Think Before You Link vs StreetSafe
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Think Before You Link
This interactive guide educates users on online safety through a series of lessons. It promotes the Think Before You Link campaign to help everyone stay safer when using the internet.
- Interactive guide
- Online safety lessons
- Think Before You Link campaign
- Educational content
- User safety focus
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NPSA is the National Protective Security Authority and is the UK's technical authority on physical and personnel security. NPSA is accountable to the Director General of MI5, the Security Service This app is an interactive guide to the Think Before You Link campaign, with a series of lessons designed to help everyone be safer when they are online.
StreetSafe
This service allows users to anonymously report public areas where they felt unsafe and the reasons why. The data is shared with local police and authorities to improve community safety understanding and activities.
- Anonymous reporting of unsafe public areas
- Indicate reasons for feeling unsafe
- Data shared with local policing teams
- Informs community safety activities
- Not a crime reporting tool
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StreetSafe is a service which allows to you to quickly and anonymously flag public areas where you have felt unsafe and indicate why. The information you provide is made available to the relevant local policing teams to share with local authorities and other stakeholders as part of their community partnerships, to have a better understanding of geographical profiles and inform their community safety activities. StreetSafe is not a crime reporting tool. If something has happened to you or someone you know (including in public spaces or online) you can call the police on 101 or visit your local force website. Is someone in immediate danger? Do you need support right away? If so, please call 999 now.”
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Think Before You Link at 100% against StreetSafe's 25%. StreetSafe's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 18.0). On price, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
| Parameter | Think Before You Link | StreetSafe |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 25.0% of reviews |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | — |
| Ads | No | — |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone — better | — |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 117 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | CPNI | Police Digital Service |
Customer experience
Think Before You Link
StreetSafe
In-app purchases
Think Before You Link
No in-app purchases
StreetSafe
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Think Before You Link free?
Is StreetSafe free?
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