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24 alternatives to Citizen – Real-time local crime alerts on iOS and Android
Citizen helps you stay safe & informed, by providing instant notifications and live broadcasts of reported crimes and incidents near you.
Citizen is a mobile app that provides real-time alerts about crimes and incidents happening near the user's location. The app sends push notifications when incidents occur nearby, offers live video broadcasts from the… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Citizen – Real-time local crime alerts on iOS and Android launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Facebook Local▲350Discover places to go and events happening near you
2017 · facebook.com · its alternatives →
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Motion Alarm▲82An alarm incase your phone is being stolen
2019 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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Protechme ▲97A community-driven safety app and button for fast help
2024 · protechme.com · its alternatives →
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Citizen is a web application framework I started building years ago when I was first learning Node. I've added features and improved stability/performance continuously and finally decided it was worthy of 1.0 status. I think it might appeal to devs like me (old guys) who came up on app servers like ColdFusion, .NET, PHP, etc. and prefer the server do the heavy lifting. It doesn't dictate anything about your front end, and instead tries to be as flexible as possible in providing whatever output the client might need, whether it's a single fully-rendered HTML view, partials, JSON, or…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Vigilante▲137Instant crime alerts and live broadcasts, launching in NYC
2016 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Truly local tips in 70+ cities
2018 · spottedbylocals.com · its alternatives →
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Duo▲84Chance to save lives. Mobile alerts for your gun safe & more
2018 · indiegogo.com · its alternatives →
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Get notifications whenever an attack is reported nearby
2017 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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Tribe Check▲108Miss a scheduled check-in? Automatic alerts to your tribe
2025 · unitipi.ch · its alternatives →
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Alerty▲96Send yourself push notifications from your apps and servers
2023 · alerty.dev · its alternatives →
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VoxSpot▲3Real time local updates and alerts from local users
2020 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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