The work between the call-outs, in one place.
Contals keeps drills, equipment checks and the open day on boards that the officers plan and every firefighter reads free on their phone.
Free for small teams. Volunteers and guests are always free. No credit card.
Drill year 2027
Year plan
- Command
Set the drill programme
Jan 15TS
Drills
- Training
Breathing apparatus drill with fitness test
Mar 122 - Event
Annual exercise with the public
Sep 25
Vehicles & equipment
- Equipment
Monthly check: pumps and hoses
Feb 1
Emergencies are well organized. The year around them often isn’t.
The drill programme as a PDF, the checks in a binder, the open day in a crowded chat.
Contals is made for fire brigades run by volunteers.
- Firefighters free
- Templates for the drill year
- Checks that come back
- Data stored in the EU
The open day on one board
Every task a card – with an owner, a due date and a checklist.
Readable on any phone
The simple view: large cards, plain words, few buttons.
Learn more – Readable on any phone
The drill year in the calendar
Drills and checks from every board in one place.
Learn more – The drill year in the calendar
Up and running in three steps
Create the brigade’s workspace
Sign up and name it after your brigade.
Start from a template
Drill year or open day: pick the date, done.
Invite officers and firefighters
By link or QR code, free.
For officers and firefighters
Yes, if you plan drills, checks, recruiting and events together.
- Drill year
- Vehicles and equipment
- Recruiting
- Open day
Not an alerting or dispatch system, no duty roster, no incident log.
Ready-made templates for this
Fire brigade training year
5 lists · 13 cards
Fire station open day
5 lists · 12 cards
The catch? Contals is new.
Only officers who organize boards pay – firefighters and helpers are free.
For call-outs you keep your alerting system – Contals organizes the work in between.
The full picture: costs, export, cancelling, where data lives
- What it costs
- Full members (people who create and organize boards) pay per month. Volunteers, guests and viewers are free on every plan, forever. A small team uses Contals for free: up to 5 full members and 10 active boards. On the free plan, notifications arrive in the app, by push and in the weekly summary e-mail. A free organization nobody uses for 90 days is paused until an owner signs in again. Prices are early-access prices and become final before the public launch.
- Your data stays yours
- Export a board or a workspace as JSON at any time, on every plan – cards, comments, Power-Up data and the activity of the last 13 months; the whole organization in one file on Team and Business. No support ticket, no fee.
- Leaving is easy
- Cancel any time; paid plans run to the end of the period, then the organization continues on the free plan – nothing is deleted. An organization is deleted only when an owner asks for it, 30 days later; deleting your account removes your personal data after a 30-day grace period. Billing records are kept only as long as tax law requires.
- Where your data lives
- Board data, the database and backups are stored in Cloudflare’s EU jurisdiction; a second, encrypted copy of the backups lies at DigitalOcean in Frankfurt (Germany). Cloudflare is a US company; we say “EU data residency”, not “sovereign”. Details on the security page.
- How we make money
- From full members on paid plans. No ads, no selling or sharing of data, no tracking cookies, no metered AI credits. Visits to the website and the sign-in pages are counted with privacy-friendly, cookieless statistics (Fathom); signed-in pages load none.
Seven pay. 45 firefighters don’t.
A handful of officers organize; everyone else reads and helps for free.
Example: 7 officers, 45 firefighters, 8 boards
Contals TeamEarly-access price
7 full members × CHF 4.50€4.50$4.50; firefighters free
CHF 31.50€31.50$31.50
Trello Standard
Guests on 2+ boards count as members: 52 × $5
≈ $260
Asana Starter
7 officers need 10 seats (seats in steps) × $10.99; firefighters as guests with limited rights
≈ $110
Checks come back on their own
What a week can look like – an invented example.
Mon 19:30
Thursday’s drill has a lead, the equipment list is ticked off.
Wed 06:45
The card for the pump check appears; a pump operator takes it.
Thu 20:00
Drill night: new members scan the QR code.
Sat 16:00
Open day over – every stand was staffed.
Without one place
- A drill programme as a PDF.
- Checks in a binder.
- Knowledge in one person’s head.
With Contals
- Every drill a card with a lead.
- Checks come back with their checklist.
- The planning stays with the brigade.
Questions and answers
Can Contals alert our brigade?
No. Contals is no alerting or dispatch system. Keep your alerting system for call-outs; Contals organizes drills, checks, recruiting and events.
Do firefighters have to pay?
No. Firefighters and helpers join as volunteers or viewers – free on every plan. Only officers who create and organize boards are full members.
How do regular equipment checks work?
A card repeats on a schedule with the Card repeater Power-Up – every month, for example – with a checklist and an owner. Done checks stay in the board’s history.
Are there templates for fire brigades?
Yes: Fire brigade training year and Fire station open day, in English, German, French, Italian and Spanish, free on every plan.
Do fire brigades get nonprofit pricing?
Nonprofit pricing is for registered churches, charities and associations, and we review each request. A fire brigade organized as a registered association, or its support association, can ask for it on its organization’s billing page: the Team plan free for up to 15 full members and 50 % off paid plans beyond that. For brigades run by a municipality we decide per request. Members who only help or read are free anyway.
Plan the next drill year on a board.
Free for small teams. Volunteers and guests are always free. No credit card.