Auggie Personal Safety

Auggie Personal Safety


Personal Safety and Navigation


Free

2.0.90for iPhone, iPad and more
9.9
4 Ratings
Vincent Spagnolo
Developer
51.6 MB
Size
Nov 6, 2023
Update Date
Lifestyle
Category
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Age Rating
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You must be at least 17 years old to access this App.
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About Auggie Personal Safety

Auggie is a free personal safety and navigation app designed for the low vision community that provides a great experience for all users..

Comprehensive and easy to use features for both everyday safety and real emergencies make this the ultimate personal safety tool for you and your loved ones.

Auggie provides usability that encompasses a range of vision-ability from those with low vision condition to those who are completely blind, which include:

Inclusive Design
We believe that inclusive design gives more people the opportunity to enjoy our apps by ensuring that everyone can use and understand them.

Design with Accessibility in Mind
Accessibility, for us, is not just about making information available to users with disabilities—it's about making information available to everyone, regardless of their capabilities or situation. Designing an app with accessibility in mind means prioritizing simplicity and perceivability and examining every design decision to ensure that it doesn't exclude users who have different abilities or interact with their devices in different ways.

ACCESSIBILITY FEATURES
▷ Fully accessible with VoiceOver and Dynamic Text.
▷ Dark Mode Support
▷ Apple Voice Control Support
▷ Large menu buttons.
▷ Voice Control menu option.
▷ Auggie Speak - Talking alerts and notifications.
▷ Optimized for the color impairments.
▷ Easy to navigate Alert and Accessibility settings.
▷ Voice recognition searching. No keypad necessary.
▷ Search results with Augmented Reality (AR)
▷ Voice recognition searching. No keypad necessary.

PERSONAL SAFETY and EMERGENCY FEATURES

ALERT CONTACTS
▷ Create a trusted Alert Contacts list with family, friends, co-workers.
▷ Choose the type of alerts you want your contacts to receive.
▷ Alert Contacts can be notified by text message or email. A map snapshot showing your location will automatically included in the alert message. If detected, heading and motion such as: in automobile, walking, running or cycling will also be included in the alert message. Even attach a photo, video or audio recording to your Alert.
▷ Your phone’s GPS will be used to include your exact location with every message. mySafety is very gentle on your battery. Our alert features only turn on GPS to get your current location and then immediately turn it off.

NOT SAFE or NEED HELP
Walking home alone, in a dark parking lot or garage, traveling, on a bad date or in any unsafe or unsure situation.

HEALTH or MEDICAL EMERGENCY
Home alone, traveling, at the gym, walking, jogging, hiking or in any situation that you are having a health or medical emergency.

ON MY WAY
Let someone know that you are leaving work or school, heading to an event or friend's house, leaving a location and walking or driving alone or leaving any location that you feel uncomfortable.

HERE I AM
Let friends and family know you have arrived safety or simply let them know where you are.

MARK LOCATION
Leave a digital Breadcrumb Trail!
Find your way back to your hotel, your car in a parking lot, your way back home or back to any marked location.

FIND WAY BACK
Find your way back to any Marked Location with turn-by-turn GPS route directions or simple route instructions.

GET ME THERE
Traveling or in an unfamiliar area, search for any location near you by category such as restaurants, gas stations or emergency services or by place name/address. From the search results, you can call the location, access the location's website or get GPS directions from within the app. You can even get Augmented Reality (AR) powered map views and GPS directions.

*** Auggie is NOT a replacement for calling Emergency 911.

Please note that the use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.

NO SERVICE OR SUBSCRIPTIONS FEES REQUIRED TO USE AUGGIE!
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What's New in the Latest Version 2.0.90

Last updated on Nov 6, 2023
Old Versions
Thank you for using Auggie Personal Safety!
We update our app regularly to add new features and make other improvements to enhance the value and performance of the Auggie Personal Safety app.

Here's what you will find in our latest update:
• Fix bug that was truncating digits on international mobile phone numbers, overall better support for international mobile numbers.
• Improved the map snapshot image generated in Alerts for the Standard Map - more detail, new camera angle.
• IOS 17 support
* minor bug fixes and performance enhancement.
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Version History
2.0.90
Nov 6, 2023
Thank you for using Auggie Personal Safety!
We update our app regularly to add new features and make other improvements to enhance the value and performance of the Auggie Personal Safety app.

