bSafe vs Covert Alert
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.
Covert Alert
This app provides hands-free emergency alerts via voice activation using custom keywords. It sends real-time GPS, audio streams, and recordings to your chosen contacts, ensuring help arrives quickly when you can't physically reach a button.
- Hands-free voice activation
- Customizable emergency keywords
- Real-time GPS tracking
- Live-streaming audio
- Emergency recordings with cloud storage
- Instantaneous alerts to contacts
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What’s the one thing you always have on you? Your cell phone. In an emergency, there’s no guarantee that you have the use of your hands. You will need to get help from the person that can help you NOW, not later. Currently, Americans make around 240 million 911 calls per year, which are routed through 8,900 dispatch centers, and regulators estimate that as many as 10,000 lives can be saved each year by reducing 911 response times by just one minute. Covert Alert offers users “Safety in Seconds,” by implementing several key features that are designed for real world emergencies like real-time GPS, live-streaming audio, emergency recordings, cloud storage for the recordings, instantaneous alerts to various safety nets, AI filtering of emergency type, geofencing, and more. Most safety apps on the market require the push of a button. Covert Alert is the only safety application on the market using hands free activation to notify user networks of emergency situations. The most important feature of this app is its ability to be activated covertly, and communicate directly with users’ chosen emergency contacts, all completely hands free. Upon downloading this app, the user has the option to customize three key phrases for three types of emergencies: crime, medical, and fire. Each emergency uses a different set of custom keywords, and if an emergency were to arise, the user simply states their keywords for that emergency type, even if the phone is locked. This triggers an emergency alert, and will aid in saving those valuable seconds in an emergency. With the free version of our app, users have the option to select up to five emergency contacts that emergency notifications will go to. This puts your safety back into the hands of those you trust most. Think of this first tier as Safety Net 1. Real-time GPS notifies the user’s emergency contacts of the exact location of the emergency and gives them an opportunity to track the situation with specific and valuable situational information. With the paid subscription, the user’s network has an opportunity to listen in with our live-streaming audio feature, which can drastically improve response time, and allow the user to provide even more situation information as the emergency event unfolds. Our in-app purchases give users more power when it comes to emergency situations than any other option on the market. Users have the option to purchase more emergency text messages, recording minutes, and more all within our in-app store. There will NEVER be advertisements in-app, personal data will not be collected, and the app only tracks location when armed in “Protection Mode,” because this is a safety app first and foremost. Personal safety has never been this high-tech and affordable…EVER! Features: Hands free, speech activation, which is triggered by user specific keywords or numbers stated while the app is in “Protection Mode.” Instantaneous alerts, which send messages and real time GPS location to designated contacts, informing them of the situation that the user is in. Recording up to 15 minutes (with the option to purchase more) in any emergency situation, which is saved to the user's device and backed up in a personal cloud that can be accessed at www.covertalert.com. Full customization of keywords used to trigger alerts sent to designated contacts. App Highlights: Personal safety app with voice activation. Record audio in emergency situations. Live-streaming direct to contacts. Share GPS location with friends and family. For more information about Covert Alert including our privacy policies, a complete user guide, additional features, or email addresses and phone numbers for support, visit us at www.covertalert.com, and visit our Tiktok at tiktok.com/@covertalertapp We never sell your data, we never jeopardize our customers’ privacy. Covert Alert uses GPS in the background. Note: continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Covert Alert at 93% against bSafe's 33%. Covert Alert also leads on rating (4.8 vs 3.4) and ads (none vs shown). bSafe's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 5 weeks). On price, ratings volume, 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. bSafe sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.49 per 7 days and Covert Alert sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Covert Alert holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 208 and 232 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 33% of bSafe's written reviews are positive against 93% of Covert Alert's.
bSafe ships an update every 3 weeks, Covert Alert every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | bSafe | Covert Alert |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.4 (208 ratings) | 4.8 (232 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.1% of reviews | 93.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 208 | 232 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 94 MB | 47 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bipper USA, Inc. | Lucrative Innovations |
Customer experience
bSafe
Covert Alert
User reviews
bSafe
From 208 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Useful for keeping family/friends informed of location
- 🔒 Provides safety features like SOS, fake call, and audio recording
- 👍 Helpful for students and those who travel alone
- 👍 Gives peace of mind to users and their loved ones
Room to improve
- 🐛 Inconsistent performance, with frequent crashes and bugs
- 💰 Paywall for many core safety features
- 🔒 Privacy concerns around accessing contacts and media
- 🤔 Confusing setup process and unclear free vs. paid features
Covert Alert
From 232 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Fast alert response and notification delivery
- 🔒 Reliable emergency alert system with location tracking
- 👍 User-friendly interface and easy setup
- 💡 Innovative voice activation feature
- 📍 Real-time GPS tracking for emergency contacts
Room to improve
- 🐛 Poor voice recognition with whispers or low volume
- 🐛 Email verification landing in spam folder
- 🐛 Recording not being sent to emergency contacts
- 🐛 Purchased minutes not reflecting in account
- 🐛 Default phrase settings not saving
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
Covert Alert
Reported bugs
8 issues- Email verification landing in spam and verification loop issues
- Recording feature not sending to emergency contacts
- Purchased minutes/credits not updating in account
- Default phrase settings not persisting
- Keywords and voice commands not triggering alerts
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- Text alerts not being received by contacts
- App spinning/freezing during setup
- Voice activation not detecting whispers
Requested features
6 requests- Tutorial videos demonstrating app usage
- Improved whisper/low-volume voice recognition
- More frequent location updates (5 minutes instead of 15)
- Better onboarding and user education
- Offline alert capability without mobile balance
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- Broader marketing beyond women-focused audience
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
Covert Alert
- Direct Connect To Contacts$2.991 Month
- Family & Friends$2.991 Month
- Family & Friends$19.991 Year
- 15 Additional Minutes$2.99
- 50 Additional Text Messages$2.99
- 100 Additional Text Messages$3.99
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- 30 Additional Minutes$4.99
- 60 Additional Minutes$7.99
- 120 Additional Minutes$10.99
Questions
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