Farah Master

So you have to log a person who's an emergency contact and then you have to check in every day.

And then if you miss a day, then that user will, there'll be an email reminder and then there will be an automatic alert to your emergency contact.

But behind it is an increasing shift to solo living in China.

So be it students or singles who are choosing not to get married or the elderly who live away from their children.

China has around 200 million one-person households.

So this app provides some sort of security or daily check-in that's easy to manage to make sure that people are safe.

Many users are saying that the Are You Dead?

name is what made so many of them download it in the first place.

Others are more concerned or sensitive about the name and are asking to change it to Are You Alive?

or Are You There?

There's been so much kind of frenzy online about it that the company said this week that it's going to rebrand its name internationally, but they still haven't changed the Chinese name.