A quiet word home.
Sotto is how your child says I'm fine — or come and get me — without anyone else in the room knowing. One tap, and the people they chose know how they are and where they were at that moment.
Because phoning home isn't always an option.
Coming soon to the App StoreSotto: Family Check-in — iPhone, iOS 18 or later
The one that matters
“Call me with an excuse”
A child who wants to leave often can't say so out loud. This tap asks a parent to phone with a reason to go — and gives them the line to say, so nobody has to improvise a story at nine at night.
“Gran's not well — I'm coming to get you.”
The parent's phone shows the script. The child just has to look annoyed about it.
They watch it land
No wondering whether it sent
Every check-in shows its journey on the child's phone — sent, delivered, seen, answered — name by name. Mum's on the way. Dad's seen it. If nobody answers, it says so honestly and puts their numbers one tap away.
On your child's phone
Five buttons, and the truth about each one
No feed, no map of anyone, nothing to scroll. The check-in they sent stays on screen and reports back as it lands — and the app will tell them, in their own words, exactly what each button sends.
On yours
What you get, when it matters
A check-in tells you which child, which button, and where they were — then gets out of the way. “Come and get me” says the only thing worth saying: no questions, just go.
What Sotto is, and isn't
Not a tracker. It can't be.
A child who believes an app is watching them stops carrying it — and then it isn't there in the moment it was for. So Sotto only ever sends what a child chooses to send. You can nudge them to check in, and that's the one thing a grown-up can start — but it still sends nothing by itself.
- ✓Which button they tapped, the time, and one map pin from that moment
- ✓Whether your reply reached them
- ✕Where they are between check-ins — there's nothing running in the background to switch off, because it was never built
- ✕When they open the app, or anything else on their phone
- ✕Anything at all if they don't press a button
- ✕Whether they saw the nudge you sent, or decided not to answer it — you're told that you asked, and nothing more
Built for real families
Whoever “family” means
Several guardians, per child
Invite a parent or carer by reading them a code, or by email. Blended families are the point: everyone gets exactly the children they look after, and nobody else's.
The child picks who hears
They choose which grown-ups a check-in goes to, and rename them to whatever they actually call them. “Come and get me” always reaches everyone — that one isn't theirs to narrow.
Everyone can answer
One parent replying never silences another's phone. Each says their own “I'm calling” or “I'm on my way”, and the child sees all of it.
Works on a bad signal
A tap is saved to the phone before anything else happens, then sent when there's signal. A dead zone delays a check-in; it never loses one.
Being straight about it
Sotto reaches your family. That's all it does.
It is not an emergency service and never claims to be. “Come and get me” means I want out of here, please come — not I am in danger of the kind 999 exists for. The app teaches that difference on the first screen a child sees, shows them their local emergency number, and dials it with a press-and-hold if they need it.
Calling the emergency services never tells a parent by itself. As the call is placed, the child chooses whether their family is told too — and “no” means no.