Folsom Times vs Safe & Informed
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Folsom Times
Stay informed about local happenings with daily updates on events, news, and exclusive deals. Engage with daily games and discover local businesses and entertainment options.
- Daily event listings
- Local news updates
- Daily games and challenges
- Exclusive local business deals
- Local business discovery
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What You’ll Love Discover Folsom Events Concerts, festivals, happy hours, markets, and family activities—updated daily so you always know what’s going on. Local News That Matters Get updates, stories, and highlights from Folsom Times and around the community. Play & Win Jump into daily games, and challenges. Compete, track your stats, and earn rewards. Exclusive Local Deals Find specials and promotions from Folsom’s restaurants, bars, and local businesses. Explore Local Businesses Discover new spots or revisit favorites—from Sutter Street to East Bidwell. Built for Folsom This app keeps you connected to Folsom—plain and simple. Looking for something to do tonight? Want to see what’s coming up this weekend? It’s all here, updated daily and actually relevant. Why You’ll Keep Coming Back • Fresh local content every day • Real-time updates on events and news • Games, and interactive features • Built to support local businesses Download now and see what’s happening in Folsom.
Safe & Informed
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Safe & Informed is a news reader you can listen to. You pick the sources and the app reads them to you, on screen or aloud, and in the car through CarPlay. YOUR SOURCES • Add any RSS feed, or start from the community directory. • Found a site in Safari? Share it to Safe & Informed and the feed is added. • Organise feeds into categories and subcategories. • Import your feeds from another reader (OPML or Excel). • Recommendations are computed on your device. Nothing in your feed is paid for or picked by someone else. LISTEN ANYWHERE • Read-aloud with the system voice: free, and it works offline. • A natural AI voice and AI summaries on Pro. • Radio turns a topic into a continuous station. • The Daily Briefing reads today's top stories and ends when you're caught up. • CarPlay: browse and play your feeds from the car screen. • Download articles and briefings for offline listening. READING • Reader view strips the clutter. • Magazine view opens photo-rich feeds as a cover, a contents page and full-screen spreads. • Coverage lines up how different outlets headline the same story. • Podcasts next to your news. • 22 languages, including Arabic and Hebrew, plus on-device translation of articles. • Adjustable text size, light and dark themes. ON EVERY APPLE DEVICE • iPhone, iPad and Mac, with iCloud sync between them. • Apple Watch app with a complication. • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, Siri and Shortcuts. PRIVACY • No account and no sign-up. • Your sources, history and settings stay on your device, or in your own iCloud. • Ads on the free plan are contextual only. The advertising identifier is never used to track you. • AI summaries and the AI voice receive only the article text, with nothing that identifies you. Discover and Ask send your interests to an AI provider, so the app asks for your permission first. PLANS • Free: system voice, with contextual ads. • No Ads: the free app without advertising. • Pro: natural AI voice, AI summaries, Radio, Daily Briefing, Discover and 150 AI-voice plays a month. Extra credits are available as top-ups and never expire. Everything made with AI is labelled "Made with AI" and can be reported from inside the app. AI can be wrong: treat it as a starting point and check the source. Terms of Use (EULA): https://safeandinformed.com/eula Privacy Policy: https://safeandinformed.com/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Folsom Times at none against Safe & Informed's 7. Folsom Times also leads on ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.4). Safe & Informed's advantage is update cadence (daily vs weekly). On price and device support 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. Safe & Informed sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Folsom Times asks for nothing beyond the download.
Folsom Times ships an update weekly, Safe & Informed daily. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Folsom Times | Safe & Informed |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Daily — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 18.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 35 MB | 57 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | ADAM ROBERT FRICK | Safe and Informed S.R.L. |
In-app purchases
Folsom Times
No in-app purchases
Safe & Informed
- No Ads$2.991 Month
- Pro$12.991 Month
- Pro Annual$119.991 Year
- 50 AI Voice Credits$4.99
- 120 AI Voice Credits$9.99
- 250 AI Voice Credits$18.99
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- 600 AI Voice Credits$41.99
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