Alibi vs ASAM
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Alibi
Need a quick way to get out of a commitment? This app provides expertly verified excuses to help you procrastinate or avoid unwanted situations. Find the perfect reason for any scenario.
- Verified excuses
- Procrastination help
- Excuse generation
- Avoidance tool
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Alibi is the ultimate excuses app. If you're in a pickle and urgently need to find an excuse, then look no further! Alibi will provide you with an expert (me) verified excuse that will help you procrastinate.
ASAM
Access and search detailed reports on hostile maritime activities like piracy and kidnapping. This app provides critical safety information for mariners, enabling them to recognize, prevent, and avoid potential threats at sea, even without an internet connection.
- Download anti-shipping activity messages
- Search and view incident reports
- Query maritime activity data
- Offline access to reports
- Increase maritime safety awareness
- View geographic locations of incidents
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Anti-shipping Activity Messages (ASAM) include the geographic location and the reported descriptive accounts of specific hostile acts against ships, crews and passengers which include incidents of piracy, robbery, hi-jacking and kidnapping. Such reports may be useful for mariners traveling to or through active areas for recognition, prevention and avoidance of potential hostile activity. The ASAM Mobile app allows users to download all ASAMs to their mobile device and search, view, and query them independent of a data connection to increase maritime safety awareness. This app was developed by NGA in collaboration with Booz Allen Hamilton and contributors at GitHub (https://github.com/ngageoint/anti-piracy-iOS-app).
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: ASAM at 4.5 against Alibi's 3.0. ASAM also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 67%) and ratings volume (15 vs 4). Alibi's advantage is update cadence (every 4 months vs every 30 months) and iOS requirement (7.0 vs 14.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
ASAM holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 15 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of Alibi's written reviews are positive against 100% of ASAM's.
Alibi ships an update every 4 months, ASAM every 30 months. Both last shipped on November 1, 2026.
| Parameter | Alibi | ASAM |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (4 ratings) | 4.5 (15 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 15 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months — better | Every 30 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 7.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pete Pane | National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency |
Customer experience
Alibi
ASAM
In-app purchases
Alibi
No in-app purchases
ASAM
No in-app purchases
