Global Sitrep
A live global risk picture, on one screen. Earthquakes, armed conflict, disasters, disease outbreaks, displacement, climate anomalies, markets, shipping chokepoints and the news wire, pulled from public sources and put on a map you can actually read.
Free on the App Store for iPhone and iPad.
No account, no server, no tracking
Global Sitrep has no backend at all. Your phone talks directly to the U.S. Geological Survey, NASA, the World Health Organization, UNHCR, the IMF and a dozen others.
There is nothing to sign up for, nothing to breach, and nobody in the middle recording which countries you look at. Most of the sources need no key of any kind. Four of them ask you to register with them directly, and the app works perfectly well if you never do.
A map that answers the right question
Countries are shaded by a risk score, not by how many events happened there. Those are very different questions, and the second one mostly tells you where the news coverage is. A country at war stays dark on a quiet week.
Tap any country for a dossier: what is happening, its standing conflict status, recorded death tolls, displacement, and how it compares.
Conflict, on three timescales at once
Most dashboards get this wrong. A four-year war produces no events in a 24-hour window, so filtering conflict by time empties the screen and makes an active war look finished.
Global Sitrep keeps three things separate: standing conflict zones that do not care what time window you picked, an unwindowed historical record with real death tolls from UCDP and the Humanitarian Data Exchange, and a live wire that is the only part the time filter touches.
Twenty-nine panels, arranged your way
Build the dashboard you want. Add, remove, reorder and resize panels, and save workspaces as missions for different jobs. Instability rankings, seismic activity, storms, outbreaks, market indices, commodities, currencies, live vessel transits through the world’s shipping chokepoints, and a news wire drawn from hundreds of feeds.
Plus a directory of broadcast news channels, each one a tap away in the broadcaster’s own channel on YouTube.
Honest about its data
Every figure names its source. A feed that returns nothing says it returned nothing, instead of looking identical to one that is broken. Data that lags says what date it is actually for. Automated sources are labelled as automated, because coding events from news text is fast and imperfect.
There is a disclaimer in the app and it is meant seriously: this is for general awareness, not for emergency response or travel safety.
Free, with no catch
Every panel, every layer and every source, with no ads, no accounts, no tracking and no paywall. There is an optional tip jar that unlocks nothing, because there is nothing left to unlock.
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