RipplePond: Safety Alerts
Private safety alerts
Only for iPhone
Free
iPhone
A student-led safety coordination app for trusted families, friends, and close groups.
Developed by Paarthiv Somesula, a high school student.
RipplePond was built around two simple safety problems.
First, when something goes wrong, families and close friends often do not know who is safe, who needs help, or who is nearby enough to respond.
Second, even after emergency services have been contacted, there can be a stressful gap before help arrives. RipplePond helps alert trusted nearby people during that gap so they can assist you in the time before emergency services reach your location (they can even guide or inform the emergency services about the nature of the issue once they arrive).
With RipplePond, you can create private ponds for family, close friends, classmates, travel groups, or other trusted people. When someone starts a ripple, pond members can quickly mark themselves Safe or Unsafe. If a member marks Unsafe, trusted pond members can see important details such as their shared location, status, distance, battery level, alert reason, and saved emergency contacts.
RipplePond can help nearby pond members check in, call emergency contacts, get directions, and coordinate support until professional help arrives.
Key features:
- Create and join private trusted ponds
- Start safety ripples for a group
- Mark Safe or Unsafe quickly
- Share location during active ripples and direct Unsafe reports
- View nearby pond members during alerts
- Save emergency contacts for trusted members to call during an Unsafe alert
- Receive push notifications for ripple and Unsafe updates
RipplePond is a student-led project created to give families and close groups more peace of mind when safety matters most.
RipplePond is not a replacement for police, ambulance, fire, medical, rescue, or other official emergency services. If someone is in immediate danger, contact local emergency services first.
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The developer, Aravinda Somesula, 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 Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Location
- Contact Info
- Contacts
- Identifiers
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Aravinda Somesula
- Size
- 16.7 MB
- Category
- Lifestyle
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Aravinda Somesula