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

If there's ever an app that sorely needs competition, it's this one. The "plus" service literally turns crime into advertising. I can't figure out how to see details of crimes that happened 8 hours ago, because the map is so cluttered with older data that I need to subscribe to view. This is an app that tried to bridge the gap between the public and public service, but it's not nearly as usable as it was pre pandemic.

Used to be a pretty good app. Now it's falling apart. Most incidents don't show up. Basic features don't work. Some of the most basic stuff gets thrown into their plus subscription. Everything is about making you get the plus subscription except the quality of the app. It's completely falling apart and I don't have any reason to believe the plus will help all the issues.

Need a way to remove all this plus stuff that I can't use. Very annoying having a bunch of things to click that just pop up into an ad for monthly payments. I barely use as is, so definitely not committing to a subscription. I'd prefer to delete if the the capabilities continue to be reduced and there's no option to hide pay walls in the free version. Oh and I keep getting notifications from events across the country. This app has really gotten bad over the past several months.

What's new

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