Contingency
Google Play requires 12 testers to keep the app installed and remain opted-in as a tester for 14 continuous days. You don't need to spend hours in the app — just opening it a few times throughout the period ensures Google counts your participation.
Contingency is primarily a reactive app — built for the moment something goes wrong on a trip — paired with proactive travel-prep tools you'd use before, during, and after travel. Since you're testing (and likely not actually lost, robbed, or crossing a border this week), it can be hard to know what to "do" inside the app.
You don't need to complete every item below. Treat this as a scorecard of things you can poke at to get a real feel for the app and give useful feedback. Even five or ten minutes spread across the 14 days makes a difference.
Be Brutal: I'm a solo founder — I'd rather you find a flaw now than a traveler finding it in a real emergency.
Send notes to support@contingency-app.com — short bullet points are perfect, no formal report needed.
Tap any areas you tried, drop a few notes, and hit send. Email is optional but helps me follow up if I have a question.
Use the email tied to your Google account on your Android phone — that is the address Google Play needs to add you as a tester.
Expect your invite via email within 48 hours. Please check your Promotions/Spam folders.
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Hi — I'm building Contingency as a travel preparedness and crisis response app. It is not a trip planner or booking tool. It is the answer to the question every traveler eventually asks in a stressful moment: "What do I do now?"
The app stores your critical documents, gives you nationality-specific border intelligence, and provides step-by-step playbooks for real scenarios — lost passport, robbery, medical emergency, arrest, natural disaster. Everything works offline because crises do not wait for signal.
Before Contingency can launch on Google Play, Google requires 12 testers to actively use the app for 14 continuous days. As a solo traveler — and now a solo founder — this is the part I need to ask for help with. If you are up for it, I genuinely appreciate it, and you'll have my direct email for anything you find or want to suggest.
Google's requirement is mainly about having 12 people committed to the testing track for two weeks. As long as you keep the app on your phone and poke around a bit, you're helping me move one step closer to the public launch.
Closed Testing is the official Google Play track required before a new app can be released to the public. A small group of testers opts in via an invite link, installs the app, and uses it for 14 continuous days.
No. Your email is added to a private list used solely to send the Google Play invite and one confirmation email.
Within 48 hours of signing up. The invite comes from Google directly, not from us — it may land in your promotions tab.