bSafe vs Flashlight Reminder
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
bSafe
This personal safety app helps prevent crimes and creates evidence if an incident occurs. It offers features like voice activation for SOS alerts, live streaming to guardians, and automatic audio/video recording.
- Voice-activated SOS alarm
- Live streaming to guardians
- Automatic audio/video recording
- Fake call feature
- Guardian network setup
- Live GPS tracking (Follow Me)
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After an incident of sexual assault, Charlen and her father developed bSafe, one of the most advanced and reliable personal safety apps in the world. Exposed in 125 countries with millions of downloads and more than 100.000 articles in media such as ABC, CNN, NBC, BBC, Fox News, and Forbes. "bSafe is a safety service that can easily be used by anyone. I see the potential for solving real issues for children and parents and anyone looking for solutions to increase their security. Everyone needs a service like this." - Jada Pinkett Smith TOP-RATED PERSONAL SAFETY APP bSafe prevents crimes like violence, sexual assaults, and rape as well as creates evidence in cases where it has already occurred. bSafe gives you ground-breaking technology that prevents and documents violence and threats for your loved ones, employees, students, and your community. Voice Activation, Live Streaming, Audio/Video Recording, Fake Call, and Follow Me in combination with location and tracking are some of the features that can help you stay safe. THIS IS HOW BSAFE WORKS Voice Activation: Enable the SOS alarm by touch or voice even if your cell phone is placed inside your jacket, pocket, or purse. You do not need to press the SOS button to activate it. Live Streaming: When the SOS is activated, your guardians will get your location and can track you. Guardians will be able to see and hear everything that is happening in real-time via live streaming and can track your location at the same time. Automatic Recording: When the SOS alarm is activated, your phone will automatically start to record both audio and video. The recorded files will be sent to your guardian’s cell phone. Fake Call: Get your phone to call you and get out of unpleasant or threatening situations. Guardians: Set up your own social and personal security network of friends and family (guardians). Invite as many as you want. Follow Me: Ask your guardians to follow you home with Follow Me live GPS tracking. They will be able to see you live via the map on their mobile. Once you have made it home safely, your guardians will receive a message about it.
Flashlight Reminder
Schedule your iPhone's flashlight to turn on and off at specific times or intervals. Useful for nighttime visibility or as a unique notification system.
- Scheduled flashlight activation
- Customizable duration
- One-time reminders
- Interval reminders
- Hourly, daily, weekly, monthly reminders
- Foreground operation required
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Turn on the flashlight at the indicted time. At night, use this app to help ourself see the remote view. At night, tell remote friends what we want to do and what they need to do. Only for iPhone. The app has the same usage as the following app: talking reminder: talk the text at the indicted time sound reminder:play music file or talk text at the indicted time camera capture event: record video or take photo at the indicted time sound record event:record the sound at the indicted time Introduction Flashlight Reminder could turn on the Flashlight at the indicted time and turn off the flashlight after the indicted duration.The time is indicted by six kinds of different event schedulers.They are called One Time Reminder, Interval Reminder, One Hour Reminder,One Day Reminder,One Week Reminder and One Month Reminder. Features 1.Turn on the flashlight by One time reminder. 2 turn on the flashlight by interval reminder. 3 Turn on the flashlight by every hour reminder. 4 Turn on the flashlight by every day reminder 5. Turn on the flashlight by every week reminder. 6 Turn on the flashlight by every month reminder. 7 Turn off the flashlight after the indicted duration. Usage When we use the app for the first time, the database is empty. So we need add the reminder recorder. Tap any event button, we could begin to add new reminder record. Then , return back to the main view, tap the Alive Reminder button, we could check whether our input is correct. After that, back to the main view. tap the start button. Example Add Every Hour Event From the main view, tap the every hour reminder button, then the every hour event list view will be displayed. Then tap the add button at the bottom tool bar. So new record view will be displayed. Select the start time and the duration. Finally, tap the save button. The new every hour event record will be displayed in the list. Example: Add Every Week Reminder From the main view, tap the every week reminder button, then the every week reminder list view will be displayed. Then tap the add button at the bottom tool bar. So new record view will be displayed. Select the start time and the duration.Finally, tap the save button. The new every week record will be displayed in the list. Notice: For the current edition, this app is only foreground app. When the job list is displayed, the app must be in the foreground status and cannot press the home key at this time.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Flashlight Reminder at none against bSafe's 4. Flashlight Reminder also leads on ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). bSafe's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 11 months) and ratings volume (206 vs 2). On price, rating 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. bSafe sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.49 per 7 days. Flashlight Reminder asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.4 for bSafe against 3.5 for Flashlight Reminder. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: bSafe has 206 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
bSafe ships an update every 3 weeks, Flashlight Reminder every 11 months. The most recent releases landed on August 16, 2026 and September 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | bSafe | Flashlight Reminder |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.4 (206 ratings) | 3.5 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 206 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 11 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 94 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bipper USA, Inc. | 方 沈 |
Customer experience
bSafe
Flashlight Reminder
Bugs and requests
bSafe
Reported bugs
4 issues- Verification codes not working
- Inability to add contacts as guardians
- Inconsistent behavior when trying to access premium features
- Frequent crashes and freezes, especially on older devices
Requested features
4 requests- Ability to customize SOS button and fake call settings
- Improved accuracy and reliability of location tracking
- Option to have non-app users as emergency contacts
- Better tutorial and onboarding for new users
Flashlight Reminder
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
bSafe
- bSafe Premium Weekly1 Month trial$0.497 Days
- bSafe Premium Monthly1 Month trial$4.991 Month
- bSafe Premium Annual1 Month trial$49.991 Year
- 24 hours Premium features$0.99
Flashlight Reminder
No in-app purchases
Questions
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