Covert Alert vs Say Help
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Covert Alert
This app provides hands-free emergency alerts via voice activation using custom keywords. It sends real-time GPS, audio streams, and recordings to your chosen contacts, ensuring help arrives quickly when you can't physically reach a button.
- Hands-free voice activation
- Customizable emergency keywords
- Real-time GPS tracking
- Live-streaming audio
- Emergency recordings with cloud storage
- Instantaneous alerts to contacts
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What’s the one thing you always have on you? Your cell phone. In an emergency, there’s no guarantee that you have the use of your hands. You will need to get help from the person that can help you NOW, not later. Currently, Americans make around 240 million 911 calls per year, which are routed through 8,900 dispatch centers, and regulators estimate that as many as 10,000 lives can be saved each year by reducing 911 response times by just one minute. Covert Alert offers users “Safety in Seconds,” by implementing several key features that are designed for real world emergencies like real-time GPS, live-streaming audio, emergency recordings, cloud storage for the recordings, instantaneous alerts to various safety nets, AI filtering of emergency type, geofencing, and more. Most safety apps on the market require the push of a button. Covert Alert is the only safety application on the market using hands free activation to notify user networks of emergency situations. The most important feature of this app is its ability to be activated covertly, and communicate directly with users’ chosen emergency contacts, all completely hands free. Upon downloading this app, the user has the option to customize three key phrases for three types of emergencies: crime, medical, and fire. Each emergency uses a different set of custom keywords, and if an emergency were to arise, the user simply states their keywords for that emergency type, even if the phone is locked. This triggers an emergency alert, and will aid in saving those valuable seconds in an emergency. With the free version of our app, users have the option to select up to five emergency contacts that emergency notifications will go to. This puts your safety back into the hands of those you trust most. Think of this first tier as Safety Net 1. Real-time GPS notifies the user’s emergency contacts of the exact location of the emergency and gives them an opportunity to track the situation with specific and valuable situational information. With the paid subscription, the user’s network has an opportunity to listen in with our live-streaming audio feature, which can drastically improve response time, and allow the user to provide even more situation information as the emergency event unfolds. Our in-app purchases give users more power when it comes to emergency situations than any other option on the market. Users have the option to purchase more emergency text messages, recording minutes, and more all within our in-app store. There will NEVER be advertisements in-app, personal data will not be collected, and the app only tracks location when armed in “Protection Mode,” because this is a safety app first and foremost. Personal safety has never been this high-tech and affordable…EVER! Features: Hands free, speech activation, which is triggered by user specific keywords or numbers stated while the app is in “Protection Mode.” Instantaneous alerts, which send messages and real time GPS location to designated contacts, informing them of the situation that the user is in. Recording up to 15 minutes (with the option to purchase more) in any emergency situation, which is saved to the user's device and backed up in a personal cloud that can be accessed at www.covertalert.com. Full customization of keywords used to trigger alerts sent to designated contacts. App Highlights: Personal safety app with voice activation. Record audio in emergency situations. Live-streaming direct to contacts. Share GPS location with friends and family. For more information about Covert Alert including our privacy policies, a complete user guide, additional features, or email addresses and phone numbers for support, visit us at www.covertalert.com, and visit our Tiktok at tiktok.com/@covertalertapp We never sell your data, we never jeopardize our customers’ privacy. Covert Alert uses GPS in the background. Note: continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.
Say Help
This app provides a patent-pending automated service to alert emergency contacts with your exact location and real-time video during critical situations. It's designed for scenarios where speaking is not an option or time is of the essence, offering an alternative to traditional emergency calls.
