Zone Tick

Family Safety SOS

Free · iPhone and iPadAndroidiPhone and Android

Free to install · no card needed

Live location of your family circle on a map Home screen: SOS button, family and your day Shake the phone and say help to alert your family

Real screens from the app

Putting it on someone else’s phone?

Send them one link. It opens the right store on their phone, iPhone or Android.

Setting up an Android phone? Google Play Setting up an iPhone? App Store

QR code that opens Zone Tick in the right app store

Or scan with a phone’s camera — it opens straight in that phone’s store.

What you get, free

No trial timer on these — they stay free.

One-tap SOS

Alerts your circle with your live position, and texts contacts who don’t have the app — automatically on Android, as a ready-written message on iPhone.

Crash & fall detection

Accelerometer and gyroscope based, with sensitivity you can tune yourself.

Live location

Share with your whole circle on the free plan, inside a private circle only. Free SOS alerts reach 2 of them; Premium alerts everyone.

Daily check-ins

A two-second tap to tell everyone you are okay, with a mood and short status.

Family chat

Group and one-to-one messaging built in, so safety talk is not scattered elsewhere.

Inactivity alerts

Tells your circle if the phone hasn’t been unlocked or moved for 24, 48 or 72 hours — a backstop for anyone living alone.

After you install

  1. Create your circleStart a private family circle and share the invite code with people you trust.
  2. Add emergency contactsNominate who gets an SMS if you trigger SOS — they do not need the app.
  3. Pick your featuresSwitch on only the detection your household wants. Everything sensitive is off by default.
  4. Practise onceRun a calm SOS drill so nobody is surprised the first time it matters.

Need a hand setting it up?

Our guides walk through a sensible starting configuration, or just email and a human replies.

Zone Tick is a supplementary safety tool, not an emergency service. Always call your local emergency number — 000 in Australia — in a life-threatening situation.