NotifyEM vs U/AWARE
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
NotifyEM
This app displays emergency maps and communications, allowing users to subscribe to alerts from organizations. It provides offline map access and detailed incident information, including voice messages and visuals, to help users understand and navigate emergencies.
- Offline emergency maps
- Subscribe to organization alerts
- Customized voice alerts
- Incident navigation on map
- Detailed incident information
- Distance to incident display
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NotifyEM is an iPhone app to display informative emergency-related maps and related voice and visual communications. The maps need to be downloaded only once. After that, they are available on your iPhone offline. The app makes it easy to communicate things that otherwise would be very difficult to explain in a text or voice message. For example, users can instantly understand an irregularly shaped evacuation zone when they see it on a map and can easily decide whether they are in the affected zone or not. Features: - Users can subscribe to a channel created by an organization, such as an Office of Emergency Management or a University Police Department. Should the organization issue an emergency alert or warning, the app will sound a customized voice message, such as “This is an important alert from University Police. Please do not ignore!” - Users can then easily navigate to the incident, which can be viewed on a map. Users can switch to the “details view” that may display instructions, voice messages, photos, and infographics related to the alert and sent by the issuing organization. - The user’s distance from the incident is prominently displayed on the screen in feet and/or miles. Location services need to be active to use this feature. - In Settings, it is possible to subscribe to or unsubscribe from Notification Channels. Those serve the purpose of transmitting notifications only to those who subscribe to a channel. For example, if a Police Department creates its channel, subscribers can opt in to receive communication issued through that channel.
U/AWARE
Control and monitor your Uniden SDS150 scanner remotely via Bluetooth. View transmissions visually, hear audio, and record incoming signals directly on your device.
- Remote operation via Bluetooth
- Visual display of transmissions
- Audio playback of scanned signals
- Record incoming transmissions
- Full control replication of SDS150
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Provides remote operation functionality via Bluetooth® Low Energy (BLE), a visual display and audio of scanned radio transmissions. The display and all controls of the SDS150 are replicated on the app allowing you to access and control all the functions within the range. All incoming audio from the transmissions can be recorded and heard through your devices.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: NotifyEM at 5.0 against U/AWARE's 3.8. U/AWARE's advantage is ratings volume (12 vs 1) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 5 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
NotifyEM holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: U/AWARE has 12 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
NotifyEM ships an update every 5 months, U/AWARE every 2 months. Both last shipped on October 16, 2026.
| Parameter | NotifyEM | U/AWARE |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 3.8 (12 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 62.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 12 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 38 MB | 33 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | MapText, Inc. | Uniden Corporation |
Customer experience
NotifyEM
U/AWARE
In-app purchases
NotifyEM
No in-app purchases
U/AWARE
No in-app purchases









