Make a difference

AidPoint, where the will of society meets the needs of the citizen. Be part of building tomorrow´s safety network.

  • Not just an app - a new layer of community safety infrastructure
  • It’s collective presence — and individual action through a good deed
  • Feeling unsafe is a global trend we aim to reverse
  • Valuable even when it’s not used — feel safer because it exists
Download the app
Registration happens in the app and takes under a minute.

Why AidPoint?

AidPoint is built on a simple but powerful idea: in every community there are people who want to help others – AidPoint Responders. There are also homes, businesses, and public places that can serve as temporary Safe Places.

Not everyone has someone close to contact when they start to feel unsafe. Maybe you’re new in town, traveling, or just alone when you’re on your way somewhere. With AidPoint, you choose: digital companionship from Responders via Safer Way, head to a Safe Place to settle down, or get Responders who meet you where you are. It’s neighborly help for our time – crowdsourced safety in real time. A large network of Responders and Safe Places means help is actually nearby when something happens to you or someone you know, wherever you are.

Low individual effort with extremely high collective impact. We measure success in safety, not in the number of alerts. The more people in the network, the safer society becomes for everyone – even if the app is never needed.

How it works

Download the app
Install the AidPoint app from the App Store or Google Play. Sign in and manage your account.
Registered
As a registered user, you are a Responder who can help others. You can also register a Safe Place — quickly and easily. When needed, you can seek help if you feel threatened, unsafe, or injured.
Cases
All sessions are logged by AidPoint. For in-person meetups — at your location or at a Safe Place — the help-seeker and Responder see each other on the map and can chat. For digital follow-alongs via Safer Way, your live route is shared with your followers during the session, and you can chat there too.

Roles and flows

Safer Way (flow)
When you want to feel safer with digital followers on your way to a destination, or when you’re just out walking without a specific destination.
Walking, running, cycling, taking a taxi, or waiting for the bus – let digital companions follow your route. AidPoint’s local responders are selected by the system along your route to the destination (if a destination is selected), so if something happens they’re nearby. You can also choose saved AidPoint contacts (local/global following) or send a "follow me" link to friends/family (local/global following). Followers see you on a map, your speed, and you can chat with each other. You get information about who your followers are and the distance to them.
You as a Responder (role)
Can follow someone digitally in Safer Way cases via map when the person is moving from their location to a specified destination or does not have a specific destination. You see the person seeking help on the map, the person’s speed, time spent in the case, and can chat during the ongoing case.
Can meet up with a person seeking help nearby who needs assistance on site to move forward or who feels unsafe, lost or afraid.
Can register your home or your business as a Safe Place where a person seeking help can request assistance at your Safe Place. This usually means supporting someone as they continue on their way or helping them contact someone when the person seeking help may feel worried, afraid, or unsafe right now.
You as a Responder can always choose between accepting or declining when a case alerts in the app. Clear instructions about the person seeking help, what has happened, and GPS (route and distance) as well as chat are shown when you have accepted the case. But remember that you’re always in control of your own involvement.
Register a Safe Place (role)
A Safe Place can be private households – homes, kind people who temporarily welcome someone who feels unsafe or afraid and needs help for the moment. It can also be businesses, offices, and public places.
It’s about creating more safe points in everyday life for everyone. Places where someone can be seen, welcomed, and get a chance to settle down, make a call, or wait for further help. As the person responsible for a Safe Place, you never have to let someone in if you don’t feel safe doing so. AidPoint logs all events, and with a matching code in the case, you’ll know you’re welcoming the right person. A person seeking help cannot come to your Safe Place via AidPoint unless you have accepted the request beforehand.
Help Where You Are (flow)
When you need help at the location where you are.
If you’re lost, can’t find your way in a new city, feel stressed, have a panic attack, are scared, or generally feel unsafe, you can ask AidPoint Responders to meet you at your location. During an active case, you and the Responder see each other on a map and can chat. You also see information about the other person such as name, age, gender, and city of residence. When you meet, you both show a matching code from the AidPoint system for identification.
Person seeking help (role)
Can request a digital companion from your current location to a chosen destination. The system selects followers along your route if a destination is set, otherwise followers within a certain distance from your current location are chosen. Followers see you on a map, your speed, and you can chat.
Can head to the nearest Safe Place from the list where you can settle down for a while, get help calling someone, or otherwise move forward. Once accepted by the Safe Place, you see where to go on a live map and the Safe Place sees where you are.
Can get help where you are, and here too a map is shown for you and the Responder so you can find each other and chat. There’s also a faster flow for when it feels more urgent and minutes can matter. With Priority Help, the system looks for two Responders to get to where you, as the person seeking help, are. For all physical meetings, everyone shows a matching code from the AidPoint system for identification.
AidPoint does not replace the need to call emergency services (SOS) in acute emergencies.

Safe to join - helping is a given

  • If someone else needs help, if something happens nearby — because you want to be a good person
  • Voluntary — you can pause or stop at any time
  • It’s about safety for everyone — the likelihood that help is nearby