Citizen: Safety & Live Video
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How much does Citizen: Safety & Live Video cost?
Prices are current as of 6 Oct 2026.
3 subscriptions from $5.99
In the United States, Citizen: Safety & Live Video has 3 subscriptions priced $5.99 – 19.99. Free trials run 7 days or 1 month.
| Subscription | Period | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Citizen Plus | Monthly | $5.99 – 7.99 |
| Citizen Premium | MonthlyTrial: 7 days, 1 month | $5.99 – 19.99 |
| Protect Personal Monthly | MonthlyTrial: 1 month | $5.99 – 19.99 |
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| Rating / 5 | 4.7 | 4.6 | 4.8 | 4.7 | 4.5 | 4.6 | 4.9 | 4.9 | 4.6 | 4.8 | 4.6 |
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| Weekly price | — | — | — | $2.99 | $2.99 | $2.99 | — | — | $4.99 | — | $2.99 |
| Monthly price | $14.99 | $3.99 | — | $9.99 | $9.99 | $9.99 | $29.99 | $9.99 | $9.99 | — | $9.99 |
| Annual price | — | $39.99 | — | $29.99 | $39.99 | $39.99 | $24.99 | $79.99 | $39.99 | — | $39.99 |
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Citizen: Safety & Live Video reviews
4.7 out of 5, based on 522,068 reviews.
What people like
- Gives real-time updates on local incidents
- Helps you find safe routes to take
- Livestreaming feature lets you see events live
What they complain about
- Too many useless notifications flood you
- Important safety info locked behind paywall
- Sex offender details hidden unless you pay
- Support team ignores your messages completely
Check it out
Just got the app still figuring it out So far really helpful my nephew recommended it to me
No Follow Up, Mostly Spam
9/10 notifications are things like “fire truck spotted in neighborhood”, “man speaking loudly to Chipotle worker”, “potential gas leak reported 3 blocks away”. No one needs to know any of that. Then the actual useful notifications have no follow up so there’s 0 value in them. “Potential gunshot reported .2 miles from you” - ok so was there a shooting? Is someone dead .2 miles from me or was a car just backfiring nearby and an elder person called the police? Not really sure there’s any value provided from this app other than the flooding weather alerts to be completely honest.
Confused
Yesterday I attempted to alert the public of a missing 73 yr old Hispanic male & I showed helicopter above & it telling the mama description & I was shut down. Not once but like 3-4 times. It was a active event while I was trying to record very important information that the public could help get the senior home. Why I was cut off idk during such an event. I have a question I thought we get compensated for these videos? Not that it even matters but the fact that it was advertised & told us on screen we do & I’ve posted a lot of videos. Not once have I gotten anything. Idk if anyone else has. When a corporation tells me they are I expect it. $300. Why lie?? Pretty disappointing that it was untrue.
Hides registered sex offenders behind a paywall
Absolutely unacceptable that the registered sex offender feature is hidden behind a paywall. Their faces, full names and locations are not acceptable unless you pay. I get it with all the other features but this is a baseline moral obligation that citizen should consider upon for its free memberships as well.
You will learn about the bloat of calls to 911 thats for sure
update: Citizen replied to my review to let me know that it is possible to tune your notifications but forgot to mention that feature is not available in the free version. Notifications didn’t used to be so bloated in the free version. This is not a helpful safety tool since it teaches you to go numb to the notifications. App does what its supposed to I guess— notify you of emergency response and calls to 911. The app is really bad at filtering out what needs to be a PSA and so you will get a bloat of unnecessary notifications for every 911 under the sun made by your neighbors. Like “person bit by bug” or “man watering plants outside.” You cant get the full context of the call without the premium subscription so what youre left with is just a ridiculous amount of notifications of events you don’t care about. Another example, around 4th of July you will get an increase of notifications for “shots fired” or “gunshots reported” and its just fireworks…If anything you will learn that a population of your neighbors are really paranoid and will report others for simply existing outside.
Notice
I notice the app no longer has the Live Helicopter live view. I wonder why. Is it maybe because cops do more that they shouldn’t be doing? Lawsuits are always open here in USA!!!!!!!! USA!!!!USA!!!!
Unless notification filter settings clutter actually important things.
