Wonderful! See What This App Does (Video)

It's 9:00 pm, very late, but you have something important to collect or discuss with a friend Bisi who lives no where close to you. You call your friend, "Hello, Bisi, I'm on my way to your house"...Bisi replies "..aaah, this late? wait till tomorrow na". "No naa, I can't, I have to collect that handout because of Dr. Tinubu's 8:00am class, you know how the man behaves naa"... and then you set out to Bisi's house.

Imagine that feeling when you walk through a street at night? alone!!!

I bet you'd silently pray that you just close your eyes and open and then magically find yourself in Bisi's house..haha

Well, here's an app that is designed to eliminate that fear and nervousness and increase your feeling of safety while you walk alone.

Companion as it is called, can be used with anyone in your contacts/phone book and wonderfully enough, those contacts do not need to be users of the app. 

All you need do is to simply input your starting point (maybe your house) and destination (Your friend's house, Bisi) in the app and the software will track your progress.

It will  periodically ask you: "Are you ok?" , and if you don't respond within 15 seconds, by pressing a large green "Yes" button showing on your screen, the app will automatically notify your designated companion (Bisi). Amazing Right?

Also, if Companion detects that you've begun running, whatever the reason, or that your headphones have been taken out of the smartphone's headphone jack, the app will start a 15-second countdown before contacting your friend(Bisi) or family member whose contact you must have stored. You can best imagine why it does that..its just amazing!

Companion has other amazing features too. Watch the video:

Guys, The app is free for download

- IOS

- Android

Credit: mashable