Hold for three seconds. We send for help.

ELA is a legal emergency membership for UAE residents: if you’re arrested, one hold on your iPhone or Apple Watch tells a vetted law firm, your consulate and your family.

Get the app

Available on iPhone and Apple Watch.

Phone locked, dead, or taken: it still runs.

Press and hold the disc.

The ELA app’s settled home: You’re protected, the keyhole disc labelled Hold to arm

Demo with the real app. The watch shows its hold screen, in step with the phone. Nothing is sent from this page.

That’s the hold.

In the app, the countdown starts now.

What happens when you hold.

Then a 30-second countdown. It sends on its own.

The app’s countdown: Sending help in 0:28, the note that your location and profile go to the response team automatically, a Send help now button and the slider Slide to cancel, I’m safe

If the moment passes, slide “I’m safe” and nothing happens. If you can’t, ELA sends.

“Send help now” sends at once.

Your Apple Watch holds too.

The same three seconds, from your wrist, with your phone in a bag or on a desk.

ELA on Apple Watch, ready: Protected, the keyhole disc, and Hold to arm

The case never waits on your phone.

Once the hold commits, the response runs on ELA’s servers, so a locked, dead, or taken phone doesn’t stop it.

We take it from here.

  • A vetted law firm is notified. Engaged the moment it accepts. If it can’t act, ELA is already finding another. Legal fees are agreed between you and the law firm.
  • Your consulate is informed. Your consulate’s emergency desk gets the case brief.
  • Your family gets a private live link. Sent only to the people you chose.
  • A human team tracks the case. Real people, on chat and voice.

Example timeline. Timings vary by case.

The live case screen: Your response is running, We’re reaching your law firm, then Case opened, Law firm reaching now, consulate duty desk notified, trusted contact notified, ELA response team queued

Your family doesn’t need the app.

The private link opens in a browser: live location, each milestone, and the name of the lawyer acting for you.

The private link’s location view: the live location pin in Dubai Marina on Google Maps
The location view, as the link opens it.

A human team, in your case thread.

Send a voice note, get a reply, and see the moment your lawyer makes contact, all in one thread.

The case thread with ELA Ops: a three-second voice note sent, the reply Got it, a law firm has taken on your case and will be in touch shortly, then Your lawyer has made contact

Example timeline. Timings vary by case.

If you’re arrested in the UAE, you’re not on your own.

The launch film. 45 seconds, with sound.

One membership. The same response for every member.

Weekly, monthly or yearly: the hold, the response and the team are the same whichever you choose.

AED 24.99
a week
AED 79.99
a month
AED 749.99
a year

Legal fees are agreed between you and the law firm.

Billed through the App Store. Cancel any time in your Apple ID settings.

  • The three-second hold on iPhone and Apple Watch
  • A vetted law firm notified with your case brief
  • Your consulate’s emergency desk informed
  • A private live link for the people you choose
  • A human team on every case, by chat and voice

After you join, you can add Shield. Shield membership includes legal-fee insurance, underwritten by a regulated UAE insurer.

The ELA app icon: a mint keyhole on deep blue

If the worst happens, you won’t face it alone.

Get the app

Available on iPhone and Apple Watch.