SOS Guardian - Panic Button

SOS Guardian is a personal panic button (SOS) that protects you in emergencies when you can't speak or ask for help.

The moment you trigger the alert — by pressing the power button 5 times, shaking the phone, tapping the SOS widget on your home screen, or the Quick Settings tile — the app instantly:

• 📞 Calls your contacts one after another in the order you set, and keeps retrying until someone answers. You choose how many rounds in Settings.
• 📩 Opens a ready-made SMS to every emergency contact, carrying your message and a map link to your location — one tap on Send and it goes. (Google Play does not allow any app to send SMS on its own, which is why that tap is needed.)
• 🎙️ Silently records audio of your surroundings as evidence.
• 📷 Silently captures photos from the front and back cameras.
• 🔇 Stealth mode: the screen stays black and silent so nobody knows you called for help. (No SMS is sent in this mode — opening the messaging app would give you away.)

More features:
• 🔴 An SOS widget on your home screen: one tap fires the alert without opening the app at all — and you add it with a single button inside the app. This is the fastest and most dependable way to trigger it.
• Up to 5 emergency contacts in priority order (police, dad, mom, siblings…).
• 🖤 Invisible calling: a black screen during the alert so an attacker can't see the call if they grab the phone.
• ⏱️ Safety check-in timer: if you don't confirm you're safe in time, an SOS is sent automatically.
• 📲 Auto-answer: if a contact calls you back, the phone answers on speaker so they hear your surroundings.
• A voice message in your own voice, played on the loudspeaker during calls.
• A PIN so only you can stop an active alert.
• A short safety countdown to cancel a false alarm.
• A loud siren when you need it.
• Runs reliably in the background, with guidance to enable auto-start.
• 19 languages (Arabic, English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Turkish, Russian, Chinese, Hindi, Urdu, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Bengali, Persian, Malay, Pashto, Swahili), selectable inside the app.

⚙️ Important for reliability:
Inside the app, grant "Display over other apps" and the battery exemption. Without them an alert raised while the screen is off may not complete — Android blocks apps from starting a call or a message while they are in the background.

Great for:
Women, elderly people, children, lone workers — anyone who could face theft, kidnapping, or a sudden medical emergency.

⚠️ Note: SOS Guardian is a helper tool and is not a replacement for directly calling official emergency services whenever you are able to.

Developed by HiTec.

Recent changes:
• A new About screen at the end of Settings: developer details and version, with email and WhatsApp one tap away.
• Four new languages: Persian, Malay, Pashto and Swahili — the app now speaks 19 languages.