AlertAware vs Broome County Sheriff
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
AlertAware
This app provides emergency communication and safety solutions for organizations to protect their members. It allows administrators to manage incidents and recipients to receive alerts, respond, and access safety features.
- Emergency communication
- Incident management
- Role-based features (admin/recipient)
- Receive and respond to messages
- Safety reporting
- Assistance options
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AlertAware is the latest innovation offering personal emergency communication and safety solutions to protect your employees, students, visitors, and community. When an emergency hits, every second counts. AlertAware provides the most robust solution on the market to manage any incident. The AlertAware app is for all users, so no need to download multiple apps. The app will provide features based on your role as administrator or recipient. Super simple to use and fully functional. Administrators and system users are offered a full set of features. Anything you can do in the web version, you can do in this native application. For message recipients, download the app to receive and respond to messages as well as utilize important safety reporting and assistance options when needed. What is the purpose of your app? The purpose of the AlertAware app is to provide mobile access to manage and utilize the AlertAware application for emergency communication and management. In addition, recipients may use the app to interact with their organization during important events that may impact them.
Broome County Sheriff
Enhance community safety and communication with real-time public safety updates. Residents can report non-emergency crimes, submit tips, and manage jail inmate information, including sending commissary or photos.
- Public safety updates
- Crime reporting
- Submit tips
- Jail inmate communication
- Send commissary/photos
- Pay bail
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Broome County Sheriff App is an interactive mobile application designed to help improve communication with area residents and provide the community with the latest public safety updates and information on their smart phones. Residents can report crimes, submit tips and utilize other interactive features. Families of inmates are able to easily communicate with and receive information about loved ones at the jail, send commissary or photos, and pay bail on their phone. This app is not intended to be used to report emergency situations. Please call 911 in an emergency.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Broome County Sheriff at 100% against AlertAware's 50%. Broome County Sheriff also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.5). AlertAware's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 4 months) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Broome County Sheriff holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 6 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of AlertAware's written reviews are positive against 100% of Broome County Sheriff's.
AlertAware ships an update every 3 weeks, Broome County Sheriff every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on September 9, 2026 and June 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | AlertAware | Broome County Sheriff |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (8 ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 110 MB | 69 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Jason Volk | Broome County Sheriff's Office |
Customer experience
AlertAware
Broome County Sheriff
In-app purchases
AlertAware
No in-app purchases
Broome County Sheriff
No in-app purchases
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