Comparison

ERAD Mobile vs PenPoint

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

Head to head
About

ERAD Mobile

This investigative solution allows law enforcement to document and interrogate plastic cards found during arrests. It provides critical card issuer information and enables immediate securing or freezing of funds from prepaid cards, with reporting for forensic analysis and legal documentation.

Highlights
  • Document confiscated credit, debit, and prepaid cards
  • Interrogate plastic cards found during arrests
  • Instant card issuer information retrieval
  • Secure or freeze prepaid card funds
  • Forensic analysis and documentation reports
  • Transfer funds to law enforcement accounts
Features
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Welcome to ERAD™, a patented platform available only to Law Enforcement Agencies. This complete investigative solution provides Law Enforcement with the ability to inventory and interrogate any plastic card found during an arrest. The ERAD platform will help you document every confiscated credit, debit and prepaid card, and instantaneously provide key card issuer information that’s critical to your investigation. And if some of those cards are prepaid cards, ERAD™ gives you the ability, right at the point of arrest, to determine the value and immediately secure or freeze those funds. With this information, and proper legal authority, Law Enforcement personnel can transfer the money associated with a prepaid card directly to a designated Law Enforcement bank account to protect the integrity of the evidence and ensure the funds are available for trial or forfeiture. ERAD™provides a full array of reports to provide forensic analysis and documentation required for subpoenas, warrants or management information.

About

PenPoint

This app provides secure mobile access to communications surveillance data for law enforcement investigations. It helps users understand target locations by mapping cellular tower sectors and ping services.

Highlights
  • Secure mobile access to surveillance data
  • Mapping of cellular tower sectors
  • Precision location ping services
  • Analysis of target location patterns
  • Support for law enforcement investigations
Features
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PenPoint works with PenLink’s on-premise software, PLX, to conduct lawful communications surveillance operations in support of law enforcement investigations. PenPoint provides secure mobile access to communications surveillance data collected and stored by a PLX system. Specifically and primarily, PenPoint helps mobile users understand the probable whereabouts and location patterns of targets by mapping cellular tower sectors and precision location ping services offered by several mobile carriers.

Screenshots

ERAD Mobile4 screens
PenPoint4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: PenPoint at none against ERAD Mobile's shown. PenPoint also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 8 months) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). ERAD Mobile's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On price, rating, 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for ERAD Mobile against 5.0 for PenPoint. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PenPoint has 8 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ERAD Mobile ships an update every 8 months, PenPoint every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
ERAD Mobile versus PenPoint: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterERAD MobilePenPoint
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (8 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings18 — better
Update frequencyEvery 8 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supportedFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB461 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperERAD Group, Inc.Pen-Link, Ltd.

Customer experience

ERAD Mobile

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

PenPoint

All ratings8 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

ERAD Mobile

No in-app purchases

None

PenPoint

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ERAD Mobile free?
ERAD Mobile is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PenPoint free?
PenPoint is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, ERAD Mobile or PenPoint?
ERAD Mobile and PenPoint are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 8 ratings respectively.
Do ERAD Mobile or PenPoint have ads?
ERAD Mobile shows ads; PenPoint does not.
Which is updated more often, ERAD Mobile or PenPoint?
ERAD Mobile ships an update every 8 months, and PenPoint every 2 months. Most recently, ERAD Mobile was updated on September 23, 2026 and PenPoint on October 20, 2026.

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