AlertCops vs Bin Squad
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
AlertCops
This security app offers citizens direct communication with police and emergency services. Report incidents, receive real-time safety alerts, and utilize an SOS button for urgent situations. It also provides features like location sharing and an automatic translator for enhanced safety and self-protection.
- Report incidents
- Direct chat with police
- Receive safety alerts
- SOS Button with audio
- Location sharing
- Automatic translator
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AlertCops is the security app designed for citizens and is available throughout Spain. It provides safety and self-protection services for everyday use and offers a direct chat with police and emergency services. You can: - Report any incident you have witnessed or been a victim of. - Stay informed about various citizen-interest topics through our dynamic info cards. - Send photos, videos, audio, or locations via chat and receive an immediate response. - Receive alerts related to public collaboration, safety, and emergencies in your area. - Use the SOS Button, which includes enhanced protection for vulnerable groups, sending an urgent alert to the nearest police station along with your location and a 10-second audio recording. - Enjoy new services such as "Accompany Me", Simulated Call, etc. - Share your location with selected contacts and receive theirs as well. - Subscribe to a Guardian for a specific event (such as a race or concert) and send your location periodically so that rescue services can easily find you in case of an emergency. - Use the automatic translator to communicate with police in over 100 languages.
Bin Squad
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Trash day comes round every week, and it is still the easiest thing in the house to forget. Bin Squad is the reminder that turns up the night before, when there is still time to do something about it. No account. No address. No sign-up. You tell it which cans you have and when they go out, and that is the last admin it ever asks of you. WHAT IT DOES Reminds you the evening before, when you actually roll the can out, and again on the morning of pickup in case last night did not happen. Both are optional, and both have times you choose. Handles however many cans you have. Weekly, every other week, or any interval you like, each with its own color, its own name and its own schedule. Cans going out on the same day are treated as one trip to the curb, because that is what it is. Warns you about holidays. It never quietly moves a pickup: cities and haulers shift them inconsistently, and guessing would produce exactly the wrong reminder. It tells you a holiday is coming and lets you move that one pickup yourself if yours is affected. Lets you skip or move a single pickup without touching the pattern. Changed your mind? Every skip and move is listed, with a button to put it back. Keeps quiet hours, so a reminder never arrives at 6:30 on a Sunday morning. THE CREW Captain Garbage runs a crew of cans with rather more personality than the job requires. General Gus, Recycler Ray, Compost Chloe, Caddy Carl, Yellow Bella, and Barry, who is a rat and owns no can at all. Mark a pickup as done and you build a streak. Clear every collection in a week and that is a Perfect Week. Keep it up and more of the crew turn up, twenty or so of them, each with a job title and strong opinions about trash. None of it ever gets in the way of the information. Every reminder names the can, the day and what you need to do, however daft the line underneath it is. OR NONE OF THAT Pick "Just the facts" and the whole thing goes quiet. Plain colors, plain icons, no crew, no streaks, no jokes. Same dates, same reminders, same app underneath. Your pickup schedule does not change because you did not want a cartoon rat. You can switch between the two whenever you like, and your progress is still there if you switch back. WHAT IT COSTS Free with two cans, the trash and the recycling, which is what most households put out. That includes the reminders, the holiday warnings, the skips and moves, and the whole points, streaks and rewards side of it. Nothing is time limited and there is no trial to forget about. The Full Experience removes the limit, so you can add the yard waste, the compost, the glass and whatever else your city collects, and it opens the rest of the crew to be earned. Monthly, yearly, or a one-time payment if you would rather never think about it again. YOUR DATA STAYS HERE Everything lives on your phone. Nothing is uploaded, there is no account to make, and we never ask where you live. You can export the lot to a plain file to keep, or to send to whoever else in the house deals with the trash. A NOTE ON DATES Your pickup dates come from what you enter, not from your city. Bin Squad reminds you of the schedule you gave it. If something looks wrong, check with your city or hauler, and Cap will follow whatever you tell him. TERMS AND PRIVACY Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://gabbotech.com/privacy/binsquad/ The Full Experience is a monthly or yearly subscription, or a single payment for lifetime access. Subscriptions renew automatically unless turned off at least 24 hours before the period ends. Payment is charged to your Apple account on confirmation, and you can manage or cancel renewal in your Apple account settings at any time.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Bin Squad at every 2 days against AlertCops's every 4 months. AlertCops's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). On price, ads, 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.
AlertCops ships an update every 4 months, Bin Squad every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | AlertCops | Bin Squad |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.5 (11 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 21.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 11 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 59 MB | 80 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ministerio del Interior . Secretaria de Estado de Seguridad | Gavin McNamee |
Bugs and requests
AlertCops
Reported bugs
22 issues- App crashes on opening
- App does not open after update
- Validation code not sent to UK phone numbers
- Validation code not sent to US phone numbers
- Registration fails for phone numbers starting with 7
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- Cannot register with NIE, only DNI
- App crashes when trying to upload video
- App hangs after test alarm
- SOS button widget installation issues on iPhone
- Error adding associated phone number
- App crashes after validation code error message
- Cannot get past sign-up page
- App not working after last update
- No response to chat support
- Cannot locate protected individuals
- GPS tracking in background
- App not working for a long time
- Empty/unnecessary alerts
- No police response to alerts
- Cannot complete registration
- App not working due to internet connection issues
- App not working due to validation code issues
Requested features
10 requests- Option for silent/secret alert when unable to speak
- Accident alert feature
- Option to report suspicious persons preventatively
- Support for more phone number formats
- Improved guardian setup
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- Better SOS button widget functionality on iPhone
- Clarification on police force coverage (local and regional)
- Option to report animal cruelty
- Option to report suspicious activity
- More options for alert types
Bin Squad
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
AlertCops
No in-app purchases
Bin Squad
No in-app purchases









