Red Panic Button vs Send SOS
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Red Panic Button
This app provides a one-touch solution for emergencies. Upon activation, it sends your location and a customizable alert message via SMS or email to pre-set contacts. It also offers features like voice recording and emergency number dialing.
- Send Panic SMS
- Send Panic Email
- Record voice message
- Customizable alert text
- Emergency Number feature
- Works with Apple Watch
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**Red Panic Button is now a universal app** When you are in trouble press the Red Panic Button! You just have to set a panic number or mail address and the phone will send a message which contains your address and location, determined using the fine GPS based or coarse GSM based coordinates. Features: - Send Panic SMS (works only on iPhone and iPad 3G) - Automatically send Panic email to designated email list - Retina display ready - Uses GPS/Network (where available on iPhone and iPad 3G) to determine your location or Wifi (on the iPod touch and iPad Wifi) - Emergency Number feature! You can now set the Emergency Number that is called at the press of the Red Panic Button. The number can be set from app settings. - Record voice feature! You can now send a recording to designated email list - Alert text customization Free features: -Send Panic SMS -Send Panic Email - Photo/video alert message - Audio alert message - One Secondary Alert - Works with Apple Watch - Works with BLE Alert Button Single User Subscription features: - No ADS - Unlimited panic contacts (We don't upload your contacts to server) - Unlimited Secondary Alerts Terms of use - https://www.redpanicbutton.com/legal/terms-of-use/ Privacy Policy - https://www.redpanicbutton.com/legal/privacy-policy/ Tips: - To reach more friends, multiple email addresses and phone numbers can be added - Stay tuned for more features ___ Red Panic Button requires internet connection in order to display the current address and send the email message. The Panic SMS feature does not work on iPod touch and iPad Wifi! Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.
Send SOS
Instantly share your precise location with a chosen contact in emergencies. This straightforward utility allows for quick and easy distress messaging with vital coordinates.
- Emergency messaging
- Current coordinate sharing
- Simple interface
- One-tap sending
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Simple and easy: send an emergency message with your current coordinates to a recipient.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Send SOS at 5.0 against Red Panic Button's 2.5. Send SOS also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). Red Panic Button's advantage is update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 7 months) and ratings volume (17 vs 1). On price 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. Red Panic Button sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $0.99 per month. Send SOS asks for nothing beyond the download.
Send SOS holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Red Panic Button has 17 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 28% of Red Panic Button's written reviews are positive against 50% of Send SOS's.
Red Panic Button ships an update every 5 weeks, Send SOS every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on August 26, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Red Panic Button | Send SOS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.5 (17 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 28.2% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 17 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 7 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 63 MB | 0 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ULTIMATE COMMUNICATION SOFTWARE LTD | Christian Rusche |
Customer experience
Red Panic Button
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In-app purchases
Red Panic Button
- Single User Full Version$0.991 Month
Send SOS
No in-app purchases
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