About this app

SAFETY & COMMUNICATIONS SERVICES FOR THE HAJJ AND UMRAH TRAVELERS

Ask your travel agency or your tour guide about SOHBA Service and your SOhba Trip Code - They can get your trip listed on SOHBA APP for FREE , so you and the rest of the travelers can ensure safe and superior Hajj/Umrah trip.

** Newly added service **
Map locations of Tasheel company for Visa and Finger Print in Jordan and Egypt:
To see the map of Tasheel locations in Jordan, enter Sohba code: تسهيل
To see the map of Tasheel locations in Egypt, enter Sohba code: تساهيل

SOHBA App is the ultimate safety & communications APP for the Hajj & Umrah traveler.
It helps the travel agencies and tour organizers to ensure the maximum safety to the pilgrims , while offering them a great service for location sharing, view the trip itinerary (day by day trip program), free messaging and instant communications between all the trip companions.

**Ask your travel agency about SOHBA service, and they will provide you with your trip code**

** If you are a tour guide or Hajj/Umrah trip organizer, Sohba APP offers you a great free service to manage your trip efficiently, please your travelers, and stay in good contact with them forever.

Contact us to create a trip for your group, and provide you with the "Sohba trip code", which allows you to invite your travelers to enjoy Sohba APP services.
Signup on www.sohba.com
or contact us on: +201003176331

By having a trip on SOHBA, you will enjoy the following services and features:

* Map of the Trip *
Custom map showing the hotels and residencies of your trip, tents location (in Mina and Arafat during Hajj), so the pilgrim never get lost as he can navigate easily to the tent or the hotel.

Identify the Bus Stop: The map shows the bus location anytime, so the pilgrim can go easily to the group bus, even if the parking has hundreds of buses.

Live tracking of the bus: The family members back home can track the bus carrying the pilgrims among the holy cities and places, and can know their whereabouts anytime.


* Emergency & Safety *
The travel mates can optionally "follow" each others to know their locations anytime, so family members and friends can easily gather after prayers , or find their locations if they got lost.

In the case of emergencies, the traveler can send SOS through the APP, and the message with the traveler location will be sent to all the tour guides and the travel mate of the traveler, so they can reach him quickly.

* The Trip Program & Updates *

The Trip includes the details of the trip program , sorted by day and time. Also it includes the important notes about the trip like the flight numbers and gates.
The tour guide can send notifications to all the travelers whenever there is a change in the program.

*Easy communications among all the travelers *

The travelers can see the contact ad photos of the tour guides and the bus driver.
The travelers can communicate with each others during and after the trip (while maintaining the phone numbers privacy of all the travelers , as the travelers won't see the phone numbers of each others).
And the tour guide can send information and important notes to the travelers before or during the trip.

** Sohba is a the new way of managing trips , designed to ensure safe and enjoyable experiences to all the travelers. Sohba service must be initiated by the Team leader of the trip or the tour guide or the travel agency.
Ask your Travel Agency about SOHBA service, it is FREE, will save your time and help you enjoy the SOHBA.

New features

Remove SMS and phone log permissions
Adding Umrah Guide
Support information-only trips for Tasheel company Visa locations
Fix bugs with the chat service

App Permissions

Allows access to the list of accounts in the Accounts Service.
Allows applications to open network sockets.
This constant was deprecated in API level 21. No longer enforced.
Allows an app to access precise location.
Allows an app to access approximate location.
Allows an application to write to external storage.
Allows an application to read from external storage.
Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.
Allows applications to access information about networks.