Dispatcher Strong Chaos Innovations

For 911 dispatchers & telecommunicators

Wellness that stays on your side of the console.

Dispatcher Strong is a private, self-supportive tool built for the people who answer the call. Your wellness, three ways — with First Responder Support at the center.

First month free. No ads, no trackers, and it works with the phone offline.

The Dispatcher Strong triangle Three supports — Physical Wellness at the top, Mindful Reset at the lower left, Cognitive Reset at the lower right — with First Responder Support at the center. FIRST RESPONDER SUPPORT 🧍 PHYSICAL WELLNESS Body 🌿 MINDFUL RESET Emotional & mental settling 🧠 COGNITIVE RESET Attention & processing load

Three kinds of reset

Because a twelve-hour shift does not wear on you in only one way.

Physical wellness

Supports the body

Seated movement and stretches designed for a console you cannot leave — plus sleep, fuel and body check-ins for the hours around the shift.

Mindful reset

Supports emotional and mental settling

Guided breathing patterns, grounding exercises, and a journal that is yours alone — write it out or draw it out.

Cognitive reset

Supports attention and processing load

Short, optional brain breaks for when your head is full: trivia, mazes, word search, crossword, and Fact Myth Dispatcher.

At the center is First Responder Support — the part that connects and supports the whole dispatcher, not just one lane.

What's inside

Built around a shift, not around a streak.

Every tool is optional and every one of them works without a signal. Open what helps today and ignore the rest — nothing nags you, and nothing keeps a record of what you skipped.

I have 60 seconds. — a button on the dashboard, because sometimes that is all there is
Guided breathing

Pick a pattern and follow the pacing. Box breathing and others.

Grounding

Short exercises to come back to the room after a hard call.

Brain breaks

Trivia, mazes, word search, crossword, choice breaks, and Fact Myth Dispatcher — 25 cards that separate what's true about this job from what isn't.

Journal & draw

Write it out, or draw it out with pencil, eraser, eight colors and undo.

Shifts & reminders

Track your rotation and set reminders that repeat how you actually work. Notes never appear on the lock screen.

Preparedness

A nine-part personal and family readiness progression you can resume anytime, and print when you're done.

Night-shift friendly

Dark-first and low glare, with Ivory, Parchment and Midnight themes. No emergency hues anywhere in the interface.

Privacy by construction

It can't leak what it never sends.

Dispatchers are asked to trust software with the worst parts of their week. We decided the honest way to earn that was to build an app that is incapable of sharing anything — not one that merely promises not to.

The version you download from this site ships without the internet permission. Not unused — absent. The operating system itself will refuse a network connection if the app ever tries to open one. You can confirm it yourself before installing: aapt dump permissions lists four permissions, and that is not one of them.

A Play Store version is coming, and it will differ in exactly one respect: Google's billing library requires network access, so that build carries the internet permission. Your entries still never leave the phone either way. The difference, in full →

  • No account and no sign-up. There is nothing to log into, so there is no password to lose and no profile to breach.
  • Encrypted on the device. Your entries are sealed with a key held in the phone's hardware keystore — a key that cannot be exported off the device, even by us.
  • No analytics, ads or trackers. No third-party SDKs, no crash pings, no "anonymous usage data".
  • Nothing is scored or interpreted. No streaks, no adherence, no "missed" flags, no severity scales. The app records what you chose and stops there — there is no field in it for a judgment.
  • Your notes stay off the lock screen. A reminder can show up without showing anyone standing near your phone what it was about.
  • Delete means deleted. One action erases everything, including any reminders already queued with the operating system.

Read the full privacy policy →

Get Dispatcher Strong

Android 8.0 or later. Your first month is free — no card to enter to start.

Your free month starts when you open it — nothing to enter. When the month is up, the app shows an install code; subscribe here with that code and paste the licence key it gives you back. One step, once.

Version 1.1.0-fmd2026.09 · 2.1 MB · direct download, no store account needed

Your first month

Free

Everything unlocked. No card, no commitment, and nothing to cancel if you decide it isn't for you.

Monthly

$3.99 /month

Cancel whenever you like. About the price of one drive-through coffee a month.

Yearly

$39.99 /year

Two months cheaper than paying monthly, if you already know this is for you.

No ads and no data selling at any price — that is not where the money comes from. Prices in US dollars.

Two versions, and the honest difference

We could have shipped one app and glossed over this. Instead, here is the whole of it:

From this site From Google Play
Internet permission None at all Required by Play billing
Your entries leave the phone Never Never
How you subscribe On this website, then paste a licence key once Google Play, like any other app
Updates You download them from here Automatic
Analytics or ads None None

If the permission matters to you, take the version on this page. If you would rather Google handled the billing and the updating, wait for the store.

Installing a direct download

Because this comes from us rather than from a store, Android will ask you once whether you trust it. That is the system working correctly, not a warning about the app.

  1. Tap Download for Android above and let the file finish.
  2. Open it from your notifications or your Downloads folder.
  3. If Android says installing from this source is not allowed, tap Settings on that prompt and turn on permission for your browser, then go back.
  4. Tap Install, then Open.

Android may also offer to scan the file, which is fine. You can turn the install permission back off afterwards.

Verify the file before you install it

Every release is signed by Chaos Innovations LLC, and Android checks that signature before installing. If you would also like to confirm the file arrived intact, its SHA-256 is published here and in a checksum file:

5dcffecc35ccd4ccd11771ff0250c9cfb8d2cfbb1932424f1d091f7935a65ab3

On a computer, sha256sum dispatcher-strong-1.1.0.apk should print exactly that.

Dispatcher Strong is not an emergency service. It is a private, self-supportive tool. It does not provide medical diagnosis or treatment, and it does not detect a crisis or contact anyone on your behalf. If you are in crisis or thinking about harming yourself, call or text 988 in the US to reach the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, or call 911.

About Chaos Innovations

Chaos Innovations LLC builds tools for the people who hold the line when everything else is coming apart. Dispatcher Strong is our first app, and it was shaped by the job it is for — not adapted from a general wellness product and pointed at dispatchers afterwards.

It is owned and directed by Michelle Tringali, whose requirements drove every design decision in it, down to the rule that gold is a brand color and never a status color.

Why it was built this way

A dispatcher's wellness data is unusually sensitive. It can touch fitness for duty, it can be subpoenaed, and it can be read over a shoulder in a room with no privacy.

So the app's boundaries are not settings you have to find and switch on — they are built into its structure. It holds no field for a diagnosis, keeps no score, and has no way to reach the network. That is the whole design.