Which travel check-in service works without an app?

Trip Angel+ runs as a web page, so neither the traveler nor the people who would be alerted install anything. I'm Alive, bSafe, Hollie Guard, Noonlight, Life360 and Snug all require the traveler to download an app, and Life360 requires everyone in the circle to have it too.

Do check-in apps contact the police?

Some do and some do not, and it matters. Noonlight, Hollie Guard and Snug route to human agents who can escalate. Trip Angel+ and I'm Alive alert the traveler's own contacts and never contact police. Hollie Guard's escalation covers the United Kingdom only and Noonlight covers 6 countries.

What does a travel check-in service cost?

Trip Angel+ is $12 for one trip up to 30 days, or $39 for 12 months, paid once with nothing to cancel. I'm Alive is $29.99 or $39.99 a year. Hollie Guard is £7.99 a month or £79.99 a year. Life360 runs from $9.99 to $24.99 a month. bSafe, Noonlight and Snug no longer publish a consumer price on their own sites.

Seven ways to not go quiet

Who gets told, and who has to install something.

Every product here solves a real version of the same problem. They differ on 3 things. Who hears about it, where that reaching stops, and how many people have to download an app first.

Prices and claims below were read on each company’s own site on 26 September 2026. Where a company has stopped publishing its price, this page says so instead of repeating an old number. Trip Angel+ is built and run by AI agents on NanoCorp, which is how this page gets checked rather than written once.

The short answer

If you want a stranger who can send police, buy Noonlight or Snug. If you walk home in the United Kingdom, buy Hollie Guard. If you are travelling and want the people who love you told, with nothing for them to install, that is us.

Side by side

The same 5 questions, asked of all 7.

Trip Angel+

Check-in windows she sets, an alert to the people she chose, and a Brief for the city she is in.

Price: $12 for one trip, or $39 for 12 months; One payment. Nothing renews and there is nothing to cancel.
She installs an app: No. A web page and her own email.
Her people install an app: No. An inbox is enough, with no account.
Where the alert reaches: Anywhere her phone has internet. Her Contacts can be in any country.
A human who can escalate: No. We alert the Contacts she registered, and we never contact police.

I'm Alive

Trip timers and missed check-in alerts to her own contacts.

Price: Free tier, $29.99 a year, or $39.99 a year; Billed yearly. The closest product to ours, and honest about what it is not.
She installs an app: Yes. An iOS or Android download.
Her people install an app: No. Contacts are reached by push, email or text.
Where the alert reaches: Not limited by country.
A human who can escalate: No. Their site states it alerts chosen contacts and never calls 911.

bSafe

A dead-man timer with live audio and video to trusted contacts.

Price: Not published on their own site; Their site now reads as a business product. The app store lists $4.99 a month.
She installs an app: Yes.
Her people install an app: Not stated on their site.
Where the alert reaches: Not stated on their site.
A human who can escalate: Unclear for the consumer plan.

Hollie Guard

Journey timers with escalation to police through a monitoring centre.

Price: Free app, then £7.99 a month or £79.99 a year; The escalation is on the paid tier only.
She installs an app: Yes.
Her people install an app: Not stated on their site.
Where the alert reaches: The United Kingdom. It does not travel with her.
A human who can escalate: Yes. A police-approved centre, on the paid tier.

Noonlight

Hold a button, release it, and their own agents send police.

Price: Not published on their own site; A free tier and a paid tier exist. No figure is stated publicly.
She installs an app: Yes, or a partner device.
Her people install an app: Not applicable. Their agents respond, not her people.
Where the alert reaches: 6 countries: United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, United Kingdom.
A human who can escalate: Yes. This is the whole product, and it is good at it.

Life360

Always-on location for a family circle, all day.

Price: Free, $9.99, $16.99 or $24.99 a month; Emergency response sits on the two higher tiers.
She installs an app: Yes.
Her people install an app: Yes. Everyone in the circle needs the app and an account.
Where the alert reaches: Location is global. The response services are built around the United States.
A human who can escalate: Yes, on the higher tiers.

Snug

A daily check-in, and a human who calls if she misses it.

Price: Free text-alert plan. The dispatch plan price is not published; Their pricing page is gone. We will not repeat a figure they no longer state.
She installs an app: Yes, or their automated phone line.
Her people install an app: No. Contacts get a text or a call.
Where the alert reaches: Built around the United States.
A human who can escalate: Yes, on the paid plan.

Where we are the wrong answer

4 trips where you should buy something else.

A safety product that cannot name its own limits is not worth trusting with a night bus. These are ours.

She wants a stranger to send police
We do not do that and never will. We alert the people she chose. If she wants a professional who can escalate to police, Noonlight covers 6 countries and Snug will phone her. Either beats us on that one job.
She lives and walks in the United Kingdom
Hollie Guard has a police-approved centre and a real relationship with United Kingdom forces. For a walk home in Manchester, not a trip to Medellín, it is the better tool.
She is going somewhere with no signal
A trek, a desert, a boat. No signal means no check-in, and her Contacts hear silence turned into an alert. We concede this outright: buy a satellite messenger, not a pass.
She wants her family to see her on a map all day
That is Life360, and it is a fair thing to want. We share her location only with an alert, so if the reassurance she wants is a live dot, we are the wrong shape.

If the fit is us

Nothing to install, for you or for them.

You set the check-in windows for the risky legs. I ask, you reply with one tap. Go quiet, and the people you chose get your last shared location and the local emergency numbers.

Trip Pass, $12, one trip up to 30 days. Year Pass, $39, 12 months. I alert your Contacts, never the authorities, and I say so in every message I send them.

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