# US Dept. of Justice NSOPW App — user reviews > 65 indexed App Store user reviews of US Dept. of Justice NSOPW App by The Institute for Intergovernmental Research, Inc., rated 4.60/5 from 2,666 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/us-dept-of-justice-nsopw-app/id991873782/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/us-dept-of-justice-nsopw-app/id991873782.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 2,285 · 4★ 93 · 3★ 39 · 2★ 27 · 1★ 222 ## What do users think of US Dept. of Justice NSOPW App? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 👍 Useful app for finding sex offenders - 🚀 Fast and accurate search results - 🔒 Helps keep family safe - 💡 Innovative concept **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent crashes and glitches - 🔍 Limited search capabilities - 📍 Lack of location-based mapping - ❌ Doesn't work in certain jurisdictions - 💰 Paid app with poor functionality **Commonly reported bugs** - Search results not loading or timing out - Incorrect or missing offender information - Compatibility issues on certain devices - Errors when trying to access certain areas **Most requested features** - Improve search options (by name, city, zip code, etc.) - Enhance mapping features to show offender locations - Expand coverage to all states and jurisdictions - Provide more detailed offender information - Add option to set default search radius ## Newest reviews (14 of 65) ### 3/5 — Not great *2026-08-06, version 2.2.0* Doesn’t work anymore ### 2/5 — Doesn’t work *2026-03-18, version 2.2.0* It glitches and crashes/times out ### 2/5 — It won’t work for my area *2025-08-06, version 2.2.0* In de you can to search by zip code but a message saying “there are too many matching offenders for this search, please perform a name search instead” like what the heck does that mean there’s too many in the area to pinpoint???!! How’s that supposed to help. ### 3/5 — Update? *2025-01-10, version 2.2.0* Hey, can you guys please update this app? It would be great if we could see the whole screen. ### 4/5 — Awesome- just one lil bug *2024-09-03, version 2.2.0* I love this app, it makes me feel more educated and safe and knowledgeable about what areas are safe for me. The only thing I will say is I live in Washington, and that’s one of the states that doesn’t support the range being less than a mile. When you open the map, the setting is automatically set to a quarter mile, so you get a pop up saying to change it every time. This is super nit-picky, but I wish it just started at the one mile setting so I didn’t get that pop up every time. ### 3/5 — Error bug *2024-05-18, version 2.2.0* It’s a good app to have but the reports for 5 offenders in my area always states “report error invalid number”. This is very vital information. I first thought that it was just a glitch on one report but it’s the same for all of them. ### 3/5 — Glitching *2023-11-18, version 2.2.0* Still glitches on searches ### 3/5 — Limited Search capabilities *2023-09-14, version 2.2.0* I’ve also emailed this suggestion through their website: The app is very good except for the limited options for the Search features. For Search By Location it seems you have to enter a full address including zip code. If you don’t do this you get an error: “Oops! Please Insert All Details” Evidently you can just enter the zip plus state for 10 states that don’t have “location based searching”, but for the other 40 states this doesn’t work. Search By Location suggestions, for ALL states: - when clicking the “i” info button explain the search by location options - default the drop-down distance to one of the choices - allow a search by street name, city and state only (without house number and/or zip) - allow a search by city and state only - allow a search by zip code only (state would never be needed for this) - allow a search by full address If the user doesn’t meet the proper criteria, have the error message state the minimum amount of data needed Search By Name suggestions: If you search for a name with many matches (unknown how many that number is) you’re told to visit the website instead. Allow the Search By Name to include: - last name and first name only - last name with state - last name and first name with state - last name with city and state - last name and first name with city and state - last name with zip code - last name and first name with zip code ### 2/5 — No sirve *2023-09-01, version 2.2.0* No me muestra ninguna información ### 1/5 — Problems *2023-08-22, version 2.2.0* Not user friendly & dies t search where you enter. ### 1/5 — No sirve esta app *2023-08-19, version 2.2.0* No se mira nada a mi alrededor ### 1/5 — One sex offender in Phoenix AZ *2023-08-15, version 2.2.0* This app was junk. No sex offenders in my city? Google search gave me 10 in my county when I wasn’t even googling for that. Mug shots included. Unfortunately this app isn’t showing me anything helpful. ### 1/5 — Doesn’t work *2023-08-04, version 2.2.0* No matter where I search keeps saying try at other moment. Every time is the same thing nothing shows up at least here in Puerto Rico. ### 1/5 — Not accurate *2023-07-26, version 2.2.0* It says that there are Too Many offenders that it cannot scan it.. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — dont bother *2026-07-11, version 2.2.0* it wont let me pick another mile radius to see other people in the area. not worth it ### 1/5 — Terrible *2026-04-12, version 2.2.0* No pictures of offenders load so you don’t know what the offender looks like , guess we gotta go walk up to everyone and ask their name ### 1/5 — . *2025-09-21, version 2.2.0* doesn’t show a picture. when u click on more info it’ll take you to megan’s law.com but it’ll say error and won’t show you the info. ### 1/5 — Jurisdiction offline *2025-06-15, version 2.2.0* Unable to search in other locations—please fix this. Thank you ✨ ### 1/5 — Very unsatisfied *2024-07-27, version 2.2.0* Very disappointed on downloading the app and letting it take $14 out my debit card knowing the app doesn’t work properly always saying come back try again later !!! Never again don’t waste your time or money on this app ### 1/5 — CA *2024-07-01, version 2.2.0* Does this app not work in California anymore? ### 1/5 — Not working *2024-06-03, version 2.2.0* I live in California and the app has been having issues for a while now. It shows an error message when I try searching before this issue the app was working grate and I loved it but now I uninstalled it and installed back and the same issue is happening sad we can’t see anything I hope it gets fixed. ### 1/5 — Error occurred *2024-05-16, version 2.2.0* Why keep showing error occurred please check again later? ### 1/5 — Lack of information. *2024-05-11, version 2.2.0* I just downloaded the app because we have a son and saw in our local paper that there were 56 Offenders and when I search my local area it shows zero! ### 1/5 — Não funciona *2024-03-23, version 2.2.0* Não funciona ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Love It! *2026-01-09, version 2.2.0* Great App to use before you move ### 5/5 — Best money move ever *2024-12-28* Y’all hurting for bread there’s a dummy near you 😈 ### 5/5 — It makes me and my family feel safe *2024-10-21, version 2.2.0* I love the app ### 5/5 — Smart *2024-05-03, version 2.2.0* Wow it’s nice to have this,I just found out that someone 2 houses away from me was a child predator and just recently got arrested and what scared me the most is I remember when I was a kid like around 8-9 he wanted me to go inside his house for some reason I can’t remember but I ran away because my mother told me to stay away from that house,but I wish this app worked in my state though 😢 ### 5/5 — Gracias por los datos *2023-08-07, version 2.2.0* Muy útil ### 5/5 — Exelente Aplicacion muy buena *2023-08-03, version 2.2.0* Es de Maciado útil ### 5/5 — Deckow Aliza *2023-07-22* I don’t know if you know this but I have to to get my hair cut because my mom said I can do my eyebrows on my hair but she can’t get ### 5/5 — good app 👍 *2023-07-08, version 2.2.0* 👍 ### 5/5 — App is cool *2023-04-12, version 2.2.0* Glad we can check up on sus neighbors ### 5/5 — Surprisingly good *2023-02-18, version 2.2.0* App is very well designed. Is fast, accurate and easy to use. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-04.*