Travelling abroad

The facts you need, on the phone in your hand.

Outpost Safety gathers what official and local sources have published about where you are going, keeps it on your phone so it still works with no signal, and helps the people you travel with agree on a plan before anything happens.

An advisory tool. Not a guarantee of safety.

See what it does Plan a trip

iOS first. In testing now.

What it does

Every advisory, offline

All 214 travel advisories the US State Department publishes — the level, their reasons, and the date they issued it. On your phone, so it answers where you are standing even with no network at all.

Source: travel.state.gov · public domain

What is actually around you

Police, hospitals, consulates, fire stations, stations and hotels near your real position — ordered by what you need first, not by which is forty metres closer.

Source: OpenStreetMap · ODbL

A plan before you need one

Where to meet if you are separated, and what to do if that place does not work. Agreed in advance, written down, available with the screen at its dimmest.

Your group, not the server

See where the people you are travelling with are. Positions are readable only by phones holding a key you exchanged in person — never by us.

A check-in that escalates

Set a timer. Miss it and you get two reminders before anyone else is contacted, because a tool that cries wolf is one nobody trusts the third time.

At the gate

Where the nearest embassy is, and the details you would need to get through its security — in English and in the local language, ready to hand over.

Right now

214countries with a current advisory

6 hbetween refreshes

85 KBthe whole world, on your phone

0trackers or ad networks

How it works

Plan the tripEnter where you are going and when — here on the web, or in the app. It pulls the advisory, the consular posts, the emergency numbers and the conditions for those dates.
It all goes on the phoneMaps, numbers, documents and your plan are stored on the device, not behind a connection. The app is built to be useful with the network off.
Link up with your group, in personTwo phones scan a code and share a key. From then on you can see each other, and nobody else can — including us.
Use it when it mattersWhat is near you, which way is out, where the embassy is, and who in your group has gone quiet.

Privacy, concretely

We cannot read your trip

Trips planned on the web are encrypted in your browser with a key made from your password. We store bytes we have no way to open.

We cannot place you

Positions are sealed with a key your group exchanged in person and stored under an identifier that rotates. Our server holds ciphertext and a timestamp.

No accounts needed to use it

The maps, the advisories, the emergency numbers and your documents all work with no account and nothing transmitted at all.

Nothing follows you

No advertising identifiers, no analytics, no third-party trackers. The build is checked automatically before every release.

What it is not

It does not call for help. There is no dispatch behind this app. In an emergency, call the local emergency number — it keeps those offline for every country in your trip.
It does not know whether a place is safe. We show what a source said and when. A government's advisory level is their assessment, not ours. We never put a safe-or-dangerous label on a street.
It does not watch over you. Nobody monitors your position. If the phone is off, the app does nothing.
Its information can be wrong or out of date. Everything carries the time it was retrieved. Conditions change faster than any feed.