Here's what you will find in our latest update:
• Fix bug that was truncating digits on international mobile phone numbers, overall better support for international mobile numbers.
• Improved the map snapshot image generated in Alerts for the Standard Map - more detail, new camera angle.
• IOS 17 support
* minor bug fixes and performance enhancement.
2.0.85
Feb 28, 2023
Thank you for using Auggie Personal Safety!
We update our app regularly to add new features and make other improvements to enhance the value and performance of the Auggie Personal Safety app.

Here's what you will find in our latest update:
• Several experience improvements and bug fixes.
2.0.61
Sep 27, 2022
Thank you for using Auggie Personal Safety!
We update our app regularly to add new features and make other improvements to enhance the value and performance of the Auggie Personal Safety app.

Here's what you will find in our latest update:
• In order for us to continue to take advantage of Apple's exciting advancements in Accessibility, beginning this release Auggie will support only IOS 14 and above.
• Improved user experience in "Get Me There.
• Many accessibility improvements in "Get Me There."
• Improved checking when there is no network connection.
• Bug fixes and performance enhancements.
2.0.31
May 16, 2022
Thank you for using Auggie Personal Safety!
We update our app regularly to add new features and make other improvements to enhance the value and performance of the Auggie Personal Safety app.

Here's what you will find in our latest update:
• Several experience improvements and bug fixes.
Thank you for using Auggie Personal Safety!
We update our app regularly to add new features and make other improvements to enhance the value and performance of the Auggie Personal Safety app.

Here's what you will find in our latest update:
• Several experience improvements and bug fixes.
Thank you for using Auggie Personal Safety!
We update our app regularly to add new features and make other improvements to enhance the value and performance of the Auggie Personal Safety app.

Here's what you will find in our latest update:
• Several experience improvements and bug fixes.
• Improved Accessibility in Quick Setup and Feature Tour.
2.0.27
Feb 15, 2022
Thank you for using Auggie Personal Safety!
We update our app regularly to add new features and make other improvements to enhance the value and performance of the Auggie Personal Safety app.

Here's what you will find in our latest update:
• Several experience improvements and bug fixes.
2.0.25
Oct 14, 2021
Thank you for using Auggie Personal Safety!
We update our app regularly to add new features and make other improvements to enhance the value and performance of the Auggie Personal Safety app.

Here's what you will find in our latest update:

• Audio Alert - We are excited to add the ability to now include an Audio recording to an Alert. We feel that this feature adds yet another dimension to Auggie Alerts enhancing our users' ability to provide as much information as possible to your Alert recipients if the need arises to send an Alert.

• Redesigned Voice Menu with Accessibility/Voiceover improvements.

• General Accessibility/Voiceover improvements.

• Experience improvements and minor bug fixes.
2.0.21
Jul 29, 2021
Thank you for using Auggie Personal Safety!
We update our app regularly to add new features and make other improvements to enhance the value and performance of the Auggie Personal Safety app.

Here's what you will find in our latest update:

• Auggie now supports both Miles and Kilometers as the distance units in "Get Me There". To switch and change distance:
 
1. Go to Auggie Settings from the main screen.
2. Scroll down to GET ME THERE and tap "Distance Units" to open the Distance Units settings.
3. Under the Select Distance Units, select between the Miles and Kilometers options as your default distance unit for Auggie "Get Me There"

• Improved Accessibility/Voiceover in "Get Me There."
• Fixed an iPad display issue in Toolbox>Remove Active Marked Location."
• Improved the display of map pins in "Set Location" and "Back to Set Location."
• Fixed a bug in Toolbox>Marked Location History that prevented the selected Marked Location from showing its detail screen.
• Several experience improvements and minor bug fixes.
2.0.18
May 6, 2021
Thank you for using Auggie Personal Safety!
We update our app regularly to add new features and make other improvements to enhance the value and performance of the Auggie Personal Safety app.

Here's what you will find in our latest update:
• Fixed an Accessibility issue in Get Me There > Favorites with text compressing when Larger Text is selected.
• Several experience improvements and minor bug fixes.
2.0.16
Feb 17, 2021
Thank you for using Auggie Personal Safety!
We update our app regularly to add new features and make other improvements to enhance the value and performance of the Auggie Personal Safety app.

Here's what you will find in our latest update:
• New Features 
- In Settings, we added the ability to select the type of map snapshot image you want attached to your alerts.
Check out this option in Settings to see the benefits of each map type.
Tip - Most like the satellite map, however, if you are in an urban area, the standard map may provide more details about your Alert location.
- When sending an Alert, Alert Options now also lets you select the map snapshot type at the point of sending your Alert.
• Several experience improvements and bug fixes.

2.0.15
Nov 30, 2020
Thank you for using Auggie Personal Safety!
We update our app regularly to add new features and make other improvements to enhance the value and performance of the Auggie Personal Safety app.

