Owl vs Flash
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Owl
This app connects users in real-time to help locate missing individuals, including children, teenagers, and those with memory loss. Users can create profiles for dependents, upload photos, and initiate alerts with current location details when someone is lost. Other users receive these alerts and can coordinate search efforts on a shared map.
- Real-time alerts for missing persons
- Dependent profile creation
- Photo uploads for dependents
- Location sharing for search coordination
- User map for identifying searchers
- Contact information sharing
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Owl is a World Wide, Real Time iPhone app to help its user's relocate missing, lost, runaway, abducted children, teenagers, mentally challenged and elderly who suffer memory loss or any such other ailments. User's create accounts and upload details of their dependents, upload current photos of those dependents and in the unwanted event a loved one is lost, open those saved details, update specific details; current location, date and time and initiate your alert to the user group. Other Owl users receive your alerts and are identified in a user map with contact information and people can begin to coordinate search efforts and recover those lost.
Flash
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Make international calls at low cost using the Flash Call app with Flash MVNO SIM card services.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Flash at fortnightly against Owl's every 2 months. Owl's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.1). 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.
Owl ships an update every 2 months, Flash fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Owl | Flash |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (23 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 23 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 45 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nicholas Conway | OOAK INC |
In-app purchases
Owl
No in-app purchases
Flash
No in-app purchases
