CampusShield vs Hour
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CampusShield
This mobile safety app acts as a software panic button, connecting you instantly to campus security. Receive emergency alerts via push notification and stay informed about campus events and happenings.
- Software panic button
- Emergency alerts via push notification
- Instant connection to campus security
- Campus event information
- Mobile safety tool
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Stay safer on campus by using our mobile safety app to keep you connected. This mobile safety app is a software panic button that also receives emergency alerts via push notification. CampusShield provides instant access to your campus’s security and emergency response team and it's loaded with extra features to keep you informed on campus events and happenings.
Hour
This app helps users of fundraising campaigns quickly send text notifications to their contacts and monitor replies. It streamlines communication for event organizers and participants.
- Send quick text notifications
- Contact management
- Response tracking
- Fundraising campaign support
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The Hour-A-Thon Quicktext app is designed for users of Hour-A-Thon fundraising campaigns to quickly text notifications to specified contacts in their phone and track responses.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: CampusShield at 4.4 against Hour's 3.0. Hour's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
CampusShield holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 105 and 150 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 50% of CampusShield's written reviews are positive against 52% of Hour's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
CampusShield ships an update every 2 months, Hour every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CampusShield | Hour |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (105 ratings) — better | 3.0 (150 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 51.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 105 | 150 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.3 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 39 MB | 43 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 911Cellular | Buynow AF, LLC |
Customer experience
CampusShield
Hour
In-app purchases
CampusShield
No in-app purchases
Hour
No in-app purchases
