Subscription FAQ
Why a monthly fee
instead of a free 911 dial.
The five questions that come up before someone subscribes, answered plainly. The contact — not you — decides to call 911. A siren plays the moment the trigger word fires. Audio and video are captured from a single camera into one MP4 that stays local on your device.
One tier at $9/month — every device you sign in from.
The five recurring objections
If you've been weighing the cost, start here.
01Why pay when I can just call 911 directly?
911 stays free, and the phone dialer still opens with 911 ready — RoarAlert never places the call for you. What $9/month pays for is everything that happens in the seconds before a call is worth making: the loud siren, the live audio + video stream, the continuous GPS feed, and the live transcript — each one aimed at getting one real human (your emergency contact) paying attention while you decide what to do. The cheapest part of an incident is the dial; the part you cannot buy for free is the readiness.
02What does the contact actually receive?
The moment the trigger word fires, RoarAlert email-fans-out to every contact on your list. Each contact receives a single live feed link with four signals running at the same time: a continuous audio + video stream from the single on-device camera, a running GPS trace, and a live transcript of everything spoken into the armed session. There is no separate app to install — the feed opens in their inbox, and they decide from there whether to call 911.
03Is GPS recorded and who can see it?
GPS is captured only while a session is armed, and only as a live trace visible inside the contact's live feed — it stops the moment you disarm. RoarAlert does not store a historical GPS log, does not sell or share location data, and does not send location to any server. Whatever your contact sees in the moment, they see in their inbox; nothing is pinned to a map after the session ends.
04Will recordings be stored safely and for how long?
Audio and video are captured from a single camera into one MP4 file that stays local on your device. Nothing is auto-uploaded, nothing is auto-shared, and nothing is auto-deleted. The 1-year on-device archive is yours to review at
/sessions/[sessionId]/review and yours to hand to law enforcement on your own terms — you decide what to share, when, and with whom.05Why a monthly fee and not a one-time purchase?
The $9/month keeps the live-feed infrastructure (the inbox delivery, the continuous stream, the GPS relay, the transcript pipeline) running the moment you need it — and that infrastructure has its own ongoing cost. A one-time purchase could not keep the relay live without either a separate subscription anyway or a server you run yourself. Monthly also means a real human at the other end: someone answering the email, someone keeping the relay healthy, someone you can reach. The plan is small on purpose — it pays for the readiness, not a feature list.
Ready when you are
Try the armed-session view first, or jump straight into the Pro plan.
You don't have to decide in this tab — arm a session without signing up and see the contact-decides flow in your own time. If you already know it's for you, subscribe takes about 90 seconds.