Suicide Safety Plan vs Columbia Protocol
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Suicide Safety Plan
This app helps individuals manage suicidal thoughts by creating a personalized safety plan. It guides users through identifying warning signs, coping strategies, and support networks. Emergency resources are readily available for immediate assistance.
- Customizable warning signs
- Coping strategies
- Distraction techniques
- Contact list for friends/family
- Professional contact information
- Environmental safety methods
- Reasons for living
- Emergency resource list
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Suicidal thoughts can seem like they will last forever – but these thoughts and feelings pass with time. This app is designed to support those dealing with suicidal thoughts and help prevent suicide. Having a plan in place that can help guide you through difficult moments can help you cope and keep you safe. A safety plan is designed so that you can start at the beginning and continue through the steps. You can customize your own warning signs that a crisis may be developing, coping strategies for dealing with suicidal urges, places for distraction, friends and family members you can reach out to, professionals you can call, methods of making your environment safe, and your own important reasons for living. If following your safety plan is not enough to stem a suicidal crisis, then this app also contains an easy-to-access list of emergency resources so that help is just a tap away. For long-term recovery, we provide a thorough guide to dealing with suicidal thoughts. This application is open source and we are looking for contributors! https://github.com/suicidesafetyplan/safetyplan-ios/
Columbia Protocol
This application provides a standardized tool for assessing suicide risk through a series of questions. It is designed for widespread use to aid in suicide prevention, offering guidance for low or moderate risk responses.
- Suicide risk assessment
- Evidence-supported tool
- Simple question series
- Global usability
- Mental health referral guidance
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The Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS), the most evidence-supported tool of its kind, is a simple series of questions that anyone can use anywhere in the world to help prevent suicide. Disclaimer: If you are high risk, a further evaluation is indicated. For Low or Moderate answers, a mental health referral may be helpful or is provided. Thank you to the sponsors that helped make this a possibility: Blair County Department of Social Services Community Care Behavioral Health UPMC Healthy Blair County Coalition UPMC Altoona Foundation
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Verdict
Suicide Safety Plan and Columbia Protocol both sit at 4.6 stars, but that hides the real split: 86% of Suicide Safety Plan's written reviews are positive against 50% of Columbia Protocol's. On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Suicide Safety Plan against 4.6 for Columbia Protocol. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 42 and 16 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 86% of Suicide Safety Plan's written reviews are positive against 50% of Columbia Protocol's.
Suicide Safety Plan ships an update every 2 months, Columbia Protocol every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Suicide Safety Plan | Columbia Protocol |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (42 ratings) — better | 4.6 (16 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 86.4% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 42 — better | 16 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Inquiry Health LLC | PSS Chute Software |
Customer experience
Suicide Safety Plan
Columbia Protocol
In-app purchases
Suicide Safety Plan
No in-app purchases
Columbia Protocol
No in-app purchases
