TraffickCam vs Pulse ·
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TraffickCam
Contribute to fighting sex trafficking by uploading photos of hotel rooms. This creates a searchable database of images that investigators can use to pinpoint locations and identify victims and perpetrators.
- Upload hotel room photos
- Contribute to anti-trafficking efforts
- Create a searchable image database
- Assist investigators
- Identify crime locations
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TraffickCam enables you to help combat sex trafficking by uploading photos of the hotel rooms you stay in when you travel. Traffickers regularly post photographs of their victims posed in hotel rooms for online advertisements. These photographs are evidence that can be used to find and prosecute the perpetrators of these crimes. In order to use these photos, however, analysts must be able to determine where the photos were taken. The purpose of TraffickCam is to create a database of hotel room images that an analyst can efficiently search, in order to find other images that were taken in the same location as an image that is part of an inquiry.
Pulse ·
This application enables one-way audio transmission to team members for enhanced situational awareness. It also shares your GPS location with others during a session, allowing them to track your device's position.
- One-way audio transmission
- Real-time GPS location sharing
- Situational awareness for teams
- Device location tracking
- Team communication tool
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Pulse transmits one-way audio to team members for situational awareness. Additionally, the app "pulses out" your GPS location so that others can view your device location during the session.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: TraffickCam at 61% against Pulse ·'s 0%. TraffickCam also leads on ratings volume (95 vs 8). Pulse ·'s advantage is rating (4.5 vs 4.1) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.0). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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.
Pulse · holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: TraffickCam has 95 ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 61% of TraffickCam's written reviews are positive against 0% of Pulse ·'s, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
TraffickCam ships an update every 5 months, Pulse · every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | TraffickCam | Pulse · |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (95 ratings) | 4.5 (8 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 60.9% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 95 — better | 8 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 46 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Imaging for Good | Motorola Solutions, Inc |
Customer experience
TraffickCam
Pulse ·
Bugs and requests
TraffickCam
Reported bugs
12 issues- Cannot get past instruction window
- Advice box stuck on screen
- Unable to upload after several attempts
- Error messages about wrong 'next step'
- Pop-ups block progress
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- App crashes
- Cannot progress after first photo
- App not working/says it's not working
- Getting an error when trying to submit
- New version unusable
- Crashes when using camera or accessing photos
- iOS10 issues causing crashes
Requested features
10 requests- Allow uploading from photo library
- Add option to upload previously taken photos
- Provide updates on how the app helps
- Add confirmation message for successful uploads
- Improve usability to avoid 'wrong step' errors
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- Add push notifications for hotel locations
- Option to not include room number
- Consider decoding criminal encryption
- Protect whistleblowers
- Address child poverty
Pulse ·
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
TraffickCam
No in-app purchases
Pulse ·
No in-app purchases
