Comparison

C vs Alertable

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

C

This app provides Canadian boaters with 24-hour marine towing and assistance. It offers real-time weather updates, tide predictions, and helps locate nearby marine facilities. Members receive free services, while non-members can access assistance at an hourly rate.

Highlights
  • 24-hour marine towing and assistance
  • Environment Canada marine weather updates
  • Fisheries and Oceans Canada tide predictions
  • Buoy observations
  • GPS location pinpointing
  • Locate nearby marine facilities
  • Membership management
Read full description

A Canadian Marine Assistance App is now available, helping to provide a stress-free boating experience for you and your family. C-Tow Marine Assistance Ltd has been providing "Peace of Mind Boating" for Canadian boaters since 1984. Now with 30+ tow boats serving Ontario and BC, we're on 24 hr standby ready to assist. C-Tow App Features: iPhone & iPad Version available. - Fast effective way to contact C-Tow for 24hr marine towing and assistance services. C-Tow can also be contacted by phone at 1 888 354 5554 - Check current Environment Canada Marine Weather, including weather alerts - Check report weather from members or submit reported weather - Fisheries and Oceans Canada Tide predictions for coastal areas - Buoy observations from nearby stations within Canada and the United States - Pinpoint your location through your phones GPS and provide C-Tow Dispatch your Latitude and Longitude for a fast response to your vessel* - See your speed and compass heading - Locate nearby marinas, fuel docks, and marine facilities. - Join, view or update your C-Tow membership C-Tow service is available for members free of charge and non-members on an hourly rate. For detailed information on C-Tow and our services please see our website at www.C-Tow.ca or contact us at 1 888 354 5554 In the event of a life-threatening situation, your first call should be to Coast Guard. C-TOW membership allows for stress free-boating. Four great package options to choose from Member benefits include: • Free boat tows • Fuel delivery • Soft ungroundings • Fog shepherding • Jump starts • Minor on-scene repairs • Over 30 C-Tow service boats • C-Tow member discounts • Trip planning/registry • Marine concierge service • 24-hour assistance *The accuracy of our data is based solely on the accuracy of your phone’s internal GPS.

About

Alertable

Stay informed about emergencies and daily incidents across Canada. Receive fast, reliable notifications for public safety, severe weather, and local community events. Personalize alerts by type, severity, and location to know before you go.

Highlights
  • Canada-wide public safety alerts
  • Severe weather alerts
  • Customizable notifications
  • Location-based alerts
  • Sharable alerts
  • Local community notifications
  • Workplace alerts
Features
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Alertable emergency alerts and mass notifications keep you informed of emergencies and daily incidents in your community, workplace and school. Use Alertable for locations in Canada to stay aware and plan ahead. Check in advance for community events, closures, restrictions, hazards, danger and more. Know before you go. Keep yourself and others informed and up to date with Alertable. Notifications are fast, reliable and easy to see and hear. Personalize notifications by type and severity. Choose notifications for many locations including home, work, school, cottage, family and friends locations and more. Change your locations and other personalized options in Settings, after the fact. Key features: • Canada wide public safety alerts (from Canada’s Alert Ready emergency alert system) • severe weather alerts (from Environment and Climate Change Canada) • fast and reliable, highly optimized alert notifications • easy to setup and use • customizable, choose the types of critical, advisory and information alerts you wish to receive • targeted, alerts for only locations you are interested in • follow me, alerts for where you are at • maps, helpful for seeing the geographical area the alert is for • sharable, alerts can be shared on social media, email and text message • informative, emergency descriptions, impact areas and actions to take to remain safe • local, community notifications for closures, outages, restrictions, disruptions, re-openings, Interruptions and more • workplace, get alerts from your organization • accessible, full use by people with different abilities • multilingual, translate alerts into your device’s language setting

Screenshots

C4 screens
Alertable4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Alertable at 4.7 against C's 1.0. Alertable also leads on ratings volume (179 vs 2). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Alertable holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Alertable has 179 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 55% of C's written reviews are positive against 61% of Alertable's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

C ships an update every 5 weeks, Alertable every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
C versus Alertable: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCAlertable
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.0 (2 ratings)4.7 (179 ratings) — better
Positive reviews55.0% of reviews61.4% of reviews — better
Number of ratings2179 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better12.0
Further details — not scored
Size79 MB49 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperC-Tow Marine Assistance LtdPublic Emergency Alerting Services Inc

Customer experience

C

All ratings2 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews20 reviews
Positive55.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative35.0%

Alertable

All ratings177 ratings
Positive93.8%
Neutral1.7%
Negative4.5%
Written reviews83 reviews
Positive61.4%
Neutral7.2%
Negative31.3%

Bugs and requests

C

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Alertable

Reported bugs

23 issues
  • App not working after update
  • No alerts sent out
  • Misleading and late alerts
  • Old alerts cannot be deleted
  • Confusion with evacuation alert wording
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  • Poor Shuswap updates
  • Unreliable emergency alerts
  • Evacuation alerts too late
  • Garbage app
  • History not deletable
  • High battery drain
  • Alerts not informative enough
  • Too many alerts in a row
  • Early morning notifications
  • Huge drain on battery
  • Very slow to load
  • Not getting audio alerts
  • Cannot select region by panning
  • Alerts don't display properly
  • Useless in BC and most of Canada
  • No cities in California
  • Does not include my city
  • Weak privacy policy

Requested features

14 requests
  • Disable prompts asking to keep receiving alerts
  • Add dark mode
  • Allow selection of entire city by panning map
  • Remove pointless alert types
  • Ability to silence specific alert types
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  • Option to ignore specific alert types
  • Improve location accuracy for alerts
  • Add wildfire alerts
  • Differentiate evacuation alert levels visually
  • Allow deletion of old alerts
  • Provide more informative alerts
  • Include cities in California
  • Include more cities
  • Strengthen privacy policy for location tracking

In-app purchases

None

C

No in-app purchases

None

Alertable

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is C free?
C is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Alertable free?
Alertable is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, C or Alertable?
Alertable is rated higher. C averages 1.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Alertable averages 4.7 from 179 ratings.
Do C or Alertable have ads?
Neither C nor Alertable shows ads.
Which is updated more often, C or Alertable?
C ships an update every 5 weeks, and Alertable every 2 months. Most recently, C was updated on October 6, 2026 and Alertable on October 24, 2026.

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