A beautifully designed app for weather and earthquake warnings.
A fantastic, completely free app that I think more people should definitely know about when in Japan! Not to mention the EVA theming. Thank you, developers ❤️
NERV Disaster Prevention
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The NERV Disaster Prevention App is a smartphone service that delivers earthquake, tsunami, volcanic eruption and emergency warnings, as well as provides weather-related disaster prevention information for flooding and landslides, optimised based on the user's current and registered locations.
The app was developed to help people living in or visiting an area where damage is expected to occur, to accurately assess the situation and make quick decisions and actions.
With information received directly through a leased line connected to the Japan Meteorological Agency, our proprietary technology enables the fastest information distribution in Japan.
▼ All the information you need, in one app
Get a wide range of disaster prevention information, including weather and typhoon forecasts, rain radar, earthquake, tsunami and volcanic eruption alerts, emergency weather warnings and landslide information, river information, and heavy rain risk notifications.
By interacting with the map on the screen, you can zoom in on your location or pan across the country and see the cloud cover, typhoon forecast areas, tsunami warning areas, or the scale and intensity of an earthquake.
① Providing users with the most appropriate disaster information
The home screen displays the information you need at the time and place you need it. When there’s an earthquake, the home screen will show you the latest information. If another type of warning or alert is issued while the earthquake is active, the app will sort them depending on the type, elapsed time and urgency, so you’ll always have the most important information at your fingertips.
② Push Notifications for Important Information
We send out different types of notifications depending on the device’s location, the type of information and level of urgency. If the information is not urgent, we send a silent notification as not to disturb the user. For more urgent situations where a disaster is time-sensitive, a ‘Critical Alert’ alerts the user to an imminent danger. Notifications like Earthquake Early Warnings (Alert level) and Tsunami Warnings will be forced to sound, even if the device is in Silent or Do Not Disturb modes.
Note: Critical Alerts will only be sent to users in the target area of the most urgent types of disasters. Users who have registered their location but are not in the target area will instead receive a normal notification.
※ In order to receive Critical Alerts, you need to set your location permissions to “Always Allow” and have Background App Refresh turned on. If you don’t want Critical Alerts, you can disable them from Settings.
③ Barrier-Free Design
We paid close attention when designing the app to ensure our information is accessible to everyone. We put a focus on accessibility, with colour schemes that are easy to distinguish for people with colour blindness, and use a font with large, clear letters so long bodies of text are easy to read.
▼ Supporters’ Club (In-App Purchase)
In order to keep doing what we do, we’re looking for supporters to help us cover the development and operational costs of the app. The Supporters’ Club is a voluntary membership scheme for those who want to give back to the NERV Disaster Prevention app, by contributing to its development with a monthly fee.
You can find out more information about the Supporters’ Club on our website.
https://nerv.app/en/supporters.html
[Privacy]
Gehirn Inc. is an information security company. The security and privacy of our users is our highest priority. We take great care not to collect excessive amounts of information about our users through this application.
Your exact location is never known to us; all location information is first converted to an area code used by everyone in that area (like a zip code). The server also doesn’t store past area codes, so your movements cannot be tracked.
Learn more about your privacy on our website.
https://nerv.app/en/support.html#privacy
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The app was developed to help people living in or visiting an area where damage is expected to occur, to accurately assess the situation and make quick decisions and actions.
With information received directly through a leased line connected to the Japan Meteorological Agency, our proprietary technology enables the fastest information distribution in Japan.
▼ All the information you need, in one app
Get a wide range of disaster prevention information, including weather and typhoon forecasts, rain radar, earthquake, tsunami and volcanic eruption alerts, emergency weather warnings and landslide information, river information, and heavy rain risk notifications.
By interacting with the map on the screen, you can zoom in on your location or pan across the country and see the cloud cover, typhoon forecast areas, tsunami warning areas, or the scale and intensity of an earthquake.
① Providing users with the most appropriate disaster information
The home screen displays the information you need at the time and place you need it. When there’s an earthquake, the home screen will show you the latest information. If another type of warning or alert is issued while the earthquake is active, the app will sort them depending on the type, elapsed time and urgency, so you’ll always have the most important information at your fingertips.
