blip

Know the street before you walk it.

Neighbours quietly flag the dark, deserted and dodgy spots around them. Blip turns that into a map of how streets actually feel after dark.

In development · not released yet

Reporting a spot: six tags and an optional note.
The Blip map at night: soft glows over reported areas, each with a pill naming what people reported there.

Four screens, and that's the app

No feed, no profile, no notifications begging for attention. You open it, you look, you close it.

The map with reported areas glowing.
01Open it and look Brighter means people keep reporting the same place. No green — a blank map means unreported, never safe.
Choosing tags and writing an optional note.
02Say what it's like Six tags, each describing a place rather than a person. Notes are never shown to anyone else.
An area with four reports and a breakdown of what people reported.
03An area, not a doorway Reports group into small areas, with how many people reported it in the last 30 days, in plain words.
Your reports, grouped by whether they are waiting to send or on the map.
04Yours stay yours Update one, mark a light fixed, or take it back. Places fade once people stop reporting them.

Built to know nothing about you

Most safety apps are advertising businesses in a high-vis jacket. This one has nothing to sell, leak or hand over.

No account, ever No email, phone number, password or profile. Nothing to sign up for, and nothing for anyone to request, subpoena or leak.
No background location Blip only sees where you are while it's open — checkable on the App Store listing, because the permission isn't in the app.
Nobody reads your notes What you type is never shown to another person.
Reports expire Deleted after 30 days, and an area fades once people stop reporting it.
No ads or trackers No advertising identifier, no analytics SDK. This page has none either.

The difference, in one look

Taken from what popular safety apps declare on their own App Store listings.

Blip

  • No account, no email, no phone number
  • Location only while the app is open
  • No advertising identifier, no analytics
  • Reports deleted after 30 days

A typical safety app

  • Account, contacts and identifiers, linked to you
  • Location used even when the app isn't open
  • Usage data for advertising and "partners"
  • Kept for as long as they like

What Blip won't tell you

An empty map means nobody has reported there. It never means a place is safe — nobody reports the street where nothing happened. Blip is a guide to what people have noticed, not a safety rating, and in an emergency you should call your local emergency number: 112 in the EU.