Pepco vs Safe Schools MD
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pepco
Manage your utility account on the go with this application. Easily view and pay bills, report outages, and track restoration status. It offers features for both residential and business customers, allowing for convenient account management and alerts.
- View and pay bills
- Report and check outage status
- View outage map
- Check account balance
- Manage AutoPay and Budget Billing
- Set outage and bill alerts
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Pepco’s free app allows you to easily access your account information on the go. The app makes it simple to manage more than one account at a time and is available to both residential and business customers on your smartphone or tablet. You can report your outage and stay up-to-date on the restoration status from anywhere. Key features include: · Effortlessly view and pay your bill · Report and check outage status · View the outage map · Check balance · View account activity · Manage your AutoPay and Budget Billing settings · Report an outage without signing in · View usage data, bill forecast and trends · Compare your bills · Set alerts for outage status, when your bill is ready, upcoming payment reminders, and more
Safe Schools MD
This app provides an anonymous reporting system for students, parents, and staff to report safety threats and well-being concerns. It covers issues like bullying, violence, drug activity, and mental health crises, aiming to foster a culture of safety in Maryland schools.
- Anonymous tip reporting
- Report safety threats
- Report well-being concerns
- All-hazard preventative approach
- Supports multiple communication modes
- Empowers community participation
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Students, parents, faculty, staff, and members of the communities throughout Maryland now have access to Safe Schools Maryland, an anonymous reporting system used to report threats to the safety and/or well-being of students. Taking an "all-hazard" preventative approach - this anonymous, app-based reporting system is available to receive tips concerning mental health crises, bullying, school and community violence, drug activity, abuse, harassment, and other issues affecting our Maryland students. The Maryland School Safety Tip Line leverages a variety of communication modes to support the anonymous reporting and routing of tips therefore empowering the citizens of Maryland to actively participate in creating a culture of preparedness, prevention, and safety for our students.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Safe Schools MD at 100% against Pepco's 27%. Safe Schools MD also leads on iOS requirement (8.0 vs 17.0). Pepco's advantage is rating (4.7 vs 3.7) and ratings volume (21K vs 6). On price, update cadence, 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.
Pepco holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pepco has 21K ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 27% of Pepco's written reviews are positive against 100% of Safe Schools MD's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pepco | Safe Schools MD |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (21K ratings) — better | 3.7 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 26.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 21K — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 167 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | An Exelon Corporation | Maryland Center for School Safety |
Customer experience
Pepco
Safe Schools MD
Bugs and requests
Pepco
Reported bugs
3 issues- Networking errors preventing login
- Inability to view or pay bills through the app
- Frequent app crashes and freezes
Requested features
3 requests- Bring back thermostat control feature
- Add biometric login options (e.g., Face ID, fingerprint)
- Improve app stability and reliability
Safe Schools MD
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Pepco
No in-app purchases
Safe Schools MD
No in-app purchases
