MIT Atlas vs uSafeHS
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MIT Atlas
This app serves the MIT community by acting as a digital key to the Institute. It enables your MIT ID, grants access to campus spaces, and connects you with essential systems and support for your work.
- Digital MIT ID
- Campus space access
- System and support interaction
- Navigate MIT world
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For the MIT community. Navigate your MIT world. The MIT Atlas app is your digital key to the Institute. Enable your MIT ID. Access campus spaces. Interact with the systems and support you need to accomplish your work.
uSafeHS
This app provides high school students with gamified lessons on building healthy relationships and responding to bullying. It offers access to resources and a simulated tool for leaving risky situations, plus confidential reporting to school staff.
- Gamified eLearning modules
- Healthy relationship education
- Bullying and harassment response
- Access to school/community resources
- Simulated text/call tool
- Confidential reporting
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The uSafeHS Healthy Relationships app helps high school students learn how to build healthy relationships and how to safely respond to unhealthy behaviors like bullying and harassment, using gamified eLearning modules based on the CASEL social-emotional learning framework. uSafeHS also offers easy access to school, community, and online resources. A simulated text / call tool helps students leave uncomfortable or risky situations. Students can also use the app to confidentially report concerns to school staff.
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Verdict
MIT Atlas and uSafeHS both sit at 3.1 stars, but that hides the real split: 67% of uSafeHS's written reviews are positive against 29% of MIT Atlas's. uSafeHS also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.6). MIT Atlas's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (203 vs 24). On price, rating, 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.1 for MIT Atlas against 3.3 for uSafeHS. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: MIT Atlas has 203 ratings behind it against 24, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 29% of MIT Atlas's written reviews are positive against 67% of uSafeHS's.
MIT Atlas ships an update every 2 weeks, uSafeHS every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MIT Atlas | uSafeHS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.1 (203 ratings) | 3.3 (24 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 28.6% of reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 203 — better | 24 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 303 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | uSafeUS LLC |
Customer experience
MIT Atlas
uSafeHS
Bugs and requests
MIT Atlas
Reported bugs
12 issues- App requires frequent updating to work
- Features appear and disappear randomly
- App fails repeatedly when trying to get alumni ID
- App doesn't work on PC
- Multi-factor authentication screens don't handle autocomplete correctly
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- Password setup screen doesn't recognize dashes or periods
- Commencement requires app update loop
- App doesn't show COVID test results clearly (positive/negative same notification)
- Update server frequently cannot be reached
- Flashes during screen transitions
- Travel section doesn't seem to send info
- App only available on newer iPhones
Requested features
12 requests- Provide better info to users
- Look into app issues
- Allow attestation even if not updated
- Less frequent cumulative updates
- Accompanying Apple Watch app
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- Bring back original lean version
- Put widgets back
- Allow users to use the app and update when convenient
- Have a 30 min warning and/or notification that covid pass has expired
- Adopt a regular, predictable schedule for updates
- Give users control over notifications
- Remind users to get tested with more notice
uSafeHS
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
MIT Atlas
No in-app purchases
uSafeHS
No in-app purchases
