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

Inconsistent Alerts. I have premium version on Android and Free version on my secondary phone(iphone). Free version gives more relevant messages and more consistent. GPS is slow to update on paid version. 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 almost over 14 days now. Still not update to my issues

What used to be a somewhat useful tool for monitoring the happenings in your neighborhood has become a downloadable ad for their premium service. The default notifications, which cannot be configured, invite you to access things locked behind a paywall, and your "local feed" updates inconsistently, if at all. Also, most of the people commenting on the app are unhinged lunatics, but that's not really the app's fault, and more a reflection of where I live, heh.

This app is so NEEDY and over-designed it's crazy. I wanted to check a helicopter overhead and got several banners to enable notifications, a highlighted past incident that requires Plus to view, a warning about 57 offenders in my area (also needs Plus), and prompts to add home, work, or school address. Half of the map is covered by a window for crime reports (another Plus feature) that can't be minimized. Every aspect of its design is meant to invoke fear so you subscribe to Plus. No thanks.

What's new

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