CGIS TIPS vs proteän
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CGIS TIPS
This app offers a secure and anonymous channel for citizens to report crimes to the Coast Guard Investigative Service. It supports the mission of investigating felony crimes and protecting U.S. Coast Guard personnel and assets worldwide through objective investigations.
- Anonymous crime reporting
- Supports CGIS investigations
- Protects Coast Guard personnel
- Worldwide asset protection
- Objective investigations
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CGIS Tips provides citizens with a safe and anonymous way to report a crime. The Coast Guard Investigative Service (CGIS) is the criminal investigative arm of the U.S. Coast Guard responsible for investigating felony crime. The mission of CGIS is to support and protect U.S. Coast Guard personnel, operations, integrity, and assets worldwide. CGIS defeats criminal threats through objective and independent investigations.
proteän
This app digitizes regulatory compliance inspections. It guides inspectors through custom checklists, allowing them to record facility and equipment details, ask relevant questions, and document compliance status. Findings and citations are clearly communicated in a digital report.
- Customizable inspection checklists
- Facility and equipment attribute viewing
- Predefined inspection workflows
- Preliminary and follow-up questions
- Compliance deficiency citation
- Digital report generation
- In-app data capture (camera, GPS, comments)
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The protean iOS application provides a digital means to complete customized regulatory compliance inspection checklists. Inspectors are able to view attributes of a regulated facility and associated equipment in-app. The app leads inspectors through predefined custom inspection workflows that incorporate preliminary and follow-up questions drawn from regulatory requirements. The app allows the inspector to cite compliance deficiencies as appropriate and create a digital report notating whether a facility is in compliance or not. The application utilizes the iOS device’s camera, GPS, touch screen, and ability to enter comments to capture accurate compliance data and clearly identify and communicate the inspector’s findings and citations in the report.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: proteän at every 2 months against CGIS TIPS's every 77 months. On price, rating, 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for CGIS TIPS against 5.0 for proteän. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 8 respectively.
CGIS TIPS ships an update every 77 months, proteän every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CGIS TIPS | proteän |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (8 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 8 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 77 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 45 MB | 27 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | United States Coast Guard Investigative Service | Protean Ventures, LLC |
Customer experience
CGIS TIPS
proteän
In-app purchases
CGIS TIPS
No in-app purchases
proteän
No in-app purchases
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