See your street
before you walk it.
SafeRoute scores any address from official police and dispatch data, plans walking routes by reported incidents, and — in a growing list of cities — shows you recent 911 calls and street cameras. No accounts. No ads.
Free · iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch · Requires iOS 16.4+
Turn-by-turn that keeps going.
If iOS disconnects SafeRoute's screen partway through a walk, turn-by-turn guidance now carries on. Before, it could stop until you opened SafeRoute again.
Guidance that carries on
Spoken directions, the Live Activity, your Apple Watch, a walk you share with Live location, and arrival all keep going, without SafeRoute planning your route again.
A new look for the crime map
On Nearby, Plan and the large Home Screen widget, the crime shading now sits under the roads, so roads and place names show over it, and its quietest areas are a warm sand instead of green.
A clearer widget
The large widget's map now comes from Mapbox, in the same map style as the app's Nearby and Plan maps, and shows the whole 1 km area its figures count. The medium and large widgets list the most reported categories first.
Also in 1.4.2: in the Channel Islands, SafeRoute now offers 999, the islands' emergency number, instead of 112; and starting navigation no longer crashes when Mapbox's routing service has a server error.
Schools and home values, on the Nearby map.
On Nearby, tap Schools or Home values under the crime heatmap to open the full-screen map on that layer; Home values also opens the details of the area you're looking at, or says why it has no figure. School and home-value data is built into the app, so it isn't downloaded as you browse.
Schools
Official school data for England, Wales and Northern Ireland, 26 US cities, Toronto, Vancouver and Mexico City. Pin colours show the stage, never a rating. Where the publisher allows reuse, a school's details show its Ofsted inspection, its latest ETI report (Northern Ireland) or its Connecticut or Washington rating; for 15 other US states and DC the app links to the state.
Also on the web map →Home values
A separate map layer of official figures by area, each with its source and period: median sale prices in England, Wales, Northern Ireland, New York City, Washington DC, Baltimore, Charlotte, Hartford and Minneapolis, and owners' estimates of home value elsewhere in our US cities and in Toronto and Vancouver. None for Mexico City. Colours compare areas within one city or region only.
Also on the web map →Also in 1.4: when the app detects you've arrived, sharing stops and your contact's page says you've arrived. And Spanish throughout, including the widgets and Apple Watch.
The city, as it is right now.
Crime statistics tell you about last month. The Live tab tells you about tonight — and it only appears in cities whose data is genuinely that fresh.
Every call police responded to, still glowing.
A dark, tilted 3D map of your city where each 911 dispatch call burns as an ember — brighter the fresher it is. Tap one to see what was reported and when. Live today in seven US cities: San Francisco's calls land on the map within minutes; Detroit and Cleveland update through the day; Las Vegas, Minneapolis and New Orleans publish overnight or each morning; and Seattle runs a few days behind, so it shows the past week.
Dispatch calls are not confirmed crimes, and the app says so on every one. They never touch your safety scores, except in New Orleans, which publishes no crime reports with locations, so its scores use 911 calls for crimes.
Correction, 24 October 2026: until then this note said dispatch calls never touch your safety scores. That was not true for New Orleans, whose scores have used the City's 911 calls for crimes since it was added in June 2026.
Look down the street before you turn onto it.
In London, tap any of hundreds of Transport for London traffic cameras and watch a short clip refreshed roughly every two minutes — Piccadilly Circus, Oxford Street, Charing Cross Road. New York, Las Vegas, Toronto and Vancouver cameras are in too, with more cities being measured.
Public traffic cameras only. Stills and London's clips come through us, so the camera network never sees your device, except New York City DOT's street-corner stills, which your device loads straight from NYC DOT. Live video in New York and Las Vegas plays straight from the transport authority. Powered by TfL Open Data.
A quiet heads-up. Never a siren.
Turn on one calm notification when you walk into a block where reported incidents run well above the local average — and, in near real-time cities, an occasional background check for serious calls a few streets away. Both are off until you switch them on.
Your phone watches the boundaries itself. No push servers, and hard limits so it can never spam you. The check for serious calls does send your position to our server, in the background and when you open the app, and our server's code cuts it to about 1 km before using or logging it. In versions up to 1.3.7, iOS waking the app for the heads-up can send your location too.
The part you'll use most.
Open the app anywhere we cover and read your surroundings in one screen: a 0–100 safety index, what's actually reported nearby, when incidents cluster by time of day, and the 24-hour places you could walk into.
Routes scored street by street
Every candidate walking route is scored on severity, proximity and time of day — then you pick.
Lit or dark
Where we have crime data for a route and OpenStreetMap records street lighting along it, the route shows how much of it is lit and, if 15% or more of it is dark, how much is dark. A stretch with no record nearby is never counted as lit, and with too few records, or when they can't be loaded, a route shows no lighting figures.
