“Overall a decent app. But the absolutely insane amount of push notifications to pay an absolutely insane membership fee completely ruins the helpfulness of this app. Here's an idea, don't try to rake customers over the coals in fees. I'll…”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 478 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.
Citizen: Protect The World
Sp0n Inc.Citizen is the essential safety app for today's world, providing real-time sa…
4.5 ★111,568 ratings
5M+Downloads
12+Age rating
—App size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
Citizen is the essential safety app for today's world, providing real-time safety alerts, live incident videos, and 24/7 emergency assistance to keep you and your loved ones safe. Stay informed about nearby crimes, natural disasters, fires, protests, and more with instant alerts directly on your phone.
Whether you’re at home or on the go, Citizen’s location-based alerts instantly notify you of potentially dangerous situations like property crimes, vehicle pursuits, robberies, active shooter incidents, hurricanes, wildfires, and more. Find out why police helicopters or fire trucks are in your area and avoid danger before it strikes.
Please note that Citizen may notify you of a crime in progress before the police respond. It's meant to protect you and your community — please use it responsibly.
Key Features:…
Preview
Real screenshots from the store listing.
Independent evidence report
Evidence and review signals
This is where the page changes from an app-store listing into an evidence report: findings, important reviews, pricing and a dated history.
Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
This analysis describes version 0.1310.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 0.1312.0, updated 2026-09-29.
The app has been updated since this analysis. The findings on this page describe version 0.1310.0, not the version now listed on the store.
Release notes for the newer versions, in the developer’s own words:
Version 0.1312.0 · 2026-09-29
No release notes were provided for this version.
What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
2 themes reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
65–79% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
In the package we scanned
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence about the app, not a finding about it.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
Positive evidence 1
Things this app does right, published at the same strengths as the catch list.
Developer says data deletion can be requested
The developer's data-safety disclosure on the store states that users can request deletion of their data, or the app's own text offers a way to delete the account. This restates what the developer declares; it is not a test of whether deletion works. Apple publishes no equivalent disclosure, so on an Apple-only listing only the app's own text can support it.
What we saw: The developer's store data-safety disclosure states that data deletion can be requested; we have not seen a deletion control in the app's own text
One source only — shown, not confirmed 2
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
Reported by users: Upgrade prompts use guilt-trip wording
Declining an upgrade is written as a loss ('No thanks, I don't want to improve'), or users report being repeatedly pushed to subscribe during normal use.
What we saw: Constant upsell pressure: raised by 7 distinct reviewers (1.5% of 478 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Paywall blocks the basics
The core of the app — not extras — sits behind payment, or previously-free function moved behind a paywall.
What we saw: Paywall blocks the basics: raised by 25 distinct reviewers (5.2% of 478 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“cant really do much of anything or view anything without subscribing. every little thing you click on wants you to subscribe. just use crimerader, not as accurate about all the calls but at least its free and doesnt hound you to subscribe.”
“Constant notifications that are consistently urging me to pay for the subscription. It gets really annoying because I can't mute the app, or else I won't receive notifications for actual alerts.”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 0.1312.0.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
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