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Free app to help prevent button battery accidents, feedback welcome

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TheUmberReader · 11/07/2026 15:30

Evening all 👋

I'm a dad (based near Liverpool) who kept worrying about the loose
batteries around the house after reading about button battery
accidents — apparently around 3,500 children in the US end up in
A&E every year from swallowing them, and they can cause serious
internal burns in as little as 2 hours.

So I built a free app called BatteryBuddy to help solve my own
problem: keeping track of which toy batteries are in vs. out,
with an alert if one has been left out too long.

It's completely free — no ads, no accounts, no data collection.
Just a simple tracker. Works in English, Arabic, Spanish & French.

Would really appreciate honest feedback from any mums (or dads!)
who want to try it. What's confusing? What's missing? What would
you change?

Android link (iOS coming soon):
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=host.emergent.batterybuddy

Thanks in advance 🙏

Free app to help prevent button battery accidents, feedback welcome
OP posts:
Duvetdayneeded · 11/07/2026 15:56

Why not just keep batteries out of reach? If a kid can access a battery in a product then surely they are old enough to know not to eat it.

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