Fear Buster vs Emergency Big Red Button
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Fear Buster
This app offers guided tools for stress and fear relief, promoting inner peace and calm. It provides quick first-aid techniques for immediate relief and deeper strategies for lasting change, allowing users to explore methods like mindful breathing and Havening Techniques at their own pace.
- Guided tools for stress relief
- Mindful breathing exercises
- Havening Techniques
- Quick first-aid tools
- Deeper change strategies
- Tools for specific fears (exams, future, parenting)
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Create calm. Feel relief. Enjoy inner peace. FearBuster is your personal guide to breaking free from stress and fear. Full of fast, friendly tools to use on the go. Whether you need quick first aid relief for stress and anxieties, or you want to release and change your stress and fear on a deeper level. FearBuster lets you go at your own pace and choose the tools that resonate with you. Each tool is unique - from mindful breathing, to soulful grounding to the powerful and effective Havening Techniques. Enjoy the freedom to explore and discover the tools that help you find your calm and move forwards with hope and confidence. In the First Aid Kit you will find 2 minute tools to create calm. While they are quick and easy – they are incredibly empowering tools that you can learn and use anywhere, anytime to bring instant relief and help you re-focus on what’s important. The Changing Room is where the deeper relief from your stress, anxieties and fears happens. Here you will find unique, targeted strategies that give you the opportunity to dive deeper into your issues and truly begin to change. Specific topics include how to: ● Change fear for the health and wellbeing of myself and those I love into hope and calm ● Adapt to change with ease – learn to adapt to change with resilience and hope. ● Release fear of failing my exams – learn how to improve your results by improving your performance abilities. ● Embrace fear of the unknown and what is going to happen in the future with confidence. ● Create sweet dreams for a great sleep - releasing anxious thoughts and fears while drifting down the gentle River of Dreams. ● Release the fear that I am failing my children - how to release the secret fear of failing as a parent and forgive myself for my mistakes. ● Stop being affected by other people’s issues – how to keep your center when those around you are freaking out. No subscriptions -- just great tools to change your life now.
Emergency Big Red Button
This app provides a quick and easy way to contact emergency contacts with a single tap. It sends an SMS with your GPS location and initiates a group call to up to five pre-configured numbers.
- One-tap emergency contact
- SMS with GPS location
- Group call initiation
- Up to five emergency contacts
- Customizable SMS message
- Easy contact configuration
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The Emergency Big Red Button app gives you an emergency button on your phone that will allow you to reach your emergency contacts with the press of a button. It will send an SMS text message with a GPS location. The Big Red Button also opens up a group call with up to five emergency contacts. Configure your emergency numbers in Settings. You never know when an emergency will arise. When something does happen, you don’t want to be stuck not able to contact someone in your contact list. That is why the Big Red Button was designed to contact up to four people at the same time. The quickest way to reach someone is usually through SMS text messages. The BRB will send your custom message to your emergency contacts with GPS location. It’s quick. It’s easy! The BRB also opens up a group call with your emergency contacts. So, you can reach one or all of your contacts instantaneously. Easily add up to four numbers in the emergency contact group. Create a custom message to personalize the contact. Privacy Policy - https://www.termsfeed.com/live/aa0ff8f0-3838-47ec-ab42-7a132e73e9d2 Terms & Cnditions - https://www.termsfeed.com/live/54037ca8-c8a0-4e0e-a743-43264c57a832
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Fear Buster at 100% against Emergency Big Red Button's 0%. Fear Buster also leads on rating (5.0 vs 1.8). Emergency Big Red Button's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 10) and ratings volume (8 vs 1). On price, update cadence, ads and device support 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. Fear Buster sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Emergency Big Red Button asks for nothing beyond the download.
Fear Buster holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Emergency Big Red Button has 8 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Fear Buster's written reviews are positive against 0% of Emergency Big Red Button's.
Fear Buster ships an update every 2 weeks, Emergency Big Red Button every 9 days. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | Fear Buster | Emergency Big Red Button |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 1.8 (8 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 8 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | julie mccracken | JebteK, LLC |
Customer experience
Fear Buster
Emergency Big Red Button
In-app purchases
Fear Buster
- embrace the unknown$0.99
- Fear of failing my children$0.99
- Stop others from affecting me$0.99
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- sweet dreams for a great sleep$0.99
- adapt to change with ease$0.99
- exhale (2 audio)$0.99
- release fear of failing exams$0.99
- Befriending your inner critic$0.99
- First Aid Kit Complete Set$1.99
- FearBuster FULL$2.99
Emergency Big Red Button
No in-app purchases
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