How it works

Set up by the worrier.
Barely noticed by the wanderer.

Guardians do everything on the web. Members install one app and get on with their day. Here’s the whole journey.

1

Start a circle on the web

Name it, pick a plan, and invite your family with a simple code or link. Every setting lives here, not buried in the app.

2

Your family joins in one minute

They install the app, type the code, allow location. That is genuinely the entire setup on their side.

3

The app goes quiet

A heartbeat every 5 minutes, silently, in a pocket. No notifications. No nagging. If someone goes quiet for 10 minutes, their Inner Circle knows, with a last-known pin.

4

If something goes wrong

Volume up, up, down fires an SOS to every Guardian with an exact location. Only a Guardian can mark it safe, and a distressed Member can’t be pressured into cancelling.

Try it right now

Three presses. That’s the whole app.

On a real phone it’s volume up, up, down: in a pocket, screen locked, no unlocking. Go on, give it a go.

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Inside the SOS

Everything that happens when you press.

One quiet gesture sets all of this going. You never have to remember any of it.

The silent SOS

Three presses nobody sees.

Silent SOS

Volume up, up, down. In a pocket, in a handbag, phone locked. No screens, no taps, no sound.

Keep pressing, we keep shouting

Every repeat re-alerts your Guardians with your latest location. Press again during the countdown and it sends instantly.

A 15 second safety net

Caught it by accident? One tap cancels before anything is sent.

When every second counts

The alert that will not be ignored.

Alerts that refuse to be missed

An SOS breaks through silent mode, Do Not Disturb and Focus on your Guardian’s phone, and repeats every minute until someone responds.

Live tracking the moment it matters

Guardians watch the location move on the map, updated every few seconds, with battery level. Like tracking a taxi, but for the person you love.

On your lock screen, live

The SOS stays pinned to the lock screen and Dynamic Island with a live timer, and shows “Seen by Dad” the moment a Guardian responds.

Evidence, automatically

During an SOS the phone records short audio clips that your Guardians can listen to later.

Even if the phone goes dark

Phone dies or loses signal mid alert? Guardians are told instantly, with the last known location and battery level.

Loud or invisible

Their choice, in the moment.

Loud mode

One tap, or a third silent trigger, turns the phone into a personal alarm: siren, flashing torch, and a full screen beacon asking anyone who finds it to call 999.

Stealth mode

Or the exact opposite. Everything runs invisibly, and only your circle knows.

Always on watch

It looks after itself, so you don’t have to.

Protection that heals itself

Close the app by mistake and Circle247 notices within seconds, nudges you to reopen it, and quietly restarts itself as you move. If it stays off, you and your circle are both told.

SOS from the Action button

Bind Circle247 to the iPhone Action button, or a double tap on the back of the phone. Help is one press away even when the app is closed.

The screen never sleeps during an SOS

Your status, your Guardians’ responses and the alarm button stay in front of you until you are safe.

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Two roles, one promise

Guardians watch. Members wander.

Guardians are the parents, partners and grandparents who worry. They see the live map, get every alert, and are the only ones who can resolve one. Members are the people being watched over. Their app stays silent, their SOS is three presses away, and they never pay a penny: the Guardian’s plan covers them.

Start your circle

Two minutes of setup. Years of easier evenings.

Members never pay. Your plan is what holds the circle together.

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