Offender Watch Parent vs CorrectPay
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/
CorrectPay
Instantly deposit funds for incarcerated loved ones for commissary, phone calls, and more. Schedule video visits, send gifts, and access valuable community, health, and re-entry resources.
- Instant fund deposits
- Schedule video visitations
- Send gifts to loved ones
- Access community resources
- Health and re-entry information
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CorrectPay allows users to make commissary, phone, bonding, and monitoring deposits instantly for incarcerated loved ones. Users can deposit funds in less than 30 seconds from anywhere in the world. Users can also schedule and join video visitations and send gifts to incarcerated loved ones from within the app. The app also provides community, health, and re-entry resources for families and incarcerated loved ones.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: CorrectPay at none against Offender Watch Parent's 2. CorrectPay also leads on chart position (#151 vs unranked) and ratings volume (168 vs 26). Offender Watch Parent's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (28% vs 9%). On price, rating, device support and iOS requirement 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. CorrectPay asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 2.0 for Offender Watch Parent against 2.0 for CorrectPay. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: CorrectPay has 168 ratings behind it against 26, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 28% of Offender Watch Parent's written reviews are positive against 9% of CorrectPay's.
Offender Watch Parent ships an update every 3 weeks, CorrectPay every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Offender Watch Parent | CorrectPay |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.0 (26 ratings) — better | 2.0 (168 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 28.3% of reviews — better | 9.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 26 | 168 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Subscription | Ad-supported — better |
| Best chart rank | — | #151 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 51 MB | 181 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Watch Systems, LLC | Tyler Technologies, Inc |
Customer experience
Offender Watch Parent
CorrectPay
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
CorrectPay
From 168 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Easy to use
- 👍 Good customer support
- 🚀 Lets me send money and do video chats
Room to improve
- 🐛 Crashes frequently
- 🐛 Buggy and unreliable
- 👎 Not user-friendly
- 🐛 Glitches and errors
- 👎 Difficult to navigate
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
CorrectPay
Reported bugs
5 issues- App closes unexpectedly
- Can't verify phone number
- Payments don't go through
- White screen issues
- Incompatible with certain states/facilities
Requested features
4 requests- Ability to read past messages
- Improve video call functionality
- Make the app more user-friendly
- Fix bugs and glitches
In-app purchases
Offender Watch Parent
- Family Protect Monthly$4.991 Month
- Offenderwatch SVN Subscription$9.991 Year
CorrectPay
No in-app purchases
Questions
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