Know the moment an ambulance is sent to Mom's house.
We monitor public first-responder radio around her address. If 911 responds, you know in under a minute.
Check coverage at their address →🚫 Not a tracking app · nothing for them to wear or install
🔴 EMS dispatched to your saved address
Tap to hear the dispatch.
The real Nearhold map. Every pin links to the radio audio.
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, every fall, every fire, every break-in is broadcast on public dispatch radio the moment it happens. It always has been. You just weren't listening.
Now you are.
Check coverage at their address →The pendant they won't wear vs. the listening they never notice
| Medical-alert pendant | Nearhold | |
|---|---|---|
| Anything to wear or charge | Every day, forever | Nothing, ever |
| Works if they refuse it | No | Yes: nothing to refuse |
| Covers fire, break-ins, the street | Button-press only | Everything dispatchers hear |
| Price | $30–50/month | 14 days free, then $5/month founding rate |
They do different jobs. A pendant they'll actually wear is still worth having. Nearhold watches either way.
How it works
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: serious calls inside your alert radius. Break-ins, scam-crew activity, severe weather, evacuation orders.
Each evening we send one calm digest with everything else we heard around them that day. No pings, just the whole picture.
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, 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
Something we didn't answer?
hello@nearhold.com
"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. Once in a while we'll get one wrong: these alerts are AI transcriptions of live dispatch radio, not official reports, and we'd rather you hear something early with that caveat than hear nothing at all.
"Does it work at their address?"
Fire/EMS channels are usually unencrypted; some police channels aren't. Coverage varies by county. Enter their ZIP and we'll tell you instantly. Waitlist signups decide which counties we build next.
"What does it cost?"
Your first 14 days are free. After that, founding families lock in $5 a month for life: ad-free forever, siblings included free. That's the founding rate; standard pricing after the founding window will be higher. (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.