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For urban residents and safety-conscious individuals seeking real-time situational awareness and professional emergency support.
Known forCitizen: Safety & Live Video
Citizen: Safety & Live VideoFor urban residents and safety-conscious individuals seeking real-time situational awareness and professional emergency support.
Citizen: Safety & Live VideoProviding real-time situational awareness and professional emergency assistance to help urban residents protect themselves and their communities.
Target audience
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Citizen: Safety & Live Video
v0.1288.0
3mo ago
Primary focus
Real-time community safety and emergency alerts
Scale
indie
Target audience
Urban residents and safety-conscious individuals seeking real-time situational awareness and professional emergency support.
Origin
Founded to develop technology that enables communities to watch out for each other through real-time information sharing.
Maintains a consistent update cadence for its single flagship title, with 4 releases in the last 6 months and a major update within the last week.
1 app analysed
Protect yourself with live emergency news alerts & 24/7 community crime updates.
24/7 professional Safety Agent monitoring
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Neutral / mixed
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Negative apps
22/100
Avg sentiment score
The most direct competitor in the community-sourced safety space, leveraging a massive installed base of hardware (Ring cameras) to provide automated incident reporting that rivals Citizen's manual crowdsourcing.
Strategic outlook coming soon.
What fed this analysis
Dominates the 'personal/family safety' segment with high-frequency location tracking and crash detection, competing for the same 'peace of mind' user budget.
Directly competes with Citizen’s premium 'Protect' features by offering a dedicated emergency button and professional dispatch services.
A high-velocity news aggregator that uses safety alerts as a primary retention hook for local audiences.
A dominant player in environmental safety alerts, often used alongside Citizen for comprehensive situational awareness.
The official government alternative for large-scale disaster alerts and recovery resources.
Provides the raw audio source that Citizen's analysts use, appealing to 'power users' who want unfiltered emergency data.
A specialized peer focusing on environmental safety with a high-velocity update cadence (25 releases in 6 months).
A 2025 entrant focusing on the intersection of dispatch audio and real-time mapping, directly challenging Citizen's core UI.
