Bånded
Safety Starts With Us
Bånded is a community-powered app for real-time reporting and everyday safety. From street harassment to broken infrastructure, Bånded helps you speak up, stay connected, and spark change in your city.
We’re turning quiet moments into visible signals — using crowdsourced insight to make public spaces smarter, safer, and more responsive. Because safety shouldn’t depend on who’s watching.
Community Driven Safety App
Bånded is a community-powered app for real-time reporting and everyday safety. From street harassment to broken infrastructure, Bånded helps you speak up, stay connected, and spark change in your city.
We’re turning quiet moments into visible signals — using crowdsourced insight to make public spaces smarter, safer, and more responsive.
Community Dashboard
Visualizing user reports and community activity directly on an interactive city feed.
Because safety shouldn’t depend on who’s watching.
We built Bånded for the everyday incidents that often go unreported — from street harassment to infrastructure issues. With Bånded, you can document what happened, alert your trusted circle, and share updates that help others stay informed — all while keeping control over your privacy and visibility.
Street harassment is invisible... Until it happens to you
We walk faster. We cross the street. We text someone just in case. These are everyday safety rituals — but we rarely talk about them out loud.
And when we do talk, it’s often to each other. Quiet warnings. Unofficial advice. The world sees safety as a policy issue. But for many of us, it’s personal. It’s lived.
What the Numbers Say...
of women globally have experienced some form of sexual harassment.
Source: UN Women, 2021 Global Report
of women in the UK aged 18–24 have experienced sexual harassment in public.
Source: UN Women UK, 2021
of street harassment incidents are ever officially reported to authorities.
Source: UN Women Global Factsheet & Hollaback!
of university students in the EU report feeling unsafe in or around campus.
Source: EIGE, 2022
Your Guide to Bånded
A quick walkthrough.
Watch Bånded Overview
Take a look at how crowd reporting and group safety features operate in real-time.
Why don’t people report it?
Because reporting is often complicated, retraumatizing, or doesn’t feel “serious enough.” That’s the gap. And Bånded exists to close it.
We use crowdsourced, community-driven data to make these invisible moments visible — and give people the power to speak up safely, in their own time and on their own terms. Because if we want safer streets, campuses, and transit, we need to know what’s actually happening in them.
Take Back Public Space
Bånded is more than a safety app. It’s a tool to take back public space — with your voice, your people, and your story. Here’s what you can do with Bånded:
System Architecture
Secure Crowd Validation
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Map-Based Reports
See where others felt unsafe. Add your own experience, anonymously or with your name, to create a real-time safety heat map of your neighborhood.
Group Alerts
Let your friends know in real-time if something feels off. Create groups for daily walks, commuting, or late nights out.
Anonymous & Verified Posting
Choose to share it with just your group or publicly for others to learn from, maintaining absolute control over your privacy.
Evidence Collection
Capture audio or video and store it securely with end-to-end encryption so you always have proof if you choose to take action.
Partner Dashboards
For cities, municipal entities, and universities to actually see what people are reporting — allowing them to optimize light designs, security routes, and safety responses.
Features
An advanced toolset carefully built to bridge the gap between crowd insight and direct municipal action.
Report & Rate Safety
Citizens can flag unsafe locations & rate areas in real-time, helping others stay alert.
Message Trusted Network
Direct communication for safety alerts. Share your location and state with your close group.
SOS Emergency Response
Immediate video/audio recording & location sharing. Alert authorities and friends instantly.
BåndFixIt
Infrastructure Rating - Report & prioritize urban issues like broken streetlights or hazardous roads.
Geofencing for Municipalities
Backend access to location-based citizen insights. Connect reports to city planning departments.
Up/Down Vote System
Community-driven problem-solving based on citizen needs. Validate and boost report visibility.
Our Target Audiences
Institutions & Cities
Provide localized data dashboards to track lighting, pathways, and feedback from citizens to optimize city layouts and budgets.
Universities & NGOs
Make reporting accessible, safe, and less formal. Reduce retraumatization by bypassing bureaucratic pathways.
BåndFixIt
Equip communities with direct routes to report concrete structural issues to facilitate lighting installations and physical civic repair work.
It Started With a Bagel
It started with a bagel run. But really, it started long before that.
How it Started
Bånded began in 2021, during a quick morning errand in Los Angeles. I wanted to grab coffee and bagels for a friend — but they warned me:
“Don’t walk past that construction site. People have been getting catcalled.”
So I took the car. On the way, I saw another girl walking, and she got catcalled. That moment stuck with me. Because it reminded me of something we all do, especially as women and marginalized folks: We pass down safety tips like an oral tradition. Which street to avoid. What time to leave. Who to text when you're walking home.
What Bånded Is Now
Today, Bånded is a community-powered safety app. You can log an incident (anonymously or not), alert your trusted circle, or simply share what you experienced — no pressure, no bureaucracy.
The Goal?
To make the invisible visible. To map the everyday moments that shape how we move through the world. Because safety isn’t just about policies. It’s about people looking out for each other.
“An invisible system. An oral tradition.”