#6 in Top 10 Best Personal Safety Apps
Send instant texts to contacts or emergency services with your GPS location
Features
Program friends, family, or 911 as contacts
Shares your distress message with a live GPS location
Highlights
Free, in-app purchases
iOS, Android
Description
With Silent Beacon, you can personalize emergency contacts into your phone and alert them with the simple tap of your screen. Your contacts can be friends, family members, or even the police, and you can easily change them based on where you are or what type of situation you expect to be in. This simple, effective app shares a distress message as well as your GPS location so that your contacts can respond quickly to the emergency.
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With no download required, the SMS-based service offers a safety solution to all users
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