- Automated emergency contact alerts
- Real-time location tracking
- Live video and audio streaming
- Manual and voice-activated alerts
- Detailed user profile sharing
- Web-based portal for contacts
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Patent-pending automated service for those critical situations that require you to alert Family and Friends (Emergency Contacts) through your profile with exact location and real-time video from your mobile phone. Say Help™ was developed by local law enforcement officers and inspired by the kidnapping of two young women in Indiana who bravely used their smartphone to record video of their capturer. Had Say Help™ been available to them then, they would be here today to tell their story. You have heard of situations where a victim needed emergency assistance but was unable to call any assistance (Friends, Family, Police, etc.) because their silence was necessary to prevent drawing attention to themselves (e.g. school shootings, bank robbery, home invasion/burglary, etc.). Or intense, rapidly evolving situations when they did not have the time to dial Family and Friends, provide them with their location, and describe the situation (e.g. domestic violence, medical emergency, robbery, kidnapping, assault, abduction, shooting, etc.). Say Help™ addresses these situations. Say Help™ requests emergency help by sending a text message (including WhatsApp) to your Family and Friends (Emergency Contacts of your Choice). This message can be sent manually using the app, or automatically through stating “Help! Help! Help!” The SMS text message contains a unique link to your Family and Friends to open a web-based portal to view your: * Basic identifying information, including your: - Photo - Name - Gender - Age - Address - Phone number - Vehicle information - Medical conditions - Emergency contacts * GPS information, including: - Current location - Where you have been since your request for help was sent - Current direction and speed of travel - The floor you are on (if in a building with this technology). Family and Friends have the ability to interact with you by: * Viewing live video through your device’s camera * Hearing live audio from your device’s microphone * Tracking your location if you are on the move Say Help™ should never take the place of calling 911 when you are able to do so but provides an alternative when you are unable to do so because your silence is necessary, or time is of the essence because of an intense, rapidly evolving situation. Your Privacy Is Important! Your information is sent to your Friends and Family members and terminates when you want it to terminate. If your attacker attempts to terminate his identity from being streamed, they are unable to do so. Historical information sent to Family and Friends can only be accessed by the developers of Say Help Team. However, upon receipt of a court order, we will provide information to law enforcement to assist their prosecution of your attacker. Our patent-pending service out-performs our competitors in many ways: * Your situation is continuously monitored. Say Help™ continuously monitors your critical incident until you terminate the transmission of information. * Your silence can request help. Unable to speak to prevent drawing attention to yourself? You can summons help manually with the click of a button within the app and provide to Family and Friends with your location and a live stream video/audio of the incident. * Your voice can request help. Does the situation involve a medical emergency, or is so intense and rapidly evolving that you do not have the time to required to reach out to your emergency contacts and provide your location and describe the situation? Say Help™ will do this for you by stating “Help! Help! Help!” Call when you can, say “Help! Help! Help!” if you can’t. Initial Say Help version is for Family Friends Only. Ability to contact 911, Police and/or Dispatcher is coming in future software versions. Visit sayhelp.com for more information. Terms of Use: https://sayhelp.com/tos Privacy Policy: https://sayhelp.com/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Covert Alert at 240 against Say Help's 2. Say Help's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.8). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Covert Alert sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Say Help sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Say Help holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Covert Alert has 240 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Covert Alert ships an update every 5 weeks, Say Help monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and August 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Covert Alert | Say Help |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (240 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 93.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 240 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 47 MB | 188 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Lucrative Innovations | Say Help |
Customer experience
Covert Alert
Say Help
Bugs and requests
Covert Alert
Reported bugs
8 issues- Email verification landing in spam and verification loop issues
- Recording feature not sending to emergency contacts
- Purchased minutes/credits not updating in account
- Default phrase settings not persisting
- Keywords and voice commands not triggering alerts
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- Text alerts not being received by contacts
- App spinning/freezing during setup
- Voice activation not detecting whispers
Requested features
6 requests- Tutorial videos demonstrating app usage
- Improved whisper/low-volume voice recognition
- More frequent location updates (5 minutes instead of 15)
- Better onboarding and user education
- Offline alert capability without mobile balance
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- Broader marketing beyond women-focused audience
Say Help
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Covert Alert
- Direct Connect To Contacts$2.991 Month
- Family & Friends$2.991 Month
- Family & Friends$19.991 Year
- 15 Additional Minutes$2.99
- 50 Additional Text Messages$2.99
- 100 Additional Text Messages$3.99
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- 30 Additional Minutes$4.99
- 60 Additional Minutes$7.99
- 120 Additional Minutes$10.99
Say Help
- Premium$3.991 Month
- Premium3 Days trial$4.991 Month









