The free home safety app: beeps decoded, alarms on schedule
Free for any home in Canada and the US. Find out why a smoke or CO alarm is beeping, hear what real alarms sound like, know when each alarm expires and make a fire escape plan. No download, no account and no ads.
Free for everyone
- The Beep Doctor: Answer 3 quick questions to find out why your alarm is beeping or chirping, and what to do.
- Real alarm sounds: Play recordings of real Kidde and First Alert / BRK smoke, carbon monoxide and low-battery sounds to match what you hear. Open the sound library.
- Lights and beeps by model: What every light and chirp means on popular Kidde and First Alert / BRK alarms.
- Expiry and test reminders: Enter the date on the back of each alarm once. Get a reminder before it expires, and a monthly test reminder.
- Fire escape plan: Two ways out of every room and one meeting spot, with a printable plan and a kids' quiz.
- Fire safety rules in plain English: The basics for anywhere in North America, British Columbia rules in detail, and a recall check.
- Home Manual: Shut-offs, Wi-Fi, contacts and your escape plan in one place, shareable with family and house-sitters. Start your home manual.
Pro: $9.99 once, for life
The safety features stay free, always. Pro adds the tools that make the app the user manual for your whole home. One payment, plus applicable taxes. No subscription.
- Home Manual photos: A photo of the water shut-off, the breaker panel and the gas meter, so anyone can find them fast.
- Printed manual & fridge card: A one-page house manual and a fridge card with a QR code guests can scan.
- Home maintenance calendar: Furnace filter, dryer vent, chimney, gutters, sump pump: reminders on your schedule.
- Home inventory for insurance: Photos, serial numbers and values of what you own, kept on your phone for a claim.
- Warranties & receipts: Every appliance's warranty and receipt, with a reminder before it runs out.
- Insurance-ready pack: Alarm records, inventory and warranties in one printout or PDF.
- Unlimited homes: Track a parent's home, a cabin and rentals, each with its own alarms, reminders and manual.
- Landlord & strata mode: Units, test logs and a printable written test record for every unit. Building manuals for residents.
Your information stays yours
Everything you enter (alarms, notes, photos, codes, your home manual) stays on your device. There's no account, and we never see it unless you choose to share it. The app only counts anonymous screens and button taps, through Google Analytics and Meta, and you can decline that in the cookie notice. We never sell your information. Privacy policy.
On your phone and your computer
It runs in any browser. On an iPhone, open it in Safari, tap Share, then Add to Home Screen. On Android, tap Install when your browser offers it. It then opens like an app and works without signal. Switching devices? Use Continue on another device to send your homes and alarms to your phone, tablet or computer with a link or QR code.
Made by a fire alarm pro
The app is built by Richard, The Smoke Alarm Doctor: 15+ years in the fire alarm trade, licensed, insured and veteran-owned, with 100+ five-star Google reviews from homes in British Columbia. About Richard.
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