DBUShield vs ITNS Connect
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
DBUShield
This app enhances campus safety by allowing users to submit anonymous tips, activate emergency alerts, and access campus safety resources. It provides real-time updates on campus safety maps and allows for setting safety timers.
- Anonymous tip submission
- Emergency alert activation
- Campus Safety Map updates
- Safety timer settings
- Access to campus resources
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Help protect Dallas Baptist University and stay safe by submitting Anonymous Tips, activating the Emergency Slider, viewing updates to the campus Safety Map, Setting Safety Timers and reviewing Campus materials via the Resources folder.
ITNS Connect
This app provides Unified Communications by extending VoIP functionality to mobile devices. Users can maintain their identity across devices, seamlessly transfer calls, and manage contacts, voicemail, and call history in one place.
- Unified Communications solution
- Maintain identity across devices
- Seamless call transfer
- Contact management
- Voicemail management
- Call history
- Answering rule configuration
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ITNS Connect is a SIP soft client that extends VoIP functionality beyond the land line or desktop. It brings features of the ITNS Connect platform directly to end-user's mobile devices as a Unified Communications solution. With ITNS Connect, users are able to maintain the same identity when making or receiving calls from any location, regardless of their device. They are also able seamlessly send an ongoing call from one device to another and continue that call without interruption. ITNS Connect grants users the ability to manage contacts, voicemail, call history and configurations in a single location. This includes the management of answering rules. greetings, and presence which all contribute to more efficient communication. ***NOTICE: You must have an existing account with a supported service provider in order for ITNS Connect to work***
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: ITNS Connect at 5.0 against DBUShield's 3.9. DBUShield's advantage is ratings volume (16 vs 2) and device support (4 vs 2). 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.
ITNS Connect holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: DBUShield has 16 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
DBUShield ships an update every 8 months, ITNS Connect every 14 months. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | DBUShield | ITNS Connect |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (16 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | 16 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 months — better | Every 14 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.2 — better | 15 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 43 MB | 68 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dallas Baptist University | ITNS, LLC |
In-app purchases
DBUShield
No in-app purchases
ITNS Connect
No in-app purchases
