Safe Schools LA vs Safe Dog
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Safe Schools LA
This app allows students, parents, and teachers to anonymously report concerns about campus safety. Submit tips about bullying, drugs, mental health, and other threats, with the option to upload media. Receive updates and engage in two-way dialogue with staff.
- Anonymous tip submission
- Upload photos, videos, and audio
- Check tip status
- Add information to existing tips
- Two-way dialogue with staff
- 24/7 tip monitoring
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Crimestoppers Safe Schools Louisiana is an anonymous tip reporting solution designed for students, parents and teachers to submit secure and anonymous concerns about campus or campus events. Your school should be a safe place. If someone is committing a crime or threatening harm to others, tell us. You will be anonymous, which means that no one will know your identity, not even your school. Whether it's drugs, bullying, mental health concerns, alcohol, sexting or other related crimes, speaking up is the right thing to do and we're making it easy for you. Through the app you will be able to leave a tip, check tip status, add more information to existing tips and create new tips. You will even be able to upload photos, screenshots, videos, and audio to help build your case. This is all done by using the assigned “tip” number and your password. Tips are monitored 24 hours a day, 7 days a week! You can even use the two-way dialogue to talk to a Crimestoppers employee. Remember, we are here for you!
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 rating: Safe Dog at 4.7 against Safe Schools LA's 3.4. Safe Schools LA's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months) and review sentiment (67% vs 50%). On price, ratings volume, 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.
Safe Dog holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 21 and 13 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 67% of Safe Schools LA's written reviews are positive against 50% of Safe Dog's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Safe Schools LA ships an update every 2 weeks, Safe Dog every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Safe Schools LA | Safe Dog |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.4 (21 ratings) | 4.7 (13 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 21 — better | 13 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 13.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 31 MB | 44 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | CRIMESTOPPERS, INC. | Louisiana Tech University |
Customer experience
Safe Schools LA
Safe Dog
In-app purchases
Safe Schools LA
No in-app purchases
Safe Dog
No in-app purchases
