Red Panic Button vs iOkay Personal Safety
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.
iOkay Personal Safety
This app allows users to quickly share their location and safety status with pre-selected contacts. It offers customizable messages, emergency alerts, and features like safe zone notifications and low battery warnings. It ensures messages are sent even without a data connection.
- One-touch OK and emergency alerts
- Real-time GPS location sharing
- Customizable messages and warnings
- Safe zone notifications
- Low battery alerts
- Collision and fall detection
- Emergency contact list for Brazil
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HOW DOES IT WORK? Install iOkay, register your parents and friends, and with a single touch on the green button, let them know that you’re OK and send them your exact location, or, with a single touch on the red button, you ask for help immediately . You can also send your GPS coordinates in real time. iOkay allows you to write custom messages and warnings, make calls, check a list with the main emergency numbers in Brazil, set safe zones in a map and tell your contacts every time you go through your safe zones, or show your contacts that your cell phone’s battery is running low, but you are OK. When both users have the iOkay app installed, the notifications are sent through the app, but whenever one of the users doesn’t have the app or doesn’t have a data connection, the message is sent via SMS, making sure that all the messages are sent and received. Unlike all the similar available apps, iOkay won’t track your location all the time, so it won’t invade your privacy. It’s just an extremely practical and efficient security tool, that allows you to ask for help from your contacts by simply pushing a button. No matter where you are! iOkay is designed to work under any circumstances, even with no Wi-Fi or mobile data, such as 2g, 3g and 4g. Even in remote places, iOkay will work via SMS. - Green Button With one touch, it sends a message informing that you’re OK. Hold it for 2 seconds to send your location and the statement: “I’m OK!” - Red Button With one touch it sends your location and the following statement: “I need help!” Hold it for 2 seconds to call 911(Police) - Low Battery Turn on this feature, and iOkay will inform your contacts that your battery is low and you’re OK, it will also send your location. - Safe Zones Setup your safe zones on a map, and iOkay will inform your contacts when you’re inside one of them. - Dangerous Areas Now you are informed when entering areas with occurrences of crimes - Tracking Turn on this feature, and set a time interval to inform your contacts of your location when you’re in an emergency. For example, if you set the interval for 45 seconds, every time you push the red button, the app will send your location and the emergency message to your contacts every 45 seconds. - Useful Phone Numbers Full access to Brazil’s main emergency numbers - Messages Personalize your OK and Emergency messages Text your contacts. - Contacts Quickly and easily import contacts from your phonebook - Collision Sensor: Activate the preferences tab and in case of an accident with your car iokay automatically alerts your contacts. - Drop Sensor: Activate the preferences tab and if you fall on foot, motorcycle or bicycle iokay automatically alerts your contacts. [WHAT THE MEDIA IS SAYING] “iOkay is a smart app, recomended for those who don’t want to use their cellphones during a party, or other occasions, just to inform their parents that they’re OK. It has a simple interface, it’s easy to use and very user friendly.” - techtudo.com.br “iOkay is an app for those for those who want to inform that they’re safe. It’s the right app for parents who worry about their children. The app has an easy to understand look, and is very easy to use, it makes communication very simple when you need it most.” - exame.abril.com.br Suggestions and questions are always welcome, please contact us through our email at the end of this page. Your opinion means a lot to us.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: iOkay Personal Safety at 3.0 against Red Panic Button's 2.5. iOkay Personal Safety also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (50% vs 29%). Red Panic Button's advantage is ratings volume (17 vs 2). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and monetization model 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 and iOkay Personal Safety sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
iOkay Personal Safety holds the better App Store score, 3.0 against 2.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Red Panic Button has 17 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 29% of Red Panic Button's written reviews are positive against 50% of iOkay Personal Safety's.
Red Panic Button ships an update every 5 weeks, iOkay Personal Safety every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Red Panic Button | iOkay Personal Safety |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.5 (17 ratings) | 3.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 29.2% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 17 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 63 MB | 33 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ULTIMATE COMMUNICATION SOFTWARE LTD | Gustavo Silveira |
Customer experience
Red Panic Button
iOkay Personal Safety
In-app purchases
Red Panic Button
- Single User Full Version$0.991 Month
iOkay Personal Safety
- Premium Access7 Days trial$19.991 Month
- Premium Access7 Days trial$149.991 Year
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