This app could be useful but it gives me 1000 notifications a day for things that don’t matter. I have it set to only give me the most important things, I’d expect a bomb or natural disaster, but instead I keep getting things like what inspired me to write this review. “Man Experiencing Chest Pain .9 miles away” is so important to Citizen that my phone buzzed. There is nothing that notification does but make me feel sad for whoever is maybe having a heart attack and somehow I’m getting another notification for it when there is nothing for me to do. I double checked and the only notification category I gave selected is “Citywide. Large incidents Citizen determines important for everyone in the City to know.” Dear Citizen, someone having chest pain in NYC is not a citywide problem.
Good
Good
So annoying
Hate hate hate the new update to send a morning update every day at 8 AM. Who wants to wake up to ‘Morning Briefing: 10 killed, 14 critically injured, 5 others shot, 3,000 people missing in earthquake’???? Dumping the app until this gets fixed. Edit: No way to turn it off. Already tried, only option is to delete the app. Good riddance.
Good but
To many vital blocked features.
Very good
I am citizen cafe
Now forces location permission
The recent update for “bug fixes and performance updates” now makes it so that if you do not give access to your location, you cannot use the app for anything other than general reports of a few things from random places around the country. No longer useful. Invasive. Sucks because it genuinely did provide me useful safety information in the past, but I’m not willing to compromise my personal privacy choices.
please make it work in canada
cool app but i’m from canada and i’d really like it if it would work so please make it happen
Could’ve been completely free
It doesn’t make sense to me how we have to pay a fee to listen to radio scanners, access events from months ago and information on offenders when that is all public information and should not be charged. I rather this app run ads on the corner of the screen than making us pay $7 per month
Good idea Bad execution
Annoyingly this app used to alert you to things in your neighborhood. Now it’s just trying to sell you upgrades. It is really no longer worth it.
The Bronx is burning we have to help us stop.
We have to be careful with the E bikes get them at the house. They’re bomb ready to explode.
Bad
Keeps too much data about you
In Canada and love this but..
I like using this app provides good information but in Canada barely anyone knows about this app so don’t know when crime happens in my area
Why an account/phone #?
:(
Alerts
Keeps telling me I have 50 alerts I check it and either have a few are none but keep saying I have 50 please fix this issue
Citizen
Keeps me updated on what I need to know and what safe routes to take day by day.
Lame
Was reading an update from a few days ago, get about a paragraph in and the whole texts blurs and tells me to upgrade to premium. Lame.
Vancouver
Just kinda sad they don’t have it in other big Canadian cities. It annoys me because I live in Vancouver but there is also places like Montreal
Right idea wrong execution
It’s a horrible app in my opinion because it hides information that should be public like why is it that if there’s a sexual defend and just moved in and down the street from me his information is hidden, but I can access it publicly anywhere else, and then on top of that I have to pay to access it on the app not only that but you have to pay to see a lot of things on this app you have to pay to see reports you have to pay to hear the radio over the and so on and so forth don’t get me wrong. The app is good but the execution about it I just don’t like the fact that I have to pay to see why there’s a sex offender living right down the street from me
$
Sucks it costs money to do bait anything in here
You make me feel safer
This app is a hidden gem because it’s like your own guardian angel with you in your pocket everywhere anywhere all at once 📲☀️🌈
Insane monetization
They have removed so many features over the years and put it behind a paywall. It’s insane how greedy these people have become.
Principal
My wife was a principal and she would do any to make sure the children were safe👍🙏
The app
I love the thought of the idea of the app but I’m sorry I’m not paying for my safety
Good app with a lot more potential.
I really like the idea behind the app. Being able to stay informed about what's happening nearby, rather than just seeing broader county-wide news, makes it genuinely useful. I also like the option to livestream incidents and get paid for contributing. Before posting this review, I spent months trying to share this feedback with the team directly. I contacted support via email and also reached out on X and Instagram, but I never received a response. What made it more frustrating is that those social media accounts were clearly active and posting regularly the whole time, yet my messages sat there unread and unanswered. Since I haven't been able to reach anyone, I wanted to share it here instead: 1. Increase the free alert radius from 1 mile to 2 miles, while keeping larger radiuses as a premium benefit. One mile is just too small of a circle to be useful, especially since a lot of what you'd actually want to know about happens right outside it. Bumping it to two would make the free experience much better while still leaving plenty of incentive to subscribe for wider coverage. 2. Be more responsive to user feedback. I understand support teams get busy, but after months of trying through multiple channels, and seeing those channels stay active while my messages went ignored, it was disappointing not to get any acknowledgment at all. Overall, Citizen is a great app with a unique purpose and a lot of potential. I genuinely want to see it keep improving, and I hope the team considers feedback like this in future updates. Worked it into both spots since it strengthens point 2 as well: the complaint isn't just "no reply," it's "no reply while visibly online," which is harder to write off as a busy support queue.
