PulsePoint Respond

Name: PulsePoint Respond
Rating: 4.8 (277160 reviews)
Author: PulsePoint Foundation

Building informed communities

Free

277K Ratings
Age Rating

13+
Years
Chart

#53
Medical
Developer

PulsePoint Foundation
Language

EN
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Size

34.8
MB

240,000+ 5-star reviews, more than 5 million users, FirstNet Certified™ for use by 911. See for yourself why PulsePoint is the largest and most trusted public safety app. PulsePoint Respond is a 911-connected mobile app that can immediately inform you of emergencies occurring in your community and can request your help when cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is needed nearby. If you’re trained in CPR and are willing to assist in an emergency, the app will alert you if someone near you is having a cardiac emergency and may need CPR. In addition to nearby “CPR Needed” notifications, you can choose to be notified of other events that may impact you and your family, such as wildland fires, flooding and utility emergencies. You can also monitor live dispatch radio traffic for most PulsePoint-connected communities with a simple tap on the speaker icon. PulsePoint currently provides coverage for thousands of communities in North America, with many more on the way. For more information, visit pulsepoint.org, contact us at info@pulsepoint.org. PulsePoint Respond is an end-to-end FirstNet Certified™ application. FirstNet Certified solutions must demonstrate 99.99% availability and pass independent third-party security, data privacy and performance audits. PulsePoint is a 501(c)(3) public non-profit foundation building applications that help public safety agencies inform and engage their citizens. NOTE: Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life. Your actual experience is always visible in Settings | Battery | PulsePoint.

Ratings & Reviews

4.8

out of 5

277K Ratings

Reality and Gratitude
Jan 9
Linz E R
This app is helpful in many ways. The most important to me is knowing how hard, well and selflessly the agencies and each person, each role works to help our communities. People, pets, wildlife, structures. It’s incredibly grounding to know what’s going on around me and everyone should listen occasionally to hear reality and have gratitude for all people involved in emergencies. I see a lot of reviews mention avoid traffic and that is disheartening to me. Yes, it can help with that but there are other apps for that. This one lets us understand all that goes into a call for help. Police are excluded for good reason, some sensitive situations, as well. But I appreciate the work done by them just as much and understand why we cannot hear those details.The app also shows where AED devices are located which could help tremendously if someone is certified, knows how to use them and it’s needed before medics arrive. Same for anyone in need of CPR. This app allows us to help each other…appreciate those who save lives, wildlife, homes and other emergencies. It’s not just for traffic or gossip. It brings trivial problems into perspective and I always feel immense gratitude and amazement of coordination when I listen. It’s almost a form of meditation…not in the sense of using others’ emergencies but remembering and hearing reality. Some things we stress about aren’t crucial. I am grateful we have this app to know what’s going on, help if we can and adjust mindsets, feel gratitude.
Reality and Gratitude
Jan 9
Linz E R

This app is helpful in many ways. The most important to me is knowing how hard, well and selflessly the agencies and each person, each role works to help our communities. People, pets, wildlife, structures. It’s incredibly grounding to know what’s going on around me and everyone should listen occasionally to hear reality and have gratitude for all people involved in emergencies. I see a lot of reviews mention avoid traffic and that is disheartening to me. Yes, it can help with that but there are other apps for that. This one lets us understand all that goes into a call for help. Police are excluded for good reason, some sensitive situations, as well. But I appreciate the work done by them just as much and understand why we cannot hear those details.The app also shows where AED devices are located which could help tremendously if someone is certified, knows how to use them and it’s needed before medics arrive. Same for anyone in need of CPR. This app allows us to help each other…appreciate those who save lives, wildlife, homes and other emergencies. It’s not just for traffic or gossip. It brings trivial problems into perspective and I always feel immense gratitude and amazement of coordination when I listen. It’s almost a form of meditation…not in the sense of using others’ emergencies but remembering and hearing reality. Some things we stress about aren’t crucial. I am grateful we have this app to know what’s going on, help if we can and adjust mindsets, feel gratitude.
Pulse point likes
08/07/2018
Alex Fighting 51st
PulsePoint is an amazing app that allows first responders to be alerted and know what is going on in their local/ community. PulsePoint has allowed my volunteer fire company to respond to fires quicker. We have been alerted by PulsePoint while at the station many times for house fires, sometimes even minutes before the pagers go off! It also is amazing because it allows us to know who is en route and who is on scene. While all incorporating the calls onto a map. I believe it’s an game changing app and it will continue to be of good use in the future to fire company’s big and small around the United States! I highly recommend it to other first responders. Now to my wants... or wishes if you would! I would like to see more options of notifications especially for the new types of calls on the app. Maybe notifications for trash fires, vehicle fires, investigations, and gas leaks. I would also love it if the app would allow you too pick what areas you are notified for. My county is very large and my phone seems to go off a lot for fires I don’t necessarily want to be notified about😂 Any who, I would like to see maybe a area you could draw out or a by township alert system. Such as, I only want to be notified for fires, accidents and so on in the following townships blank, blank, and blank. And then I would only get a notification for them so when my PulsePoint goes off I know I’m probably going to an emergency, rather then being let down that the fire is 5 fire station locals away😭. And to conclude my Statement of words😂 I would like to pat PulsePoint on the back for being an amazing app! Good job people who made it and continue to make it great!
Pulse point likes
08/07/2018
Alex Fighting 51st

