Seerist vs PERSEC Safety
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Seerist
This app provides real-time global threat and risk intelligence, combining AI analysis with human geopolitical expertise. It delivers breaking and verified events, along with AI-driven insights, to keep users informed about potential risks impacting their operations and safety.
- AI and human expert analysis
- Real-time threat intelligence
- Breaking and verified events
- Risk analytics and alerts
- Saved searches and notifications
- Global event monitoring
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The Seerist mobile app is an in-your-pocket extension of Seerist, the preeminent threat and risk monitoring solution using the powerful combination of artificial intelligence and on-the-ground human geopolitical experts. With proprietary, industry-leading AI and ML operations, Seerist empowers you to stay ahead of potential threats and up to date on global events impacting your enterprise with analysis from localized expert analysts. Seerist's fused intelligence of alerts, analytics, and analysis automates the collection of millions of datasets from across the globe, including activity anomalies, stability shifts, volatility swings, variations in political and popular sentiment, and much more. Our ever-evolving algorithm then eliminates the noise before our seasoned, in-location analysts verify the calculated risks. The Seerist mobile app provides risk intelligence from the convenience of your phone so you never miss an important update while you’re away from your desk. Breaking and Verified Events from Seerist's Intelligence Analysts Breaking Events are triggered by events or activities in a specific location that both: Have the potential to be high-impact incidents that could affect immediate physical or operational security, and Diverge from the baseline security, operational or political environment in that location, and that we assess to be anomalous. Verified Events form an active database going back to 2008, continuously updated by Seerist's intelligence analysts, of war, terrorism, unrest, and violent crime (with a focus on organized crime) incidents that are verified, accurately geolocated and labeled with extensive metadata. The database is designed to provide historical context to these threats for specific locations and to allow analysis of trends over time. EventsAI from Seerist's Collections Team EventsAI's proprietary AI and ML algorithms turn information continuously collected across more than 6.8 million sources in over 100 languages into actionable, real-time threat intelligence, assessed, labeled, and categorized for immediate risk detection and relevance to your operations. In the mobile app, EventsAI is a dynamic feed of real-time threat intelligence about critical risk events happening in proximity to you, selected assets, travel locations, and more. Saved Searches + Notifications Explore our vast amount of data using keywords, locations, event types, and/or date filters from search queries created within the platform. Access targeted searches saved to your profile to have location-specific events and analysis at your fingertips. Enable notifications to be alerted when events arise within your saved searches, in addition to all notifications set up within the platform, so you always have the information you need to take action. Analysis Updates from Control Risks Through Seerist’s strategic partnership with Control Risks, a 200+ person network of global geopolitical and security risk analysts with localized knowledge provides expert insight into a country’s risk landscape. Our easily digestible strategic reports, outlooks, and scenario forecasting, complete with transparent source information, take the guesswork out of risk assessments. This enables organizations to scan the horizon for threats, risks, and opportunities and make rapid, strategic decisions when it matters most. Risk Ratings from Control Risks Gain a greater understanding of a location’s political, operational, security, maritime, and cyber risk landscape with a color-coded, qualitative assessment of current levels of risk to operations in a country. Risk ratings are a proprietary feed published and updated by Control Risks’ Global Risk Analysis Team as part of its industry-leading risk analysis practice. Read through each country’s detailed analysis or dive deeper into subcategories, such as political stability, civil unrest, and infrastructure.
PERSEC Safety
This app uses AI to predict and alert you to potential safety risks in your surroundings, such as crime trends, traffic hazards, and environmental conditions. It provides a risk report for your neighborhood and highlights accident hotspots, helping you navigate busy areas with greater confidence.
- AI-powered Risk Report
- Nearby security services search
- Traffic accident map
- Background travel alerts
- Community incident updates
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Life moves fast. PERSEC helps you move safer. Designed for people navigating busy cities, unpredictable commutes, and everyday responsibilities, PERSEC uses advanced AI to predict risks before they reach you. PERSEC blends crime trends, traffic hazards, environmental conditions, and emergency resources into one powerful app giving you the clarity and confidence you need to stay a step ahead. Features include: - Easily view your estimated risk with our AI-powered Risk Report for your neighborhood. - Access nearby services to keep you safe with our fast security services search feature. - Explore the area around you with our comprehensive traffic accident map, highlighting hotspots of accidents along with current traffic conditions. - Receive background alerts while traveling when your traffic risk rate is higher than normal. - Submit Bulletin Updates for your area and stay up to date on nearby incidents. PERSEC is life saving. Most safety apps react, we focus on predicting danger and building situational awareness. Powered by proprietary AI and millions of real-time and historical data points, PERSEC identifies emerging threats, dangerous intersections, and weather-related hazards before you leave home. PERSEC requires a paid subscription to access its features. You can view our Privacy Policy at: https://persec.io/privacy You can view our Terms at: https://persec.io/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Seerist at none against PERSEC Safety's 3. Seerist also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs every 2 months). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. PERSEC Safety sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Seerist asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Seerist against 5.0 for PERSEC Safety. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 2 respectively.
Seerist ships an update every 9 days, PERSEC Safety every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Seerist | PERSEC Safety |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 57 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Seerist, Inc. | Gray Matr LLC |
Customer experience
Seerist
PERSEC Safety
In-app purchases
Seerist
No in-app purchases
PERSEC Safety
- Monthly Subscription$4.991 Month
- Yearly Subscription$49.991 Year
- Yearly Subscription+Trial$49.991 Year









