Comparison

TOCPolice vs Span

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

TOCPolice

Submit anonymous tips to the Town of Cicero, IL Police Department. Receive crime alerts and access official agency web and social media content.

Highlights
  • Anonymous tip submission
  • Submit tips to Cicero PD
  • View agency crime alerts
  • Access organization web content
  • Access social media content
Features
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The TOCPolice app provides citizens the ability to submit anonymous tips to the Town of Cicero, IL Police Department. The app also displays agency crime alerts, and other organization web and social media content.

About

Span

Track upcoming events with live countdowns or elapsed time since past moments. Log daily habits, discover patterns, and explore historical events with rich media. Organize and share your time-related data seamlessly.

Highlights
  • Live second-by-second countdowns
  • Elapsed time tracking
  • Habit and routine logging
  • Historical 'On This Day' events
  • Customizable widgets
  • Shareable event cards
  • iCloud backup and sync
Features
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Your relationship with time, all in one place. Count down to birthdays, trips, and deadlines, or see how long it’s been since a milestone. Log recurring events with Trackers and explore history with On This Day. No accounts. No ads. No tracking. SPANS - Live Countdowns — See years, months, days, hours, minutes, and seconds until or since a date. Date-only spans count calendar days. - Apple Calendar — Choose events to import, review their details, and keep selected events updated or make one-time copies. Span never adds new Calendar events automatically or writes changes back to Calendar. - Smart Emoji Suggestions — Get up to three matching emoji as you type, using on-device Apple Intelligence when available. - Yearly Recurrence — Repeat birthdays and anniversaries, with smart holiday dates that adjust each year. - Holiday Templates — Start with 22 US holidays and cultural events, including Thanksgiving, Easter, Christmas, Hanukkah, and Chinese New Year. - Weather — Add a US ZIP code for historical weather or a forecast within the next 16 days. - Tags — Give spans and trackers custom tags with optional colors. Read tag names on cards and filter by one or several tags. - Organize — Filter by upcoming, elapsed, or archived; sort by date, name, or custom order. Choose Reorganize to drag rows into place. - Share — Send a styled countdown image or a link that opens in Span. TRACKERS - Log Anything — Tap once to record an event and see the time since your last entry. - Patterns — Frequency statistics show how often you typically do something. - Full History — Add dated entries, edit timestamps, or delete mistakes. - 14 Templates — Workout, Run, Coffee, Meditation, Shower, and more. ON THIS DAY Browse notable historical events for any date, powered by Wikipedia. Open an event to read its description and a related Wikipedia article. Images appear when available. Optional daily notifications bring you a historical event to explore. WIDGETS - Span Widget — Small, medium, or large, plus extra-large portrait on iOS 27. Auto mode follows your Spans tab’s filters, tags, and sort order, or you can choose spans manually. Tap a row to open that span. - Tracker Widget — Choose one tracker for a small Home Screen widget. See time since your last event and its date and time, tap Log now to record an entry, or tap elsewhere to open that tracker’s details. - On This Day Widget — Daily history on your Home Screen, with an extra-large portrait option on iOS 27. Tap to open the matching event. SIRI & SHORTCUTS Create spans, get countdowns, and log tracker entries with Siri and Shortcuts on iOS 26 and later. NOTIFICATIONS Get notified at a span’s event time or choose an advance reminder in minutes, hours, or days. Enable daily history alerts separately. BACKUP Manually back up and restore your spans and trackers with iCloud Drive. Your backup stays in your own iCloud account. FREE & PRO Track up to 2 spans and 1 tracker for free. Unlock unlimited spans and trackers with a one-time Span Pro purchase. PRIVACY No account, advertising, or analytics. Your spans and trackers stay on your device, with optional backup to your own iCloud Drive.

Screenshots

TOCPolice3 screens
Span4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: TOCPolice at none against Span's 1. TOCPolice also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 26.0). Span's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 13 months) and ratings volume (8 vs 1). On price, rating, ads and monetization model 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Span sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. TOCPolice asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for TOCPolice against 5.0 for Span. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Span has 8 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

TOCPolice ships an update every 13 months, Span every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
TOCPolice versus Span: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTOCPoliceSpan
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (8 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings18 — better
Update frequencyEvery 13 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS13.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size38 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperConsolidated Emergency Response Center of Cook County Joint 9-1-1 AuthorityShamir Wehbe

Customer experience

TOCPolice

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Span

All ratings8 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

TOCPolice

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Span

One-time1
  • Span Pro$1.99

Questions

Is TOCPolice free?
TOCPolice is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Span free?
Span is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, TOCPolice or Span?
TOCPolice and Span are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 8 ratings respectively.
Do TOCPolice or Span have ads?
Neither TOCPolice nor Span shows ads.
Which is updated more often, TOCPolice or Span?
TOCPolice ships an update every 13 months, and Span every 2 weeks. Most recently, TOCPolice was updated on October 3, 2026 and Span on October 15, 2026.

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