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SafeRoute Global
Safer walks home
Free · Designed for iPad
SafeRoute helps you walk home with more confidence. Check how safe
your area is in a tap, plan a route, share it with someone you trust,
and reach for help in one tap — wherever you are, the app adapts to
your region.
KEY FEATURES
- Nearby — open the app and instantly see how safe your area is: a
crime-safety score, a live crime heatmap of your surroundings,
what's most reported nearby, the safe spaces around you (hospitals,
police, 24-hour shops), and how risk shifts by time of day —
including a "Right Now" read for the current hour. Tap any spot on
the heatmap for its own breakdown, or tap a safe space to route
there. No route needed — just open and look. Search any area to
check it before you go.
- Crime-aware routing — every route is scored using the latest local
crime data, so you can pick the lower-risk path instead of just the
shortest. Each route also shows how much of it runs on lit vs dark
streets, so you can choose a brighter way home. Routes are labelled
LOW, MODERATE, or HIGH risk so you choose with full context.
- Area Safety widget — add SafeRoute to your Home Screen or Lock
Screen for an at-a-glance crime-safety score of wherever you are
right now, with a breakdown of what's been reported nearby.
- Share my walk — send a live link via WhatsApp, iMessage, or any
share-sheet app. The recipient can follow your location on a
public page until you arrive. No app install needed on their end.
- Quick access to help — one tap to your local emergency number
(999 in the UK, 911 in the US), and a FIND HELP button that
surfaces the nearest 24-hour pharmacy, hospital, police station,
or shop. In the UK, one tap also reaches the Strut Safe volunteer
walk-home line.
- Off-route alerts — if you drift more than a short distance from
your planned path, you'll get a discreet haptic on your Watch
and a banner on your phone. No alarm, no panic — just a nudge.
- Arrival check-in — when you reach your destination, SafeRoute
prompts you to send an "Arrived safely" message to the person
you shared your walk with.
- Apple Watch app — your next turn, ETA, and remaining distance
at a glance. Safety actions are one swipe away.
- Live Activity — Lock Screen and Dynamic Island show your current
turn and progress without unlocking.
- Built for everyone — full Dark Mode, Dynamic Type, VoiceOver
labels throughout, and Reduce Motion support.
WHERE IT WORKS
SafeRoute covers the United Kingdom (England, Wales & Northern Ireland)
and seven US cities — New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, Seattle,
Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C. Crime data comes from data.police.uk
in the UK and each city's official open-data feed in the US — and the app
automatically uses the right source, emergency number, and local
safe-place data for wherever you are.
PRIVACY BY DESIGN
SafeRoute doesn't require an account. Your routes aren't stored on our
servers. Share links are temporary and expire when your walk ends.
Crime data comes from public open-data feeds — we don't track who
searched for what.
DESIGNED FOR THE WALK HOME
Most walking nav apps assume you just want the fastest route.
SafeRoute assumes you sometimes want the safer one. The two often
agree. When they don't — like at 2 a.m. on an unfamiliar street —
you get to choose.
Walk smart. Walk safer. Walk home.
This release focuses on reliability:
- "Use current location" no longer occasionally fails with "Could not get a
location fix" — it now uses the location already on hand, so setting your
start point is faster and more dependable.
- The Area Safety widget's crime heatmap no longer occasionally fails to load.
- Behind-the-scenes performance and stability improvements.
Walk smart. Walk safer. Walk home.
The developer, Minhaj Khan, 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 Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Location
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
The developer indicated that this app supports the following accessibility features. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Minhaj Khan
- Size
- 74.7 MB
- Category
- Navigation
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 26.4 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 26.4 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 26.4 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 26.4 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Watch
Requires watchOS 11.6 or later.
- iPhone
- Location
- This app may use your location even when it isn’t open, which can decrease device battery life.
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Minhaj Khan