Safe Cats vs EZCheck.me
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Safe Cats
This app provides enhanced safety for Montana State University students, faculty, and staff. It offers direct access to campus safety resources, emergency alerts, and tools to share your location with trusted contacts.
- Emergency contact access
- Real-time location sharing with friends
- Direct safety concern reporting
- Campus emergency plans
- Safety notification alerts
- Offline campus maps
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Safe Cats is the official safety app of Montana State University. It is the only app that integrates with MSU's safety and security systems. The MSU Police has worked to develop a unique app that provides students, faculty and staff with added safety on the Montana State University campus. The app will send you important safety alerts and provide instant access to campus safety resources. Safe Cats features include: - Emergency Contacts: Contact the correct services for the MSU area in case of an emergency or a non-emergency concern - Friend Walk: Send your location to a friend through email or SMS on your device. Once the friend accepts the Friend Walk request, the user picks their destination and their friend tracks their location in real time; they can keep an eye on them to make sure they make it safely to their destination. - Tip Reporting: Multiple ways to report a safety/security concern directly to MSU security. - Safety Toolbox: Enhance your safety with the set of tools provided in one convenient app. - Notification History: Find previous Push Notifications for this app with the date and time. - Share Map with your Location: Send your location to a friend by sending them a map of your position. - I’m OK!: Send your location and a message indicating that “You’re OK” to a recipient of your choosing. - Campus Maps: Navigate around the MSU area. - Emergency Plans: Campus emergency documentation that can prepare you for disasters or emergencies. This can be accessed even when users aren’t connected to Wi-Fi or cellular data. - Support Resources: Access support resources in one convenient app to enjoy a successful experience at MSU. - Safety Notifications: Receive instant notifications and instructions from MSU safety when on-campus emergencies occur. Download today to ensure you’re prepared in the event of an emergency.
EZCheck.me
This app simplifies attendance tracking for educational institutions. It allows students to easily check in to courses and monitor their overall attendance rate. Stay on top of your academic progress with this streamlined tool.
- Easy course check-in
- Attendance rate tracking
- University and college support
- Professional training course compatible
- Progress monitoring
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EZCheck enables super-easy check-in for universities, colleges and professional training compatible courses, and enables you to track your attendance rate in each course.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Safe Cats at 4.0 against EZCheck.me's 1.7. Safe Cats also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.1). EZCheck.me's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 71 months). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads 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.
Safe Cats holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 1.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 12 and 29 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 33% of Safe Cats's written reviews are positive against 40% of EZCheck.me's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Safe Cats ships an update every 71 months, EZCheck.me every 2 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Safe Cats | EZCheck.me |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (12 ratings) — better | 1.7 (29 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | 40.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 12 | 29 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 71 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 47 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Montana State University | EZCheck.me 2019 LTD |
Customer experience
Safe Cats
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In-app purchases
Safe Cats
No in-app purchases
EZCheck.me
No in-app purchases









