Start a timer when you walk into a visit. If you don't check in when it expires, SafePulse alerts the people you chose — with your last known location. It works even if your phone is off, dead, or out of signal.
The schedule says you have a 2:00 in a house you've never been to. It does not say when you came out. If the 3:00 gets missed, somebody might call. If it was the last visit of the day, nobody is expecting you anywhere at all.
Most home care safety advice ends at “tell someone where you're going.” You already do that — it's on the schedule. The part that's missing is the other half: somebody noticing you didn't come back. That half depends on a coworker remembering to worry about you, at the end of their own ten-visit day.
SafePulse closes that half automatically. You set the timer on the doorstep. If you come out fine, you tap once and nothing happens. If you don't, the alarm raises itself.
Three steps, and only the first one happens while you're busy.
Pick a window — anywhere from 30 minutes to 48 hours. Give yourself the length you actually expect, plus a margin.
One tap and the timer clears. No message to compose, nobody to notify, nothing else to remember at the end of a long day.
If the timer expires, your trusted contacts get a text and an email with your last known location. They don't need the app.
Three design choices that matter for the way home visits actually go.
Most check-in apps are built around a once-a-day “are you okay” for someone living alone. That's the wrong shape for a caseload. SafePulse starts at 30 minutes because the risk is the visit, not the day — and you may run six of them.
The people you chose don't get a vague “she hasn't checked in.” They get your last known location in the message itself. That matters when your route covers four towns and nobody can guess which stop you're on.
The countdown is mirrored on a server. If your phone is switched off, out of battery, out of signal, or taken from you, the server sends the alert anyway. A phone that's flat by the eighth visit is a normal Tuesday — the alert shouldn't die with it.
Worth stating plainly, because safety tools get oversold — and you are trained to read the fine print.
Please don't put patient information in it. SafePulse is a personal safety tool for you, not a clinical record. Don't type patient names, addresses, diagnoses, or any protected health information into check-in labels or notes. If you label a check-in at all, use the street you're on. When an alert fires, the alert text, your chosen contacts' phone numbers and email addresses, and your last known location are sent to our messaging gateway so it can deliver the alert when your phone can't — which is exactly why nothing about a patient belongs in there. Full detail is in the privacy policy.
If you're responsible for staff who visit homes alone, this part is for you.
Free download codes, no catch. I'll provide promo codes for your field staff at no cost — no upsell, no trial that converts, and no contact information collected from anyone who redeems one. They get the app and it stays theirs.
No dashboard, and that's deliberate. There is no admin console and no way to monitor staff through this app, so it doesn't become a productivity tool by accident. Each nurse chooses their own contacts. If that's a dealbreaker for your program, I'd rather tell you now than after a rollout.
Free to list as a resource. If you maintain a safety policy, an onboarding packet, or an in-service deck, you're welcome to link this page. Nothing here is gated and there's no signup form.
I'll do a short walkthrough if it's useful. Fifteen minutes at a staff meeting or on a call, showing what a nurse sees and what a contact receives. No charge and no pitch attached.
Email checkinonme@checkinonme.app and say roughly how many field staff you have. I'm a solo developer in Roseville, Michigan — not a vendor with a sales team, so you'll be talking to the person who wrote the app.
iPhone and Android. SafePulse is on the Apple App Store and on Google Play today. One thing to settle before codes go out: Google Play promo codes work on Android only, and iPhone staff need a separate App Store code. Tell me the rough split and I'll send both kinds — I'd rather sort that out up front than waste your nurses' time at a redemption screen.
No, and please don't. It's a personal safety tool for you, not a clinical system, and there is no business associate agreement. Keep patient names, addresses and diagnoses out of it. If you label a check-in, use the street you're on — or nothing at all.
Only if you choose to add someone from the agency as a contact, and even then only when you miss a check-in. There's no supervisor dashboard and no admin console. You pick the contacts, and you can remove them whenever you want.
The alert still goes out. The countdown is mirrored on a server, so if your phone never checks in, the server sends the alert on its own. That matters more in home care than almost anywhere else — a phone that's flat by the eighth visit is a normal Tuesday, not a freak event.
Set the window to what you actually expect plus a margin — it goes up to 48 hours, so there's no reason to cut it fine. If a visit is running past your window, check in and start a fresh timer. And if one does fire because you got busy, your contacts call you and you have an awkward thirty seconds. That's the correct failure mode for a safety tool.
Contacts you choose — a partner, a scheduler, your clinical manager, another nurse on the team. They get a text and an email with your last known location. They don't need the app installed.
Not in how the app works, but it's often the reason people go looking for something like this. The app has no idea what's in your bag and doesn't want to know. It only answers one question: did you come back out when you said you would.
Because most protocols cover what to do before and during a visit, and depend on a person to notice afterward. This is the afterward part, automated. It's a backstop for the day the noticing doesn't happen.
It depends on the platform. On iPhone it's $2.99 a month, and anyone who bought SafePulse before the switch keeps full access free, permanently. On Google Play it's $4.99 once, with no subscription. Either way: no in-app purchases beyond that, no ads, and no selling of personal data.
$4.99 once on Android, $2.99 a month on iPhone. Set your first check-in in about two minutes.
No ads, and your data is never sold.
Promo codes are platform-specific — a Google Play code redeems on Android only.
Please read: SafePulse is not an emergency service and does not contact police, fire, or emergency medical services. It notifies contacts you choose, and depends on cellular and internet service to deliver those alerts. It is not a substitute for calling 911, and it is not a substitute for your employer's own safety program.