Raxha

What problem does Raxha solve?

Families who live apart worry about each other, and most safety apps answer that worry with surveillance: constant pings, dashboards and alerts. The person who cares turns into a supervisor, and the person cared for feels watched.

Raxha takes the opposite position: protection that runs in the background, so that silence can be trusted. If nothing is wrong, nobody has to ask. The product is measured by how little people need to open it, not by how often they do.

Who is it for?

Two roles share one app. The wearer has an iPhone and an Apple Watch. The guardian is a family member who wants to know the wearer is okay at a glance, and does not need a watch.

There is no separate guardian account. The role comes from who protects whom, so a guardian can start protecting themselves later in the same app, with the same screens.

What design rules shaped the app?

The product follows a short set of rules that every screen has to pass:

• Render-true: the interface only claims what live data proves. No simulated vitals, and never "safe" from location alone.
• Never colour alone: every status also has a shape, pattern or label, so it reads without colour.
• Coral only for real emergencies: one coral, used only in the SOS chain; one amber for attention; green only when something is verified.
• No nagging: at most two gentle prompts per topic, and a skipped step stays skipped.
• Reassurance in under five seconds: the daily view answers "is everyone okay?" and lets you close the app.
• Degrade honestly: when something is missing, the app says so ("Vitals need a watch, everything else is on") instead of failing silently.
• Data minimalism: a live location trail exists only during a shared session or an incident and is deleted afterwards. Leaving a circle ends access immediately.

How does a family get connected?

The invite is personal, not a growth loop. The wearer sends it on WhatsApp or SMS with a 6-digit code that lasts 48 hours. The guardian accepts on the web without installing anything, then taps through a three-step walkthrough of exactly what they will and will not see.

Declining is a proper option with its own kind wording, and the code goes back to the sender unused. Every step has a way out for each kind of failure: a denied permission, a timeout, an abandoned step, a revoked invite or a missing device.

What happens in an emergency?

Coral appears only here. An SOS from the watch or phone, or a detected crash, first starts a local check on the wearer: an alarm and a large "I'm OK" button, so a false alarm can be cancelled before anyone is alerted.

While that runs, guardians see a calm amber "checking" state. A full coral alert with location comes only if there is no response. Every alert closes as confirmed, resolved or a false alarm, and after a false alarm the app takes the blame, names the cause and says what it changed.

How was the website designed?

raxha.app tells the product story in the same calm voice as the app. It opens with "When you're everyone's lifeline, let Raxha be yours", explains why real freedom lives in the background, then introduces the parts of the product: Orbit, the family safety net; Pulse, the Apple Watch companion for vitals and fall verification; and the app itself.

Features that are not live yet, Raxha Reach and a screen-free wearable for kids and independent seniors, are labelled "coming soon" instead of being sold as available. The page leads to the App Store download.

What is the brand system?

The name comes from raksha, protection. The brand uses a calm blue and quiet neutrals with the Sora typeface, and keeps alarm colours for real alarms. The same colour roles run through the app, the watch and the website, so a colour means the same thing everywhere.

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