Comparison

Send SOS vs SOS GPS Rescue

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

Head to head
About

Send SOS

Instantly share your precise location with a chosen contact in emergencies. This straightforward utility allows for quick and easy distress messaging with vital coordinates.

Highlights
  • Emergency messaging
  • Current coordinate sharing
  • Simple interface
  • One-tap sending
Features
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Simple and easy: send an emergency message with your current coordinates to a recipient.

About

SOS GPS Rescue

This safety app helps you stay protected when hiking, running alone, or traveling. It offers one-touch emergency alerts with GPS location and health details, plus automatic fall and crash detection. Features include a rescue beacon, AR search, and a duress PIN for discreet alerts.

Highlights
  • One-touch emergency alert
  • Automatic fall and crash detection
  • Rescue beacon and AR search
  • Duress PIN for discreet alerts
  • Offline maps and breadcrumb trail
  • Mesh radar for group location
Features
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One button. Three seconds. The people who care about you know where you are. SOS Rescue is the personal-safety app for anyone who hikes, runs alone, walks home late or travels somewhere unfamiliar. Hold the red button: a countdown starts, and you can cancel it at any moment. If you don't, the app prepares an emergency message with your GPS position and your essential health details, ready to send to your trusted contacts. AUTOMATIC DETECTION • Falls — the accelerometer and barometer recognise a hard fall and start the emergency on their own • Crashes — high-energy vehicle impacts • Danger sounds — audio recognition entirely on device, nothing is ever recorded BEING FOUND • Rescue beacon: pulsed sound and high-intensity SOS flash • Morse strobe: SOS using only the LED and the screen, barely touching the battery • Augmented-reality search to guide you toward the meeting point • Mesh radar: finds the other phones in your group over the local network, even with no signal WHEN YOU CAN'T ASK FOR HELP • Duress PIN: a second PIN shows an innocuous screen while quietly preparing a silent SOS in the background • Hostage mode • High-intensity anti-assault siren • Dead Man's Switch: if you don't confirm you're safe, the countdown starts by itself ALWAYS READY • Offline maps and breadcrumb trail • Travel mode with local emergency numbers and embassies • Risk-zone map with location-based alerts • Power Freeze: shuts down everything non-essential to stretch the battery • Countdown and emergency state on the Dynamic Island and Lock Screen • Siri shortcuts PRIVACY No account, no sign-up, no server of ours. Your position, your contacts and your health details stay on your iPhone. iOS never lets an app send messages on your behalf: SOS Rescue prepares the message and you confirm the send. The app is free and contains advertising, with a consent prompt and the option to remove ads temporarily. Ads never appear during an active emergency. IMPORTANT SOS Rescue is a support tool and does not replace the emergency services. If you are in immediate danger, call your local emergency number.

Screenshots

Send SOS2 screens
SOS GPS Rescue4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Send SOS at none against SOS GPS Rescue's shown. Send SOS also leads on update cadence (every 7 months vs every 82 months) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, rating, ratings volume 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

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

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Send SOS against 5.0 for SOS GPS Rescue. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Send SOS ships an update every 7 months, SOS GPS Rescue every 82 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Send SOS versus SOS GPS Rescue: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSend SOSSOS GPS Rescue
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 7 months — betterEvery 82 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterAd-supported
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.6 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size0 MB15 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperChristian RuscheImmaginet Srl

Customer experience

Send SOS

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

SOS GPS Rescue

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Send SOS

No in-app purchases

None

SOS GPS Rescue

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Send SOS free?
Send SOS is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is SOS GPS Rescue free?
SOS GPS Rescue is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Send SOS or SOS GPS Rescue?
Send SOS and SOS GPS Rescue are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Send SOS or SOS GPS Rescue have ads?
SOS GPS Rescue shows ads; Send SOS does not.
Which is updated more often, Send SOS or SOS GPS Rescue?
Send SOS ships an update every 7 months, and SOS GPS Rescue every 82 months. Most recently, Send SOS was updated on November 2, 2026 and SOS GPS Rescue on November 3, 2026.

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