For parents of kids who get sick in the car
A quieter ride for the back seat.
SickSense reads your car's motion through your mounted phone, then gives the driver short voice cues — quietly, before the back seat goes pale.
No more roadside stops
Calmer back seat
Driver knows first
You can feel it coming before they say a word.
You've watched the windscreen go quiet in the rear-view mirror. You know exactly which roads do it — the winding country drive, the stop-and-go highway, the long Sunday trip back from grandparents. You've tried ginger lozenges that don't always work. You've tried antihistamines that knock them out for hours. You've tried "just look at the horizon" — which is a hard thing to say from the front seat to a child who can barely see over the door.
It's not your fault. It's not your driving. Motion sickness in kids is one of the most predictable, least-discussed sources of friction in a parent's week, and the standard advice is either too slow, too blunt, or impossible to apply from behind the wheel.
- The five-minute warning that ends in pulling over.
- Trips you don't take because you remember what happened last time.
- A back seat that has gone too quiet — and you know what that means.
There's a way to catch it before it tips over.
What if your phone could hear it coming?
SickSense uses the sensors already in your phone — the same ones that flip your screen and count your steps — to read how your car is actually moving. The body-frame calibration runs in the first 30 seconds of your trip. From then on, the app watches for the driving patterns that published research links to motion sickness onset: sharp lateral jerk, late braking, low-frequency sway, sustained winding, stop-and-go congestion.
When SickSense sees a pattern that has triggered symptoms before, it says one short thing over your car speakers — "Smooth out the turns" or "Ease the brakes" or "Pull over for five minutes if you can" — and goes quiet again. You never have to look at your phone. You never have to touch it. The screen sleeps the moment the trip starts.
Benefits
Built for the parent in the front seat.
Catch it before it starts.
A five-rule signal-processing engine calibrated to your car's body frame, reading lateral jerk, longitudinal jerk, low-frequency sway, stop-and-go, and sustained winding — the patterns published research links to motion sickness onset.
Eyes on the road, hands on the wheel.
Voice-first by design. The screen sleeps the moment the trip starts. You say "start trip" to begin and "Sarah queasy" to log a moment. The app talks to you, never the other way around. Compatible with AI traffic-camera regulations in Australia, the UK, and an expanding list of US states.
Gets better the more you drive.
A per-passenger model learns your child specifically. After your tenth labelled trip, SickSense starts firing personalised early warnings before the generic rules trigger — because it has learned your kid's tolerance, not a generic kid's tolerance. Coming in V2 (Pro tier).
Early notes from the road.
We're in advanced beta with the first families. Real testimonials will appear here as they come in.
"The five-minute warning is back to fifteen — long enough that we actually get there."
— Beta tester to be quoted, parent of 7-year-old
"She fell asleep on the way back from grandma's. First time in years."
— Beta tester to be quoted, parent of 9-year-old
"I worried it would be one more thing to think about while driving. It isn't — you press one button and it's voice from then on."
— Beta tester to be quoted, parent of two
Beta testers welcome — your trip data trains the model and earns you free Pro forever. Join below.
One mount. One button. One quieter trip.
01
Mount and start
Mount your phone, tap Start, and say "start trip." SickSense calibrates to your car in the first 30 seconds while you drive normally.
02
We listen, you drive
Your screen sleeps. SickSense watches the car's motion in the background. When the driving enters a known trigger pattern, you hear one short sentence — and then quiet again.
03
The back seat stays quiet
No roadside stops. No pale faces in the rear-view. And every trip teaches the app a little more about your child specifically.
Why SickSense, and why now.
| Approach | Acts before symptoms? | Coaches the driver? | Hands-free for the driver? | No medication side effects? | Learns your child specifically? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SickSense | V2 | ||||
| Apple / Google Motion Cues | |||||
| Wristbands (Reliefband, Sea-Band) | |||||
| Antihistamines | |||||
| Doing nothing |
SickSense is the only product designed to prevent motion sickness by adapting the drive — not by adapting the passenger.
What you get.
Free
always free- Five-rule motion-sickness alert engine, calibrated to your car
- Voice-first control — start, stop, log, acknowledge
- Body-frame calibration at trip start (30 seconds)
- Three-state mounting detection — knows if you've picked up the phone
- Per-trip review and full trip history
- Multi-passenger family profiles (name, age band, sensitivity)
- Free SIT (Sensory Integration Therapy) exercise library
- Works offline — alerts never depend on internet
- No ads. Ever.
- No medical claims. No prescription. No side effects.
- Your raw trip data stays on your phone
Pro
one-time unlock, AU$14.99 indicative — coming in V2- Per-passenger personalisation that learns your child specifically
- Personalised early warnings, before the generic rules trigger
- End-of-trip narration and trip-pattern insights
- Unlimited passengers across drivers (parent, partner, grandparent)
- Priority feature requests
Coming soon
- Auto-detect — no need to tap Start, the app arms itself when you drive (V1.1)
- iOS port — Apple Vehicle Motion Cues users meet SickSense on the same phone (V2)
- CarPlay and Android Auto support (V3)
- Apple Watch and Wear OS — log a queasy moment from your wrist (V3)
Questions, answered.
A quieter ride starts with one trip.
SickSense is free on Android. Beta testers get free Pro forever when it launches. Join the families helping make a calmer back seat the new normal.
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