vs Comparison

Citizen vs SmartNews

Who’s behind each, what their homepages track, what they cost and how often their policies changed, measured the same way for both. By what they offer, they’re very close.

Citizen

Citizen is a mobile app that sends real-time alerts about nearby crimes, fires and other incidents, with live user-submitted video and incident updates. It also offers a paid personal safety tier with agent support.

SmartNews

SmartNews is a mobile news aggregator app that collects articles from many publishers and local news sites. It combines editorial and algorithmic curation and adds a political-perspective slider, local weather and crime alerts.

Company
Not stated
Not stated
Registered in
Unknown
Unknown
Online since
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Audience
Smaller site
Smaller site
Trackers on the homepage
fewer
  • Visitor analytics: Google Analytics
  • Marketing and email tracking: HubSpot, Mailchimp, Marketo
Ad trackers
None
None
Cookie banner
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Prices
No pricing page found
No pricing page found
Last price change
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Privacy policy changes
0
0
Terms changes
0
0
Open positions
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Trackers are what each homepage loads before cookie consent; changes count since we started checking each site weekly. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.