If you are just sharing your location for a particular trip, Guardians works quietly in the background. You can select your own personal Guardians from your contact list, choose when to stop/start sharing location and setup permanent sharing with selected Guardians. The app needs only three permissions: your location, contacts (so that you can select and invite your personal Guardians) and phone permission (to show your phone status to your Guardians).Īs a user of Guardians, you are in complete control at all times. If you’re not a Truecaller user, your phone number will be verified using a missed call or OTP. If you are already a Truecaller user, you can sign in with one tap. Guardians has a simple onboarding process.

It’s now time to do something about making our cities safer for everyone!” With this kind of reach, our past four years of research on women’s safety and campaigns like #ItsNokOk, we now understand this problem well. Our engineering team has a proven track record of building great user experiences and we have also crossed the milestone of 270 Million active users (200 Million in India alone). Guardians was born out of a simple question – how can we crowdsource personal safety, just like the way we crowdsource protection against spam, scams and frauds with Truecaller? We also believe that we have the right tools and the conviction to make Guardians happen. said Alan Mamedi, CEO & Co-founder of True Software Scandinavia AB. But none of them work in a way where you can involve your family, friends, the community at large and the authorities.

“There are probably hundreds of apps on the app stores for personal safety and location sharing. All features are free to use – there are no ads or premium tiers. Guardians is available as a free download from Google Play Store & Apple App Store. The app is a labour of love, built over the past 15 months by a dedicated team from Stockholm and India.Īfter building an app that safeguards people in their digital lives, the Swedish company is now making a commitment to safety in the real world. Truecaller, the world’s most trusted and accurate Caller ID and telephone search engine, today launched a brand new app for personal safety: Guardians.

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