CoatesvillePD Tips vs Visual Codes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CoatesvillePD Tips
Submit anonymous tips to the police department and receive crime alerts. Access agency web and social media content directly from your device.
- Anonymous tip submission
- Crime alerts
- Agency web content
- Social media integration
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The CoatesvillePD Tips app provides citizens the ability to submit anonymous tips to the Coatesville, PA Police Department. The app also displays agency crime alerts, and other organization web and social media content.
Visual Codes
Easily create scannable QR codes for various purposes like sharing links, contact details, or WiFi. The app also allows you to scan existing codes and save them to a personal library for quick access.
- Create QR codes for links, contacts, WiFi, and more
- Scan QR codes with the app or iPhone/iPad camera
- Save scanned codes to a personal library
- Organize codes with drag and drop
- Share and print codes
- Customize code color palettes
- Pin favorite codes for Siri access
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Make QR codes for sharing links, contact info, home WiFi networks and much more. Create a QR code using Visual Codes for others to scan. Scanning a code is easy. Just point the Camera app on an iPhone or iPad running iOS 11. You can even scan a QR code within Visual Codes itself, and save them to your own library. Tap Add Code and select from seven actions: Open Link, Search Web, Compose Email, Add Contact, Map Location, Call Phone Number and Connect to WiFi. Codes are automatically saved to your library, so you can always find them later. Drag and drop to bring your most-used codes to the top of the list. Share and print to send codes to friends. Print as Poster to fill the page with a large code, or use Grid mode to fit multiple codes per sheet. Change up the color palette with four styles; Bright, Default, Subtle and Lilac. Set a Pinned Code to access your favourite QR code without even launching Visual Codes, through Siri. Visual Codes works great, looks great, and takes advantage of the latest iOS 11 technologies. Beautiful large headers. Drag and drop integration. Optimized for iPad with Split View and keyboard shortcuts. Rich VoiceOver and Smart Color Invert support. So much more.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Visual Codes at 57% against CoatesvillePD Tips's 0%. Visual Codes also leads on rating (4.6 vs 1.0) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 73 months). CoatesvillePD Tips's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2). On price, 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. Visual Codes sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. CoatesvillePD Tips asks for nothing beyond the download.
Visual Codes holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Visual Codes has 267 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of CoatesvillePD Tips's written reviews are positive against 57% of Visual Codes's.
CoatesvillePD Tips ships an update every 73 months, Visual Codes every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on June 2, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CoatesvillePD Tips | Visual Codes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 4.6 (267 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 56.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 267 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 73 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | — | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 43 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | City of Coatesville | Benjamin Mayo |
Customer experience
CoatesvillePD Tips
Visual Codes
Bugs and requests
CoatesvillePD Tips
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Visual Codes
Reported bugs
10 issues- Print feature crashes consistently
- Apple Watch QR codes blocked by title bar/menu bar
- Restore purchase button unresponsive
- App crashes when scanning certain QR codes
- Scanning blocks code with title text
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- Apple Watch synchronization not working
- Paid features not activating after purchase
- Save to camera roll feature not functional
- iOS 15 Siri pinning feature eliminated
- Apple Watch Series 6 compatibility issues
Requested features
10 requests- Apple Watch complication support
- Multiple phone numbers in contact QR codes
- Additional contact fields (mobile number, birthday, website)
- Device synchronization between iPhone and iPad
- Print customization (resize, custom fields, labels)
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- QR code naming/labeling system
- Custom text/raw text QR code option
- Ability to add SSID and password display on WiFi codes
- Code sorting functionality
- Better in-app instructions and tutorials
In-app purchases
CoatesvillePD Tips
No in-app purchases
Visual Codes
- Unlock Share & Print Codes$0.99
- Save Scanned Codes$1.99
Questions
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