Auggie is a free personal safety and navigation app designed for the low vision community that provides a great experience for all users..
Comprehensive and easy to use features for both everyday safety and real emergencies make this the ultimate personal safety tool for you and your loved ones.
Auggie provides usability that encompasses a range of vision-ability from those with low vision condition to those who are completely blind, which include:
Inclusive Design
We believe that inclusive design gives more people the opportunity to enjoy our apps by ensuring that everyone can use and understand them.
Design with Accessibility in Mind
Accessibility, for us, is not just about making information available to users with disabilities—it's about making information available to everyone, regardless of their capabilities or situation. Designing an app with accessibility in mind means prioritizing simplicity and perceivability and examining every design decision to ensure that it doesn't exclude users who have different abilities or interact with their devices in different ways.
ACCESSIBILITY FEATURES
▷ Fully accessible with VoiceOver and Dynamic Text.
▷ Dark Mode Support
▷ Apple Voice Control Support
▷ Large menu buttons.
▷ Voice Control menu option.
▷ Auggie Speak - Talking alerts and notifications.
▷ Optimized for the color impairments.
▷ Easy to navigate Alert and Accessibility settings.
▷ Voice recognition searching. No keypad necessary.
▷ Search results with Augmented Reality (AR)
▷ Voice recognition searching. No keypad necessary.
PERSONAL SAFETY and EMERGENCY FEATURES
ALERT CONTACTS
▷ Create a trusted Alert Contacts list with family, friends, co-workers.
▷ Choose the type of alerts you want your contacts to receive.
▷ Alert Contacts can be notified by text message or email. A map snapshot showing your location will automatically included in the alert message. If detected, heading and motion such as: in automobile, walking, running or cycling will also be included in the alert message. Even attach a photo, video or audio recording to your Alert.
▷ Your phone’s GPS will be used to include your exact location with every message. mySafety is very gentle on your battery. Our alert features only turn on GPS to get your current location and then immediately turn it off.
NOT SAFE or NEED HELP
Walking home alone, in a dark parking lot or garage, traveling, on a bad date or in any unsafe or unsure situation.
HEALTH or MEDICAL EMERGENCY
Home alone, traveling, at the gym, walking, jogging, hiking or in any situation that you are having a health or medical emergency.
ON MY WAY
Let someone know that you are leaving work or school, heading to an event or friend's house, leaving a location and walking or driving alone or leaving any location that you feel uncomfortable.
HERE I AM
Let friends and family know you have arrived safety or simply let them know where you are.
MARK LOCATION
Leave a digital Breadcrumb Trail!
Find your way back to your hotel, your car in a parking lot, your way back home or back to any marked location.
FIND WAY BACK
Find your way back to any Marked Location with turn-by-turn GPS route directions or simple route instructions.
GET ME THERE
Traveling or in an unfamiliar area, search for any location near you by category such as restaurants, gas stations or emergency services or by place name/address. From the search results, you can call the location, access the location's website or get GPS directions from within the app. You can even get Augmented Reality (AR) powered map views and GPS directions.
*** Auggie is NOT a replacement for calling Emergency 911.
Please note that the use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.
NO SERVICE OR SUBSCRIPTIONS FEES REQUIRED TO USE AUGGIE!
This is a GREAT app and no one seems to know about it!! I truly hope it stays around for ever! It’s not just good for people with VI but also for kids/teens and even myself!! Please keep updating this app and I will keep spreading the word about it to my clients!!
Developer Response
Hi Miss_felix_626, I can’t thank you enough for your kind review of Auggie! I am inspired by your comment that Auggie can be used by teens/kids and yourself! I have always believed that Auggie's features, while designed for the visually impaired, can benefit many audiences. We definitely will continue to update and advance Auggie with our hope of being the best personal safety app. Thank you also for being willing to spread the word about Auggie, it is so much appreciated!
Thank you for choosing Auggie Personal Safety!
We're committed to enhancing your experience with regular updates. This version focuses on changes under the hood to fix bugs and provide performance enhancements and UI improvements to enhance your user experience.
Here's what's new:
Improved handling of international phone number in Emergency Contacts
Many UI improvements made in Get Me There to enhance your user experience.
General bug fixes
Continual improvements made to Accessibility throughout the app.
Update now to enjoy a more refined and feature-rich Auggie Personal Safety experience!
Version 2.0.105
The developer, Vincent Spagnolo, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
Seller
Vincent Spagnolo
Size
51.9 MB
Category
Lifestyle
Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.6 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 15.6 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 15.6 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 15.6 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 12.5 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.