Citizen: Local Safety Alerts

Sp0n Inc.

In-app purchases

About this app

The most powerful safety app for today’s world. Download Citizen to feel safer at home or out, get real-time safety alerts and live video of incidents happening near you, updates on natural disasters or protests, and know if your loved ones are near a dangerous incident.

Citizen notifications have urged people to evacuate burning buildings, deterred school buses from nearby terrorist attacks and have even led to a rescue of a 1-year-old from a stolen car. Citizen may notify you of a crime in progress before the police have responded. It's meant to protect you and your community — please use it responsibly.

NEW! See friends on your Safety Map: Know their safety status in a glance and find out if (and when) they are near a dangerous incident in real-time. You can turn on Ghost Mode to keep your location private at any time.

Real-time Safety Alerts: Location-based notifications help you avoid potentially dangerous situations.

Live Breaking Video: Watch live video of an incident unfold from different angles or broadcast live from the scene.

Keep Your Community Safe: Report incidents right when they happen to protect the people around you.

Citizen also offers the Protect subscription, to help protect you and your loved ones. You can read the Terms of Use here: https://citizen.com/privacy/protect-supplemental-tos

Ratings and reviews

Trash. Inconsistent Alerts. I have premium version on Android & Free version on my iphone. Free version gives more relevant & frequent alert & more consistent. GPS is slow to update on paid version(droid). Not sure why that is. I should be getting better results off the paid version. As of now, I will not be renewing my subscription. For the price I'm not happy with it. Tech support is slow to respond. Have a ticket open for 3 mo. Still not update to my issues. Trash!!!

Update 2: It's getting worse! Update: A year+ later and zero improvement. UI is still inexplicably awful. Wish they'd fix it because idea behind the app is great but execution makes it unsable. Few apps I've ever used have had such a poor user interface as this. They should totally scrap this design and start from scratch using a more competent UI team. Also, you can't limit notifications without paying, you either get everything or nothing. Most features are behind a pay wall. Total money grab.

Used to be fantastic, the go-to app for pretty much everyone I know to have an awareness of their area. It was simple, clean, informative. Now it's busy, buggy, confusing, spammy, a little sleazy in how it promotes their premium version, and so many previously basic features are behind paywalls. I get they have to monetize, but good lord, this is NOT the way to do it. A MAJOR course correction is in order for this app to be worth downloading.

What's new

- Bug Fixes
- More to come, please continue to use our customer support channels, we love hearing from the community.