SOS and support
The SOS screen and widget, Lockdown in a hard moment, and a real person to talk to.
Need someone now?
These lines are free and not run by Fold’em.
- Call 1 800 697 3738National Problem Gambling Helpline, US. Call, text or chat.
- Call 1 866 531 2600ConnexOntario, Canada. For people in Ontario.
- Call 0800 1 37 27 00BZgA Check dein Spiel, Germany
- Call 1800 858 858Gambling Help Online, Australia
- Call 0808 8020 133National Gambling Helpline, UK
- Other countries
Questions
What is SOS?
SOS is a full screen that opens from the Need help right now? bar above the tab bar, from the SOS widget and from the block screen.
Read the full answerHow do I reach SOS from a blocked app?
Press the second button on the block screen: it is the escape, and it opens Fold’em.
Read the full answerWhere can I talk to someone?
Fold’em carries a bundled directory of 24 countries plus an international fallback, and resolves it against your phone's own region setting, so the organisation it names is one you can actually reach. In the app it opens from SOS, under Talk to someone, then Gambling support, and from Settings, under Help, then Ways to block gambling. Where the resolved organisation has a phone number the sheet offers to call it; where it has none, the sheet offers its website instead of inventing a number. The numbers at the foot of this page are the ones the website can name without knowing where you are.
Read the full answerWhat are motivation notifications?
Motivation notifications are short lines in the voice you pick, arriving up to four times a day inside a window you set.
Read the full answerWhat is the SOS widget?
The SOS widget is a small home screen widget whose whole face is one tap to SOS.
- One kind, one size, one tap
- Two faces, and the difference is who else sees it
- What a tap does
- Putting one on your home screen
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If you need someone now
Free, and not run by Fold’em.
- Call 1 800 697 3738National Problem Gambling Helpline, US. Call, text or chat.
- Call 1 866 531 2600ConnexOntario, Canada. For people in Ontario.Website for ConnexOntario
- Call 0800 1 37 27 00BZgA Check dein Spiel, GermanyWebsite for BZgA Check dein Spiel
- Call 1800 858 858Gambling Help Online, AustraliaWebsite for Gambling Help Online
- Call 0808 8020 133National Gambling Helpline, UKWebsite for the National Gambling Helpline
- Other countries
Gam-Anon is a community for people supporting someone who gambles.
Still stuck? Email support@foldem.app and we answer within two working days.