Comparison

Send SOS vs beamAssist

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

beamAssist

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beamAssist is a patented, one-touch, 3-button, color-coded mobile app specifically designed for individual urgent response and emergency status communication. It allows users to share vital information including location with designated contacts and/or public safety dispatch centers in just seconds. It can easily be configured for communities/groups to use among friends and family members or for professional use within an organization. The color-coded, 3-buttons (green, amber and red) represent equivalent levels of emergency, allowing users to share location, audio, video, and user bio in real-time (seconds not minutes). Additionally, one can opt in to share vital data through health sensors. Each button can be configured to share the following from any smartphone: GPS, microphone, speaker, camera, mute phone, text to 911 or other designated numbers. The text includes a live link broadcasting GPS, audio and video live. beamAssist represents Beam’s Unified Communication of Things as a Service (UCTaaS) with heightened capabilities including text, audio/video, sub-second GPS connectivity, push-to-talk and SOS. Administrators can configure the app for organization-wide use. Users can only register through an approved organization, community or agency through an Admin portal and can share encrypted and geo-tagged IoT content and media, as well as real-time collaboration with experts, citizens and PSAPs. beamAssist unique features include: • It provides GPS sub-second latency tracking and navigation; • beamAssist connects to Computer-aided Dispatching (CAD) including 911 CAD and offers connectivity between an Emergency Dispatch/Command and Control Center and their specific mobile workforce; • It offers responders a single button, one touch feature that records all actions from start to the end of any emergency/incident/event. In the case of law enforcement or public safety, this capability is an essential element; • beamAssist also adds value by integration Artificial Intelligence (AI) on GCP cloud and Edge that provides users with enhanced threat awareness, historical data, situational awareness and real-time, multimedia, mobile communication.

Screenshots

Send SOS2 screens
beamAssist4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: beamAssist at every 10 days against Send SOS's every 7 months. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Send SOS ships an update every 7 months, beamAssist every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Send SOS versus beamAssist: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSend SOSbeamAssist
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsEvery 10 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.614.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size0 MB102 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperChristian RuscheBeamLive Inc.

In-app purchases

None

Send SOS

No in-app purchases

None

beamAssist

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Send SOS free?
Send SOS is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is beamAssist free?
beamAssist is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Send SOS or beamAssist have ads?
Neither Send SOS nor beamAssist shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Send SOS or beamAssist?
Send SOS ships an update every 7 months, and beamAssist every 10 days. Most recently, Send SOS was updated on October 5, 2026 and beamAssist on September 25, 2026.

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