PanicButton SOS | Emergency vs SOS Beam
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PanicButton SOS | Emergency
This app provides a silent neighborhood alarm for your community or family. In emergencies, a single button press discreetly alerts your trusted contacts and neighbors with your real-time location. It functions even when the app is closed or the phone is locked.
- Silent emergency alerts
- Real-time location sharing
- Group creation (neighborhood, family)
- Works with app closed or phone locked
- Trusted contact alerts
- Emergency categories
- Test mode for drills
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Personal alert system with real-time location. PanicButton SOS sends an alert to a user-defined response group in under two seconds, with the exact position and without the phone making a sound. It is designed for the critical interval: the time between an incident and the arrival of help. Personal, family and professional use. No cost, no ads, no subscription. HOW IT WORKS 1. Set up the response group: family, work team, field staff or neighbours of the same area. 2. Members join by username, code or QR code, with approval from the group administrator. 3. When the button is pressed, every member receives a priority notification with the sender’s live location. THREE LEVELS SOS. Emergency: the group and the emergency contacts receive the alarm and the live location from the first second. Heads-up. Advance notice: the user says what they are about to do and until when; if they do not confirm their status in time, it becomes an emergency. I’m OK. A reassurance signal for the group, with no alarm. FEATURES Discreet activation. The device sending the alert neither rings nor vibrates. Hardware trigger. Side button or Action button, without unlocking the screen or opening the app. Real-time location. Sent when the alert is triggered, never before, with map tracking during the event, even with the screen locked. Priority delivery. The notification arrives even if the recipient has every other notice muted. Wellness checks. Periodic verification with an automatic notice if there is no answer. Automatic escalation. Without a status confirmation, the system widens the notification according to the configured policy. Emergency contacts. Each one chooses when to be told: from the first second, after the first unanswered check, or as a last resort. They receive the notice without belonging to a group, also via Telegram if they do not have the app. Phone book. Each person with their number and how they receive alerts; they can stay in the book without being an emergency contact. Medical card. Blood type, allergies, medication and contacts, available during the event. Drill mode. Tests the full circuit without generating a real alert. Group management. Adding, removing and approving members under the administrator’s control; each group with its area and its members. Multilingual coverage. Interface in ten languages and notifications in eighteen, each in the recipient’s language. USE CASES Trips and journeys home at night. Field work and shifts without direct supervision. Passenger transport and deliveries. Shops and premises open to the public. Technicians working in other people’s homes. Older adults and people who live alone. Meetings with strangers. Coordinated safety among neighbours of the same area. Medical emergencies where the medical card is decisive. PRIVACY AND DATA CONTROL Location is sent only when an alert is triggered. There is no continuous tracking and no history of routes. No data is sold and no advertising is shown. The account and all the information linked to it can be deleted from within the app. DEPLOYMENT IN ORGANISATIONS Companies, cooperatives, municipalities and security providers can deploy PanicButton SOS as an alert system for their staff, with managed groups and their own protocols. Enquiries: contact@atseacode.dev SCOPE OF THE SERVICE PanicButton SOS complements public emergency services and does not replace them. Its role is to cut the time it takes to reach the people who are in a position to help immediately. Developed by atSeaCode. More at panicbuttonsos.app
SOS Beam
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Turn your phone into a Morse code signal light. SOS Beam sends real, correctly timed Morse code using your camera flash or your full screen. Tap once for SOS, or type any message and watch it flash out letter by letter. No internet, no account, no setup. TWO WAYS TO SIGNAL - Flashlight: your camera's LED flash, visible over long distances after dark - Screen: the entire display strobes bright white, for when your flash is unavailable or you want a wider, softer light ONE TAP FOR SOS The universal distress signal is always one tap away, and repeats automatically until you stop it. No menus, no typing. SEND ANY MESSAGE Type up to 40 characters. Full A-Z and 0-9 supported. Check the Morse preview before you send, then transmit it on a loop. CONTROL THE TIMING Three ready-made speeds: Slow, Normal and Fast. Or tune every interval yourself: - Dot duration: 50-1000 ms - Pause between letters: 100-1500 ms - Dash duration: 150-2000 ms - Pause between words: 200-3000 ms One tap restores the defaults. BUILT FOR ACTUAL USE - Tap anywhere on the strobe to stop instantly - Haptic feedback confirms every action - Signal counter tracks your transmissions - Works completely offline 18 LANGUAGES ... WHEN YOU MIGHT NEED IT ... free, supported by ads
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: PanicButton SOS | Emergency at none against SOS Beam's shown. SOS Beam's advantage is update cadence (daily vs every 5 days). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
PanicButton SOS | Emergency ships an update every 5 days, SOS Beam daily. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PanicButton SOS | Emergency | SOS Beam |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | Daily — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Maximiliano Filsinger | Bohdan Pylyptsiv |
In-app purchases
PanicButton SOS | Emergency
No in-app purchases
SOS Beam
No in-app purchases
Questions
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