Alarm Free vs Secure Place
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Alarm Free
This app provides a personal safety alarm with advanced motion detection. It can trigger an alert with sound and light when rapid movement or free-fall is detected, or with a simple screen tap.
- Rapid-movement detector
- Free-fall detector
- Screen tap alert
- Synchronized alarm sound
- Flashlight activation
- Apple Watch integration
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Alarm is a self-defence/emergency alarm application with a rapid-movement and free-fall detector. You can also touch the screen to give a warning. Not only a red screen blinking but also an alarm sound and a flash light are synchronized if the device has such functionalities. The Apple Watch app also blinks but it's limited for a few time only to save the battery.
Secure Place
Safeguard your private photos and videos with unique encryption methods. This utility app also allows you to securely store credit card information and upload media from other devices wirelessly.
- Photo and video encryption
- Secure credit card storage
- Wireless media upload
- Calculator-based password system
- Cross-device media transfer
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Want to encrypt your photos and videos? Use Secure Place with its unique ways of encryption! It has several ways to encrypt your valued photos and videos. Use a real calculator to calculate the password. And more ways are coming. Now you can even save credit card information in the app! Upload photos from computers, tablet to your phone wirelessly!.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Secure Place at 100% against Alarm Free's 35%. Secure Place also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.3) and ads (none vs shown). Alarm Free's advantage is ratings volume (13 vs 4). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Secure Place holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 13 and 4 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 35% of Alarm Free's written reviews are positive against 100% of Secure Place's.
Alarm Free ships an update every 29 months, Secure Place monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Alarm Free | Secure Place |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (13 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 35.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 13 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 29 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Masayuki Akamatsu | Wang Xueshi |
Customer experience
Alarm Free
Secure Place
Bugs and requests
Alarm Free
Reported bugs
2 issues- Doesn't work when phone is locked or in sleep mode
- Causes iPhone to freeze and require restore
Requested features
4 requests- Louder alarm sound
- Ability to run in the background
- Sensitivity adjustment
- Password protection to prevent deactivation
Secure Place
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Alarm Free
No in-app purchases
Secure Place
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Alarm Free free?
Is Secure Place free?
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Do Alarm Free or Secure Place have ads?
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