S.O.S. Video Recorder

S.O.S Video Recorder is a personal safety app for Android. If you find yourself in a dangerous or uncomfortable situation, one tap is enough: your phone starts recording video with sound, sends SMS messages to your trusted contacts and shares your location with them. Recordings can be sent immediately to a server of your choice and will be available to the people you choose and connect yourself (relatives, a lawyer, etc.). How to start recording: Three equal ways, and each works even with the screen locked: the button in the app; several presses or a long press of the volume button (it works even through a pocket, so you don't need to look at the screen); a widget icon on the home screen. Recording continues in the background until you stop it yourself, and a notification is always visible on the screen. Video is recorded in short segments, and each one is immediately sent to backup storage (if connected), so the material is not lost entirely even if recording is interrupted. Time and the geographic coordinates of your location can be overlaid on video files. Use of the accessibility service (AccessibilityService API): To start and stop recording with the volume buttons, including when the screen is locked, the app uses the AccessibilityService API. This feature is optional: you enable it yourself in Android settings. The service reacts only to volume button presses: it does not read screen content, does not collect data about your activity in other apps, and does not act on your behalf. Ready-made scenarios: After you grant the necessary permissions and set the options you need on first launch, you can choose with one tap what to run for monitoring and safety: full set (video + SMS + location), SMS only, location only, without video, SMS with location, without video, or your own combination. The chosen scenario starts the same way from the button, the widget and the volume buttons. You can change the scenario at any time with one tap. Location: Besides a one-time link in an SMS, you can turn on continuous location sharing separately from recording. Route points go to your chosen storage at a frequency that adapts to your movement (more often in a car or on foot, less often when stationary, which saves battery). You can set up to 7 "safe zones" (home, work, etc.): while you are in these places, the phone will not record new location points until you leave the area. If a location scenario is interrupted by a sudden reboot or shutdown, sharing resumes on its own after the phone is turned on, without any action from you. If continuous sharing runs for more than a month, you will be asked to confirm you still use it, otherwise it turns off automatically. Where recordings are saved: By default, right on the phone, in the built-in file manager: view, send, delete (PIN-protected). For extra reliability, in case the phone is lost or damaged, there are two paid backup options: the subscription automatically sends video, location and route history to a private Telegram chat of a trusted person; the one-time purchase saves everything to your own Google Drive (with a caveat: someone who gets access to your unlocked phone could theoretically open this Google Drive and delete files, so after setup the app hides this data from the interface). Both options are voluntary and are enabled separately. Works without internet: Recording, saving to the phone and sending SMS to trusted contacts work fully offline. Internet is needed only to transmit location and cloud backups. Privacy: No ads and no data collection for analytics or marketing. You enter the phone numbers for SMS yourself: the app does not request access to your contacts, and no account is needed for basic features. The full privacy policy is on the developer's website. The app is intended for use on your own phone for your own safety.