NextWatch: Neighborhood Watch

NextWatch is a private safety and community app for your neighborhood watch community. Only neighbors who are verified as living inside your community's area can join, so you know who you're talking to.

See something unusual? Report it in seconds and every member gets the alert. Need help? Your community's emergency numbers are one tap away.

★ REPORT INCIDENTS IN SECONDS
• Pick a category (suspicious activity, break-in or theft, vandalism and more), add a short description, photos or videos, and the place it happened.
• Report at a spot on the map, where you are now, or at your own home.
• Neighbors can comment, react and tap "I'm going to check" so everyone knows help is on the way.
• Admins move each report from Open to Resolved to Closed, with clear color-coded status.

★ A LIVE SAFETY MAP
• Every active incident inside your community's boundary, on one map.
• Switch between the map and a list, open any incident, and get directions in one tap.
• Your home is never shown to other members as an exact pin: they only see an approximate area.

★ ONE-TAP SOS
• The SOS button opens your phone's dialer with your local police and your community's emergency contacts.
• Calls go straight through your phone, never through our servers.
• NextWatch does not replace emergency services. In an emergency, always call your local emergency number.

★ VERIFIED NEIGHBORS ONLY
• Each community has a boundary drawn on the map by its creator.
• When you join, NextWatch checks once that you are inside that area. If you're not (at work, moving in next week), you explain why and an admin decides.
• Admins approve new members, share invite links, and can remove or ban anyone who breaks the rules.

★ YOUR COMMUNITY FEED
• Share news, photos and videos with the people on your street.
• Like, comment, and turn comments off on your own posts.
• Create events with RSVPs and reminders: street clean-ups, block parties, watch meetings.
• Run polls to decide together, with single or multiple choices, a closing date and anonymous voting.
• Organize collections: admins post a funding request with payment details, members declare their payment, and admins confirm it and export the list.

★ PRIVATE MESSAGES
• Message any member one to one, or contact your community's admins.
• Send photos, videos and PDF documents.

★ NOTIFICATIONS THAT MATTER
• Instant alerts for new incidents and status updates in your community.
• Choose which categories you want: incidents, posts, events, messages.
• A notification center keeps everything you missed.

★ BUILT FOR COMMUNITY ADMINS
• Create a community in a few steps: name, photo, boundary on the map, police number and emergency contacts.
• Manage join requests, members, admins and invite links.
• Link your existing WhatsApp group and share new incidents to it with a preview card.
• Every post goes through automatic moderation, and members can report content for admins to review.

★ PRIVACY AND SAFETY FIRST
• Your exact home location is only visible to you and your community's admins.
• Location is used to verify membership and show where incidents happen. NextWatch does not track you in the background.
• Sign in with your Google account. No password to remember.
• Delete your account at any time from Settings.

★ BEAUTIFUL IN LIGHT AND DARK
A clean, modern design that follows your phone's light or dark mode and works on phones and tablets.

Start a NextWatch community for your street, estate or village today, and invite your neighbors to look out for each other.

Questions or ideas? Use Help & feedback in the app's Settings.

Recent changes:
• Add a location to your posts, polls and funding requests, and change or remove it any time
• Tap "Location" on a post to see the spot on a map and get directions
• Bug fixes and improvements