Expansion?
Are you planning on expanding into Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba? What about other areas of the world?
App doesn’t actually about safety
Good luck trying to see anything unless you’re ready to pay
Ignores user preferences
Just deleted this app. It sends an insane number of incidents per day (rather delayed from incident start) from remote locations and, although I have spent weeks trying different settings to reduce notifications, the app continues to ignore my preferences. I can effectively get the same result by just reading the national news.
Issues with premium
Paid for the premium subscription and my alerts for situations around me seemingly stopped. I decided not to renew and I get more alerts now than when I was a paid subscriber. Definitely not worth the money to subscribe.
Engineer
Great program makes you feel interactive with what’s going around from bad people 🇨🇦🌹🤠
HORRIBLE UPDATES
What is with the ANNOYING Confirmed Capture and all these numbers?? Who cares about that??!! Also get rid of the Morning Briefing. The alerts that pop up don’t even have much info to them. I would never pay for this app or at least not the ridiculous price they ask for it. Megan’s Law is a FREE search for sx offenders btw!!
The app wants to review too fast
I just added the app to my phone and was poking around trying to figure out what the heck does it do and suddenly it wants a review… Hold your horses!
Idk… felt useless
I live in Canada and I downloaded this so I could help me figure out if anything’s happening in the area but the free version doesn’t exactly do that… and I understand it’s sending me notification about everywhere because I didn’t have the paid version. However, I do not get notification about Canada so… not exactly useful but it would be useful if you got the paid version ig
Make it make sense
Pay for life saving alerts??? Cmon
Reports are very old
I looked up the reports happening live and they are from months ago and not an hour or so ago. One said someone was stuck in an elevator for last night then again today but it happened last week .
Hoping for it to be available in all of Canada
It’s a great app. You get real time updates immediately when something happens but mainly just in the USA right now. I know the SA offender list will never be available in Canada, but I hope soon they can provide updates for dangers around us here.
Please not the commodifying harm and sexual assault in order to upgrade for more news
What kind of sick person asks for more money to get further bad info? Absolutely not
Bring it to Canada!!!
We need an app like this in Canada
Maybe it works well for some cities.
Makes you sign up for their free trial with auto subscription and fill out their personal information survey before you can even see if they have data in your city.
Citizen: Safety & Live Video price by country
A monthly subscription costs $14.08 in Canada and $14.99 in the United States — 1.1× more for the same thing. Below is the going rate for each plan in every country that sells it — the middle price of what the app charges there, in the country's own currency with the dollar equivalent beneath it.
| Country | Monthly |
|---|---|
| Canada | CA$19.99$14.08 |
| United States | $14.99 |
Citizen: Safety & Live Video FAQ
- Is Citizen: Safety & Live Video free?
- Yes. The app and its basic features are free, in all 2 countries it sells in. Premium features are paid: they start from $5.99 (US), across 3 subscriptions.
- How much does Citizen: Safety & Live Video cost per month?
- Citizen Plus is $5.99 – 19.99 (US).
- Does Citizen: Safety & Live Video have a free trial?
- Yes — free trials of 7 days or 1 month (US), depending on the plan.
- Where is Citizen: Safety & Live Video cheapest?
- A monthly subscription costs CA$19.99 (≈$14.08) in Canada and $14.99 in the United States, its cheapest and dearest countries.
- What are the best alternatives to Citizen: Safety & Live Video?
- Police Scanner Radio & Fire (4.6 from 565,484 reviews, premium from $2.99), Neighbors by Ring (4.8 from 304,952 reviews) and Police Scanner: Fire Radio (4.7 from 167,505 reviews, premium from $2.99).
Citizen: Safety & Live Video download
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Citizen: Safety & Live Video sells in 2 countries. It was released 10 years and 7 months ago, on 24 Feb 2016. It holds a 4.7 rating from 522,068 reviews.
How much does Citizen: Safety & Live Video make?
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