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Citizen

Who runs Citizen, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest public safety app alternatives.

Who’s behind it
Not stated
Online since
Unknown
Trackers
Prices
No pricing page
Last price change
–
Closest alternative
Life360

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs Citizen

Citizen citizen.com

Citizen helps you stay safe & informed, by providing instant notifications and live broadcasts of reported crimes and incidents near you.

Wikidata: US newspaper

Company
No imprint we could read
Online since
Not in the Internet Archive
Audience
In English

02 · Privacy

What Citizen tracks

What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.

tracker that follows visitors

4 of the 16 alternatives below have fewer, 5 have more.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →
Cookie banner
None found
US company
1 tool

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to Citizen

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Citizen, thumbs down if it isn’t.

Fewer trackers than CitizenNo ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English

19 of the 60 sites closest to Citizen match.

  1. 01
    Ring ring.com Top 1K English No trackers

    Home Security Systems - Cameras, Alarms, Doorbells | Ring

    Protect your home & watch over what's important from your phone with video doorbells, security cameras, alarms, smart lighting & more.

    Compare Ring with Citizen →
  2. 02
    PubNub pubnub.com Top 10K English No trackers

    Build, manage, & optimize real-time apps at scale | PubNub

    Power your real-time app with PubNub - the world's largest pub/sub network. Scale to 3 trillion API calls/month, with <30ms global delivery. Start building now!

    Compare PubNub with Citizen →
  3. 03
    Hinge hinge.co English No trackers

    Download Hinge, the dating app designed to be deleted | Hinge

    Hinge is built on the belief that anyone looking for love should be able to find it. It’s also built on an acclaimed Nobel-Prize-winning algorithm, so we can succeed in getting you out on promising dates, not keeping you on the app.

    Compare Hinge with Citizen →
  4. 04
    Locket locketcamera.com English No trackers

    Locket - Best friends first

    Add your friends to your Home Screen, share weekly recaps, and keep your people close. Locket is for best friends first.

    Compare Locket with Citizen →
  5. 05
    Feedly feedly.com Top 10K English No trackers

    Feedly Threat Intelligence: Collect, analyze, and share actionable intelligence

    Feedly Threat Intelligence is the leading solution to collect, analyze, and share actionable cyber threat intel like vulnerabilities, cyberattacks, threat actors, and IoCs.

    Compare Feedly with Citizen →
  6. 06
    Clicky clicky.com English No trackers

    Privacy-friendly Google Analytics alternative | Real-time Web Analytics | Clicky

    Clicky's privacy-friendly web analytics is simply the best Google Analytics alternative. Monitor, analyze, & react to your website's traffic in real-time.

    Compare Clicky with Citizen →
  7. 07
    Pusher pusher.com Top 10K English No trackers

    Pusher | Leader In Realtime Technologies

    Simple, scalable and reliable. Hosted realtime APIs loved by developers and trusted by giants. Build live dashboards, notifications, geotracking, chat and more.

    Compare Pusher with Citizen →
  8. 08
    Flo owhealth.com Top 10K English No trackers

    Period tracker, ovulation tracker, pregnancy app | Flo

    Track your periods, ovulation, and pregnancy with the Flo app. Log your cycle symptoms so you can understand your body better.

    Compare Flo with Citizen →
  9. 09
    Airbridge airbridge.io Top 10K English No trackers

    Attribution for Subscription Apps | Airbridge

    See which ads and content drive installs, trials, subscriptions, and revenue. Compare results with ad spend. Try Airbridge free for 30 days.

    Compare Airbridge with Citizen →
  10. 10
    Instapaper instapaper.com English No trackers

    Instapaper

    A simple tool for saving web pages to read later on iOS, Android, computer, or eReaders.

    Compare Instapaper with Citizen →
  11. 11
    Lorex Technology lorex.com English No trackers

    Lorex Black Friday Early Access Deals on Security Cameras & Systems

    Black Friday starts early at Lorex! Save big on the security cameras and systems you want before the Black Friday rush begins.

    Compare Lorex Technology with Citizen →
  12. 12
    WhatsApp whatsapp.com Top 100 English No trackers

    WhatsApp | Secure and Reliable Free Private Messaging and Calling

    Use WhatsApp Messenger to stay in touch with friends and family. WhatsApp is free and offers simple, secure, reliable messaging and calling, available on phones all over the world.

    Compare WhatsApp with Citizen →
  13. 13
    Feeld feeld.co English No trackers

    Feeld: The Dating App for Open-Minded Individuals

    Feeld connects open-minded people exploring love, desire, and alternative relationships in a safe, inclusive space.

    Compare Feeld with Citizen →
  14. 14
    Mentimeter mentimeter.com English No trackers

    Interactive presentation & audience engagement tool - Mentimeter

    Engage your audience with live polls, quizzes, and Q&A. Create interactive presentations in minutes. Perfect for meetings, classes, and events.

    Compare Mentimeter with Citizen →
  15. 15
    Truecaller truecaller.com Top 10K English No trackers

    Truecaller – Identify Unknown Callers & Block Spam Calls

    Truecaller helps you identify unknown numbers, block spam calls and messages, and stay protected from fraud. Trusted by millions for smarter, safer communication.

    Compare Truecaller with Citizen →
  16. 16
    Proton proton.me Top 10K English No trackers

    Proton: Privacy by default

    Over 100 million people use Proton to stay private and secure online. Get a free Proton account and take back your privacy.

    Compare Proton with Citizen →
  17. 17
    stats.fm English No trackers

    stats.fm (Formerly Spotistats for Spotify)

    Your music, your stats, your story. Enter a new dimension of music by getting unique insights into your music taste.

    Compare stats.fm with Citizen →
  18. 18
    SimpliSafe simplisafe.com Top 10K English No trackers

    SimpliSafe Home Security Systems | Wireless Home Security Alarms

    Shop award-winning home security systems from SimpliSafe. Professional monitoring, protection from break-ins and hazards, and no contracts.

    Compare SimpliSafe with Citizen →
  19. 19
    Widgetsmith widgetsmith.app English No trackers

    Widgetsmith - One app; endless home screens

    Compare Widgetsmith with Citizen →

Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Citizen’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Citizen uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.

04 · History

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Citizen adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.

05 · Details

How we measure

Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.

The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 11 technologies
Neighbours
k = 60
Sites searched
9,214
Vector
384-d
Query
33 ms

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to Citizen’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.

similarity × popularity

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