PulsePoint is an amazing app that allows first responders to be alerted and know what is going on in their local/ community. PulsePoint has allowed my volunteer fire company to respond to fires quicker. We have been alerted by PulsePoint while at the station many times for house fires, sometimes even minutes before the pagers go off! It also is amazing because it allows us to know who is en route and who is on scene. While all incorporating the calls onto a map. I believe it’s an game changing app and it will continue to be of good use in the future to fire company’s big and small around the United States! I highly recommend it to other first responders. Now to my wants... or wishes if you would! I would like to see more options of notifications especially for the new types of calls on the app. Maybe notifications for trash fires, vehicle fires, investigations, and gas leaks. I would also love it if the app would allow you too pick what areas you are notified for. My county is very large and my phone seems to go off a lot for fires I don’t necessarily want to be notified about😂 Any who, I would like to see maybe a area you could draw out or a by township alert system. Such as, I only want to be notified for fires, accidents and so on in the following townships blank, blank, and blank. And then I would only get a notification for them so when my PulsePoint goes off I know I’m probably going to an emergency, rather then being let down that the fire is 5 fire station locals away😭. And to conclude my Statement of words😂 I would like to pat PulsePoint on the back for being an amazing app! Good job people who made it and continue to make it great!
Some things that should be added.
04/09/2019
Johnny Calhoun
First off, I love the new look of the app. It is very clean. Some things that should be added are like the ability to change what kind of mapping app you use when you hit the Navigate button. Second of all, you should have the ability to have custom tones for different calls. Some that you put in the app and then somewhere where other people can make custom tones. Next, you should have accounts, so that people can save calls, and have alerts for specific stations and departments. You also should include like an on scene button for CPR alerts that will send a notification to dispatch saying that someone is on scene that knows how to do COR. That good with the account idea, and the next idea which is an area where you have to be CPR certified to get CPR notifications. Have a list of places that you can get certified, but only allow people with CPR certification to get notified. Finally, I just want to say how much I love this app, it has helped me out so much with stuff. Thank you for making this app. It's awesome.
Some things that should be added.
04/09/2019
Johnny Calhoun

First off, I love the new look of the app. It is very clean. Some things that should be added are like the ability to change what kind of mapping app you use when you hit the Navigate button. Second of all, you should have the ability to have custom tones for different calls. Some that you put in the app and then somewhere where other people can make custom tones. Next, you should have accounts, so that people can save calls, and have alerts for specific stations and departments. You also should include like an on scene button for CPR alerts that will send a notification to dispatch saying that someone is on scene that knows how to do COR. That good with the account idea, and the next idea which is an area where you have to be CPR certified to get CPR notifications. Have a list of places that you can get certified, but only allow people with CPR certification to get notified. Finally, I just want to say how much I love this app, it has helped me out so much with stuff. Thank you for making this app. It's awesome.
Great app, but could be better
11/27/2019
Cbuke
All of my coworkers use this app. About 1600 of them! It works great giving us a jump on emergencies. It’s almost perfect. Except....I don’t use it at night along with many others. There are way too many incidents throughout the night all over the city. I would be up all night if I leave on all of the notifications. It’s like listening to radio dispatch tone after tone and most of the time isn’t you. I would love to see settings for individual companies. For example, if you set your company as Engine 1, your phone would notify you if the incident involved E1. The phone could be set to ring, vibe and/or even turn on your phone light for a length of time. With today’s technology it shouldn’t be that difficult to accomplish. This would also be a great option during the day. Every report of a fire notification has fireman on edge for several seconds and we all pull our phones out to see the location. Most of the time it involves other stations and a majority of them end up being nothing. There is no reason to continuously alert members for a run they are not on for no reason, unless they choose too. Love the app and will continue to use it, but sorry PulsePoint, you are not user friendly when we need to get some sleep. Columbus, OH
Great app, but could be better
11/27/2019
Cbuke

All of my coworkers use this app. About 1600 of them! It works great giving us a jump on emergencies. It’s almost perfect. Except....I don’t use it at night along with many others. There are way too many incidents throughout the night all over the city. I would be up all night if I leave on all of the notifications. It’s like listening to radio dispatch tone after tone and most of the time isn’t you. I would love to see settings for individual companies. For example, if you set your company as Engine 1, your phone would notify you if the incident involved E1. The phone could be set to ring, vibe and/or even turn on your phone light for a length of time. With today’s technology it shouldn’t be that difficult to accomplish. This would also be a great option during the day. Every report of a fire notification has fireman on edge for several seconds and we all pull our phones out to see the location. Most of the time it involves other stations and a majority of them end up being nothing. There is no reason to continuously alert members for a run they are not on for no reason, unless they choose too. Love the app and will continue to use it, but sorry PulsePoint, you are not user friendly when we need to get some sleep. Columbus, OH

• You can now mark Agency Messages as read to keep your feed incident-focused. • Incident list rows now wrap long addresses and expand to show more assigned units. • Added support for new incident types, including Landslide/Mudslide, Tunnel Fire, and Unstable Structure. See the full list at pulsepoint.org/incident-types. • You can now choose to receive notifications for Outside Fire incidents. • You can now choose which units appear in the incident list (All, Active, or None) from More > Preferences. • You can now show incident times in your device’s time zone, the agency’s time zone, or as relative time (e.g., “5 min ago”) from Preferences. • An expanded welcome tour walks new users through key features. • A new Measure Tool lets you trace distances right on the map with your fingertip, such as long hose lays, structure dimensions, and collapse zones. (Pro) • Quickly go on or off duty by long-pressing the app icon. (Pro) • A new tour walks first-time Professional Responders through features designed for on-duty use. (Pro) • Several user experience improvements and bug fixes.

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Information

Seller: PulsePoint Foundation
Size: 34.8 MB
Category: Medical
Compatibility: Requires iOS 17.0 or later.

iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.

iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later.
Location: This app may use your location even when it isn’t open, which can decrease device battery life.
Languages: English and 4 more

English, French, Greek, Japanese, Spanish
Age Rating: 13+

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