RideAlong — body cam in your hand, a friend on overwatch

RIDEALONG

Body cam in your hand. A friend on overwatch.

A first date with a stranger. A meet-up that needs a witness. Evidence worth keeping. Pair with someone you trust and they ride along — your camera, your audio, your location and sensors — and they can step in.

Download APK How It Works

Android app. Install the APK directly — sideloading is enabled in your phone's settings.

What rides along with you

One person carries the phone. The other watches over them.

Live video & audio

Real WebRTC streaming — your overwatch sees and hears what your phone does, the moment it happens.

Sensor telemetry

Location, motion, orientation and more — around two dozen live readings streamed alongside the video.

Overwatch HUD

The watching side gets a heads-up display: sensor panels, the live feed, and remote commands for the phone.

Invite-only pairing

You send an invite, the other person accepts. No strangers, no directory — only people you choose.

Chat with history

Text alongside the live session, kept so you can look back at what was said and when.

Evidence recording

Capture a session to a recording with a SHA-256 manifest, so the file can be shown to be unaltered.

Stealth modes

The app can present as something ordinary, so someone standing near you doesn't see that help is watching.

One trusted pair

RideAlong is built for two people who already trust each other — not a feed for the public.

How a ride-along works

Pair with someone you trust Send an invite, they accept. That person becomes your overwatch — the one who can ride along.

Start a session when you need it Heading somewhere uncertain? Open a session. Your camera, audio, location and sensors go live to your overwatch.

They watch over you From the Overwatch HUD they see the feed and sensor panels, talk to you, and can run remote commands on the phone.

Keep what matters Record the session to an evidence file with a SHA-256 manifest if you need a record of what happened.

Honest about what it does — and doesn't

You choose your overwatch — pairing only happens by invite and accept
Your overwatch gets real access: live camera, audio, location and sensors
During a session, on-screen mute and camera toggles are courtesy indicators — your overwatch can still see and hear, because that is the point of overwatch
Stealth mode hides the app from someone physically near you — not from the overwatch you invited
Recording laws vary by state and country — what you may capture and share is your responsibility to know before you use it
Not stalkerware — the person carrying the phone sets up their own overwatch; it is not installed on someone else to watch them
Does not protect a phone that is already compromised
Not a replacement for emergency services — call them when a situation is an emergency