Comparison

LSU Shield vs Voluntime

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

Head to head
About

LSU Shield

This safety app connects users with university safety forces during emergencies. It allows for sending crime tips with media, creating a peer-to-peer safety network for location tracking, and accessing campus safety resources.

Highlights
  • Emergency contact with university safety forces
  • Send crime tips with photos/videos
  • Peer-to-peer location tracking (Safety Check)
  • Access campus safety resources
  • Emergency procedures guide
Features
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LSU Shield is the official safety app of Louisiana State University. If you're in a dangerous situation, use the LSU Shield application to quickly and easily contact university safety forces. LSU Shield also allows you to: -Send text messages, as well as photos and videos of crime tips and suspicious behavior directly to university safety forces. -Use the Safety Check feature to create a peer-to-peer safety network. Walking to class alone and want some additional safety? Use Safety Checks to allow your friends and family to track your location during that activity. -Access campus safety resources, such as emergency procedures, directly through the app. GPS disclaimer: "Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life."

About

Voluntime

Easily track and manage volunteer hours for individuals and organizations. Streamline community service efforts with features for creating organizations, approving logs, and analyzing data. All features are available free of charge.

Highlights
  • Create and manage volunteer organizations
  • Approve or deny volunteer hour logs
  • Export logged hours
  • Data visualization and analytics
  • Shareable organization join links
  • Role-based access (Owner, Admin, Volunteer)
Features
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Voluntime is a volunteer hour tracking service focused on community service and organized volunteer efforts. Anyone can create an organization and volunteers can join and begin logging hours immediately. Voluntime was created as a solution to the complex problem of recording volunteer hours over multiple volunteers and organizations, so that nonprofits can focus more on helping their communities. With Voluntime, you can create organizations to manage your volunteers with the click of a button. Volunteers and administrators have hour logs always on hand in one place instead of dozens of loose spreadsheets and texts. Voluntime offers powerful data analytics and visualization tools to help you achieve the most with your volunteer hours. - Organization roles (Owner, Administrator, Volunteer) - Shareable organization join link - Approve/deny hour logs - Export hours for sharing or submission - Data visualization & calculators - Mobile app & website - All features free of charge

Screenshots

LSU Shield3 screens
Voluntime4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Voluntime at 4.7 against LSU Shield's 4.3. Voluntime also leads on ratings volume (851 vs 40). On price, review sentiment, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Voluntime holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Voluntime has 851 ratings behind it against 40, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 50% of LSU Shield's written reviews are positive against 46% of Voluntime's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

LSU Shield ships an update every 6 months, Voluntime every 5 months. Both last shipped on November 7, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
LSU Shield versus Voluntime: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLSU ShieldVoluntime
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (40 ratings)4.7 (851 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews — better46.2% of reviews
Number of ratings40851 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 monthsEvery 5 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.212.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size43 MB15 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLouisiana State UniversityAshvin Mittal

Customer experience

LSU Shield

All ratings31 ratings
Positive77.4%
Neutral3.2%
Negative19.4%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

Voluntime

All ratings569 ratings
Positive92.3%
Neutral2.5%
Negative5.3%
Written reviews39 reviews
Positive46.2%
Neutral17.9%
Negative35.9%

In-app purchases

None

LSU Shield

No in-app purchases

None

Voluntime

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is LSU Shield free?
LSU Shield is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Voluntime free?
Voluntime is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, LSU Shield or Voluntime?
Voluntime is rated higher. LSU Shield averages 4.3 out of 5 from 40 ratings, while Voluntime averages 4.7 from 851 ratings.
Do LSU Shield or Voluntime have ads?
Neither LSU Shield nor Voluntime shows ads.
Which is updated more often, LSU Shield or Voluntime?
LSU Shield ships an update every 6 months, and Voluntime every 5 months. Most recently, LSU Shield was updated on November 7, 2026 and Voluntime on November 7, 2026.

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