PulsePoint Respond

• Free

Last verified 30 Aug 2026

4.8 271714 ratings · App Store

1. 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

2. 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

3. 2/5Used to be a great app! Not now! Constantly down!

   I’ve loved this app because it lets me know what’s going on! I open it, daily! However, the past few months, this app has been a joke! It crashes, MULTIPLE TIMES, weekly! It seems like every other day the app is NOT working! Not sure what the deal is but this is happening far too often, and is honestly completely laughable at this point! A complete disaster! I’m trying to find a better app, at this point, because this one is completely unreliable! And getting worse, day by day! This COULD be an amazing app if they could actually keep it working! It did, for a long time! But like I said, the past six months or so it’s been a disaster! Really hoping they get their act together and actually fix it! But after this long? I’m doubtful! I would NOT recommend this app anymore! A year ago? This app was awesome! Always correct and working! Not so much, now! I really hope this app can pull itself together as it is very informative when working! But this app being down, weekly, is absolutely ridiculous!

   Tamilea · 30 Aug 2026

4. 4/5Excellent app and purpose, but very inconsistent with alerts

   I want to say alerts work most of the time, but they don't. It has its days where most alerts happen, but usually it's about 40-75% of alerts happen. I know this because you can open it, look and compare that to the alerts your device has for it. I have it on my iPhone and iPad and they both have exactly the same problem and 100% of the same alerts and missed alerts, so it's the app. Some suggested improvements: Fix the alerts problem, it's a serious core issue for its purpose! Support for landscape view on iPad! iPhone not a big deal but on iPad it's very frustrating to always have to flip it around. Increase the real estate for an incident alert showing unit/incident status info. Memorizing the color legend is hard because a few are not that distinct! Going to the legend when you need it is many clicks away. If real estate is an issue, put a clickable link to the legend on the incident info that pops up to the side so you can reference it. The active/recent alert listview on the home page for an agency: let users decide whether to list all their agencies or singular, or choose which ones. Hard to get the single pain of glass view by switching agency by agency. Busy agencies/areas would be too much, but let the user decide what's best for them. If an alert does not have address/map information it's pretty much useless unless maybe you have 1 or 2 units in your entire agency. Let users choose the sound for alerts

   msdosnt · 30 Aug 2026

5. 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

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