ERAD Mobile vs PenPoint
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
Read full descriptionHide full description
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.
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.
- 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
Read full descriptionHide full description
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
Verdict
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
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 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.
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.
| Parameter | ERAD Mobile | PenPoint |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (8 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 8 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 8 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 461 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ERAD Group, Inc. | Pen-Link, Ltd. |
Customer experience
ERAD Mobile
PenPoint
In-app purchases
ERAD Mobile
No in-app purchases
PenPoint
No in-app purchases









