Comparison

PunchAlert vs STOPit Admin

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

Head to head
About

PunchAlert

This safety app connects you and your community to local organizations and emergency responders. It allows for quick reporting of incidents, sharing safety tips, and managing emergencies with features like responder chat and mass notifications.

Highlights
  • Connect with local police and alert friends/family
  • Report incidents like break-ins and vandalism
  • Connect with local organizations
  • Post community events and lost pet alerts
  • Smart panic button
  • Emergency management for organizations
  • Mass notifications and responder chat
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PunchAlert is the safety app for you, your neighbors and your entire community. It’s the easiest way to stay safe, informed, and connected to the organizations in your area. Now with 911+, you can connect to local official responders better than ever before. People everywhere are using PunchAlert to: - Connect to the police while simultaneously alerting friends and family. - Quickly report a break-in, suspicious activity, vandalism, a scam or theft - Connect with places or organizations in their city that already use PunchAlert for emergency preparation and management - Post tips or events like local blood drives and neighborhood watch meetings - Help bring together lost pets with their owners - Live stress free knowing they have a smart panic button always one tap away Organizations all over the country are using PunchAlert to: - Manage emergencies from your mobile device leveraging responder chat, mass notifications, emergency plan distribution, real-time location capture inside geo-fences, crowdsourced photos and videos, and more. PunchAlert allows organizations to communicate more efficiently and resolve incidents faster, all the while creating a detailed record and report of the incident. - Crowdsource safety tips and incidents from employees, customers, or visitors. - Send announcements to employees, customers, students, or guests. - Create a community of safety Notes: Some features of PunchAlert require a data connection either through WiFi or a cellular network. During an emergency incident, continued use of GPS running in the background can decrease battery life. We monitor battery life to account for such scenarios. In the case of issues with 911+ call quality, we provide a link to call 911 outside of PunchAlert using cellular. Emoji icons supplied by EmojiOne. A copy of our Terms of Use can be found here: https://app.punchalert.com/_policies/EULA.html -------------------------- Subscription Information Individual Monthly (Recurring) Plan $0.99/month Your subscription payment will be charged to your iTunes Account at the confirmation of your purchase. Your subscription will automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the subscription period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current subscription period, at the same price as the current subscription. You can manage your subscription and auto-renewal by going to your iTunes Account Settings after purchase. --------------------------

About

STOPit Admin

This app allows administrators to manage anonymous incident reports from their mobile devices. It facilitates real-time communication with reporters and provides tools to track, update, and assign incidents. Stay informed with push notifications for new activity.

Highlights
  • Manage incidents anonymously
  • Real-time communication with reporters
  • Update incident status and details
  • Assign incidents to team members
  • Receive push notifications
  • Secure administrator login
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Anonymous Reporting Made Easy - The STOPit Mobile app, Web app, and Hotline provide a safe and comfortable way for students, employees, and public groups to share information in real-time. STOPit equips administrators to provide help quickly and get ahead of a situation, before it spirals out of control. Use STOPit to anonymously receive alerts about inappropriate conduct or safety concerns such as harassment, bullying, ethics or compliance violations, weapons possession, hazing, safety hazards, threats, assault, illegal activity, or requests for help. The STOPit Admin app allows authorized STOPit administrators to access and manage incidents from their mobile devices. The following incident management features of the desktop interface are available in the app: *List incidents by status *View details of an incident *Chat via private messenger with incident reporters *Update type, status, target, perpetrator, labels, actions taken *Assign incidents to people or groups *Escalate incidents STOPit Admin remembers your login, so you don’t have to re-enter it every time you want to manage incidents. Stay informed with push notifications to your mobile device. New incidents, new messages, and new assignments help you stay up to date on STOPit activity. The built-in STOPit Messenger gives administrators handling incidents direct communication with the people who sent in the reports. Download the STOPit Admin app for free and use your existing administrator login.

Screenshots

PunchAlert3 screens
STOPit Admin3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: STOPit Admin at none against PunchAlert's 1. STOPit Admin also leads on ratings volume (276 vs 83). PunchAlert's advantage is review sentiment (75% vs 50%) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months). On price, rating, ads 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. PunchAlert sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $0.99 per month. STOPit Admin asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for PunchAlert against 4.4 for STOPit Admin. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 83 and 276 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 75% of PunchAlert's written reviews are positive against 50% of STOPit Admin's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PunchAlert ships an update every 3 weeks, STOPit Admin every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 16, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
PunchAlert versus STOPit Admin: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPunchAlertSTOPit Admin
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (83 ratings) — better4.4 (276 ratings)
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews — better50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings83276 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS13.013.0
Further details — not scored
Size186 MB62 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPunch Technologies, Inc.Lightspeed Solutions, LLC

Customer experience

PunchAlert

All ratings83 ratings
Positive90.4%
Neutral0.0%
Negative9.6%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%

STOPit Admin

All ratings276 ratings
Positive84.1%
Neutral2.2%
Negative13.8%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

PunchAlert

Subscriptions1
  • PunchAlert 911+$0.991 Month
None

STOPit Admin

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is PunchAlert free?
PunchAlert is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is STOPit Admin free?
STOPit Admin is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, PunchAlert or STOPit Admin?
PunchAlert is rated higher. PunchAlert averages 4.5 out of 5 from 83 ratings, while STOPit Admin averages 4.4 from 276 ratings.
Do PunchAlert or STOPit Admin have ads?
Neither PunchAlert nor STOPit Admin shows ads.
Which is updated more often, PunchAlert or STOPit Admin?
PunchAlert ships an update every 3 weeks, and STOPit Admin every 3 months. Most recently, PunchAlert was updated on September 16, 2026 and STOPit Admin on September 23, 2026.

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