#1 Team Manager App
Built for one function, to enable search parties to be more efficient and improve safety, in a simple and intuitive mobile app.
#1 Team Manager App
Built for one function, to enable search parties to be more efficient and improve safety, in a simple and intuitive mobile app.
Why Organizing a Search Party Is Challenging
When every minute matters, organizing a search party can quickly become overwhelming. Coordinating volunteers, tracking search areas, communicating updates, and ensuring everyone’s safety are challenging without the right tools.
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Team Management Challenges
- No real-time visibility into who is searching and where.
- Overlapping search areas that waste valuable time.
- Limited accountability for volunteer safety.
- Delays in sharing important updates and new information.
How the #1 Search Party Helps
The Search Party App provides tools designed specifically for efficient search coordination.
- Real-time GPS tracking of search teams.
- Live location updates for improved coordination.
- Instant messaging and emergency notifications.
- Works globally with cellular Internet services
- Improved volunteer safety through continuous visibility.
Whether coordinating a missing person search, community emergency response, or a large volunteer event, the Search Party app helps teams work together more efficiently while improving communication and situational awareness.
Core Capabilities of the PubSafe Search Party Mobile App
Coordination. Communication. Collaboration. Continuity.
One place to manage the 4’s of a search party response effort.
A well-organized search party can significantly improve operational efficiency, and the right technology helps ensure every volunteer contributes effectively.
- Improve search coordination.
- Increase volunteer accountability.
- Reduce response times.
- Enhance participant safety.
- Make better decisions using real-time information.
Team Efficiency
Tracking
Monitor the location of members in the field. This enhances safety, response time and helps ensure sufficient area coverage so no stone is left unturned.
Mission Brief
Communicating the details of a search to multiple agencies or civilian volunteers can be challenging. People do not hear the details and make mistakes taking notes. The built in mission brief quickly shares accurate information.
Privacy
There are several privacy features for the members, victim and organization. Team codes expire so ongoing tracking stops. Codes are unique and protect the members in the search. When the team expires, ALL data is deleted. We don’t keep it and government cannot get what has been completely deleted.
Easy to Use
Search Party was built for the most technology challenged people. Joining a team is as simple as entering a code. Creating a team consists of the option Mission Brief and generating a team code to share. It is almost impossible to make technology any simpler.
Messaging
Communication is key to many aspects of team management. Users can easily message the entire team, or select an individual. Messaging 2 or 2,000 volunteers can be done in seconds.
PubSafe App vs Search Party APP
PubSafe is an ecosystem. The standard PubSafe mobile app works with our web portal and brings a lot of additional features and functionality to organizations not found in the Search Party app. PubSafe is designed to help run organizations, not just coordinate a search party. PubSafe includes robust search party functionality along with web mapping. It requires more of a financial commitment and desire to learn more technology.
The Search Party app has a single function in life, team management. It enables NGOs, CERTs, Government and Volunteers to come together for a limited period of time to perform search operations. It can be used for security teams, aid workers, event personnel and any other group that needs to share and communicate for a limited period of time for an affordable rate.
Who the PubSafe Platform Serves
Who the Platform Serves
Citizens & Communities
- Report incidents instantly
- Receive verified alerts
- Become active participants in disaster response
Volunteers & CERT Teams
- Coordinate safely and effectively
- Avoid duplication of effort
- Support official response operations
NGOs & Humanitarian Organizations
- Gain real‑time field intelligence
- Coordinate multi‑agency response
- Improve accountability and impact
Public Safety Agencies & Emergency Managers
- Extend situational awareness beyond dispatch
- Integrate community reporting
- Improve response coordination without replacing existing systems
Search Party App Frequentyl Asked Questions
What is Search Party by PubSafe?
Search Party is an app built to help quickly and efficiently form teams of people that may, or may not, know each other but have come together for a short period in a common cause.
Who can use Search Party?
Anyone group that wants to organize and communicate with minimal technical knowlege, for a limited period of time.
- Search parties
- Event staff
- Security teams
- Mulit-agency activities such as responding to the earthquake in Venezuala
- Families
- Churchs
- Community organizers
- Business teams on assignment
- Mission groups traveling the world (PubSafe app is a better option)
- Youth groups such as Scouts
What features does it have for team management?
Team management features include:
- Last known location of members on the team map.
- Group communication
- Individual communication
- SOS function
- Focus feature (black triangle on map)
- Mission details
- Control over who can join
- Contact details of all members
How is privacy protected?
Privacy for team memebers is protected by:
- Search parties expire between 4 and 72 hours
- Search party codes are unique
- No data is stored once the search party ends
- Members can go “invisible” at any time
- Members can leave a search party at any time
Can I leave the search party?
Yes, at any time. You will find the option under the Settings menu.
Am I tracked after the search party ends?
No. The team code is voided and you can no longer see each other on the map. PubSafe deletes all search party data and does not track users until they are in a team.
What if there is an emergency?
There is an internal emergency button. This is not monitored by 911 or emergency services, it is only monitored by other team members. It can be activated on the Home menu or the red triangle on the map.
Are messages logged in the app?
Yes. All messages are stored in the app until the team code expires. They are then deleted permanently.
What is a mission brief and how is it used?
The mission brief is documentation of the core details of a search party. It provides contact information and victim details every search party member needs, including photos.