Alertable vs ShakeAlarm
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Alertable
Stay informed about emergencies and daily incidents across Canada. Receive fast, reliable notifications for public safety, severe weather, and local community events. Personalize alerts by type, severity, and location to know before you go.
- Canada-wide public safety alerts
- Severe weather alerts
- Customizable notifications
- Location-based alerts
- Sharable alerts
- Local community notifications
- Workplace alerts
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Alertable emergency alerts and mass notifications keep you informed of emergencies and daily incidents in your community, workplace and school. Use Alertable for locations in Canada to stay aware and plan ahead. Check in advance for community events, closures, restrictions, hazards, danger and more. Know before you go. Keep yourself and others informed and up to date with Alertable. Notifications are fast, reliable and easy to see and hear. Personalize notifications by type and severity. Choose notifications for many locations including home, work, school, cottage, family and friends locations and more. Change your locations and other personalized options in Settings, after the fact. Key features: • Canada wide public safety alerts (from Canada’s Alert Ready emergency alert system) • severe weather alerts (from Environment and Climate Change Canada) • fast and reliable, highly optimized alert notifications • easy to setup and use • customizable, choose the types of critical, advisory and information alerts you wish to receive • targeted, alerts for only locations you are interested in • follow me, alerts for where you are at • maps, helpful for seeing the geographical area the alert is for • sharable, alerts can be shared on social media, email and text message • informative, emergency descriptions, impact areas and actions to take to remain safe • local, community notifications for closures, outages, restrictions, disruptions, re-openings, Interruptions and more • workplace, get alerts from your organization • accessible, full use by people with different abilities • multilingual, translate alerts into your device’s language setting
ShakeAlarm
Receive timely alerts for detected earthquake events. This application provides an early warning system to help you prepare for seismic activity.
- Earthquake event detection
- Early warning system
- Seismic activity alerts
- Engineering team alerts
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With this app you can receive an early warning in case an Earthquake event is detected by our Engineering team.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Alertable at 4.7 against ShakeAlarm's 3.5. Alertable also leads on ratings volume (179 vs 2). ShakeAlarm's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 61%). On price, update cadence, 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.
Alertable holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Alertable has 179 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 61% of Alertable's written reviews are positive against 100% of ShakeAlarm's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Alertable | ShakeAlarm |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (179 ratings) — better | 3.5 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 61.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 179 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 12.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 49 MB | 71 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Public Emergency Alerting Services Inc | Weir-Jones Engineering Consultants Ltd. |
Customer experience
Alertable
ShakeAlarm
Bugs and requests
Alertable
Reported bugs
23 issues- App not working after update
- No alerts sent out
- Misleading and late alerts
- Old alerts cannot be deleted
- Confusion with evacuation alert wording
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- Poor Shuswap updates
- Unreliable emergency alerts
- Evacuation alerts too late
- Garbage app
- History not deletable
- High battery drain
- Alerts not informative enough
- Too many alerts in a row
- Early morning notifications
- Huge drain on battery
- Very slow to load
- Not getting audio alerts
- Cannot select region by panning
- Alerts don't display properly
- Useless in BC and most of Canada
- No cities in California
- Does not include my city
- Weak privacy policy
Requested features
14 requests- Disable prompts asking to keep receiving alerts
- Add dark mode
- Allow selection of entire city by panning map
- Remove pointless alert types
- Ability to silence specific alert types
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- Option to ignore specific alert types
- Improve location accuracy for alerts
- Add wildfire alerts
- Differentiate evacuation alert levels visually
- Allow deletion of old alerts
- Provide more informative alerts
- Include cities in California
- Include more cities
- Strengthen privacy policy for location tracking
ShakeAlarm
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Alertable
No in-app purchases
ShakeAlarm
No in-app purchases
Questions
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