Comparison

MTA Shield vs LeaveWeb Mobile

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

Head to head
About

MTA Shield

Secure your mobile devices and personal information from online threats. Protect your family with parental controls, locate lost devices, and safeguard your online activities with a VPN and password vault. Requires an active MTA Internet subscription.

Highlights
  • Device protection from online threats
  • Online banking and shopping security
  • Lost/stolen device location and protection
  • Parental controls and content management
  • VPN for privacy
  • Password vault
  • Web-based family device management
Features
Read full description

Today, the Internet is full of criminals. Their goals range from stealing your private information, to damaging your devices, spreading harmful content and more. With MTA Shield, you can ensure the safety and security of all of you and your loved ones’ mobile devices. MTA Shield can be downloaded on up to 10 devices. Protect all of your and your family’s devices from criminals and hackers; both at home and on the go. Ensure your children are safe with the included Parental Controls and Content Management. Protect your children and decide what they see and where they go online. If your device is stolen or lost, Mobile Shield helps you locate and protect it, by locking your device or erasing its contents. With MTA Shield, you are able to: • Protect your mobile devices • Keep your personal information safe while banking and shopping online • Locate your device if it is lost or stolen • Protect your children while they surf the internet with Parental Controls • VPN for privacy • Password vault to secure all of your passwords • Manage and protect all your family’s devices using a simple, web-based dashboard *MTA Shield is exclusively available only to MTA Internet subscribers—an active MTA Internet service is a requirement for gaining access to use this app. *Disclaimer: Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.

About

LeaveWeb Mobile

This app allows active duty Air and Space Force members to submit and review military leave requests securely. It supports various leave types with upload capabilities and provides access to leave history and profile information.

Highlights
  • Submit personal leave requests
  • Review and approve leave requests
  • Upload leave documents
  • View leave history (2 years)
  • Access profile information
  • Copy existing leave requests
Features
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LeaveWeb Mobile will provide USAF with a user-friendly way to submit and review Active Duty Air and Space Force military leave requests utilizing Okta Authentication. Okta for USAF is a purpose-built Identity platform for the DoD and its mission partners. Okta’s achievement of an Impact Level 4 (IL4) conditional Provisional Authorization (PA) provides a next-generation security architecture that centralizes and secures access to mission-relevant resources for approved users – anywhere, anytime. The LeaveWeb Mobile App provides the following features: * The leave member can submit leave for themselves, but there is no ability to submit leave on behalf of another in mobile. * Leave submittal through return on leave types A, R&R, D, F, P, and T with upload ability. Approve Leave Inboxes and Authorize Leave Inboxes will be included. Note: All attachments included will have to be viewed and downloaded from the website, including the AF988s. * Simple profile information will be included along with ALL Open Leaves and 2 years of Leave History (2 years past from current date) with the ability to Copy Request. Note: Leave can only be submitted 2 years in the past and 2 years in advance from current date in mobile. If there is a need to submit leaves outside this window, they will need to be submitted in the website. * Inactivated leave types E and H can continue through approvals on mobile but are not submittable since they have been inactivated. * T type leave and Rule 51 can continue through the approvals on mobile but cannot be created in mobile due to one-time allowance in a member’s career and up to 14 days. This checking control is only maintained in the website. * R type leave can continue through the approvals on mobile but cannot be created in mobile since there is no ability to submit leave on behalf of another. * Types B, M and Y will be trackable but no ability to work them in mobile as these types are managed by AFFSC/Base FM. * Copy Request and Edit Request will not be available for these leave types (E, H, R, B, M, Y and T/Rule51) in mobile. * Any actions taken in mobile will have (-mobile) appended on the action and able to track within the website. * There is no reporting, Leave Audits or administrative pieces in mobile.

Screenshots

MTA Shield4 screens
LeaveWeb Mobile3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: MTA Shield at 4.6 against LeaveWeb Mobile's 2.5. LeaveWeb Mobile's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 8 months) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, ratings volume, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

MTA Shield holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 2.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 14 and 12 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MTA Shield ships an update every 8 months, LeaveWeb Mobile every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
MTA Shield versus LeaveWeb Mobile: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMTA ShieldLeaveWeb Mobile
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (14 ratings) — better2.5 (12 ratings)
Positive reviews—30.6% of reviews
Number of ratings14 — better12
Update frequencyEvery 8 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supportedFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size277 MB38 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMatanuska TelephoneAFFSO

Customer experience

MTA Shield

All ratings14 ratings
Positive85.7%
Neutral14.3%
Negative0.0%

LeaveWeb Mobile

Written reviews62 reviews
Positive30.6%
Neutral3.2%
Negative66.1%

Bugs and requests

MTA Shield

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

LeaveWeb Mobile

Reported bugs

21 issues
  • Cannot sign in with username and password, forces CAC use
  • Calendar is incorrect
  • App requires an update, but no update is available
  • Login screen freezes
  • Push notification not received
Show 16 more
  • Login button/link unresponsive
  • App stopped working, requires latest version (unavailable)
  • Okta verification failure
  • Stuck in endless loop of verifying via Okta and email
  • Constant cycle of 'Configure Okta Mobile'
  • Verification process sends back to login with CAC
  • Keeps kicking back to login page after verifying with work email
  • Screen freezes after login
  • Stuck on retrieval screen
  • Login page stops responding
  • Unable to get past Home Screen, login button does nothing
  • Verification process is horrendous
  • Cannot verify or set up app, error after error
  • Cannot verify with Okta, uninstalling and retrying
  • Verification codes not working
  • Cannot reset password

Requested features

7 requests
  • Allow login with username/password
  • Integrate with MobileConnect for authentication
  • Add video instruction guide
  • Improve user interface
  • Add ability to approve/authorize leave via app
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  • Make setup easier for non-technical users
  • Allow verification via SSN or username/password

In-app purchases

None

MTA Shield

No in-app purchases

None

LeaveWeb Mobile

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is MTA Shield free?
MTA Shield is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is LeaveWeb Mobile free?
LeaveWeb Mobile is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, MTA Shield or LeaveWeb Mobile?
MTA Shield is rated higher. MTA Shield averages 4.6 out of 5 from 14 ratings, while LeaveWeb Mobile averages 2.5 from 12 ratings.
Do MTA Shield or LeaveWeb Mobile have ads?
Neither MTA Shield nor LeaveWeb Mobile shows ads.
Which is updated more often, MTA Shield or LeaveWeb Mobile?
MTA Shield ships an update every 8 months, and LeaveWeb Mobile every 2 months. Most recently, MTA Shield was updated on September 28, 2026 and LeaveWeb Mobile on October 16, 2026.

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