app says plainly when a rating is country-wide, and names the year of each country's figure. Where no figure exists, it shows "no data yet," never a false "safe" reading — and still gives you the safety buttons above.

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• Neighbourhood by neighbourhood
• Town by town
• Region by region
• Country by country

The colours show how finely an area is rated, not how risky it is. Drag to move, scroll or pinch to zoom, and tap an area for its name.

Missing a city or region?

Tell us where — adrinasoftware@gmail.com, or use "Request a city or region" on the app's coverage map. We add a place as soon as its police or government publishes figures for it by area; where none are published, we say so rather than guess.

Support

Questions, corrections and problem reports: adrinasoftware@gmail.com.