Citizen: Local Safety Alerts

Sp0n Inc.

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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

App was great initially, but now that they are pushing the "Plus" subscription, it's not. I get all kinds of alerts from outside the area I want and cant adjust without subscribing. Notices of registered offenders pop up all the time, but need plus to see them. If I try to check a report I missed - nope - need plus for that too. If I need plus for everything, no point in keeping it. The neighborhood FB page posts the info just as quick. Pretty sure this is gonna be uninstalled very soon.

I had this app a while back & it was great to keep up to date with stuff going on around town. I live in Memphis which is high crime, so the amount of alerts started to stress me out & I deleted it. Recently re-downloaded but now there's never any alerts bc everything has to be through plus. Every alert I get is out of state, & if I try to look locally there's "nothing". I just know that's not true

As a tool to see what events to be aware of in your community, this app fails terribly in almost every way. More often than not, your location won't update, so if you have alerts set up, they'll likely be coming from an outdated location. Not to mention the aggressive pushing for Citizen Protect, which locks basic features like the "offenders" tab's registry photos and current address behind a paywall, which is and always has been public domain, and asks you to pay to view "premium" information.

What's new

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