Staying Alive vs AED map
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Staying Alive
This app alerts trained individuals to nearby cardiac arrest emergencies, enabling them to provide immediate CPR or locate defibrillators. It aims to significantly increase survival rates by mobilizing a community of volunteers and maintaining the world's largest AED database.
- Cardiac arrest alerts
- CPR and life-saving guide
- Global AED database
- Add/edit defibrillator locations
- First aid news and community stats
- Volunteer community engagement
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Staying Alive in a few words: Staying Alive is an app that allows anyone trained (or not) in CPR to help save a victim of cardiac arrest by being alerted by Emergency Medical Services (EMS). Our mission: In France, there are 50,000 sudden cardiac arrests per year. The survival rate from this scourge is less than 10%. Our mission is to respond to the life-threatening emergency of cardiac arrest by engaging a trained, committed and supportive community to create a safer world. Your role downloading Staying Alive: You directly help the victim by performing a CPR or by getting a defibrillator. Our app allows each citizen to help in the event of cardiac arrest by doubling the victim's chances of survival (1 minute lost is 10% less chance of survival). You actively participate in creating an AED database provided free of charge to EMS. What you will find in Staying Alive: → The largest AED database in the world: you can add, edit and report nearby defibrillators. → A practical and comprehensive guide to life-saving actions. → News about first aid and stats on the Staying Alive community. What you won't find: → intrusive ads; → unwanted notifications; → in-app purchases --- Disclaimer: - Continuous use of GPS in the background can significantly decrease battery life. - The location and list of defibrillators provided by Staying Alive are given for information purposes only. As a reminder, this is a collaborative app and the data shared by users is not verified by a dedicated organization. Unfortunately, we are not responsible for any errors that may appear on defibrillator locations. --- Awards and recognitions won by Staying Alive: - DEKRA Label Medappcare Certification - 2015 French eHealth Trophy, mHealth category - Prix des Entretiens de Bichat 2013 4 good reasons to download Staying Alive now: 1. You save lives (whether you are trained or not). 2. You join a community of more than 300,000 volunteers. 3. Registration is done in a few clicks and will only take you 2 minutes. 4. Why add a 4th reason when the first 3 are enough? Developed by Staying Alive - [www.stayingalive.org]
AED map
Locate automated external defibrillators (AEDs) on a map. This app displays available AEDs using data from OpenStreetMap. Access critical life-saving equipment information when you need it most.
- Display AED locations on map
- Data sourced from OpenStreetMap
- Access to defibrillator information
- User-friendly map interface
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The application allows to display available AEDs (automated external defibrillators) on a map. The data comes from the project http://aed.openstreetmap.org.pl/ Project website: https://aedmapa.pl/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: AED map at 4.5 against Staying Alive's 3.4. AED map also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs every 6 weeks). Staying Alive's advantage is review sentiment (55% vs 15%). 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.
AED map holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 2 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 55% of Staying Alive's written reviews are positive against 15% of AED map's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Staying Alive ships an update every 6 weeks, AED map every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Staying Alive | AED map |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.4 (5 ratings) | 4.5 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 54.8% of reviews — better | 15.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 79 MB | 143 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Association Le Bon Samaritain | Mateusz Wozniak |
Customer experience
Staying Alive
AED map
In-app purchases
Staying Alive
No in-app purchases
AED map
No in-app purchases
