Device
iPhone
App type
Native iOS app
Requirement
iPhone 12 or later · iOS 16+
- 50 Hz crash / fall detect for each sport
- Sport switcher in the in-app header
- One Strava connection across all sports
AvailableInstall
Cycling on Saturday, trail run on Sunday, Wednesday-night climbing session, drive back from a client meeting, walk home from the pub on Friday, ski week in February. At £10.99/mo early-bird (£12.99 after launch) the bundle is cheaper than a single Strava sport subscription — and you get safety + Strava sync across every solo activity you actually do.
Tap a mode on the hub — Cycling, Drive, Night Walk, whichever you're doing right now. Each mode tunes the crash classifier + home screen for that activity.
Approve Vygard in Strava once. The 6 sport modes auto-publish with the right activity type. Drive + Night Walk don't publish — they're safety-only, not training tracking.
Saturday ride → Sunday run → Tuesday drive → Friday walk home. Trusted contact, escalation policy, SMS allowance and history shared across every mode. No re-onboarding.
No clever onboarding to dig through, no settings menu to find. Open the app, see one big button. Tap it. Get on with the activity. The whole UI is built around “your hands are on the task, not the phone”.
Cycling · Running · Hike · Climbing · Sailing · Ski · Drive (solo) · Night Walk. Each with its own crash / fall classifier, screen layout, and post-session summary.
Auto-publish toggles work whether today was a ride, a run, a hike, a sailing trip or a ski day. Strava picks the right activity_type from the mode you opened. Drive + Night Walk are intentionally safety-only — no Strava upload.
Add your partner once, they're notified for crashes whether you're riding, running, driving or walking home. No re-onboarding per mode.
One timeline showing 'this month: 4 rides, 2 runs, 1 hike, 12 drives, 6 night walks'. Strava annual reviews ignore the safety-only entries automatically.
Your monthly SMS + WhatsApp pool covers every mode — top-ups apply across the bundle, not per-mode.
When Drive is selected, the home screen surfaces MOT countdown, fuel-log MPG and parking history as opt-in widgets. Add a vehicle once; widgets unlock.
Bigger SOS target for cold / gloved hands, auto-prompt to share Watch Me with someone you trust after 8pm, auto-cancel when you geofence-arrive at home.
Already on a per-sport Vygard app from TestFlight? One tap in settings switches you to Active with Stripe proration — no re-signup, no new install.
Each mode has its own safety classifier, screen layout and feature focus. The crash detector for cycling is different to the fall classifier for sailing — but they all share one trusted contact, one Strava connection and one allowance.
Crash detect + Strava sync + theft alarm
See full pack →Fall detect + Follow Me Home + training plans
See full pack →OS Maps + Met Office + Mountain Rescue + peakbagging
See full pack →Belay buddy + gear retirement + rope log
See full pack →Man-overboard detect + Coastguard + RYA log
See full pack →Avalanche stillness + hard fall + resort DB
See full pack →Solo crash detect + MOT/fuel/parking widgets (opt-in)
See full pack →Bigger SOS + auto Watch Me prompt + home arrival cancel
See full pack →Active doesn't need different hardware — your phone, your watch, your usual setup. The bundle just unlocks more sport-specific tuning of the same sensors.
Use existing hardware — no extra purchase needed. Cancel any time from Stripe Customer Portal; cancellation reverts you to whichever single sport you signed up for originally, or full account close if you signed up for Active directly.
Every Vygard Personal app is designed so the vast majority of alerts cost us nothing to send. SMS and WhatsApp — which we'd otherwise burn at 3-5p per message — kick in only as an emergency fallback. That's why the apps stay at £4.99/mo.
If your contact has any Vygard app installed, they get a push notification with the alert + a tap-to-call button. Instant, no SMS cost.
If they don't have a Vygard app, your phone's own Messages app opens with a pre-filled SOS text + a one-tap install link. iMessage and RCS deliver it for free.
If your contact can't be reached any other way — or it's a genuine unconscious SOS where you can't tap — Vygard sends an SMS via Twilio. Counted against your monthly allowance.
Parallel path to SMS for contacts who use WhatsApp as their primary messenger. Same counting, same allowance pot.
Sized for ~5 SOS events per month at 4 messages each. Most users never get close to the cap. If your allowance runs out mid-month, the app falls back to opening your phone's Messages composer instead of blocking the alert — your safety is never gated on a billing limit.
Top-ups are monthly add-ons in your account settings — cancel anytime, no contract.
Per-user SMS cost is the biggest variable expense in any consumer safety app. If we shipped "unlimited SMS" on a £4.99 sub, we'd have to choose between losing money on heavy users or making the cap dishonest. By being explicit upfront — push-first, native handoff, then metered SMS — we keep the sub price low for everyone, and the people who do need more (frequent travellers, large family groups) pay a fair top-up.
Full breakdown in the FAQActive people bridge categories — a Tour-de-France-watching cyclist who also runs marathons, books a ski week, drives a lot for work, and walks home from things after dark. They don't want 4+ separate apps, separate subscriptions, separate trusted-contact setups. Strava figured this out years ago for sport tracking — one subscription, all activities. We've done the same for safety: one Vygard subscription, one trusted contact, one Strava sync, every solo activity covered.
Vygard Active gives you the same per-mode safety features as the dedicated single-sport apps that preceded it — same crash classifiers, same fall detection, same escalation policy. The bundle is a billing + admin convenience, not a different safety product. All the same disclaimers apply: it's a safety net, not a substitute for proper kit, training, or the judgement to turn back.
We'll email when Vygard Active ships (Available now). No spam, one email, you're first in line.