PulsePoint Respond

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Last verified 30 Aug 2026

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4.8 271714 ratings · App Store

1. 5/5Reality and Gratitude

   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.

   Linz E R · 30 Aug 2026

2. 5/5Pulse point likes

   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!

   Alex Fighting 51st · 30 Aug 2026

3. 5/5Some things that should be added.

   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.

   Johnny Calhoun · 30 Aug 2026

4. 4/5Great app, but could be better

   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

   Cbuke · 30 Aug 2026

5. 4/5Changed to require location

   Edit: The dev reached out and indeed you don’t need to allow location. The app does spam a couple pop-ups saying “Location Required - Pulse Point needs access to your location for this feature. Please update your app settings under the “Privacy” menu.” This is on the feed page which also says I’m not subscribed to any feeds, even though I am. You have to select the pull down menu towards the top-center to select the subscribed feeds. It is confusing and I don’t recall having to do this before. Anyway it works, but minus one star for the extra step and misleading message. Used this app almost daily but now I have to delete it. They went from letting you put in your chosen location and following the relevant agencies to demanding you always let them know your location. There’s no reason to make that setting mandatory to use the basic functions except for data gathering. I get that some people want notifications, but not everyone wants to hand over personal information to a faceless corp. It’s a shame they decided to do this. Hope they make a way to allow for more privacy in the future.

   revidescent · 30 Aug 2026

Privacy

• Data Not Linked to You — Analytics — Diagnostics — Other Diagnostic Data Developer declared
• Data Not Linked to You — Analytics — Diagnostics — Performance Data Developer declared
• Data Not Linked to You — App Functionality — Location — Coarse Location Developer declared
• Data Not Linked to You — App Functionality — Location — Precise Location Developer declared
• Data Not Linked to You — Product Personalization — Identifiers — Device ID Developer declared
• Data Not Linked to You — Diagnostics Developer declared
• Data Not Linked to You — Identifiers Developer declared
• Data Not Linked to You — Location Developer declared

Accessibility

• Dark Interface — SUPPORTED Store published
• Differentiate Without Color Alone — SUPPORTED Store published
• Larger Text — SUPPORTED Store published
• Sufficient Contrast — SUPPORTED Store published
• Voice Control — SUPPORTED Store published
• VoiceOver — SUPPORTED Store published