Mobile Safety vs CCSD Onboard
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mobile Safety
This app provides essential safety alerts and instant access to campus safety resources for students and staff. Receive emergency notifications and quickly contact campus safety personnel when needed.
- Safety notifications
- Emergency help access
- Campus safety resources
- Instant alerts
- Quick contact
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Mobile Safety is an essential tool to enhance your safety at College of Southern Nevada. The app will send you important safety alerts and provide instant access to campus safety resources. Mobile Safety is the official mobile safety app of CSN. Mobile Safety benefits include: - Safety notifications: Receive instant notifications and instructions from campus safety when on-campus emergencies occur. - Emergency help: contact campus safety staff quickly for help in an emergency. - Campus safety resources: access all important CSN safety resources in one convenient app. Download today and ensure that you’re prepared in the event of an emergency.
CCSD Onboard
Track your school bus in real-time from your home or school. This app provides students, parents, and guardians with quality communication and service for timely bus pickups.
- Real-time bus tracking
- Bus stop notifications
- Home and school pickup tracking
- Student-parent communication
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This app was designed by students for students of the Clark County School District. Users will be able to track their school bus in real time; while they prepare to be picked up at their bus stop, home and/or school. It is our goal to provide quality communication and service to Clark County School District students, parents and guardians. Access to your education is important to us.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: CCSD Onboard at monthly against Mobile Safety's every 34 months. CCSD Onboard also leads on review sentiment (16% vs 0%) and rating (2.0 vs 1.8). Mobile Safety's advantage is iOS requirement (8.0 vs 12.0). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
CCSD Onboard holds the better App Store score, 2.0 against 1.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: CCSD Onboard has 175 ratings behind it against 16, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Mobile Safety's written reviews are positive against 16% of CCSD Onboard's.
Mobile Safety ships an update every 34 months, CCSD Onboard monthly. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Mobile Safety | CCSD Onboard |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.8 (16 ratings) | 2.0 (175 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 16.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 16 | 175 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 34 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 30 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | College of Southern Nevada | Clark County School District - Transportation Dept. |
Customer experience
Mobile Safety
CCSD Onboard
Bugs and requests
Mobile Safety
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
CCSD Onboard
Reported bugs
49 issues- App only works 20-25% of the time
- Bus location inaccurate
- Bus times inaccurate
- App is awfully slow
- Bus location not live
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- App tracking wrong bus
- Bus tracking not showing up
- App signed out unexpectedly
- Cannot sign back in
- Confusing error messages
- App says bus is one stop away but daughter waited 40 minutes
- App says waiting to identify bus
- App is always buffering or can't find bus
- App pauses frequently
- App doesn't work on mobile data
- App kicks user out
- App not connected to server
- App stuck on waiting to identify bus
- Tracking rarely updates
- Latency of 30-120 seconds
- App doesn't run in background
- Bus appears on map after it has gone
- App doesn't show bus until it's gone
- App kicks user out due to not being connected to a server
- App doesn't update
- App says nothing at all
- Date is incorrect
- Cannot change date to correct date
- App fails to pick up child
- App doesn't detect bus location
- App goes blank to a gray screen after sign-in attempt
- App constantly waiting for bus GPS
- App didn't update for 20 minutes
- App won't detect bus location
- Blank white screen when logging in
- Stuck in the gray area after trying to sign in
- Have to exit and re-enter bus schedule for updated location
- App shows ETA of 20 minutes when bus is around the corner
- App freezes during registration
- App freezes during login
- App doesn't work most of the time
- App won't pull current bus, only day before
- App says waiting on GPS data
- App doesn't automatically update moving bus
- App says bus is on other side of town but it's outside
- Student ID is invalid
- Email address is invalid
- 502 Web server error during registration
- Information is invalid for student being added
Requested features
11 requests- Fix the app
- Improve bus tracking accuracy
- Ensure real-time tracking
- Fix login/registration issues
- Improve app performance
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- Allow students to be alerted when bus is within proximity
- Allow users to adjust proximity alert range
- Fix mobile data issue
- Update the app
- Offer dark mode
- Improve UX design
In-app purchases
Mobile Safety
No in-app purchases
CCSD Onboard
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Mobile Safety free?
Is CCSD Onboard free?
Which has better reviews, Mobile Safety or CCSD Onboard?
Do Mobile Safety or CCSD Onboard have ads?
Which is updated more often, Mobile Safety or CCSD Onboard?
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