Brite App vs Safety Plan
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Brite App
This app helps users manage distress by allowing them to rate their emotional state, connect with important contacts, and engage in helpful activities. It provides tools to remember what matters and try coping mechanisms during difficult times.
- Rate distress levels
- Contact important people
- Remember important information
- Try distress-relief activities
- Coping mechanism support
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Brite App allows users to rate their distress levels, contact important people, remember what is important to them and try activities that help in times of distress.
Safety Plan
This app guides users through creating a personalized safety plan to manage suicidal thoughts and self-harm urges. It offers tools for crisis moments, mood tracking, and access to support resources for individuals and their loved ones.
- Step-by-step safety plan creation
- Shareable safety plans
- Crisis intervention tools
- Mood tracking
- Access to crisis support
- Informational resources
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Safety Plan is here to help you make a plan for dealing with thoughts of suicide and self-harm. The app will walk you through filling out the 6 steps of a safety plan, share your safety plan with your loved ones, and use your safety plan in a moment of crisis. The app also includes audio and interactive tools to help you calm down, information for you and your loved ones about safety plans and suicide, mood tracking, and ready access to crisis support. Safety Plan is a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs app, developed by the National Center for PTSD Dissemination and Training Division and the Office of Mental Health and Suicide Prevention.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Safety Plan at 100% against Brite App's 0%. Safety Plan also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.5). Brite App's advantage is update cadence (every 6 months vs every 22 months). On price, ratings volume, 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.
Safety Plan holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 12 and 23 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Brite App's written reviews are positive against 100% of Safety Plan's.
Brite App ships an update every 6 months, Safety Plan every 22 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Brite App | Safety Plan |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (12 ratings) | 5.0 (23 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 12 | 23 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months — better | Every 22 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 14.1 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 90 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | University of Pittsburgh | US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) |
Customer experience
Brite App
Safety Plan
In-app purchases
Brite App
No in-app purchases
Safety Plan
No in-app purchases