Here's what you will find in our latest update:
• Several experience improvements and bug fixes.
2.0.14
Sep 18, 2020
Thank you for using Auggie Personal Safety!
We update our app regularly to add new features and make other improvements to enhance the value and performance of the Auggie Personal Safety app.

Here's what you will find in our latest update:
• Improvements in -Get Me There- address formatting.
• Several experience improvements and bug fixes.
2.0.13
Jul 28, 2020
Thank you for using Auggie Personal Safety!
We update our app regularly to add new features and make other improvements to enhance the value and performance of the Auggie Personal Safety app.

Here's what you will find in our latest update:
• Several experience improvements and bug fixes.
2.0.12
Jun 30, 2020
Thank you for using Auggie Personal Safety!
We update our app regularly to add new features and make other improvements to enhance the value and performance of the Auggie Personal Safety app.

Here's what you will find in our latest update.

What's Improved:
We are committed to continually improve the quality and depth of information that Auggie Alerts provides to your friends and family in the event that you should find yourself in an uncertain, unsafe or emergency situation.
• Detected motion and heading added to Alerts. 
When sending an Alert, Auggie will do its best to detect any motion, such as: in automobile, walking, running, cycling and add the detected motion and heading to your Alert.

Bug Fixes and Enhancements:
• Several bug fixes and experience improvements.
2.0.11
May 11, 2020
Thank you for using Auggie Personal Safety!
We update our app regularly to add new features and make other improvements to enhance the value and performance of the Auggie Personal Safety app.

Here's what you will find in our latest update.

What's Improved:
To better keep friends and family updated on your health and safety or to assist first responders in reaching your location in an unsafe or emergency situation, we've added:
• Significant improvements to Alert GPS location accuracy with no additional cost to your battery.
• GPS accuracy (+/- meters) added to all Alert messages.
• Latitude/:longitude coordinates added to all Alert messages.

Bug Fixes and Enhancements:
• You can now cancel an Alert before getting to the iMessage screen.
• More refinements to Auggie Speak.
• Several bug fixes and usability improvements.
2.0.10
Apr 13, 2020
Thank you for using Auggie Personal Safety!
We update our app regularly to add new features and make other improvements to enhance the value and performance of the Auggie Personal Safety app.

Here's what you will find in our latest update:
• Several accessibility bug fixes and usability improvements made in our Voiceover support.
• We did a little reorganization in Auggie Settings and also added Auggie's current version number.
2.0.9
Mar 9, 2020
Thank you for using Auggie Personal Safety!
We update our app regularly to add new features and make other improvements to enhance the value and performance of the Auggie Personal Safety app.

Here's what you will find in our latest update:
• Several experience improvements and bug fixes.
2.0.8
Feb 18, 2020
Thank you for using Auggie Personal Safety!
We update our app regularly to add new features and make other improvements to enhance the value and performance of the Auggie Personal Safety app.
Here's what you will find in our latest update:
• Enhancements to Auggie Speak.
• In addition to Auggie's detail map snapshot included with every Alert message, we have now included latitude/longitude coordinates to every Alert. We think that this added information can be an invaluable tool for first responders who are working hard to arrive and render aid as quickly as possible.
• Several experience improvements and bug fixes.
2.0.5
Feb 4, 2020
Thank you for using Auggie Personal Safety!
Along with several experience improvements and bug fixes, we are excited to bring you a new feature that we think you will love:
New Feature!
The option to add a video (up to 30 seconds) to your Alert messages.

Auggie's video option greatly enhances our array of personal safety and emergency Alert features by giving our Auggie users the ability to provide as much pertinent information about their situation as quickly as possible.
2.0.4
Jan 8, 2020
Thank you for using Auggie Personal Safety!
This update contains:
- A fix for text not appearing under the main menu buttons on the iPad 7th generation.
- Bug fixes and optimizations.
2.0.3
Nov 20, 2019
Thank you for using Auggie!
Accessibility got a major upgrade in iOS 13 and we are excited to continue to evolve Auggie Personal Safety
to deliver the best experience for our low vision community and to make Auggie more accessible and inclusive to everyone.

