TraffickCam vs TCI
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.
TCI
Securely report anonymous tips about global crimes like human trafficking, terrorism, and corruption to law enforcement. Receive potential rewards for your information and engage in two-way dialogue with live chat, including image and video uploads.
- Anonymous tip submission
- Secure communication channels
- Live chat capability
- Image and video uploads
- Reward incentives
- Global crime reporting
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Report secure and anonymous tips or public leads to law enforcement about crimes that effect us on a global level without fear of retribution. Information about human trafficking, terrorism, drug trafficking, illicit trade, illegal arms dealing, cyber crime, and corruption can be reported with the incentive of a reward. It offers two-way dialogue including live chat capability and allows informants to upload images as well as video.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: TraffickCam at 4.1 against TCI's 2.0. TraffickCam also leads on ratings volume (95 vs 4). TCI's advantage is iOS requirement (10.0 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.
TraffickCam holds the better App Store score, 4.1 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: TraffickCam has 95 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two.
TraffickCam ships an update every 5 months, TCI every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | TraffickCam | TCI |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (95 ratings) — better | 2.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 60.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 95 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 4 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 46 MB | 30 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Imaging for Good | SafeGuard Systems, Inc. |
Customer experience
TraffickCam
TCI
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
TCI
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
TraffickCam
No in-app purchases
TCI
No in-app purchases
