One tap a day from a parent or grandparent. If they don't tap, the family knows — via SMS, voice call, and email. $19.99 a month. No dispatcher required. If your family relied on Kitestring before it shut down, Beacon Safe is the modern replacement.
Why Beacon Safe for Seniors
Beacon Safe Plus is $19.99/mo for automated SMS, voice, and email alerts straight to your family. Snug Safety's Dispatch plan is $19.99/mo and routes through a human dispatcher. Same price, different model — plus Beacon has a free tier.
A single daily check-in at a time you pick — morning coffee, afternoon tea, or before bed. Tap once, done. No menus, no per-event setup, nothing to remember between days.
Add your daughter, son, or sibling as emergency contacts. If a check-in is missed (after a 2-hour grace period), the first contact is alerted by SMS, voice, and email together; the second contact is alerted ~20 minutes later if no one responds, and so on. No mass notification chaos.
No location tracking. No data sold to anyone. We don't share with insurers, advertisers, or anyone else. Your parent's check-in data is theirs and yours.
Real Use Cases
Your 78-year-old mother lives alone in the house she's been in for 40 years. She's healthy, active, and doesn't want to move — but she also doesn't want you calling every morning to check in. You set up Beacon Safe together over a Sunday afternoon: a daily check-in at 8 a.m. with her morning coffee, three contacts in priority order (you first, your sister second, her next-door neighbor Maria third). Most days she taps the big button as she sits down with breakfast. You don't think about her safety until 8 a.m. comes and goes without an alert — and so far, in three months, that's never happened. If it ever does, after a 2-hour grace period at 10 a.m. you'll be the first to know. If you don't respond by 10:20, your sister is alerted. By 10:40, Maria knows too. Beacon Safe gives your mother the simplicity of one daily ritual; you get automatic monitoring without her having to remember anything except her morning coffee.
Your father had a hip replacement two weeks ago and is living alone for the first time in 50 years since your mom passed. The first month at home is the highest-risk window. You drop the check-in interval to 12 hours (twice daily) for the first few weeks — an 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. tap — so you'd hear early if anything went wrong. He grumbled about it for a week, then stopped grumbling. The morning he had a dizzy spell at 4 a.m. and didn't make his 8 a.m. check-in, the 2-hour grace period passed and you got an SMS at 10 a.m., then a voice call five minutes later. You called him, he was on the kitchen floor, you got an ambulance there in 20 minutes. After he was cleared by his doctor a month later, you switched the interval back to once daily.
Your mother is going to your sister's house for two weeks while she recovers from a minor procedure. You don't want false alarms going off while she's already being looked after. Tap Vacation Mode in the app — check-ins pause cleanly, no alerts will fire. When she's back home and ready to resume the daily routine, you turn it off. Same for hospital stays, family vacations, anywhere she'll be unreachable for a known stretch of time.
If your parent sometimes takes a while to get to their phone, the Plus plan's Safety Check is built for them. Before any of you kids are alerted, Beacon will call AND text your parent directly — a personal nudge that gives them a chance to respond before triggering the family. Most missed check-ins get caught and resolved this way long before anyone else hears about it. Combined with the 2-hour grace period, the system is designed to forgive the kind of slow morning that doesn't actually mean anything is wrong.
Alert Channels
Detailed alert with the last check-in time. Adult children who keep email open all day get the notice instantly. Free tier covers all three contacts.
Text lands on the lock screen the moment a deadline passes. Most adults read a text within minutes — faster than email for time-sensitive alerts.
If SMS goes unread, an automated voice call rings through 5 minutes later. Calls cut through Do Not Disturb and silenced phones — critical when family is asleep.
The senior gets a gentle push reminder before the deadline. Big text, one tap to check in. Designed to be readable and tappable for older eyes and fingers.
Family Responses
Every alert — email, SMS, or voice call — includes four one-tap response options so siblings and adult children can coordinate without everyone calling Mom at once:
Responses sync across all channels in real time. The first family member to confirm closes the loop for everyone — so a sibling in another state isn't still trying to reach a neighbor an hour after Dad answers his phone.
Pricing
FAQ
Beacon Safe is a daily recurring check-in, not a per-event timer. During setup you pick a check-in time that fits your routine — many seniors choose morning (8 a.m. with breakfast), afternoon (1 p.m. with tea), or evening (7 p.m. before bed). Each day at that time you tap a single button to confirm you're safe. If you miss the check-in, a 2-hour grace period gives you time to respond. After that, your family is alerted in priority order. The 24-hour interval is the recommended setting for most seniors aging in place.
No, and we want to be clear about that. Beacon Safe does not detect falls and does not contact 911. It is a daily check-in tool: if your parent or grandparent doesn't tap the check-in button by their deadline (and the 2-hour grace period passes), the family is alerted via SMS, voice call, and email. For fall detection or direct emergency response, products like Apple Watch fall detection, Pixel Watch, or Life Alert are designed for that purpose. Many families pair Beacon Safe with one of those — the watch handles the immediate emergency; Beacon Safe gives family early notice if something is wrong even when no fall has been detected.
Snug Safety is the senior-focused incumbent. Their Dispatch plan ($19.99/mo) routes missed check-ins to a human operator who can call 911. Beacon Safe is fully automated multi-channel alerts — SMS, voice calls, and email straight to family contacts — for $19.99/mo. If a 911-capable dispatcher matters most, Snug is the right choice. If reaching family directly — automated SMS, voice, and email, no dispatcher — matters more, Beacon Safe is the better fit.
The Plus plan includes Safety Check, which is built exactly for this. Before alerting any of your contacts, Beacon will text and call YOU first — a personal reminder that gives you a chance to respond before triggering the family. Combined with the 2-hour grace period after your deadline, most missed check-ins are caught and resolved by the user themselves long before anyone else hears about it.
Yes — that's exactly what it's designed for. Add your daughter, son, sibling, or a neighbor as emergency contacts. Free tier supports 3 contacts; Plus tier supports 10. Contacts are alerted one at a time in priority order — the first contact gets the alert immediately after the 2-hour grace period, then the next contact about 20 minutes later if no one has responded, and so on. Each contact gets the alert through whichever channels are enabled. They can confirm Mom is safe, acknowledge they got the alert, or indicate they're heading over. Everyone in the family stays coordinated without all phones going off at once.
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Beacon Safe vs Snug Safety →Beacon Safe is not a medical alert system, fall detector, or emergency service. It does not contact 911 or emergency responders. In any life-threatening emergency, always call 911 directly. For fall detection, consider Apple Watch fall detection or a dedicated medical alert device. Beacon Safe alerts your personal contacts as a supplemental check-in tool. Alert delivery depends on network availability and cannot be guaranteed.
Beacon Safe is live on iOS and Android.