Alertable
Public Emergency Alerting Services Inc
4.7 ★
153 ratings
Free
In this app, you can receive and customize emergency alerts and community notifications based on your locations in Canada. Includes alerts for severe weather, public safety, community closures, and incident descriptions.
AppRecs review analysis
AppRecs rating 4.7. Trustworthiness 82 out of 100. Review manipulation risk 22 out of 100. Based on a review sample analyzed.
★★★★☆
4.7
AppRecs Rating
Ratings breakdown
5 star
81%
4 star
12%
3 star
1%
2 star
3%
1 star
3%
What to know
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Low review manipulation risk
22% review manipulation risk
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Credible reviews
82% trustworthiness score from analyzed reviews
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High user satisfaction
81% of sampled ratings are 5 stars
About Alertable
Use Alertable for locations in Canada to stay aware and plan ahead. Check in advance for community events, closures, restrictions, hazards, danger and more. Know before you go. Keep yourself and others informed and up to date with Alertable.
Notifications are fast, reliable and easy to see and hear. Personalize notifications by type and severity. Choose notifications for many locations including home, work, school, cottage, family and friends locations and more. Change your locations and other personalized options in Settings, after the fact.
Key features:
• Canada wide public safety alerts (from Canada’s Alert Ready emergency alert system)
• severe weather alerts (from Environment and Climate Change Canada)
• fast and reliable, highly optimized alert notifications
• easy to setup and use
• customizable, choose the types of critical, advisory and information alerts you wish to receive
• targeted, alerts for only locations you are interested in
• follow me, alerts for where you are at
• maps, helpful for seeing the geographical area the alert is for
• sharable, alerts can be shared on social media, email and text message
• informative, emergency descriptions, impact areas and actions to take to remain safe
• local, community notifications for closures, outages, restrictions, disruptions, re-openings,
Interruptions and more
• workplace, get alerts from your organization
• accessible, full use by people with different abilities
• multilingual, translate alerts into your device’s language setting
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Reviews for Alertable
Notapaidreviewer
Terrible UI
This review will likely get buried since the app was originally downloaded from the U.S. App Store, but the iOS version is very inferior compared to Android. The new “select the map” feature—where you pan to add a region—finally exists, but unlike Android, you’re stuck selecting a neighbourhood instead of the actual city. Trying to select Langley, BC is a nightmare. I want to highlight the whole area by dragging across the map, not drop a pin in some random neighbourhood. The neighbourhood option is useless—get rid of it. Simpler is better. There are also way too many pointless alert types like council meetings and community surveys. They clutter the interface and distract from the alerts that matter. The only reason this app doesn’t get one star is because it does a decent job with critical alerts—many of which users would miss otherwise. That’s the only thing keeping it afloat. The government contractor (think arrive can app) keeps sending test alerts because the public warning system is inadequate—basically broken. Alerts should work without mobile data like they do in other countries. Even with data, people still miss them. That's why I give the app an extra star. Another missing feature: the ability to silence specific types of alerts. I don’t need to be notified about a small car ferry 40 km away that only runs during weekday rush hours and serves a small local population. That kind of alert is irrelevant and clutters the feed. There should be an “ignore this kind of alert in the future” option to stop these low-priority and Irrelevant notifications from showing up.
Marc Charbnneau
Alertable
THE BEST app for receiving emergency messages. I would recommend this to ANYONE!
