Offender Watch Parent vs Locals.com
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Offender Watch Parent
This app helps parents protect their children from online and home-based dangers. It provides tools to track children's locations, search for registered sex offenders nearby, and receive alerts about potential threats. The app also offers advice on child safety.
- Family location sharing
- Search registered sex offenders
- Offender alerts
- Monitor child's device contacts
- Child safety advice and articles
- Contact local law enforcement
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Keep Your Child Safer Online and at Home Sexual predators targeting children online is a scary reality. The OffenderWatch family safety app helps parents protect their children from the unthinkable. Family location sharing allows parents to track their children on a map and see if registered sex offenders live nearby. Parents can also search for registered sex offenders by name or address, see the photo and details about an offender, submit-a-tip about the offender, contact local law enforcement, and get an alert should a registered sex offender move in nearby. (Offender data is for US states only and limited to those offenders published by the state) The OffenderWatch app includes friendly advice and articles about protecting your child at home and online. Unlike other apps, OffenderWatch has partnered with law enforcement to bring the most complete and correct data on registered sex offenders available. Parents subscribe to receive alerts should their child get contacted by a registered sex offender by text, phone call, or email.sets up a contact for an offender. Parents also receive location alerts should their child linger near a registered sex offender’s home. A Protect Plus subscription is just $4.99 per month and covers the entire family. How the OffenderWatch monitoring Works 1 Monitor Your Child’s Device The OffenderWatch app monitors who calls, emails, or messages your child, and tracks the location on of child’s iPhone—working silently in the background and not interfering with the phone’s use. 2 Check Against Sex Offender Data We use the most accurate data available. It is provided directly by the law enforcement agencies who manage registered sex offenders. The app checks to see if a registered sex offender is attempting to contact your child or if your child is lingering near an offender’s address. https://offenderwatch.com/terms-of-use/
Locals.com
Connect directly with creators and communities you admire. This platform prioritizes user control and creator ownership, offering features like live streaming, community feeds, and content libraries. Support creators independently without algorithmic interference.
- Direct creator support
- Algorithm-free content feeds
- Creator data ownership
- Live streaming with chat
- Community feeds and posts
- Content libraries (video/audio)
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Directly support the creators you love. Control your content and avoid the algorithms. Built from the ground up to champion the needs of creators, Locals does not sell your data and creators have unprecedented ownership over theirs. With features like live-streaming with chat, community feeds and posts, and content libraries for video and audio, the Locals app is an all-in-one solution to interact with the content you love, while directly supporting the independence of the communities and creators you care about. Power to the people. Not the platform. On Locals. https://locals.com/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Locals.com at 4.7 against Offender Watch Parent's 2.0. Locals.com also leads on monetization model (free with in-app purchases vs subscription) and ratings volume (42K vs 26). 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. Offender Watch Parent sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Locals.com sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Locals.com holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Locals.com has 42K ratings behind it against 26, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 28% of Offender Watch Parent's written reviews are positive against 53% of Locals.com's.
Offender Watch Parent ships an update every 3 weeks, Locals.com every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Offender Watch Parent | Locals.com |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.0 (26 ratings) | 4.7 (42K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 28.3% of reviews | 52.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 26 | 42K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 4 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Subscription | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Best chart rank | — | #127 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — better |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 51 MB | 53 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Watch Systems, LLC | Locals Technology Inc |
Customer experience
Offender Watch Parent
Locals.com
User reviews
Offender Watch Parent
From 26 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Great app for child safety
- 👍 Can scan contacts for offenders
- 👍 Helps find offenders in areas with no maps
- 👍 Easy to set up and interact with
- 👍 Monitors communication and location
Room to improve
- 🐛 Does not work
- 🐛 Hacks software
- 🐛 Buggy and outdated
- 🐛 Barely functions
- 🐛 Does nothing
Locals.com
From 42K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Real news and uncensored content
- 🙌 Freedom of speech and expression
- 🔒 Secure and censorship-free platform
- 💡 Innovative community-driven model
- 🚀 Steadily improving with updates
Room to improve
- 🐛 Buggy app with technical issues
- 🤔 Difficult to navigate and find content
- 💰 Expensive subscription fees
- 🔍 Limited search and discovery features
- 🔇 Inconsistent audio/video playback
Bugs and requests
Offender Watch Parent
Reported bugs
32 issues- App does not work
- App hacks software
- App is buggy
- App barely functions
- App does nothing
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- No pictures or addresses shown
- App is a scam
- Pay prompt pops up randomly
- App does not work in specific locations
- Hard to navigate
- No search results
- App asks for money for subscription
- Paid version not working
- App shows black screen
- App is useless
- Locations in error or lack information
- Addresses not on any offender registries
- App does not start up or open
- App has no changes after upgrade
- Subscription button does nothing
- App tells you to look it up yourself
- Free version doesn't do anything
- No way to contact support
- App shows name and address only
- App keeps pinging phone as pedophile
- App doesn't search
- App gives error codes
- App shows "Unable to continue" or "try again later"
- Profile information not available
- App has stopped working
- Cannot set up username/password from app
- Email and phone number invalid when contacting support
Requested features
6 requests- Show offender images
- Show list of convictions
- Provide direct link to offender profile
- Dark mode toggle
- Better instructions for setup
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- Ability to submit information about offenders
Locals.com
Reported bugs
5 issues- Frequent crashes and freezes
- Disappearing notifications
- Orientation issues on iPad
- Inconsistent audio/video sync
- Unreliable live stream playback
Requested features
5 requests- Download option for offline viewing
- Better nested comments and community management
- Improved integration with Rumble platform
- Customizable notification settings
- Picture-in-picture mode for video playback
In-app purchases
Offender Watch Parent
- Family Protect Monthly$4.991 Month
- Offenderwatch SVN Subscription$9.991 Year
Locals.com
- Monthly: 50 coins + 20 bonus$7.991 Month
- 20 Coins$1.99
- 50 Coins$4.99
- 100 Coins$9.99
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- 150 Coins$14.99
- 200$19.99
- 210 Coins$20.99
- 300 Coins$29.99
- 360 Coins$35.99
- 500 Coins$49.99
Questions
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