Travelling alone — one person knows the plan, and the embassy's in your pocket.
Backpacking, a gap year, a solo work trip. Solo Travel mode sets you up with the local emergency number and your embassy pre-loaded for the country you're in, monitors hostel and taxi arrivals, and raises the alarm — with everything your person needs to act from home — if something's wrong.
- 195Countries: embassy + emergency
- 24hHostel no-checkout alert
- Auto-endTaxi-share on arrival
Backpacker safety apps come in two flavours — panic buttons nobody uses because they're embarrassing, and 'share your location with everyone, always' apps that flatten your battery and your trust. Solo Travel is the middle path: you tell one person, they see only what they need, and the local embassy and emergency numbers sit ready in your pocket for the country you're actually in.
The embassy in your pocket, hostel & taxi monitoring, lost-passport SOS.
- Local emergency number + your embassy pre-loaded for 195 countries (FCDO data, offline)
- Journey ETAs + shared itinerary — auto-alert if you don't arrive
- Hostel check-in / check-out — a quiet ping home if you don't check out
- Taxi-share with auto-end on arrival
- Lost-passport SOS — embassy address + replacement steps in one tap
- Travel-buddy network — mutual aid with someone at the same hostel
How Solo travel works, step by step.
- 1
Set your country on arrival
Tap the country you've landed in. Vygard pre-loads the local emergency number (it isn't always 999), your embassy's address and after-hours phone, and language helpers for hospital and police — and caches it all so it works offline.
- 2
Plan a journey, share the itinerary
Set where you're going and by when — a night bus across a border, the walk to a hostel. Share it with one person at home so they see your destination and ETA without you having to keep checking in.
- 3
Check in to your hostel
Tag the hostel on arrival. If you don't check out within 24 hours of your expected leave date, your home contact gets a quiet ping. Sleeping in is fine; disappearing for three days isn't.
- 4
Share taxi rides
Drop a live pin for a taxi ride; it auto-ends on arrival or a few minutes past your ETA. Useful where ride-hailing apps aren't reliable.
- 5
One SOS gives them everything
Press SOS and your person gets your live location, your hostel address, the local embassy contact, and a 'who to call' guide for that country's emergency services — so they can act from home.
- 6
Lost passport? One tap
The lost-passport action loads your embassy's address, appointment booking, the replacement application and a 'how to get home' guide for your country.
The Solo travel pack, spec by spec.
The same safety engine as every mode in Vygard Sports, tuned for solo travel. Indicative values — refined in real-world use.
- Detects
- Missed journey ETA · missed hostel check-out · manual SOS
- Watch style
- Lowjourney / itinerary-based (no fall model)
- Embassy + emergency DB
- 195 countries — embassy, after-hours phone, local police / ambulance / hospital; from FCDO data, cached offline
- Hostel monitoring
- Quiet ping home if no check-out within 24h of your expected leave
- Taxi-share
- Live pin, auto-ends on arrival or ~10 min past ETA
- What triggers an alert
- Not arriving by ETA, no hostel check-out, or a manual SOS
- Who's notified & how
- The one person you share with, by push & SMS, with location + hostel + embassy contact
- Works off-grid
- Embassy + emergency data is cached for offline use. For deep off-grid travel with no cellular at all, pair a satellite communicator (Garmin inReach).
- Devices
- iPhone / Android (eSIM-friendly), Apple Watch & Wear OS. Offline mode caches embassy + emergency data.
- Price
- £5.99/mo — one subscription covers every mode. Start free, no card.
Embassy + emergency, pre-loaded
195 countries — embassy address, after-hours phone, local police, ambulance and hospital. Cached offline for when you land without data.
Hostel check-in / check-out
Tag the hostel; no check-out within 24h of your expected leave sends a quiet ping home.
Taxi-share with auto-end
A live pin for the ride that ends itself on arrival — built for places where ride apps aren't reliable.
Lost-passport SOS
One tap loads the embassy address, replacement steps and a 'how to get home' guide.
Travel-buddy network
Pair with someone at the same hostel and you both get a pin if either presses SOS.
Journey ETAs + itinerary
Not-arrived-by-ETA is the trigger for the legs you can't be tracked live on.
Create your account, then download Vygard Sports.
Start your free account online in a couple of minutes — no card needed. Then install Vygard Sports and sign in; Solo travel is one of the modes waiting for you. Scan to download, or tap your store.
