Omnilert vs Student Ally
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Omnilert
Receive critical alerts and access safety resources for your organization. Report incidents, send tips, and respond to emergencies with real-time information. Designed for subscriber safety and organizational communication.
- Instant critical message notifications
- Panic button for immediate help
- Send tips and report safety issues
- Real-time incident response
- Access to organizational safety resources
- Customizable welcome messages
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The Omnilert subscriber app helps you stay aware of critical communications, access safety resources and respond with real-time information for your organization's safety teams when it matters most. Sign into the app with your personal access code, available from your safety administrator or from your Omnilert subscriber portal. Omnilert gives you: - instant notifications of important messages with single tap access to the app - a panic button to call for help - a way to send tips and report safety and other problems - single tap responses to help inform safety teams during an incident - quick access to your organizations safety resources For administrators: This app is available as a powerful additional endpoint with the following features: - invite subscribers to sign up using emails or by visiting their portal - increase adoption by automatically targeting unregistered users - improve adoption and retention by customizing the startup screen and messages with your brand - show a welcome message on the main screen - setup a panic button to call your response team or 911 - setup categories of tips and route them independently, to match different priorities and situations - send messages with up to 5 questions, and receive aggregated and individual responses - collect all safety and information in a resources page to make them easily accessible to your subscribers - make changes to the configuration with immediate effect without needing app updates! Contact Omnilert to add app support to your account.
Student Ally
Empowers students to enhance their personal safety and community well-being. This app provides training, resources, reporting, and evidence preservation. It aims to build a safer future through a dedicated social network for students.
- Personal safety tools
- Community well-being features
- Student training and resources
- Revolutionary reporting system
- Evidence preservation
- Social network for student safety
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The Student Ally Application empowers students to take a more active role in their personal safety and community wellbeing. The Student Ally System is built around engaging and empowering student communities, and our application is the primary conduit for that empowerment. Providing improved student training and resources, industry-leading safety systems, revolutionary reporting, and evidence-preservation capabilities, and creating the world’s first social network designed for student safety and community improvement – Student Ally is devoted to building a better tomorrow.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Omnilert at 4.0 against Student Ally's 1.1. Omnilert also leads on review sentiment (25% vs 0%). Student Ally's advantage is ratings volume (52 vs 12). 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Omnilert holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 1.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 12 and 52 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 25% of Omnilert's written reviews are positive against 0% of Student Ally's.
Omnilert ships an update every 2 months, Student Ally monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Omnilert | Student Ally |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (12 ratings) — better | 1.1 (52 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 25.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 12 | 52 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 46 MB | 36 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Omnilert, LLC | EDJN |
Customer experience
Omnilert
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In-app purchases
Omnilert
No in-app purchases
Student Ally
No in-app purchases
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