Safe@UTC vs VOLT
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Safe@UTC
Enhance organizational security with tools like a panic slider for immediate alerts, anonymous tip submission, and a safety walk feature for guided secure travel.
- Panic Slider
- Anonymous Tips
- Safety Walk
- Organizational Protection
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Use Safe@UTC to add an additional layer of protection to your organization by utilizing tools such as: Panic Slider, Anonymous Tips and Safety Walk.
VOLT
Receive real-time alerts and detailed incident information, including images and location context, to quickly understand and respond to safety events. Access historical data and support for various incident types to enhance situational awareness.
- Real-time incident notifications
- Detailed incident information
- Image and location context
- Historical event records
- Detection of safety-related incidents
- Integration with IP camera infrastructure
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The VOLT app gives authorized users immediate access to alerts, incident details, images, and location context so they can quickly understand what is happening and take action from anywhere. With the app, users can receive real-time notifications, review active and resolved incidents, examine supporting images and timeline context, and access a historical record of events across their organization. VOLT supports detection of incidents such as weapons, fights, person down, fire and smoke, loitering, unattended objects, and other safety-related activity. Designed to work with existing IP camera infrastructure, VOLT helps schools, campuses, and organizations improve situational awareness and respond faster when it matters most.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: VOLT at every 8 days against Safe@UTC's every 2 months. VOLT also leads on ratings volume (12 vs 1). Safe@UTC's advantage is device support (4 vs 2) and iOS requirement (13.2 vs 26.0). On price, rating, 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Safe@UTC against 5.0 for VOLT. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: VOLT has 12 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Safe@UTC ships an update every 2 months, VOLT every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Safe@UTC | VOLT |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (12 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 12 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 8 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.2 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 43 MB | 113 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | University of Tennessee | Volt Inc |
Customer experience
Safe@UTC
VOLT
In-app purchases
Safe@UTC
No in-app purchases
VOLT
No in-app purchases
