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Still Kicking

How it works

A daily promise to check in.

Check in once a day. If you stop, we nudge you, then reach your emergency contacts, then equip them to request a welfare check. No magic, no surveillance — just a quiet chain of "are they OK?"

Getting started

Three things to set up, then forget

You do these once. After that you only have to check in.

Step 01

Create your account

Email, phone, address, and notes about anyone or anything that depends on you — kids, pets, a parent you look after.

Step 02

Add your emergency contacts

One primary, up to four more. We email them (and SMS too if you're on the SMS tier) so they can confirm they're willing to help before anything happens. If they decline, we'll ask you to nominate someone else.

No-one to list?

Step 03

Check in every day

Tap the button in your dashboard, reply to a daily SMS, click the link in your daily email, or call our number and hang up. Whichever fits your day.

Daily check-in

Four ways to check in

So you're never locked out because your phone died or the NBN is playing up.

Any device

On the website

One big "I'm still alive" button in your dashboard. Works on any phone, tablet, or computer.

No internet needed

Reply "OK" to an SMS

We send a daily text. You reply OK. Nothing to remember. Works on any phone that does SMS. (SMS tier only)

Any email client

Tap a link in email

Your daily reminder email has a single check-in button. One tap and you're done for the day.

Old phones welcome

Call and hang up

Ring our Australian number. We recognise your caller ID, log your check-in, and hang up. Made for landlines and older mobiles.

Escalation path

What happens if you miss a check-in

Fully configurable in your settings. If you've flagged dependents, consider halving the times for contact.

  1. +24hrs
    Window missed Just between us

    Your check-in window closes — quietly

    Your dashboard turns amber and the daily friendly ping keeps coming — but no one else is alerted yet. Just us still trying to reach you.
  2. +36hrs
    Urgent warning To you

    First real alert — your last chance before we tell others

    Email + SMS with a concrete countdown: "Check in by [Wednesday 9am] or we'll contact your emergency people." Pause the service if you're off-grid; they'll get a heads-up that you're back.
  3. +48hrs
    Welfare check To your Contacts

    We contact your emergency contacts — with everything they need

    Your address, phone, dependents notes, a pre-filled police welfare-check script, and the local non-emergency number. One email and SMS, all of it.
  4. +1month
    Your choice To your nominated recipients

    Your final messages go out (if you've set them)

    Letters, wishes, pet-care instructions — delivered to the recipients you named. 1 month is the default; choose 1 week, 3 months, a custom window, or only-on-confirmed-death per message. Pause mode blocks this.

Good to know

The small print, in plain English

Three things most people ask about.

Going on holiday?

Use pause mode. Pick a resume date (or mark it as indefinite) and we'll suspend check-ins and escalations until you're back. Your emergency contacts won't be contacted during a pause.

Set this from your dashboard →

What we are not

We are not an emergency service. If you think someone is in immediate danger, call 000. We are not a solicitor, and "final messages" is not a will — for a real will, see your state's Public Trustee or a qualified solicitor.

Your data, your rules

Change intervals, swap emergency contacts, delete everything, export your data, or close your account any time from the dashboard. Australian-hosted. No ads. No data sold.

Read the privacy policy →

A few common questions

If one isn't covered here, it's on the pricing FAQ — or just ask us.

Will you actually call the police on my behalf?
No — and we deliberately don't. We have no authority to dispatch emergency services, and a false welfare-check call from us would burn the service's credibility with police statewide. What we do is equip your emergency contacts with a pre-filled script, your local non-emergency number, and all the details they'd need, so they can request the welfare check themselves at +48h.
What if I genuinely don't have anyone to nominate?
We have a page for exactly that. There are well-funded Australian services — Red Cross Telecross, Community Visitors Scheme, local-council welfare officers — who exist to be that person for people who live alone. We point you at the right ones. If you're truly overwhelmed, please contact us using our online forms.
How do I know it's actually running?
Two ways. Every check-in is logged on your dashboard with a timestamp, so you can see it worked. And if anything breaks on our end (eg a notification fails) we have an automated health check that alerts us within minutes.
Can I change how often I need to check in?
Yes. The default is daily (24 hours), but you can choose from 6 hours up to 168 hours (a week) in your settings. The escalation deltas — urgent warning, emergency contact alert, welfare-check — are all configurable too, and run from the previous stage so the shape stays consistent if you tighten the window.
What happens to my check-ins if your service goes down?
Australian-hosted on AWS Sydney, with daily encrypted database backups. We run an independent uptime monitor on the check-in endpoint and get paged if it's down. If our service is unreachable when you try to check in, you'll see an error — your timestamp doesn't advance, so a quick re-try once we're back up will work. Long outages are uncommon, but if there ever is a large outage we pause sending out anything to emergency contacts until its resolved, with extra time to check in during the grace period.

Set it up in the time it takes to make a cuppa.

Free tier forever for email check-ins. SMS tier when you're ready.

Create your account