BoardEffect vs Federated S.A.F.E. App
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BoardEffect
This app provides a secure, paperless boardroom experience for volunteer leaders. Access meeting packets, annotate documents offline, and view contact information. It syncs with a web-based portal for comprehensive board management.
- Paperless boardroom
- Download meeting packets
- Offline annotation
- Contact directory
- Resource library access (iPad)
- Board handbook management
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The Leading Board Portal for Volunteer Leadership Worldwide. Make your boardroom truly paperless. BoardEffect’s iOS App connects to your BoardEffect board portal. The App allows your board members to: - Download meeting packets - Fully annotate meeting materials including “sticky notes,” drawing, highlighting, underlining, and strike-through - Read and annotate meeting packets both online and offline - Print or email their meeting packets from the App (optional) - View the full contact directory including members’ head shots, biographies, and contact details - View files from your BoardEffect portal’s Resource Library (iPad only) - Download and annotate your Board Handbook, including bylaws, policies, and other documents The BoardEffect iOS App is free and works in conjunction with your secure BoardEffect web-based portal. For more information about BoardEffect, contact us at (866) 672-2666.
Federated S.A.F.E. App
This app provides tools to improve safety culture at electric cooperatives. It offers job planning assistance for utility tasks, hazard recognition guidance, and regulatory compliance references.
- Job planning tool for utility tasks
- Hazard recognition guidance
- Regulatory compliance references
- Employee and member safety assistance
- Safety culture enhancement
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The Federated S.A.F.E. app is designed to enhance the culture of safety at electric cooperatives by providing tools to assist with job planning, hazard recognition and employee and member safety. A key feature of the app is the job planning tool designed as a guide for tasks performed in the electric utility industry specifically construction, maintenance and outage restoration related. The app provides reference tools for regulatory compliance and hazards recognition/abatement guidance.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Federated S.A.F.E. App at 5.0 against BoardEffect's 3.5. BoardEffect's advantage is ratings volume (48 vs 4). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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.
Federated S.A.F.E. App holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: BoardEffect has 48 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 58% of BoardEffect's written reviews are positive against 60% of Federated S.A.F.E. App's.
BoardEffect ships an update every 2 months, Federated S.A.F.E. App every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BoardEffect | Federated S.A.F.E. App |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (48 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 58.3% of reviews | 60.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 48 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 276 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Diligent Corporation | Federated Rural Electric Insurance Exchange |
Customer experience
BoardEffect
Federated S.A.F.E. App
In-app purchases
BoardEffect
No in-app purchases
Federated S.A.F.E. App
No in-app purchases
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