Rave Guardian vs Covert Alert
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Rave Guardian
Enhance personal safety by creating a private network of trusted contacts. This app facilitates rapid communication with your organization, offering features like real-time texting, anonymous tips, and location sharing during emergencies. It provides quick access to important numbers and resources curated by your organization.
- Private safety network
- Real-time texting with organization
- Anonymous tip submission
- Location sharing in emergencies
- Access to curated safety resources
- Location-based notifications
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Rave Guardian is the best way to improve your personal safety by leveraging those you trust to be your own private safety network. Rave Guardian provides rapid and proactive communication with your organization. Guardian is completely configured by the organization(s) you are associated with to make connecting in times of crisis or just plain confusion simple and easy. Easy 2 field sign-up process for most people. Rave Guardian allows you to do the following(depending on what your participating organization allows): • Text with your organization in real time • Send in anonymous tips • Deliver a rich profile of information to safety officials • Share location information with safety official during an emergency call • Quick access to safety or important phone numbers • Robust resources selected by your organization for convenience • If you allow Guardian, you can receive important notification based on your location. If you allow Rave Guardian, you can received push notifications related to on-going events in your area. If you wish to customize Rave Guardian for your campus or workplace, contact us at demos@ravemobilesafety.com Notes: • Rave Guardian requires a connection to a mobile network data connection. • Continued use of GPS running in the background can decrease battery life.
Covert Alert
This app provides hands-free emergency alerts via voice activation using custom keywords. It sends real-time GPS, audio streams, and recordings to your chosen contacts, ensuring help arrives quickly when you can't physically reach a button.
- Hands-free voice activation
- Customizable emergency keywords
- Real-time GPS tracking
- Live-streaming audio
- Emergency recordings with cloud storage
- Instantaneous alerts to contacts
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What’s the one thing you always have on you? Your cell phone. In an emergency, there’s no guarantee that you have the use of your hands. You will need to get help from the person that can help you NOW, not later. Currently, Americans make around 240 million 911 calls per year, which are routed through 8,900 dispatch centers, and regulators estimate that as many as 10,000 lives can be saved each year by reducing 911 response times by just one minute. Covert Alert offers users “Safety in Seconds,” by implementing several key features that are designed for real world emergencies like real-time GPS, live-streaming audio, emergency recordings, cloud storage for the recordings, instantaneous alerts to various safety nets, AI filtering of emergency type, geofencing, and more. Most safety apps on the market require the push of a button. Covert Alert is the only safety application on the market using hands free activation to notify user networks of emergency situations. The most important feature of this app is its ability to be activated covertly, and communicate directly with users’ chosen emergency contacts, all completely hands free. Upon downloading this app, the user has the option to customize three key phrases for three types of emergencies: crime, medical, and fire. Each emergency uses a different set of custom keywords, and if an emergency were to arise, the user simply states their keywords for that emergency type, even if the phone is locked. This triggers an emergency alert, and will aid in saving those valuable seconds in an emergency. With the free version of our app, users have the option to select up to five emergency contacts that emergency notifications will go to. This puts your safety back into the hands of those you trust most. Think of this first tier as Safety Net 1. Real-time GPS notifies the user’s emergency contacts of the exact location of the emergency and gives them an opportunity to track the situation with specific and valuable situational information. With the paid subscription, the user’s network has an opportunity to listen in with our live-streaming audio feature, which can drastically improve response time, and allow the user to provide even more situation information as the emergency event unfolds. Our in-app purchases give users more power when it comes to emergency situations than any other option on the market. Users have the option to purchase more emergency text messages, recording minutes, and more all within our in-app store. There will NEVER be advertisements in-app, personal data will not be collected, and the app only tracks location when armed in “Protection Mode,” because this is a safety app first and foremost. Personal safety has never been this high-tech and affordable…EVER! Features: Hands free, speech activation, which is triggered by user specific keywords or numbers stated while the app is in “Protection Mode.” Instantaneous alerts, which send messages and real time GPS location to designated contacts, informing them of the situation that the user is in. Recording up to 15 minutes (with the option to purchase more) in any emergency situation, which is saved to the user's device and backed up in a personal cloud that can be accessed at www.covertalert.com. Full customization of keywords used to trigger alerts sent to designated contacts. App Highlights: Personal safety app with voice activation. Record audio in emergency situations. Live-streaming direct to contacts. Share GPS location with friends and family. For more information about Covert Alert including our privacy policies, a complete user guide, additional features, or email addresses and phone numbers for support, visit us at www.covertalert.com, and visit our Tiktok at tiktok.com/@covertalertapp We never sell your data, we never jeopardize our customers’ privacy. Covert Alert uses GPS in the background. Note: continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.
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Verdict
Rave Guardian and Covert Alert both sit at 4.6 stars, but that hides the real split: 93% of Covert Alert's written reviews are positive against 32% of Rave Guardian's. Rave Guardian's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 9) and ratings volume (3K vs 232). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. Covert Alert sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Rave Guardian asks for nothing beyond the download.
Covert Alert holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Rave Guardian has 3K ratings behind it against 232, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 32% of Rave Guardian's written reviews are positive against 93% of Covert Alert's.
Rave Guardian ships an update every 2 months, Covert Alert every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Rave Guardian | Covert Alert |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (3K ratings) | 4.8 (232 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 31.9% of reviews | 93.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3K — better | 232 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 47 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Rave Mobile Safety | Lucrative Innovations |
Customer experience
Rave Guardian
Covert Alert
User reviews
Rave Guardian
From 3K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Reliable and responsive
- 👍 Helpful for students
- 🔒 Provides a sense of safety
Room to improve
- 🐛 Crashes and freezes
- 🔋 Battery draining issues
- ⚠️ Compatibility problems
- 🤔 Confusing or missing features
Covert Alert
From 232 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Fast alert response and notification delivery
- 🔒 Reliable emergency alert system with location tracking
- 👍 User-friendly interface and easy setup
- 💡 Innovative voice activation feature
- 📍 Real-time GPS tracking for emergency contacts
Room to improve
- 🐛 Poor voice recognition with whispers or low volume
- 🐛 Email verification landing in spam folder
- 🐛 Recording not being sent to emergency contacts
- 🐛 Purchased minutes not reflecting in account
- 🐛 Default phrase settings not saving
Bugs and requests
Rave Guardian
Reported bugs
4 issues- Verification code character limit
- Inability to delete account
- Persistent notification issues
- Registration process problems
Requested features
3 requests- Text/photo submission option
- Recurring safety timers
- Ability to add multiple campuses
Covert Alert
Reported bugs
8 issues- Email verification landing in spam and verification loop issues
- Recording feature not sending to emergency contacts
- Purchased minutes/credits not updating in account
- Default phrase settings not persisting
- Keywords and voice commands not triggering alerts
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- Text alerts not being received by contacts
- App spinning/freezing during setup
- Voice activation not detecting whispers
Requested features
6 requests- Tutorial videos demonstrating app usage
- Improved whisper/low-volume voice recognition
- More frequent location updates (5 minutes instead of 15)
- Better onboarding and user education
- Offline alert capability without mobile balance
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- Broader marketing beyond women-focused audience
In-app purchases
Rave Guardian
No in-app purchases
Covert Alert
- Direct Connect To Contacts$2.991 Month
- Family & Friends$2.991 Month
- Family & Friends$19.991 Year
- 15 Additional Minutes$2.99
- 50 Additional Text Messages$2.99
- 100 Additional Text Messages$3.99
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- 30 Additional Minutes$4.99
- 60 Additional Minutes$7.99
- 120 Additional Minutes$10.99
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