Learn Whirlpool vs SaferCar
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Learn Whirlpool
Access training content for KitchenAid, Maytag, and Whirlpool appliances. Quickly find resources with smart search and save favorites for offline viewing.
- Appliance training content
- Smart search functionality
- Favorites feature
- Offline viewing
- Support for multiple brands
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Get all the latest, feature-filled content for appliances across the KitchenAid®, Maytag®, and Whirlpool® brands. Our "Smart Search" tool gives you the ability to quickly browse all the training content offered, while our "Favorites" feature offers you the ability to collect resources and save them offline for viewing.
SaferCar
Stay informed about automotive safety recalls directly from the official source. Enter your vehicle's VIN or details about tires and car seats to receive background notifications for any safety recalls affecting your owned equipment. Access NHTSA's 5-Star Safety Ratings and car seat tools.
- Vehicle recall notifications
- VIN entry for multiple vehicles
- Recall alerts for tires and car seats
- NHTSA 5-Star Safety Ratings
- Car seat installation tools
- Background operation for alerts
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SaferCar is your connection to automotive safety recall information directly from the official source—the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Every year, NHTSA manages millions of recalls affecting vehicles, tires, car seats and related equipment. SaferCar will notify you about any safety recalls affecting your vehicle or equipment as long as you leave it running in the background. With the SaferCar app, you can: • Enter a vehicle identification number (VIN) for as many vehicles as you own. Your virtual garage will accept VINs for cars, trucks, vans, SUVs, motorcycles and more. • Enter any related automotive products you own that could be subject to safety recalls, like tires, car seats and trailers. • Opt-in to receive notifications on your mobile device for each of the vehicles and products you’ve entered. • Know you’ll be better informed should any recall impact your vehicle or related equipment. • Check out NHTSA 5-Star Safety Ratings, and our online car seat tools that help you find the right seat, understand ease-of-use and check to make sure it’s installed correctly. • Know that NHTSA will never store or share your user data. To protect your privacy, NHTSA doesn’t store your device or VIN information on a server in order to send you a notification when a new recall is issued. This means SaferCar needs to run in the background so it can check for recall updates periodically from your device. If you force quit SaferCar, immediately reopen the app. From Apple: You should force an app to close only if it’s unresponsive.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: SaferCar at 2.9 against Learn Whirlpool's 2.0. SaferCar also leads on update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 7 months) and ratings volume (114 vs 12). Learn Whirlpool's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 13.0). 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.
SaferCar holds the better App Store score, 2.9 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SaferCar has 114 ratings behind it against 12, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 13% of Learn Whirlpool's written reviews are positive against 21% of SaferCar's.
Learn Whirlpool ships an update every 7 months, SaferCar every 6 weeks. Both last shipped on October 17, 2026.
| Parameter | Learn Whirlpool | SaferCar |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.0 (12 ratings) | 2.9 (114 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 12.5% of reviews | 20.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 12 | 114 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 71 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Whirlpool Corporation | NATIONAL HIGHWAY TRAFFIC SAFETY ADMINISTRATION |
Customer experience
Learn Whirlpool
SaferCar
Bugs and requests
Learn Whirlpool
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
SaferCar
Reported bugs
58 issues- VIN Lookup Error
- App crashes on opening
- App freezes after prompts
- App won't open with iOS 14
- App flickers and disappears
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- Initial load stuck on 'what's new' pop-up
- App crashes repeatedly
- App won't launch
- App instantly closes
- VIN entry fail is persistent
- Cannot scan VIN
- Too many characters in VIN message
- VIN already in use error
- Recall details not accessible by tapping
- App shows incorrect vehicle year
- Search tool broken, fixed list only
- Cannot add second car
- VIN not recognized
- Models not available
- Cannot find VIN entry option
- App doesn't work after iOS 14 update
- App crashes when trying to launch
- App stops working with iOS 14
- App crashes upon launch
- Database not up to date
- VIN not recognized for motorcycle
- Cannot add vehicles or devices
- Home icon doesn't direct to home page
- App doesn't take VINs
- VIN lookup fails every time
- Backend problem prevents VIN submission
- Cannot add older vehicles
- VIN entry fails
- App doesn't find truck
- App can't find any vehicles from VIN search
- App cannot find camper van VIN
- App crashes on opening
- App doesn't work
- App crashes repeatedly
- App won't open
- App crashes when trying to launch
- App crashes
- App doesn't work after iOS 14 update
- App crashes when trying to launch
- App stops working with iOS 14
- App crashes upon launch
- Database not up to date
- VIN not recognized for motorcycle
- Cannot add vehicles or devices
- Home icon doesn't direct to home page
- App doesn't take VINs
- VIN lookup fails every time
- Backend problem prevents VIN submission
- Cannot add older vehicles
- VIN entry fails
- App doesn't find truck
- App can't find any vehicles from VIN search
- App cannot find camper van VIN
Requested features
12 requests- Allow searching for any vehicle recalls, not just owned ones
- Remove vehicle tracking limit
- Allow users to write notes for vehicles
- Adjust notification times
- Improve VIN barcode auto-identification
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- Allow VIN identification from cropped photos
- Improve contrast and placement of 'add vehicle' button
- Add a 'My Garage' section that doesn't replace the home screen
- Allow adding more than one vehicle
- Enable VIN pasting
- Server-side recall checking for privacy
- Allow users to search for any vehicle recalls, not just owned ones
In-app purchases
Learn Whirlpool
No in-app purchases
SaferCar
No in-app purchases
Questions
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