Engage SSF vs Solve SF
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Engage SSF
Report issues, ask questions, or share feedback with your city government directly from your smartphone. Utilize GPS for location tagging and attach photos to your submissions. Receive notifications on the status of your reported actions.
- Submit questions and complaints
- Provide positive feedback
- Use GPS for location tagging
- Attach photos to reports
- Receive action notifications
- Follow and comment on submissions
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Engage SSF lets you contact the City using your smart phone or tablet. You can send us a question, post a complaint about something we are not doing right, or give us kudos for a job well done. Using your device’s GPS, you can upload a specific location (if required) and with the use of its camera, you can attach a picture, as well. Once submitted, report will be routed to the appropriate department within the City and you will be notified when action is taken. Community members can also follow and comment on your submission. Engage SSF makes it easier than ever to reach out to the City!
Solve SF
Easily report issues to the city of San Francisco. Submit requests for street cleaning, graffiti, illegal parking, and more by taking a photo. AI automatically analyzes and categorizes your reports for the 311 service.
- Report street cleaning issues
- Submit graffiti reports
- Log illegal parking
- Report damaged public property
- AI-powered report analysis
- View submitted requests
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Report any issue to the city of San Francisco! An alternative 311 app for the residents of San Francisco. Solve SF is the easiest way to submit street cleaning, graffiti, illegal parking, street and sidewalk issues, damaged public property, park issues, tree maintenance, homeless encampment reports, and more to the San Francisco 311 service. To submit a request just take a photo and click submit. AI analyzes, describes, and categorizes your reports - so you don't have to. You can view your recently submitted requests within the app or on the official 311 service. This app has the necessary approval to use the San Francisco 311 API to submit requests to the San Francisco 311 service, but it is not affiliated with the official SF 311 app or the City of San Francisco government.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Solve SF at every 3 days against Engage SSF's every 3 months. On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Engage SSF against 4.6 for Solve SF. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 68 and 64 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 71% of Engage SSF's written reviews are positive against 79% of Solve SF's.
Engage SSF ships an update every 3 months, Solve SF every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on September 7, 2026 and September 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Engage SSF | Solve SF |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (68 ratings) — better | 4.6 (64 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 71.4% of reviews | 78.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 68 — better | 64 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 144 MB | 188 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | City of South San Francisco | Woah Finally LLC |
Customer experience
Engage SSF
Solve SF
In-app purchases
Engage SSF
No in-app purchases
Solve SF
No in-app purchases
