Real-Time Alerts That Buy You Time
Get notified when heart rate rises above the monitored threshold, with clear
alert sounds
that help you react quickly when distress may be building.
A heads-up when you need it most
Less Guessing, More Understanding
Meltdown Monitor combines real-time heart-rate alerts, automatic calibration, and shared household
access so caregivers can respond earlier and personalize monitoring to the individual.
Automatic Calibration From Real Baseline Data
Instead of forcing you to guess a threshold, the app can calculate one from
observed
baseline heart rate and still lets you fine-tune settings when needed.
Shared Household Access
Invite another caregiver so the same monitored person, settings, devices,
and
incident history can be shared across the household.
Keep Track Without The Paperwork
Incidents turns alerts into something you can use later. Save an event quickly, review the
heart-rate
snapshot around it, and add structured observations when there is time. The workflow is designed to
be faster and lower-effort than handwritten notes, while supporting a Positive Behavior Support
(PBS) approach in plain caregiver language — practical incident tracking instead of clinical
paperwork.
See the bigger picture
Some days are harder than others — and the reason often isn't what just happened. Life Context lets
caregivers record longer-running background factors like sleep, illness, or routine changes, with a
clear "Ongoing" badge and an end date when the period closes. Seen alongside incidents, this makes
it easier to understand why a difficult week unfolded the way it did — and what helped.
Track Ongoing Background Factors
Record sleep, illness, routine changes, or environmental stress as periods that
start and end, not isolated one-off notes — so patterns become easier to see.
See It On The Home Screen
Active life context appears below current heart rate, so another caregiver can
catch up at a glance without rereading old notes.
Connect Context To Incidents
When reviewing a saved incident, the life context active at that time is shown
alongside — making causes and challenging behavior patterns easier to spot.
Start Monitoring and Recording in Minutes
Set up Meltdown Monitor with a supported Wear OS watch, let calibration personalize alerts,
and keep a shared incident history ready for later review, reflection, and PDF sharing.
Available on Google Play as a monthly subscription.
Frequently asked Questions
What does Meltdown Monitor do?
Meltdown Monitor is an autism caregiver app that uses a Wear OS smartwatch to spot rising distress through heart rate, sends a real-time alert when stress may be building, and turns saved alerts into incident reports. It also lets caregivers record life context — longer-running background factors like sleep, illness, or routine changes — so patterns become easier to understand over time.
What is Positive Behavior Support (PBS)?
PBS is a practical approach to understanding and reducing challenging behavior by looking at patterns and possible causes — like stress, fatigue, noise, transitions, sensory overload, or unmet needs. Meltdown Monitor supports this approach by making incident tracking and life context easier than pen-and-paper notes during busy or stressful moments.
Do I need a special smartwatch?
Yes. Meltdown Monitor needs a Wear OS smartwatch with the Google Play Store, such as a Samsung Galaxy Watch. The app does not work without a compatible wearable device. Watches that use other operating systems cannot install the watch app.
Can two caregivers share the same setup?
Yes. Household sharing lets another caregiver see the same monitored person, the same settings, the same connected watch, and the same incident history on their own phone — useful for parents who share caregiving or for handoffs between home and school.
Is it free?
Meltdown Monitor is offered as a monthly auto-renewing subscription, billed through Google Play. Pricing is shown on the Google Play store listing before you subscribe.
