Step 1: Select Your Spot

Choose the rink, park, or trail you are skating at from our map.

Step 2: Set Your Return Time

Tell us when you expect to be done. We require location permissions to verify your start point.

Step 3: Skate & Check Back In

If your timer expires, our automated system triggers immediately. Just tap the "Check In Safe" button when you're done to cancel the alert!

The silent alert

You don't have to wait for a timer. During a session — or any time, once you've saved a contact — you can send the alert yourself.

It takes two taps. The first arms it, the second sends. That's deliberate: a single full-width button is the kind of thing that gets pressed by accident, and a false alarm costs your contact real worry.

Nothing happens on your screen. No sound, no vibration, no banner, no confirmation. Only the button's border changes. Anyone standing next to you sees someone looking at their phone.

Running late but fine

The most likely reason a timer runs out is that you're simply still skating. Rather than making you choose between ending the session and letting a false alarm go out, you can add 15 or 30 minutes in one tap and keep the safety net running.

If your battery is dying

A dead phone can't check in, which would send your contact an alert you never meant. If your battery gets critically low mid-session we say so, so you can check in early or find a charger. (Android only — iOS doesn't let a web app read battery level.)

If you have no signal

Checking in needs data. Texting doesn't. During a session there's a one-tap link that opens your phone's own messaging app with a message to your contact already written — that sends over cellular with no data at all. You press send, so it's an escape hatch rather than something automatic.

Why it still works if your phone doesn't

The timer isn't running on your phone. It's checked on our servers every few minutes, so the alert goes out whether your phone is dead, stolen or switched off. This is the most important thing about how Roll Safe is built — a safety feature that depends on your phone still working is no use in most of the situations you'd want one.

Your contacts

You can save up to four. An alert goes to all of them, plus whoever you named for that particular session, with duplicates removed so nobody is contacted twice. Every attempt is logged, per contact and per channel, so we can tell you what actually reached someone rather than assuming it did.

The name in the alert

Every session asks what to call you. Your public username can be anything you like — the name your contact will recognise is asked separately, at the moment it actually matters.

What Roll Safe is not

It is not an emergency service and it cannot contact 911, or any medical or rescue service, on your behalf. It notifies the people you chose. If you believe someone is in danger, call your local emergency number.

It is not live tracking. Roll Safe records the location you set out from so it can be included in an alert. It does not follow you around, and nobody — your crew, or us — can watch you move.

We can't guarantee delivery. Networks fail, carriers delay messages and a wrong number reaches nobody — which is exactly why an alert goes out on three channels at once.

About those messages

Alerts come from Rink Report Roll Safe Alerts. Messages are sent only when a timer expires or you send an alert yourself — never marketing. Message and data rates may apply. Anyone can reply STOP to opt out or HELP for assistance.

When you save someone as an emergency contact, you're confirming you have their permission to reach them on your behalf. Full detail is in the Terms.