② Push Notifications for Important Information
We send out different types of notifications depending on the device’s location, the type of information and level of urgency. If the information is not urgent, we send a silent notification as not to disturb the user. For more urgent situations where a disaster is time-sensitive, a ‘Critical Alert’ alerts the user to an imminent danger. Notifications like Earthquake Early Warnings (Alert level) and Tsunami Warnings will be forced to sound, even if the device is in Silent or Do Not Disturb modes.
Note: Critical Alerts will only be sent to users in the target area of the most urgent types of disasters. Users who have registered their location but are not in the target area will instead receive a normal notification.
※ In order to receive Critical Alerts, you need to set your location permissions to “Always Allow” and have Background App Refresh turned on. If you don’t want Critical Alerts, you can disable them from Settings.
③ Barrier-Free Design
We paid close attention when designing the app to ensure our information is accessible to everyone. We put a focus on accessibility, with colour schemes that are easy to distinguish for people with colour blindness, and use a font with large, clear letters so long bodies of text are easy to read.
▼ Supporters’ Club (In-App Purchase)
In order to keep doing what we do, we’re looking for supporters to help us cover the development and operational costs of the app. The Supporters’ Club is a voluntary membership scheme for those who want to give back to the NERV Disaster Prevention app, by contributing to its development with a monthly fee.
You can find out more information about the Supporters’ Club on our website.
https://nerv.app/en/supporters.html
[Privacy]
Gehirn Inc. is an information security company. The security and privacy of our users is our highest priority. We take great care not to collect excessive amounts of information about our users through this application.
Your exact location is never known to us; all location information is first converted to an area code used by everyone in that area (like a zip code). The server also doesn’t store past area codes, so your movements cannot be tracked.
Learn more about your privacy on our website.
https://nerv.app/en/support.html#privacy
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4.7 out of 5
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Must-Have App for Japan Residents
This app is a must-have for residents of Japan. I like it so much that I would be willing to pay a subscription for it. It’s incredible that it’s offered for free. It has full bilingual support in Japanese and English, and the English machine translations are excellent. When the Noto Ishikawa earthquake occurred, NERV sent me a warning notification in advance with time to arrive at my geolocation with estimated intensity. Godlike capabilities. Those who don’t know this app are left in the dark.
Fantastic
Am not one to usually write app reviews but from the beautiful design to clean, in-depth features and maps, I am impressed. Shows detailed present and future severe weather events, has great earthquake realtime features, and is an overall smooth app.
Works nicely
It gives me very prompt notifications, oftentimes a few minutes/seconds right before my phone's features sends anything. Localized messages from Japan on my phone are translated and are hard to understand with low language skills so this app fills that gap well. Of that, I do recommend it.
Great app
Highly recommended if you live in Japan. It has a simple design and easy to understand. Wish I would of had this app when I first got to Japan!
Fahrenheit
Excellent app however being from the United States, it would be nice if we could change the temperature from Celsius to Fahrenheit in the settings.
Good but…
I live in the US. So it’s impossible to get notified for a Japanese earthquake. I study the earthquakes there and this would be a better app if you could receive notifications without having to be in Japan. Otherwise it’s well built and pretty stable
Everything I was looking for
Lived my entire in hurricane alley and if I can get a reliable alert app PLUS Nerv action, what’s not to love.
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App Info
- Category
- Weather
- Publisher
- Gehirn Inc.
- Languages
- English, Japanese
- Recent version
- 5.1.2 (2 months ago )
- Released on
- Aug 31, 2021 (2 years ago )
- Also available in
- Japan, United States, China, Canada, Hong Kong, Australia, Brazil, Taiwan, France, Russia, Germany, Singapore, Indonesia, United Kingdom, South Korea, Sweden, Malaysia, Chile, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Vietnam, Romania, Nigeria, Netherlands, Norway, New Zealand, Mexico, Peru, Philippines, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, India, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, Turkey, South Africa, Ecuador, Argentina, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Belarus, Switzerland, Colombia, Czechia, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Algeria, Lebanon, Egypt, Spain, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, United Arab Emirates, Italy, Kuwait
- Last updated
- 1 week ago