Anti-theft alarm · Android and iPhonePut your phone down. Shoo watches it.
Touch it, lift it, unplug it, or take it out of a pocket, and Shoo makes noise and photographs whoever did it. Test it in twenty seconds, before you are asked for anything.
Five triggers. Turn on as many as you like.
They work together, not instead of each other. Sensitivity is a live meter you can see and test, not a slider that means nothing.
Motion
Someone lifts the phone off the table. The live meter shows the reading against the trip line.
Learn more →The phone leaves your pocket or bag. Built for trains, cafés and crowds.
Learn more →Charger unplugged
The cable is pulled out. Arms itself when you plug in, if you want it to.
Learn more →Wrong PIN
Someone tries to guess their way in. Each wrong attempt is photographed.
Learn more →Wi-Fi drop
The phone leaves your home or office network. It walked out of the building.
Learn more →
Loud where it counts
Full volume through the loudspeaker, never quietly into your headphones. The volume keys and the side button will not stop it.
A photo of whoever did it
The front camera fires the moment the alarm does. Wrong PIN attempts get a photo too.
Intruder selfie →
Stops for you only
Your face or your PIN. Stopping it shows a plain passcode screen with no app name, so nobody watching learns there is an alarm at all.
Sometimes you don’t want a siren. You want to know.
Night Watch arms itself when you sleep and says nothing at all. If someone picks the phone up, Shoo lights the screen just enough for a photo, notes the time, and on Android records which apps they opened. In the morning you see exactly what happened.
See Night Watch →
Limits you set in one tap, on one page.
Daily screen time, a limit per app, quiet times for school, homework and bed. Your child can ask for more time from their phone; you say yes from yours. Everything is inside Shoo, with a parent code in front of it.
See Parent Control →Hear it work before you set anything up.
Most alarm apps want a passcode, six permissions and a subscription before you find out whether they work. Shoo does it the other way round.
Open it, arm it
One tap. A three-second countdown so the alarm does not catch your own hand.
Put it down, pick it up
The siren fires. You have just tested the whole thing.
Then make it yours
Now the passcode, your face, and three permissions, each with a one-line reason.
No location. No contacts. No account.
Three permissions, each doing one stated job: the camera for the intruder photo, notifications so you know it is armed, and background permission so it does not quietly stop watching.
Permissions explained →Everything you need keeps working for free.
Shoo Pro adds unlimited history, every siren sound, Night Watch app logging and custom disguises. We will not ask you to pay before you have seen the alarm work.
Someone is going through your phone. Now you can prove it.
Most phone alarm apps are sold for theft in cafés. Most people install one because a sibling, a partner or a flatmate keeps picking their phone up. Shoo is built for that: a photo of who did it, the time, and on Android the apps they opened, quietly if you prefer.
Questions people ask
A person replies, usually within a couple of hours. The promise is one working day.
01Does the alarm work if the phone is on silent?
Yes. Shoo plays through the loudspeaker on the alarm channel at full volume, so the silent switch, the volume keys and headphones do not quiet it.
02Will it drain my battery?
No. Shoo listens to the motion sensor, which uses almost nothing. A full day armed costs roughly the same as ten minutes of video.
03Can someone just close the app to stop it?
Force-closing is handled: Shoo keeps a foreground service running and re-arms after a restart on Android. Stopping the siren needs your face or your PIN.
04Is it free?
The alarm, the intruder selfie, Clap to find and Night Watch are free. Shoo Pro adds unlimited history, every siren sound, app logging in Night Watch and custom disguises. You are never asked to pay before you have seen the alarm work.
05Does Shoo upload my photos?
No. Intruder photos, Night Watch logs and app history stay on your phone. Nothing is sent to us. See the Privacy Policy.
Put your phone down. Shoo watches it.
Free on Android and iPhone. The siren works before you are asked for anything.