AAPD CE vs Scam Signal
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
AAPD CE
Access continuing education courses and presentation slides for pediatric dentistry. This app is a resource for attendees to refer back to CE hours, certifications, topics, and speakers. It's useful for studies and dental practices.
- Access continuing education courses
- View presentation slides
- Track CE hours and certifications
- Refer to specific topics and speakers
- Resource for studies and practice
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****FOR AAPD ATTEDNEES ONLY**** The AAPD Continuing Education mobile application allows you to access to continuing education courses specific to pediatric dentistry. This app contains all presentation slides which you can refer back to when submitting CE hours and certifications. Refer to this app on site to see specific topics and speakers. This is a great resource to utilize in your studies or dental practices.
Scam Signal
Learn to identify and avoid various types of scams through interactive games and realistic scenarios. This app provides tools to analyze suspicious messages, understand scam tactics, and develop safe responses. It's designed to be a private, educational resource with no ads or tracking.
- Realistic scam practice scenarios
- Six signal arcade games
- In-depth story scenarios
- Offline case file analysis
- URL structure analysis tool
- Scam recovery checklists
- Private by design, no tracking
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Scam Signal helps you recognize the moment a message stops being normal and starts applying pressure. Practice with realistic texts, direct messages, calls, marketplace offers, job pitches, school notices, account alerts, deepfakes, gaming traps, ticket scams, rentals, and crypto schemes. Every decision explains the signals that mattered, without streak pressure or shame. PLAY SIX SIGNAL ARCADE GAMES • Signal Sprint: make quick scam-or-reasonable calls • Domain Duel: find the real host in a web address • Pressure Decoder: identify urgency, fear, secrecy, authority, and other tactics • Red Flag Rush: uncover the complete warning-sign pattern • Recovery Relay: put urgent recovery actions in a safer order • Exit Line Studio: build direct responses that end the conversation GO DEEPER Work through 32 longer story scenarios across ten themed packs. Search seven offline case files, save the patterns you want to remember, earn Signal Points, improve best scores, and unlock badges. INSPECT WITHOUT OPENING Paste a suspicious address into Link Lab. Scam Signal checks only the written structure of the URL on your device. It never visits the page, follows redirects, uploads the address, or stores link history. GET HELP IN THE MOMENT Copy an exact exit line when someone is applying pressure. If money, a password, a code, identity details, or remote access were already shared, choose what happened for a calm, ordered recovery checklist. MEET THE CREATOR Read why high school senior Duncan Schwindt created Scam Signal, what Teens Against Scams is working to prevent, and continue learning through the companion online field guide. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No ads. No analytics. No tracking. No cloud profile. Practice progress and settings stay on your device. Scam Signal is an educational tool. A low link score is not a guarantee of safety, and a high score is not proof of a crime. Verify through official apps, independently obtained contact details, and trusted people.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: AAPD CE at 211 against Scam Signal's 9. AAPD CE also leads on iOS requirement (15.5 vs 17.0). Scam Signal's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.8). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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.
Scam Signal holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: AAPD CE has 211 ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
| Parameter | AAPD CE | Scam Signal |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (211 ratings) | 5.0 (9 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 211 — better | 9 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 82 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | The American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry | Brandon Schwindt |
Customer experience
AAPD CE
Scam Signal
In-app purchases
AAPD CE
No in-app purchases
Scam Signal
No in-app purchases









