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UK only. Not available yet; the shops come first.

For when it happens to you.

The same sealed capture the shops get. One press records video and sound, hashed on the device as it is written and streamed away while it is still happening. What you hold afterwards is a record whose handling you can prove, ready to hand to the police.

The lit doorway of a newsagent and off licence at night, one person in the doorway seen from behind.
Late and open.Photograph: Igor Savelev, Unsplash.

Nothing here can go viral

Witnal for individuals has no sharing surface at all. No feed and no groups. Nothing exports to social media. A recording leaves in exactly one direction: to the police, by your hand. A public gallery of accusations is how safety apps get removed from the stores and how their users end up on the wrong side of data protection law. Witnal refuses the whole category.

The same refusals

Facial recognition stays out. So do watchlists and 999 autodial. The claims stay tamper-evident rather than tamper-proof, the kind a court can test. The refusals on the shop page hold here.

What it will cost

The shape is decided: holding a bounded amount of sealed evidence is free and preparing an evidence pack for handover is a one-off charge. Numbers follow when the app does.

Where this is today

The consumer app is not available yet. A native app is what lets a recording survive the phone being taken or smashed, since each clip leaves the device as it is made. It will not record video from a pocket. iOS forbids camera use while an app is in the background and no app can lift that. Sound can keep recording with the screen off. On Android so can video. To hear when it lands, ask: rse-labs.com/contact