Share your walk
Send a live link so someone can watch you get home, with turn-by-turn on iPhone, iPad and Watch. From version 1.4, when the app detects you've arrived, sharing stops and the page says so.
On your Home Screen
The Area Safety widget puts a safety index on your Home Screen or Lock Screen, with what's been reported nearby. It has no location of its own, so it shows the last area SafeRoute checked, usually where you last opened the app.
Your next turn on your wrist. Help close at hand.
Turn-by-turn walking directions on iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch, with your next turn on the iPhone's Lock Screen too.
Apple Watch and Live Activity
Your next turn, ETA and distance on your wrist, Lock Screen and Dynamic Island, with safety actions one swipe away on the Watch. Drift off your route and you get a discreet haptic and a banner on your Watch, or in the app while it's on screen.
Help, fast
During a walk, tap the shield on the map for your local emergency number, confirmed before it dials: 999 in the UK, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands; 911 in the US, Canadian and Mexican cities we cover, and in most of the rest of North America if your iPhone's region is set to the US, Canada or Mexico; 112 in most other places. HELP, behind the same shield, finds the nearest hospital, police station or 24-hour shop. In the UK, the Strut Safe volunteer walk-home line is there too, on Friday to Sunday evenings.
A safety app that tells you what it doesn't know.
Crime data is uneven, late, and different in every city. Most apps hide that. We publish it — and we build so that missing data can never read as good news.
Every number says its window
Every count on every page says the span it covers, because London publishes one month at a time and most US cities publish year-to-date. A bare count would mislead.
No answer ≠ no crime
If a police force publishes nothing or a feed fails, the app says exactly that instead of showing a reassuring empty map.
We score our own sources
A public transparency index rates every city we cover on what it publishes, how fresh it is and how precise — including where we come off badly.
The safety app that doesn't watch you back.
There is no account to make, nothing to sell, and no ads in the app. When the app or this site looks up an area, our server sees the place, not who you are: there is no account, and we don't log your IP address. Camera stills are fetched by us, not by your device, except New York City DOT's street-corner stills, which your device loads straight from NYC DOT; live video in New York and Las Vegas plays straight from the transport authority.
No sign-up
Open it and it works. Nothing to create, nothing to remember.
Opt-out analytics
No searches or coordinates, and in the app only a pseudonymous per-install ID. One switch turns it off in the app; on this website it sets no cookies, never runs if your browser sends Global Privacy Control, and can be switched off here.
Live in four countries.
Safety scoring is built on each place's own official open crime data. Outside a covered area, routing and search still work — the score simply waits until you're somewhere we cover.
Most of the UK
England, Wales & Northern Ireland via data.police.uk — every force that publishes street-level crime, which is all but Greater Manchester and Gloucestershire. Scotland doesn't publish. Plus TfL street cameras across London.
Coast to coast
New York · Los Angeles · Chicago · Houston · Dallas · Fort Worth · Philadelphia · San Diego · San Francisco · Washington D.C. · Boston · Seattle · Denver · Detroit · Baltimore · Las Vegas · Memphis · Nashville · Charlotte · Minneapolis · Cleveland · Kansas City · New Orleans · Tucson · Long Beach · Hartford
Toronto & Vancouver
Toronto Police Service and Vancouver Police open data — with Toronto and Vancouver city traffic cameras in the app.
Mexico City
FGJ investigation-folder data for all 16 alcaldías, served through the open Hoyo de Crimen API.
The map, the schools, the neighborhoods — all in your browser.
Everything here is free on the web with no sign-up, built from the same official data the app routes on.
Map
Type any street, neighborhood or landmark and see its safety index on a recent crime heatmap — most of the UK (England, Wales, Northern Ireland), 26 US cities, Toronto, Vancouver and Mexico City.
Also in the app Open the map →Schools
50,506 schools across England, Wales, Northern Ireland, 26 US cities, Toronto, Vancouver and Mexico City, state and private — stage, size and, where the map has one, the official inspection or rating (for US states, only where the state allows its reuse). Search any address to see the schools around it.
Also in the app from 1.4 Find schools →Neighborhood reports
2,575 in-depth safety pages across 26 cities — crime maps, what gets reported and, where the data SafeRoute reads includes incident times, when it happens.
Browse reports →Tonight
Live police dispatch maps for the US cities that publish fast enough — what officers were sent to over the last day to the last week, depending on the city.
Also in the app See tonight →2,575 areas across 26 cities — try a neighborhood, ward or borough.
Know the street. Choose the route. Walk home.
Free on the App Store. Nothing to sign up for.
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