Comparison

TraffickCam vs Makai

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Upload hotel room photos
  • Contribute to anti-trafficking efforts
  • Create a searchable image database
  • Assist investigators
  • Identify crime locations
Features
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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.

About

Makai

This app helps pilots verify flight plan enroute times by comparing estimated and actual times. It allows for quick updates to waypoint ETAs and setting alarms for important flight milestones.

Highlights
  • Enter waypoint enroute times
  • Compare running total time to flight plan
  • Calculate waypoint estimates after departure
  • Update waypoint ETAs enroute
  • Set waypoint ETA alarms
  • Activate/deactivate waypoint alarms
Features
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Simply enter your waypoint enroute times from your flight plan before departure. Compare the running total time against your flight plan enroute time to verify that your entries are correct. After departure, enter your actual time off the ground and the waypoint estimates will be calculated and presented for easy flight plan log entry. Gain or lose a few minutes while airborne? You can quickly and easily update your waypoint ETAs while enroute with convenient increment and decrement buttons in the flight time log. Set alarms for approaching a waypoint ETA, at a waypoint ETA and 10 minutes past a waypoint ETA to remind you to perform notations, plots or any other company requirement. Alarms can be activated or deactivated for any waypoint ETA by selecting the alarm icons on the flight time log.

Screenshots

TraffickCam4 screens
Makai4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Makai at 5.0 against TraffickCam's 4.1. Makai also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 61%) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 5 months). TraffickCam's advantage is ratings volume (95 vs 11). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

Makai holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: TraffickCam has 95 ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 61% of TraffickCam's written reviews are positive against 100% of Makai's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

TraffickCam ships an update every 5 months, Makai every 2 months. Both last shipped on October 20, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
TraffickCam versus Makai: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTraffickCamMakai
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (95 ratings)5.0 (11 ratings) — better
Positive reviews60.9% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings95 — better11
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size46 MB46 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperImaging for GoodChris Perkins

Customer experience

TraffickCam

All ratings95 ratings
Positive74.7%
Neutral7.4%
Negative17.9%
Written reviews69 reviews
Positive60.9%
Neutral7.2%
Negative31.9%

Makai

All ratings11 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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
Show 5 more
  • Add push notifications for hotel locations
  • Option to not include room number
  • Consider decoding criminal encryption
  • Protect whistleblowers
  • Address child poverty

Makai

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

TraffickCam

No in-app purchases

None

Makai

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is TraffickCam free?
TraffickCam is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Makai free?
Makai is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, TraffickCam or Makai?
Makai is rated higher. TraffickCam averages 4.1 out of 5 from 95 ratings, while Makai averages 5.0 from 11 ratings.
Do TraffickCam or Makai have ads?
Neither TraffickCam nor Makai shows ads.
Which is updated more often, TraffickCam or Makai?
TraffickCam ships an update every 5 months, and Makai every 2 months. Most recently, TraffickCam was updated on October 20, 2026 and Makai on October 20, 2026.

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