Comparison

Am I Secure? Forensic Scan vs LI Train Alerts

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Am I Secure? Forensic Scan

This app provides advanced security scanning to detect malware, spyware, and viruses. It goes beyond basic checks with deep forensic analysis and AI-driven threat detection, offering manual review by cybersecurity experts for confirmed threats.

Highlights
  • Advanced security scanning
  • Detects malware, spyware, and viruses
  • Deep forensic analysis
  • AI-driven threat detection
  • Manual review by experts
  • Anomaly-based analysis
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Am I Secure? performs forensic analysis of your iPhone or iPad to find signs of compromise. If you are a journalist, activist, executive, lawyer, government official or anyone with reason to think you may be of interest to a sophisticated adversary, this app is built for you. The same applies if you hold digital assets in self-custody. The device holding your keys is the target, and that device is what Am I Secure? examines. WHAT A COMPROMISED DEVICE MEANS Your whole life is on your phone. Private messages, email, photos, contacts, financial information. If you can read it, so can someone who has compromised the device. Encryption protects your messages in transit; it does not protect anything once the device itself is under someone else's control. An attacker in that position can read your messages before they are encrypted and after they are decrypted, see your location, take your stored credentials, and reach any account you are signed in to. They can listen through the microphone to conversations in the room, record through the camera, and follow your movements. There is generally no way to tell from using the device. WHY THIS REQUIRES A DIFFERENT APPROACH iOS is among the most secure consumer platforms available. iOS does not let any app, including security apps, look outside its own container or "sandbox". No security app on your device can inspect the processes, the filesystem, or the behavior of the rest of the system. That is a deliberate security property of the platform, and it is why an app running on your phone can only report on your settings, not on what is actually running. Am I Secure? works differently. You generate a system diagnostic "sysdiagnose" file using the tool built into iOS. That file is produced by the operating system itself, not by us, and it contains a detailed record of processes, logs, and system state. You share that file with the app, which uploads it to our servers. We analyze it and report what we find. The diagnostic file is end-to-end encrypted on your device before it is uploaded and stays encrypted until it reaches hardware we own and operate in our own facilities in Canada and the European Union (EU). It is not decrypted or accessible by any third party, including intermediary data center and network operators. Once analysis is complete the file is deleted. A HUMAN REVIEWS ANYTHING UNUSUAL Where our automated analysis flags something, our team examines the results by hand before anything is reported to you. The same automated analysis pipeline is used by our government clients via our on-premises Private Protection suite. WE LOOK FOR ANOMALIES, NOT JUST KNOWN INDICATORS Most detection tools match against published indicators of compromise. The moment those indicators become public, the operators behind commercial surveillance tools change their software to avoid them, and signature matching stops working against the new version. We compare your device against a baseline of expected iOS behavior instead. That can surface anomalies that do not match public indicators. MEDIA COVERAGE Reviewed by Forbes cybersecurity contributor Davey Winder in December 2024, who wrote he was "very impressed with the capabilities of this app." WHAT ELSE THE APP CHECKS, FOR EVERYONE • Whether your iOS version is current, overall and for your specific device • Lockdown Mode status • Lock screen, passcode, and biometric configuration • iCloud Private Relay and VPN status • Whether connections to well-known sites are being intercepted or inspected • Third-party keyboards installed on the device • Device integrity • Your processor's security features, network details, and diagnostic information SUBSCRIPTION The Advanced Security Scan requires a subscription, available as an in-app purchase (monthly or annual). For the Government & Enterprise Edition, search for Am I Secure? Endpoint Security here on the App Store. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

LI Train Alerts

Receive instant push notifications for special train activity in the New York area. Browse a history of the last 100 events directly within the app. Always verify service details with official transit tools.

Highlights
  • Special train activity monitoring
  • Push notifications for new events
  • 100-event rolling history feed
  • New York-area rail data
  • Simple interface
Features
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LI ​Train ​Alerts monitors and catalogs special train activity derived from ​New ​York​-area rail feed data. ​Get push notifications when a new special appears and browse a rolling 100 event history in a simple feed. ​Data is provided by our server and may be delayed; always verify service details in official transit tools.

Screenshots

Am I Secure? Forensic Scan4 screens
LI Train Alerts3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: LI Train Alerts at 5.0 against Am I Secure? Forensic Scan's 4.7. LI Train Alerts also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs monthly). Am I Secure? Forensic Scan's advantage is ratings volume (81 vs 4) and iOS requirement (16.6 vs 18.6). On price, ads, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Am I Secure? Forensic Scan sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and LI Train Alerts sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

LI Train Alerts holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Am I Secure? Forensic Scan has 81 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Am I Secure? Forensic Scan ships an update monthly, LI Train Alerts fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Am I Secure? Forensic Scan versus LI Train Alerts: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAm I Secure? Forensic ScanLI Train Alerts
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (81 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews81.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings81 — better4
Update frequencyMonthlyFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.6 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size22 MB0 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNumbers Station IncANTHONY PAGANINI

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Am I Secure? Forensic Scan

Subscriptions4
  • Advanced Threat Detection$9.991 Month
  • Advanced Threat Detection$24.993 Months
  • Advanced Threat Detection$34.996 Months
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  • Advanced Threat Detection$49.991 Year
3 purchases

LI Train Alerts

One-time3
  • Small Tip$0.99
  • Medium Tip$4.99
  • Large Tip$9.99

Questions

Is Am I Secure? Forensic Scan free?
Am I Secure? Forensic Scan is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is LI Train Alerts free?
LI Train Alerts is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Am I Secure? Forensic Scan or LI Train Alerts?
LI Train Alerts is rated higher. Am I Secure? Forensic Scan averages 4.7 out of 5 from 81 ratings, while LI Train Alerts averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do Am I Secure? Forensic Scan or LI Train Alerts have ads?
Neither Am I Secure? Forensic Scan nor LI Train Alerts shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Am I Secure? Forensic Scan or LI Train Alerts?
Am I Secure? Forensic Scan ships an update monthly, and LI Train Alerts fortnightly. Most recently, Am I Secure? Forensic Scan was updated on October 21, 2026 and LI Train Alerts on October 25, 2026.

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