Fast, simple emergency alerts
for every school in your district.
Every administrator gets instant push notifications and live acknowledgement tracking. Setup takes an afternoon, and alerts reach every device in under two seconds.
Built by a working K-12 IT director, because I needed it in my own district. Purpose-built for schools by someone who works in one every day. One annual price per student. Every staff account is included, with no per-seat fees.
Emergency communication shouldn't be hard.
Schools face a unique problem: seconds matter, everyone needs to know, and normal channels don't cut it.
Speed matters in a crisis
When a real emergency happens, every second counts. PA systems, phone trees, and group texts can't reach all staff simultaneously.
Staff need clear instructions
An alert only helps if staff know what to do next. BlueBird delivers a clear message that every registered device receives.
Admins need real-time visibility
Who got the alert, who acknowledged it, and whether the system is ready: administrators need those answers well before an emergency.
One hold. Every phone in the building.
Press and hold on the left. Watch the right.
A deliberate press-and-hold, so an alarm is never sent by a bumped pocket.
Native push wakes every registered device, even locked, even with the app closed.
The count climbs live, so leadership knows who has actually seen it.
A demonstration on this page. No real alert is sent. Layout and wording are matched to the shipping iOS app; the five alert types are Lockdown, Secure, Evacuate, Shelter and Hold.
Covers the whole incident, from the first alarm to the all-clear.
An emergency doesn't end when the alert goes out. BlueBird carries your staff through accounting for every student and returning each one to the right adult.
Every staff member knows in under 2 seconds
Native APNs (iOS) and FCM (Android) push reaches every registered device, even when the app is closed. No PA system, no phone tree, no waiting.
Start an alert without fear of a false alarm
Press and hold to activate, so an alarm is never sent by a bumped pocket. The same control sends a live emergency or a practice drill.
Know who received the message while it still matters
The acknowledgement count updates live during an active alert. You find out who hasn't responded in time to do something about it.
Account for every student, room by room
Teachers take roll call from their phone during the incident. Students are marked safe, missing, or off-site, and the counts roll up to a live district view, so leadership knows who is still unaccounted for.
Return every child to the right adult
When parents arrive, staff locate the student, verify the guardian, and record each release with the name, method, and time: a documented chain of custody instead of a clipboard at the door.
Find the gaps before the emergency hits
See every registered device at a glance and know which staff are actually reachable, while there's still time to fix it.
Practice like it's real, without alarming anyone
Drill mode behaves exactly like a live incident for your staff, while the system stays silent to everyone else. Run the drill your state requires and keep the record.
Keep testing and performances undisturbed
Staff request a quiet period for state testing or a concert; admins approve or deny from the dashboard. Real emergencies still come through.
Answer "what happened?" from a complete record
Every activation, acknowledgement, roster change, and guardian release is permanently logged with a timestamp and the person who did it, ready for your post-incident review.
Try the whole thing before you talk to anyone
The live demo runs on synthetic data with simulated devices, so there is nothing to install and no sales call to sit through. Evaluate it tonight if you want to.
Works with the tools your district already uses
Sign in with Google Workspace today. Microsoft 365, Okta, PowerSchool, Skyward, Clever, and more coming soon.
Google Workspace
Live
Up and running in a single afternoon.
No enterprise software complexity. No dedicated IT staff required.
Admin provisions the school
Create accounts for teachers and staff. Assign roles: building admin, district admin, staff, or law enforcement.
Staff install the app
Generate one-time access codes. Staff scan a QR or enter the code to self-register on iOS or Android. No IT intervention needed.
Alerts reach every device instantly
Activate an alert from the dashboard. Push notifications arrive on every registered device in under two seconds.
Track and verify response
The acknowledgement counter updates live. Admins see who responded and who hasn't, with a full audit trail afterward.
See BlueBird Alerts in action.
Explore how staff receive alerts, acknowledge emergencies, and manage their status, all from the mobile app.
BlueBird AlertsTO
ALERT
⚠ Simulated demo. No real alerts are sent.
One clear interface
for every role and device.
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One-tap emergency activationA single hold gesture sends push notifications to every registered device in under two seconds. No menus. No delays.
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Live acknowledgement counterSee exactly who confirmed receipt, and who hasn't, in real time from the admin dashboard or your phone.
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Quiet period requestsStaff in a meeting can request a timed notification pause. Admins approve or deny instantly from their dashboard.
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Device health visibilityAdmins see every registered device and its last-seen date, with no surprises about coverage when a real alert is needed.
One platform for every building in your district.
District admins get full visibility across all schools, with strict data isolation between buildings.
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District-level licensing
One license covers all buildings. Add or remove schools without managing separate subscriptions.
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Cross-school analytics
View aggregated user counts, device readiness, and drill history across every building from one dashboard.
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Tenant-isolated alerts
An alert at Lincoln Elementary never reaches staff at Jefferson High. Isolation is built into the architecture.
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Click-through school management
District admins switch into any building's dashboard in one click to manage users, devices, or settings.
District Overview
↑ Click any card to preview that school
Every action is recorded. Nothing is anonymous.
BlueBird Alerts provides a complete, tamper-evident record of every event for compliance and accountability.
Who triggered the alert
Every alert activation is attributed to a named admin account with a timestamp. Activations are never anonymous.
Acknowledgement tracking
During an active alarm, see a live count of staff who have confirmed receipt. Know who hasn't responded and follow up immediately.
Permanent audit logs
User changes, role updates, setting edits, and alert events are all logged with actor, timestamp, and before/after values.
Role-based access control
Staff see only what they need. Admins control what each role can access, trigger, and approve, enforced at the API level.
BlueBird Alerts is a staff notification tool and is not intended to replace official emergency response systems, law enforcement, or district emergency protocols.
Student data is protected at every layer of the stack.
The infrastructure is designed around K-12 data-protection and GDPR requirements, from encryption in transit to strict per-school isolation.
End-to-end encryption
All data in transit is encrypted via TLS 1.2+ through Cloudflare's global network. Passwords are hashed with bcrypt, and plaintext credentials are never stored or transmitted.
Cloudflare network protection
Every request passes through Cloudflare's WAF and DDoS protection before reaching our servers. Malicious traffic is blocked at the edge, before it touches student data.
Hardened server infrastructure
Our production server runs continuous CIS Ubuntu benchmark hardening, kernel-level audit logging, AppArmor mandatory access controls, and a strict allowlist firewall, all verified by real-time security monitoring.
24/7 security monitoring
Wazuh SIEM monitors every server event in real time (login attempts, file changes, privilege escalations, and network anomalies) and sends automatic alerts on critical events.
Strict tenant isolation
Each school's data is fully isolated at the database level. A teacher or admin from one school can never access another school's students, alerts, or records. That boundary is enforced in the API layer itself, beneath the UI.
Minimal student data
We collect only what's operationally necessary: name, grade level, and room, all entered by your administrator rather than by students. No behavioral profiling, no tracking outside our platform, no data monetization.
Automatic data expiry
Personal data is deleted within 30 days of account termination. Emergency incident records are retained up to 1 year for compliance auditing, then permanently deleted. Nothing is kept longer than necessary.
No data selling, ever
Your data is never sold, rented, shared with advertisers, or provided to analytics brokers. Push notification tokens are sent only to Apple and Google for delivery. No other third-party data sharing occurs.
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Free on iOS and Android. Staff get real-time alerts, with sound, even on a locked phone.
Ready to see BlueBird in action?
Schedule a free demo and we'll walk you through the full platform, from first login to your first training drill.