Here is what you will find in our latest update:
• IOS 13 support
• Dark Mode support
• Full support for Apple's Voice Control; you can control all Auggie features with just using your voice.
• Auggie Speak enhancements across the entire app.
• Improved VoceOver support
• Introducing Auggie Shake to Speak. 
You can now turn Auggie Speak on or off just by shaking your phone. 
Just go to Setting where you can select to turn Auggie Speak on/off full time or on demand with Shake to Speak.
• Stability, performance enhancements
• User interface enhancements and fixes
• ...and a few pesky bug fixes
2.0.1
Jul 10, 2019
*** NAME CHANGE ***
MySafetyNet has a new name:  Auggie

Same great personal safety and navigation features for the low vision community but now with a whole lot more!

● A more inclusive design with accessibility in mind. Accessibility, for us, is not just about making information available to users with disabilities—it's about making information available to everyone, regardless of their capabilities or situation.
● Improved Voiceover and Dynamic text accessibility.
● A map snapshot, with your current location, will automatically be added to every alert message to provide better aid for every safety or emergency situation..
● Introducing Auggie Speak - 
Depending on your degree of vision impairment, full voiceover is not always necessary. When Auggie speak is turned on, all notifications and messages will automatically be spoken. No need to reach for those reading glasses.
● Alerts
- A map snapshot with your current location is now included with all Alerts.
● "Get Me There" Navigation
- Large, easy access menu buttons
- Voice recognition searches by category or place name, no keyboard needed. 
- Direct access to locations web site for browsing
- Direct dial a location without leaving the app. 
- GPS turn by turn directions or route instructions.
- You can now save and access your Favorite locations for quicker access.
● Augmented Reality! - Auggie now has augmented reality powered map views and GPS directions.
1.1.8
Dec 16, 2018
Thank you for using mySafetyNet!
We are always looking to improve our app to make mySafetyNet the best personal safety app for the low vision community.

In this release:
We spruced up the UI to support iPhone XS Max, XS and XR.
Added support for the iPad!
Made some minor performance enhancements.
1.1.3
Jul 25, 2018
Thank you for using mySafetyNet!
We are always looking to improve our app to make mySafetyNet the best personal safety app for the low vision community.

This release brings some bug fixes along with some minor usability enhancements.

Bug Fixes:
- Pressing outside of the Add Photo message box no longer causes an interruption to the app flow.
- App displays properly at iPhone resolution on iPad

Usability Enhancements:
- Locations List is now named Marked Locations History. This is just a name change; the list still contains a history of all locations that were previously marked.
- Manage Locations List (in Toolbox) is now named Manage Marked History Location.
- Added functionality to Mark Location (main menu) - if an active Marked Location exists, you now have the option to use the active Marked Location or continue to the normal dialog box where can can mark a location by using either your current location or mark a location from your Marked Locations History.
1.1.2
Jun 28, 2018
Thank you for using mySafetyNet!

We continue to strive to make mySafety the best personal safety app for the low vision community.

In this release, we made improvements to usability, accessibility and fix a few bugs along the way..

Usability:
"Set location" has been changed to "Mark Location". From user feedback, there was a general consensus that "Mark Location" was more meaningful to the task that was being performed. You will see this change in our Main Menu, Voice Menu and throughout notifications.

Better formatting of Alert Messages to make them more readable.

Accessibility:
We improved our color schemes to make our content more readable for our color vision impaired users affected with either: Deuteronamaly, Deuteranopia, Protanomaly, and Protanopia.

We added better support in our "What's Near Me" feature to locate nearby medical personnel, emergency services and special needs services.

Bug Fixes:
If the app was not closed after sending an Alert with an attached photo, the photo was repeated erroneously in all subsequent Alert messages or until the app was closed.

Photos attached to a Marked Location will now be included in all Alert messages.
1.1
May 1, 2018
Thank you for using mySafetyNet!

This update includes bug fixes and performance improvements along with continued accessibility enhancements and improvements for the low vision community.

The big news in this release is that mySafetyNet now has a “What’s Near Me” feature!
"What’s Near Me" adds another layer to our list of accessibility friendly personal safety features to aid you in being aware of your surroundings and guiding you to a desired location.

From the Main Menu or Voice Control menu:

• Simply tap/say “What's Near Me” to easily find any location that is near you by category such as: gas station, hospitals, restaurants.
• You can choose to search for a location by typing on your phone’s keypad or for the low vision community, you can search by voice recognition.
• From the Voiceover friendly search results, you can elect to call a chosen location, access the location’s website or get GPS directions.

Auggie Personal Safety FAQ

Click here to learn how to download Auggie Personal Safety in restricted country or region.
Check the following list to see the minimum requirements of Auggie Personal Safety.
iPhone
Requires iOS 14.0 or later.
iPad
Requires iPadOS 14.0 or later.
iPod touch
Requires iOS 14.0 or later.
Auggie Personal Safety supports English

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