Comparison

SpotCrime+ vs Covert Alert

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

SpotCrime+

Access real-time crime information and alerts across the US, UK, and Canada. View a crime map with details on various incidents like robberies, thefts, and assaults. Pinpoint your location to get breaking crime stories and neighborhood safety updates.

Highlights
  • Real-time crime information
  • Crime alerts
  • Crime map with incident details
  • Location-based crime reporting
  • Neighborhood and street-level data
  • Free email alerts
Features
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Get near real time crime information and crime alerts for most areas in the US, United Kingdom, and parts of Canada. Buying a new home or traveling to a new area - check your safety with the SpotCrime App. The app provides a crime map linked to many crime sources around the country. Giving you nearby details on: * Robberies * Thefts * Arsons * Shootings * Arrests * Burglaries * Assaults * Vandalisms By pinpointing your location through the GPS on your phone, SpotCrime accesses its current database to provide you with current events and breaking crime stories around you. Get crime in your zip code right down to your neighborhood and street block. We are committed to help inform the public and increase everyone’s safety. Spot crime with SpotCrime, and get out of the crime spot. Don’t let anyone take your mojo. Crime data is provided by police departments, sheriff agencies, news media. In some cases, data is provided through 911 CAD (dispatch services) and information may be updated at a later time. This is a great tool for neighborhood watch organizations. If you don’t see crime data on the map, ask your local police department to be transparent with their crime data and SpotCrime will map it for free. No charge to the police department, no charge to you, and free email alerts! We are not providing sex offender information at this time.

About

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.

Highlights
  • Hands-free voice activation
  • Customizable emergency keywords
  • Real-time GPS tracking
  • Live-streaming audio
  • Emergency recordings with cloud storage
  • Instantaneous alerts to contacts
Features
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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.

Screenshots

SpotCrime+4 screens
Covert Alert4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Covert Alert at 93% against SpotCrime+'s 35%. Covert Alert also leads on rating (4.8 vs 3.8) and ads (none vs shown). SpotCrime+'s advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 9). On price, ratings volume, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Covert Alert sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. SpotCrime+ asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Covert Alert holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 681 and 240 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 35% of SpotCrime+'s written reviews are positive against 93% of Covert Alert's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SpotCrime+ ships an update every 14 months, Covert Alert every 5 weeks. Both last shipped on September 23, 2026.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
SpotCrime+ versus Covert Alert: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpotCrime+Covert Alert
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.8 (681 ratings)4.8 (240 ratings) — better
Positive reviews35.2% of reviews93.2% of reviews — better
Number of ratings681 — better240
Update frequencyEvery 14 monthsEvery 5 weeks — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple TViPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS16.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size44 MB47 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperReportSee Inc.Lucrative Innovations

Customer experience

SpotCrime+

All ratings681 ratings
Positive69.9%
Neutral7.8%
Negative22.3%
Written reviews105 reviews
Positive35.2%
Neutral12.4%
Negative52.4%

Covert Alert

All ratings240 ratings
Positive95.0%
Neutral0.4%
Negative4.6%
Written reviews73 reviews
Positive93.2%
Neutral1.4%
Negative5.5%

User reviews

SpotCrime+

From 681 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Reliable information
  • 🌐 Covers wide geographic area
  • 💡 Helpful for home buyers

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Inaccurate/outdated crime data
  • 🔍 Difficult to zoom and navigate map
  • 🚫 App no longer working/supported

Covert Alert

From 240 App Store ratings

What 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

SpotCrime+

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Authentication errors
  • Crashes and freezes
  • Location services issues

Requested features

3 requests
  • Date range filter for crime data
  • Detailed crime reports within app
  • Push notifications for local incidents

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

None

SpotCrime+

No in-app purchases

9 purchases

Covert Alert

Subscriptions3
  • Direct Connect To Contacts$2.991 Month
  • Family & Friends$2.991 Month
  • Family & Friends$19.991 Year
One-time6
  • 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

Questions

Is SpotCrime+ free?
SpotCrime+ is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Covert Alert free?
Covert Alert is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, SpotCrime+ or Covert Alert?
Covert Alert is rated higher. SpotCrime+ averages 3.8 out of 5 from 681 ratings, while Covert Alert averages 4.8 from 240 ratings.
Do SpotCrime+ or Covert Alert have ads?
SpotCrime+ shows ads; Covert Alert does not.
Which is updated more often, SpotCrime+ or Covert Alert?
SpotCrime+ ships an update every 14 months, and Covert Alert every 5 weeks. Most recently, SpotCrime+ was updated on September 23, 2026 and Covert Alert on September 23, 2026.

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