Comparison

Sanctuary Alert vs Somawave

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

Head to head
About

Sanctuary Alert

This app provides personal safety features, including instant alerts to trusted contacts with location sharing, encrypted recording capabilities, and clear guidance on legal rights. It also offers tools for creating safety plans and sharing travel details with backups, all designed with user privacy as a priority.

Highlights
  • One-tap emergency alerts with location
  • Encrypted audio/video recording
  • Plain-language legal rights guides
  • Personal safety plan creation
  • Trip sharing for travel backup
  • Optional community alerts
Features
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Sanctuary is a personal-safety app. When you feel unsafe, one tap alerts the people you trust and gives you plain-language guidance on your rights. FEEL UNSAFE? ONE TAP. The "I Feel Unsafe" button notifies your emergency contacts with your location. Choose the alert that fits the moment, from a check-in to an emergency. Emergency alerts are free for everyone, always. DOCUMENT WHAT HAPPENS Record video or audio of an incident. Every recording is hash-chained with SHA-256, so you can show it has not been altered since you saved it. You decide what to keep, what to back up, and what to share. Cloud backup is included free with 500 MB of storage. KNOW YOUR RIGHTS Twelve plain-language guides to your legal rights in everyday situations: at your door, at a traffic stop, at work, at a protest, while recording, and more. Each one cites its sources, including Supreme Court cases and named statutes. Read them before you create an account. In English and Spanish. This is educational information, not legal advice. CHECK-IN TIMER - REQUIRES SANCTUARY PROTECTOR Set a countdown before you walk home or meet someone new. If you do not check in before it runs out, every linked contact gets your last location and your recording if you made one. PLAN AHEAD Build a private safety plan in an encrypted vault, and set up the people you want notified before you need them. TRAVEL BUDDY - REQUIRES SANCTUARY PROTECTOR Start a trip with a trusted contact; joining one is free. If location sharing is on, you each see the position the other last shared. Plan details you share with a trip are stored on our servers so its members can see them. COMMUNITY ALERTS - REQUIRES SANCTUARY PROTECTOR, OPT-IN Choose to be notified when someone within about five miles needs help, and let your community know when you do. Senders appear as an auto-generated pseudonym, never a real name, and sending one shares your location with nearby members who have opted in. INCIDENT REPORTS - REQUIRES SANCTUARY PROTECTOR Write down what happened while it is fresh: what you saw, vehicle details, license plates, a photo or video. Reports are saved encrypted on this device and never uploaded. Nothing is submitted to us, to law enforcement, or to other users. APP LOCK - REQUIRES SANCTUARY PROTECTOR A passphrase in front of the whole app, on top of your phone's own lock. Turn it off yourself any time; it is never removed if your subscription ends. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No ads and no third-party trackers. We never sell your data. Your safety plan and your incident reports are encrypted on your device. NOT AN EMERGENCY SERVICE Sanctuary notifies the people you choose. It does not contact 911 or any emergency dispatcher, and it cannot guarantee your safety. In an emergency, call 911 or your local emergency number. SANCTUARY PROTECTOR - OPTIONAL SUBSCRIPTION Free: emergency alerts, evidence recording with the full hash chain and signature, 500 MB of cloud storage, the rights guides, and writing and saving your safety plan. Protector costs $4.99 per month or $39.99 per year and adds the check-in timer, Travel Buddy, automatic recording when an alert fires, 25 GB of cloud storage, sharing your safety plan, App Lock, incident reports, an exportable evidence verification report, and community alerts. Emergency alerts are never part of the subscription. Subscription details: - Title: Sanctuary Protector - Length and price: 1 month for $4.99, or 1 year for $39.99 - Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. - Your subscription renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the period ends. - Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple Account settings. - Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ - Terms of Service: https://empoweredsanctuary.com/privacy#terms - Privacy Policy: https://empoweredsanctuary.com/privacy

About

Somawave

Features
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Somawave is a simple frequency generator to be used with Somawave 8hz Therapy Woofer, Somawave.com and 8hztherapy.com

Screenshots

Sanctuary Alert4 screens
Somawave4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Somawave at none against Sanctuary Alert's 2. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Sanctuary Alert sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Somawave asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Sanctuary Alert versus Somawave: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSanctuary AlertSomawave
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size16 MB2 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperEmpowered Intelligence, LLCCeptual

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Sanctuary Alert

Subscriptions2
  • Protector$4.991 Month
  • Protector$39.991 Year
None

Somawave

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Sanctuary Alert free?
Sanctuary Alert is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Somawave free?
Somawave is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Sanctuary Alert or Somawave have ads?
Neither Sanctuary Alert nor Somawave shows ads.

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