Know the moment an ambulance is sent to Mom's house.
Public first-responder dispatch radio already covers 10,000+ cities. Nearhold listens to it 24/7 around the addresses of the people you care about — and alerts you in seconds. Nothing for your parent to wear, install, charge, or press.
The moment we built this for
Tuesday, 2:14 PM. Your phone: "🔴 EMS dispatched to your saved address — 40 seconds ago. Tap to hear the dispatch." You call your brother from the car. The hospital wouldn't have reached you until 6.
No tracking — Not a tracking app. No app on their phone, ever.
Check coverage at their address →Microphone — Every alert links to the original dispatch audio — hear it yourself
Megaphone — No ads. No feed. Only their address.
The pendant is in the drawer. The check-in app was never opened.
You bought the medical alert button. They won't wear it — "I'm not an invalid."
You set up the check-in app. They forgot the password in a week.
So you call every day and hope that if something happens, someone thinks to call you.
Meanwhile, the moment anything happens — a fall, a fire, a break-in — it's broadcast on public dispatch radio. It always has been. You just weren't listening.
Now you are.
When 911 responds near them, you know.
Save their address.
That's the entire setup — for you and for them. (People already use neighborhood safety apps to keep an eye on family across the country. Nearhold is built for exactly that — nothing else.)
We listen so you don't have to.
Fire, EMS, and police dispatch radio in their area is public broadcast. Our AI transcribes, filters, and matches it to your saved addresses around the clock.
Two kinds of alerts. Zero noise.
🔴 At their address: EMS, fire, or police dispatched to their home. Under 60 seconds, with the original audio attached.
🟡 Around their address: nearby break-ins, scam-crew activity, severe weather, evacuation orders — one calm daily digest.
Never an ad. Never a doom-scroll feed. Never an alert about a city 300 miles away. Never anything required from your parent.
What Nearhold is — and isn't
Dispatch radio is real-time and unconfirmed. Calls are sometimes updated, downgraded, or cancelled as responders arrive. That's why every Nearhold alert links to the original audio, why address-level alerts only fire on high-confidence matches, and why we make corrections easy to report. Nearhold is situational awareness — it is not a medical alert service and never a substitute for calling 911.
Does it work at their address?
Fire/EMS channels are usually unencrypted; some police channels aren't. Coverage varies by county.
Common questions
"Is this legal?"
Dispatch radio is public broadcast, listened to by hobbyists for decades and powering major consumer apps today. Scanner-audio law varies slightly by state; we only source from publicly available feeds.
"Is this tracking my parent?"
No — that's the point. No app on their phone, no device in their home, no consent battle. We monitor the neighborhood's public-safety radio, not your parent.
"Will I get false alarms?"
Some services mislabel calls and spray alerts from irrelevant areas. We tuned Nearhold the opposite way: high-confidence address matching, severity thresholds, and the raw audio on every alert so you can verify in ten seconds before you worry.
"Does it work at their address?"
Fire/EMS channels are usually unencrypted; some police channels aren't. Coverage varies by county. Enter their ZIP — we'll tell you instantly, and founding deposits determine which counties we build first.
"What does it cost?"
Founding families lock in a low monthly rate for life — ad-free forever, siblings included free. We're setting the exact price with our first 500 families, so tell us what feels fair when you join. (Medical-alert pendants: $30–50/month — and only if they wear it.)
Founding Member — first 500 families
- Real-time at-address emergency alerts, original audio attached
- Calm daily neighborhood digest
- Every sibling added free — one subscription, whole family alerted
- No ads, ever
Free to join. Coverage builds out in waitlist order — your ZIP moves the map.