Comparison

Historic Aerials vs Absolute Safety

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

Head to head
About

Historic Aerials

Explore historical aerial imagery across the US to see how landscapes and neighborhoods have changed. This app provides spatially accurate, orthorectified imagery, allowing you to pinpoint historic features and research property history. It's a powerful tool for researchers, enthusiasts, and professionals investigating the past.

Highlights
  • View historical aerial imagery across decades
  • Compare past and present imagery
  • Spatially accurate orthorectified imagery
  • Obtain geographic coordinates for historic features
  • Explore property history and land development
  • Research historical land use and environmental change
  • Discover abandoned roads and forgotten places
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Turn your phone into a virtual time machine. Explore historical aerial imagery from across the United States and see how landscapes, cities, and neighborhoods have changed through the decades. HistoricAerials lets you view historical aerial photography and map imagery from multiple decades directly on your mobile device. Instantly compare past and present imagery to understand how land use, development, and property boundaries have evolved over time. Because HistoricAerials imagery is fully orthorectified, locations shown in the imagery are spatially accurate. You can obtain precise geographic coordinates for features visible in historic imagery, even if those features have disappeared today. This makes it possible to locate forgotten structures, former industrial sites, abandoned roads, historic homesites, and other lost features directly in the field using GPS. This powerful research tool is used by: • Metal detector enthusiasts searching for old homesites, historic schools, and forgotten locations • Environmental consultants conducting Phase I Environmental Site Assessments • Archaeologists researching historical landscapes • Surveyors and engineers studying land development patterns • Oil & gas professionals locating historic well sites and legacy infrastructure • Real estate professionals investigating property history • Urban planners analyzing land use change • Historians and researchers exploring the past • Property owners and land investigators Key Features • View historical aerial imagery spanning multiple decades • Instantly compare past and present imagery • Fully orthorectified imagery that is spatially accurate • Obtain geographic coordinates for historic features and locations • Explore property history and land development patterns • Research sites for Phase I Environmental Site Assessments (ESA) • Analyze historical land use and environmental change • Discover abandoned roads, rail lines, historic structures, and forgotten places • Frequently used to research historical land use in property boundary and land use disputes • Perfect for archaeology, metal detecting, environmental consulting, and land research • Access the HistoricAerials imagery library from anywhere HistoricAerials hosts the largest online collection of historical aerial imagery in the United States, allowing anyone to explore how landscapes, properties, and communities have changed over time. Now you can carry this virtual time machine with you wherever you go.

About

Absolute Safety

This app offers practical safety reminders, discussion prompts, and pre-task checklists for on-the-go use. It includes quick access to company contacts and emergency dialing.

Highlights
  • Safety reminders
  • Crew discussion prompts
  • Toolbox talks
  • Pre-task checklists
  • Company contact details
  • Emergency dialing
Features
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Absolute Safety brings practical safety reminders and crew discussion prompts together in one convenient app. Search introductory topics, open short toolbox talks, and work through temporary pre-task checklists. The app also provides company contact details and a quick path to call 911 in an emergency. Training schedule: currently unavailable. Contact Absolute Safety to ask about training. This app provides general reminders. Follow your site's current procedures, your training, and the direction of your qualified safety lead. Checklist answers are not saved or submitted as formal records.

Screenshots

Historic Aerials4 screens
Absolute Safety4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Absolute Safety at 5.0 against Historic Aerials's 3.3. Absolute Safety also leads on ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Historic Aerials's advantage is ratings volume (111 vs 2). On price, in-app purchases, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Absolute Safety holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Historic Aerials has 111 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Historic Aerials versus Absolute Safety: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHistoric AerialsAbsolute Safety
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.3 (111 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews22.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings111 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 2 days—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supportedFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size40 MB35 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperNationwide Environmental Title Research, LLCDaniel Garcia

Customer experience

Historic Aerials

All ratings94 ratings
Positive47.9%
Neutral5.3%
Negative46.8%
Written reviews48 reviews
Positive22.9%
Neutral2.1%
Negative75.0%

Absolute Safety

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Historic Aerials

No in-app purchases

None

Absolute Safety

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Historic Aerials free?
Historic Aerials is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Absolute Safety free?
Absolute Safety is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Historic Aerials or Absolute Safety?
Absolute Safety is rated higher. Historic Aerials averages 3.3 out of 5 from 111 ratings, while Absolute Safety averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Historic Aerials or Absolute Safety have ads?
Historic Aerials shows ads; Absolute Safety does not.

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