Send SOS vs SOS GPS Rescue
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Emergency messaging
- Current coordinate sharing
- Simple interface
- One-tap sending
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Simple and easy: send an emergency message with your current coordinates to a recipient.
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.
- 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
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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.
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
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.
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.
| Parameter | Send SOS | SOS GPS Rescue |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months — better | Every 82 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 0 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Christian Rusche | Immaginet Srl |
Customer experience
Send SOS
SOS GPS Rescue
In-app purchases
Send SOS
No in-app purchases
SOS GPS Rescue
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Send SOS free?
Is SOS GPS Rescue free?
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