‘Are you dead?’: Chinese app for solo dwellers goes viral

“Are You Dead?”, an app that sounds the alarm if a user doesn’t check in every 48 hours, was one of China’s top-selling paid apps on Tuesday as the country’s growing class of solo dwellers flocked to download it.

More and more people in the world’s second largest economy are living alone as marriage rates decline and the number of elderly empty-nesters grows.

Created by Moonscape Technologies, the app pitches itself as a “safety tool crafted for solo dwellers… to make solitary life more reassuring”.