Speed Queen vs Safe Dog
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Speed Queen
Easily pay for laundry machines directly from your smartphone. Check machine availability, receive notifications when your laundry is almost done, and streamline your entire laundry process.
- Mobile payment for washers and dryers
- Check machine availability
- Laundry completion alerts
- Location-based services
- Streamlined laundry process
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The Speed Queen app makes it easy to pay for a washer or dryer right from your phone. No more last-minute searching for quarters or wondering if machines are available. Enter a location, view machine availability, pay from your phone and you are ready to go. We’ll even let you know when your laundry is almost finished. Your best laundry day starts now.
Safe Dog
This app allows users to quickly contact university safety forces and report suspicious activity with messages, photos, and videos. It also features a peer-to-peer safety network for friends and family to track your location.
- Contact university safety forces
- Send crime tips with media
- FriendWatch location tracking
- Peer-to-peer safety network
- Report suspicious behavior
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Use the Safe Dog application to quickly and easily contact university safety forces. Safe Dog also allows you to: -Send messages, photos and videos of crime tips and suspicious behavior directly to university safety forces. -Use the FriendWatch feature to create a peer-to-peer safety network. Walking to class alone and want some additional safety? Use Friend Watch to allow your friends and family to track your location during that activity. -And more. GPS disclaimer: "Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life."
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Speed Queen at 24K against Safe Dog's 13. Speed Queen also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months) and chart position (#185 vs unranked). Safe Dog's advantage is review sentiment (50% vs 42%) and device support (4 vs 1). On price, rating, ads 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 — 4.8 for Speed Queen against 4.7 for Safe Dog. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Speed Queen has 24K ratings behind it against 13, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 42% of Speed Queen's written reviews are positive against 50% of Safe Dog's.
Speed Queen ships an update fortnightly, Safe Dog every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Speed Queen | Safe Dog |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (24K ratings) — better | 4.7 (13 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 41.5% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 24K — better | 13 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | #185 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 13.2 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 50 MB | 44 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alliance Laundry Systems LLC | Louisiana Tech University |
Customer experience
Speed Queen
Safe Dog
Bugs and requests
Speed Queen
Reported bugs
4 issues- App crashes, freezes, or fails to connect to machines
- Incorrect machine availability status
- Unexpected charges or lost funds
- Issues with email verification and account login
Requested features
4 requests- Allow users to pay per cycle instead of pre-loading funds
- Implement a way to notify others when machines are available
- Add a directory to find laundromats that support the app
- Improve the app's stability and reliability
Safe Dog
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Speed Queen
No in-app purchases
Safe Dog
No in-app purchases
