Umbrella App
An open-source Android, iOS, and web app providing security best practice guides and tools for high-risk situations, from secure communication to kidnapping response.
What is Umbrella App?
Umbrella is an open-source mobile and web application that provides comprehensive security guidance and tools for individuals in high-risk situations. It offers best practice lessons, customizable checklists, and real-time risk feeds covering topics from secure communication and travel safety to kidnapping and arrest response. The app aims to make critical security knowledge accessible and actionable for non-technical users.
Journalists, activists, diplomats, NGO staff, aid workers, business travelers, and human rights defenders operating in high-risk countries or environments.
It consolidates expert security advice from over 40 topics into a single, portable app with offline functionality, customizable checklists, and location-based risk alerts—eliminating the need to search multiple sources during crises.
Overview
Open source Android, iOS and Web app for learning about and managing digital and physical security. From how to send a secure message to dealing with a kidnap. Umbrella has best practice guides in over 40 topics in multiple languages. Used daily by people working in high risk countries - journalists, activists, diplomats, business travelers etc.
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