About this app

Pocket SOS is the Swiss Army Knife for emergency services and personal assistance, to have absolutely on all phones or in all pockets !

The application is fully customizable to fit all needs.

Pocket SOS Widgets (shortcuts) give you an easy access to the main features.

List of the main features:

• Locate yourself easily.

• Easily connect to the emergency services in more than 180 countries and territories (112, 911, 999, ...).

• Send an SMS (accessible for the hearing impaired) to the emergency services with your location and the Google Map link (114 for France and 112 for Luxembourg only).

• Add a personal emergency number that can be reached by phone, SMS or MMS

• Create your health record (’I am’ feature)

• Trigger a loud alarm in case of aggression or discomfort.

• Send your location by SMS

• Memorize / Find easily a location (parking, restaurant, meeting point, ...).

• Easily join your insurance assistance

• Easily join the credit card opposition center of your bank


The list of 181 countries covered by Pocket SOS :

The 26 countries of the EUROPEAN UNION, SOUTH AFRICA, ALAND, ALBANIA, ALGERIA, ANDORRA, SAUDI ARABIA, ARGENTINA, ARMENIA, ARUBA, AUSTRALIA, BAHAMAS, BAHRAIN, BANGLADESH, BARBADOS, BENIN, BERMUDA, BOLIVIA, BONARY, BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA, BOTSWANA, CANADA, CHILE, CHINA, COLOMBIA, COMBODIA, SOUTH KOREA, COSTA RICA, COTE D'IVOIRE, CURACAO, DJIBOUTI, DOMINICA, EGYPT, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, ECUADOR, FIJI, GEORGIA, GHANA, GIBRALTAR, GRANADA , GREENLAND, GUADELOUPE, GUATEMALA, GUERNESEY, GUINEA, EQUATORIAL GUINEA, FRENCH GUINEA, GUINEA-BISSAU, GUYANA, HAITI, HONDURAS, HONG KONG, MAN ISLAND, CAIMANS ISLANDS, FAROIS ISLANDS, MALOUINE ISLANDS, MARSHALL ISLANDS, BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS, INDONESIA, IRAN, IRAQ, ICELAND, ISRAEL, JAMAICA, JAPAN, JERSEY, JORDAN, KAZAKHSTAN, KENYA, KIRIBATI, KUWAIT, LAOS, LEBANON, LIECHTENSTEIN, MACAO, MADAGASCAR, MALAYSIA, MALDIVES, MALI, MOROCCO, MARTINIQUE, MAURITIUS, MAURITANIA, MAYOTTE, MEXICO, MOLDOVA, MONACO, MONGOLIA, MONTENEGRO, MOZAMBIQUE, MYANMAR, NAMIBIA, NAURU, NEPAL, NIGERIA, NORWAY, NEW ZEALAND, OMAN, UGANDA, UZBEKISTAN, PAKISTAN, PALESTINE, PANAMA, PARAGUAY, PERU, PHILIPPINES, POLAND, FRENCH POLYNESIA, QATAR, CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC, REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, REPUBLIC OF CONGO , REUNION, RUSSIA, RWANDA, SAINT BARTHELEMY, SAINT CHRISTOPHE AND NIEVES, SAINT HELENE AND TRISTAN DA CUNHA, SAN MARINO, SAINT MARTIN, SAINT PETER AND MIQUELON, SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES, HOLY LUCIA, SALVADOR, SAMOA, SERBIA, SEYCHELLES, SIERRA LEONE, SINGAPORE, SUDAN, SWITZERLAND, SURINAME, SWAZILAND, TAIWAN,
TAJIKISTAN, TANZANIA, CHAD, THAILAND, EAST TIMOR, TOGO, TONGA, TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, TUNISIA, TURKMENISTAN, TURKEY, TUVALU, UKRAINE, THE UNITED STATES, URUGUAY, VANUATU, VATICAN, VENEZUELA, VIETNAM, WALLIS AND FUTUNA, ZAMBIA, ZIMBABWE

Classification of possible uses by headings :

• Main uses of Pocket SOS: Alerts, SOS, Self Defense, Alarm, First Aid, Emergencies, Assistance Insurance, Travel, Hiking, Sport, ...

• Telephone insurance assistance: ALLIANZ, AMAGUIZ, AMF, AVIVA, AXA, DIRECT INSURANCE, EUROFIL, GENERALI, GMF, GROUPAMA, MAAF, MACIF, MACSF, MAIF, MMA, MATMUT.

• SMS insurance assistance: AMF, GMF, MAAF, MATMUT.

• CreditCard opposition assistance: Banque Postale, Barclays, BforBank, BNP Paribas, , Boursorama, Caisse d'Epargne, CIC, Crédit Agricole, Crédit du Nord, Crédit Mutuel, Fortuneo, ING Direct, HSBC, LCL, Monabanq, Orange Bank, Societe Générale.

• Dozens of emergency numbers listed: 112, 911, 000, 999, 100, 101, 102, 107, 01, 02, 03, ...

New features

Optimized version

App Permissions

Allows an application to initiate a phone call without going through the Dialer user interface for the user to confirm the call.
Allows read only access to phone state, including the phone number of the device, current cellular network information, the status of any ongoing calls, and a list of any PhoneAccounts registered on the device.
Allows an app to access precise location.
Allows an app to access approximate location.
Allows an application to send SMS messages.
Allows applications to access information about networks.
Allows applications to open network sockets.
Allows applications to set the wallpaper.
Allows an application to write to external storage.
Allows an application to read from external storage.