Although a situational dimension is often discussed in the fear of crime literature, this notion is, with few exceptions, empirically understudied. This lack of research is in part due to practical challenges in collecting valid and reliable situational data. However, as the smartphone has become an integrated part of most people’s everyday life, it also constitutes a potentially feasible tool for researchers to collect relevant situational data on, for instance, fear of crime. In the present research project “STUNDA: Examining experiences of situational fear of crime through smartphone applications among young adults in Malmö”, we have developed a smartphone application designed to collect situational data on experiences of fear of crime as they occur in specific situations, based on the Experience Sampling Method (ESM). The application, STUNDA, was implemented in a student population (N=191) during late 2018 and this presentation will focus on methodological aspects of using a smartphone application as a tool in surveying data on situational fear of crime. This includes recruitment to and participation in the study in addition to future directions of the utilization of smartphone applications in fear of crime research.