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NERV Disaster Prevention 4+
All you need, in one app
Gehirn Inc.
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
The NERV Disaster Prevention App is a smartphone service that delivers earthquake, tsunami, volcanic eruption and emergency warnings, as well as provides weather-related disaster prevention information for flooding and landslides, optimised based on the user's current and registered locations.
The app was developed to help people living in or visiting an area where damage is expected to occur, to accurately assess the situation and make quick decisions and actions.
With information received directly through a leased line connected to the Japan Meteorological Agency, our proprietary technology enables the fastest information distribution in Japan.
▼ All the information you need, in one app
Get a wide range of disaster prevention information, including weather and typhoon forecasts, rain radar, earthquake, tsunami and volcanic eruption alerts, emergency weather warnings and landslide information, river information, and heavy rain risk notifications.
By interacting with the map on the screen, you can zoom in on your location or pan across the country and see the cloud cover, typhoon forecast areas, tsunami warning areas, or the scale and intensity of an earthquake.
① Providing users with the most appropriate disaster information
The home screen displays the information you need at the time and place you need it. When there’s an earthquake, the home screen will show you the latest information. If another type of warning or alert is issued while the earthquake is active, the app will sort them depending on the type, elapsed time and urgency, so you’ll always have the most important information at your fingertips.
② Push Notifications for Important Information
We send out different types of notifications depending on the device’s location, the type of information and level of urgency. If the information is not urgent, we send a silent notification as not to disturb the user. For more urgent situations where a disaster is time-sensitive, a ‘Critical Alert’ alerts the user to an imminent danger. Notifications like Earthquake Early Warnings (Alert level) and Tsunami Warnings will be forced to sound, even if the device is in Silent or Do Not Disturb modes.
Note: Critical Alerts will only be sent to users in the target area of the most urgent types of disasters. Users who have registered their location but are not in the target area will instead receive a normal notification.
※ In order to receive Critical Alerts, you need to set your location permissions to “Always Allow” and have Background App Refresh turned on. If you don’t want Critical Alerts, you can disable them from Settings.
③ Barrier-Free Design
We paid close attention when designing the app to ensure our information is accessible to everyone. We put a focus on accessibility, with colour schemes that are easy to distinguish for people with colour blindness, and use a font with large, clear letters so long bodies of text are easy to read.
▼ Supporters’ Club (In-App Purchase)
In order to keep doing what we do, we’re looking for supporters to help us cover the development and operational costs of the app. The Supporters’ Club is a voluntary membership scheme for those who want to give back to the NERV Disaster Prevention app, by contributing to its development with a monthly fee.
You can find out more information about the Supporters’ Club on our website.
https://nerv.app/en/supporters.html
[Privacy]
Gehirn Inc. is an information security company. The security and privacy of our users is our highest priority. We take great care not to collect excessive amounts of information about our users through this application.
Your exact location is never known to us; all location information is first converted to an area code used by everyone in that area (like a zip code). The server also doesn’t store past area codes, so your movements cannot be tracked.
Learn more about your privacy on our website.
https://nerv.app/en/support.html#privacy
What’s New
Version 5.2.0
- Added "Incoming Rain Alert" Notifications to Supporters' Club Membership Benefits
- Updated English translations
[Incoming Rain Alerts]
This feature uses high-resolution precipitation forecasts from the rain radar to send push notifications if rain clouds are expected to approach within a 1km radius of your current location. Notifications are sent if rain is expected to start within 30 minutes. A second notification is sent if heavy rain is expected within 15 minutes. Notifications may not be sent if rainclouds develop rapidly or if prediction values change significantly. Please note that there might be some notifications even if it does not actually rain.
[How to Turn Incoming Rain Alerts On/Off]
If you do not wish to receive these notifications, open the [Rain Radar] layer in the [Map] tab and enable or disable notifications from the "i" icon in the upper right-hand corner.
[About Supporters' Club]
Supporters' Club is a digital fan club for those who wish to support the development of the NERV Disaster Prevention app. Members of this monthly subscription service enjoy benefits such as early access to new features, an increased number of registered locations, and access to member-exclusive content on higher-tier plans. In this update, we've added "Incoming Rain Alerts" to this list of benefits. For non-members who are interested in receiving Incoming Rain Alerts, we encourage you to consider joining. For more details, please refer to the membership guide in the app's [Menu] tab.
To show our gratitude to our Supporters' Club members for continuing to support the development of the NERV Disaster Prevention app, we decided to permanently add this feature to the membership benefits rather than through Early Access. We would like to thank our members for their ongoing support.
Please be mindful of your health and take precautions against heatstroke in this severe heat.
Now, on to the next update!
App Privacy
The developer, Gehirn Inc., 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
- Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary based on, for example, the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Provider
- Gehirn Inc.
- Size
- 70.1 MB
- Category
- Weather
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Japanese
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Location
- This app may use your location even when it isn’t open, which can decrease battery life.
- Copyright
- © Gehirn Inc.
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- EE Plan USD 4.49
- E Plan USD 2.49