Find help near you,
in seconds.
Type what you need — “I need food,” “I’m unhoused” — and AidSense shows you food assistance, housing, healthcare, and emergency support close by. Free, no ads, works offline.
- Free forever
- No ads or tracking
- Works offline
AidSense3 places near you
Community Food Pantry
FoodSt. Mary’s Meal Program
MealsNorthside Resource Center
SNAP helpIn crisis right now? You don’t need the app first.
What it does
Built for the worst day of someone's week
Every decision in AidSense assumes the person holding the phone is stressed, in a hurry, and possibly on a device that's about to die.
Say it in your own words
Type “I need food” or “I’m unhoused.” No categories to guess at, no forms to fill out. AidSense figures out what you need and shows you where to go.
Sorted by what’s closest
Results are ranked by distance from where you are, with hours, addresses, and directions attached. Food assistance, housing, healthcare, and emergency support.
Works without signal
Resource information is stored on your phone, so a dead zone or an unpaid phone bill doesn’t cut you off from the address you need.
Search without a sign-up
Open the app and start searching. Your location is used to find what’s nearby and nothing you search for is ever sold or handed to advertisers.
Free, and staying that way
No ads, no subscription, no upsell. AidSense is built as a public good, not a product — the whole point is that cost is never the reason someone doesn’t get help.
Checked against real sources
Listings are built from public directories and community organizations, so hours and addresses reflect what’s actually open — not a page that went stale two years ago.
U.S. House of Representatives
Congressional App Challenge winner
AidSense won the 2025 Congressional App Challenge for New Jersey's 9th District, a national competition run by the U.S. House of Representatives recognizing student-built apps that serve their communities.
- Free
- No ads, no subscriptions, no paywall
- 24/7
- Crisis doesn’t keep office hours
- Offline
- Works when your connection doesn’t
Why we built it
The help exists. Finding it is the hard part.
Food banks, shelters, clinics, and crisis lines are already out there. What's missing is a fast, dignified way to find the right one — without a dozen phone calls, an outdated PDF, or a website that asks you to make an account first.
AidSense closes that gap. It was designed with input from people who do this work and shaped by one rule: someone in a hard moment should get an address in under a minute, without explaining themselves to anyone.
It isn't a product with a business model attached. It's a public good, and it stays free.
Read our missionGet AidSense on your iPhone
Free on the App Store. Requires iOS 15 or later — also runs on iPad, Apple silicon Macs, and Apple Vision Pro.
Android is on the way
Leave your email and we'll send you one message the day it lands on Google Play. That's the only thing we'll ever use it for.