Fast, simple emergency alerts
for every school in your district.
Staff get push notifications on their phones, and leaders get live acknowledgement tracking. Setup takes an afternoon, and BlueBird hands each alert to Apple's and Google's push services as soon as it is activated.
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 sends a clear message straight to staff phones.
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 starts the alert.
Press and hold on the left. Watch the right.
A deliberate press-and-hold, so an alarm is never sent by a bumped pocket.
The alert goes to Apple's and Google's push services right away, so it can reach locked phones with the app closed. Arrival depends on each phone's connection and notification settings.
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.
Alert staff phones as soon as you activate
BlueBird hands the alert to Apple (APNs) and Google (FCM) push as soon as it is activated, so it can reach phones even when the app is closed. When it arrives, and whether it sounds, depends on those services, each phone's connection and its notification settings, so keep a backup way to reach staff.
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
Run drills that show staff the alert screen and roll call. A standard drill sends no push notification when it starts, so it appears for staff who have the app open; a silent drill also sends a quiet notification so locked phones show it. While a standard drill is running, staff who haven't acknowledged it get a reminder notification about every 3 minutes. Those reminders don't say DRILL and can sound like the real alarm, so tell staff before you start. Drill records are kept for your reports.
Keep testing and performances undisturbed
Staff request a quiet period for state testing or a concert; an administrator approves or denies it from the dashboard. An approved quiet period can stop emergency alarm notifications on that person's phone, so plan another way to reach them while it is on.
Answer "what happened?" from a complete record
Activations, acknowledgements, roster changes and guardian releases are logged with the time and the person who did it, ready for your post-incident review.
See the platform before your walkthrough
View current iPhone, Android and signage screenshots below, then request a personalized walkthrough for your school or district.
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.
Send alerts to staff phones
Activate an alert from the dashboard. BlueBird hands it to Apple's and Google's push services right away; arrival on each phone depends on its connection and notification settings.
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 the alert to Apple's and Google's push services for your staff's registered phones. No menus.
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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 pause in push notifications, including emergency alarms. An administrator approves or denies it from the dashboard.
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Device health visibilityAdmins see every registered device and its last-seen date, so you can spot phones that haven't checked in before a real alert is needed.
One platform for every building in your district.
District admins get full visibility across their schools, while each school's records stay separate.
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District-level licensing
Manage your campuses under one district account. Each physical campus is priced by its student enrollment.
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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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School-scoped alerts
Each alert goes to the school where it was activated. Staff at Jefferson High don't get Lincoln Elementary's alerts unless they're also assigned to Lincoln.
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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
Key actions are recorded, with who did them.
BlueBird keeps a hash-chained activity log for each school to support compliance and accountability.
Who triggered the alert
Every alert activation is recorded with the name of the staff member who triggered it and the time.
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.
Audit logs
User changes, role updates, setting edits and alert events are logged with the person and the time, plus details of the change where the action records them. Entries older than two years move to an archive file.
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 per-school data separation.
Encryption in transit
Data in transit is encrypted with TLS 1.2 or higher. Passwords are stored only as salted PBKDF2-SHA256 hashes.
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.
Protected server infrastructure
The production server sits behind Cloudflare, and the application runs under its own dedicated, non-root service account.
Automated security monitoring
The production server supports Wazuh host security monitoring. When it is connected, critical events are forwarded to our platform administrators. This is automated monitoring, not a staffed 24/7 security operations center.
Per-school data separation
Each school's records are kept separate from other schools', and access is checked on the server for every request, beneath the UI. District administrators and assigned officers see only the schools they've been granted.
Student data for the features you use
We collect what the features your school turns on need. For Alerts that includes, for example, student names, grades and IDs from your roster, guardian contacts, hall-pass records (which student is out, where, for how long, and whether the pass is overdue), and accountability and release records during incidents. Guardian, if your school enables it, adds web activity and safety-monitoring data described in our Privacy Policy. We don't sell data or use it for advertising.
Data retention
Our policy is to delete a school's personal data within 30 days after its account ends and to keep emergency incident records for up to one year. Deletion after an account ends is currently a reviewed manual process, and automatic one-year incident deletion is still being built. Guardian activity is deleted automatically after the school's retention period (90 days by default).
No data selling
We don't sell data or share it with advertisers or data brokers. Service providers process data only to run BlueBird, for example push delivery (Apple, Google), email and text delivery, hosting and network protection, error monitoring and billing. See our Trust Center for the current list.
Screens that work harder, from the team behind BlueBird
Already have a TV in the hallway? Put it to work. Legacy Wall and Beacon ship together as the BlueBird Signage package — one self-serve subscription, one kiosk (a single computer can even drive two screens), and every screen flips to a full-screen alert during a BlueBird emergency. Buy it standalone, or use the one screen included with each Alerts campus license.
A touchscreen recognition wall for senior composites, athletics, and decades of school photos, and it updates in seconds from any browser.
See plans & start a free trial →Calendar-aware digital signage: live calendar, events, announcements, and weather, built from simple widgets and themed to your school.
See plans & start a free trial →See BlueBird Alerts today
Current iPhone, Android and signage interfaces, captured with synthetic school data. Features depend on enabled services and permissions. Select an image to see it full size.
School documents on iPhone
School reference documents and floor plans, shown with synthetic data.
Drill and event reports on Android
Saved drill and event history from a synthetic school.
Independent signage screens
Beacon Board and Legacy Wall selections for each connected screen on a synthetic device.
Emergency alerts on every staff phone
Free on iOS and Android. With notifications allowed, staff get alerts with sound, even on a locked phone.
Ready to see BlueBird in action?
Start your free trial online, verify your email, and follow the setup guide through your first training drill. No credit card required.