Citizen: Local Safety Alerts for PC - Free Download: Windows 10/11 Edition

★ ★ ★ Citizen Overview

What is Citizen?

Citizen is a safety app that provides real-time safety alerts and live video of incidents happening near you. It also offers updates on natural disasters or protests and allows you to know if your loved ones are near a dangerous incident. The app provides 24/7 access to a trained Protect Agent who can help whenever you feel unsafe.

Software Features and Description

1. NEW! 24/7 access to a trained Protect Agent who can discreetly help, silently monitor your live location and audio, alert other users, call 911, monitor heart rate through your apple watch and more.

2. Get real-time safety alerts and live video of incidents happening near you, updates on natural disasters or protests, and know if your loved ones are near a dangerous incident.

3. See friends on your Safety Map: Know their safety status at a glance and find out if (and when) they are near a dangerous incident in real-time.

4. Real-time Safety Alerts: Location-based notifications help you avoid potentially dangerous situations.

5. In case of emergencies, Citizen also offers the Protect subscription to help protect you and your loved ones.

6. Plus, 24/7 access to a trained Protect Agent who can help whenever you feel unsafe.

7. Citizen notifications have urged people to evacuate burning buildings, deterred school buses from nearby terrorist attacks and have even led to a rescue of a 1-year-old from a stolen car.

8. Live Breaking Video: Watch live video of an incident unfold from different angles or broadcast live from the scene.

9. Citizen may notify you of a crime in progress before the police have responded.

10. The most powerful safety app for today’s world.

11. Download Citizen to feel safer at home or out.

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Download and install Citizen: Local Safety Alerts on your computer

GET Compatible PC App

App	Download	Rating	Maker
Citizen	Get App ↲	427,330 4.73	sp0n, Inc.

Or follow the guide below to use on PC:

Select Windows version:

Windows 10
Windows 11

Install Citizen: Local Safety Alerts app on your Windows in 4 steps below:

Download an Android emulator for PC:
Get either Bluestacks or the Nox App >> . We recommend Bluestacks because you can easily find solutions online if you run into problems while using it. Download Bluestacks PC software Here >> .

Install the emulator:
On your computer, goto the Downloads folder » click to install Bluestacks.exe or Nox.exe » Accept the License Agreements » Follow the on-screen prompts to complete installation.

Using Citizen on PC [Windows 10/ 11]:

Open the Emulator app you installed » goto its search bar and search "Citizen"
The search will reveal the Citizen: Local Safety Alerts app icon. Open, then click "Install".
Once Citizen is downloaded inside the emulator, locate/click the "All apps" icon to access a page containing all your installed applications including Citizen.
Now enjoy Citizen on PC.

Download a Compatible APK for PC

Download	Developer	Rating	Current version
Get APK for PC →	sp0n, Inc.	4.73	0.1211.0

Download on Windows 11

For Windows 11, check if there's a native Citizen Windows app here » ». If none, follow the steps below:

To get started, Download the OpenPC software »
- Upon installation, open OpenPC app » goto "Playstore on PC" » click "Configure_Download" button. This will auto-download and install PlayStore on your computer.

To use Citizen,
- Login to the PlayStore we just installed
- Search for "Citizen" » then Click "Install".
- Citizen: Local Safety Alerts will now be available on your Windows start-menu.

Minimum requirements	Recommended
8GB RAM SSD Storage Processor: Intel Core i3, AMD Ryzen 3000 Architecture: x64 or ARM64	16GB RAM HDD Storage

Get Citizen on Apple macOS

Download	Developer	Reviews	Rating
Get Free on Mac	sp0n, Inc.	427330	4.73

Citizen: Local Safety Alerts functions

- Real-time safety alerts: Location-based notifications help you avoid potentially dangerous situations.

- Live breaking video: Watch live video of an incident unfold from different angles or broadcast live from the scene.

- Safety map: See friends on your Safety Map and know their safety status at a glance. Find out if (and when) they are near a dangerous incident in real-time. You can turn on Ghost Mode to keep your location private at any time.

- Keep your community safe: Report incidents right when they happen to protect the people around you.

- Trained Protect Agent: 24/7 access to a trained Protect Agent who can discreetly help, silently monitor your live location and audio, alert other users, call 911, monitor heart rate through your apple watch and more.

- Protect subscription: In case of emergencies, Citizen also offers the Protect subscription to help protect you and your loved ones.

- Privacy: You can read the Terms of Use here: https://citizen.com/privacy/protect-supplemental-tos.

✔ Pros:

- Great concept for an app that alerts users about incidents in their area

- Ability to filter events by time frame would be a useful feature

- App provides warnings about potentially dangerous situations

☹ Cons:

- Some events marked as incidents are not actually alarming or dangerous

- Low-quality videos posted by users can detract from the app's usefulness

- App's frequent requests for always-on location access can be intrusive and annoying

Top Pcmac Reviews

Location-hungry app

By ajw23682642 (Pcmac user)

I’ve allowed this app access to my location while the app is running, not always. It used to be fine with this: I continued to get alerts for things that happened in the place I last opened the app (which is what I want - I look at recent crime near home, from home, but not near work or from work, 20 miles away). The app had a little notice at the bottom of the screen asking me to change my location setting, but it didn't take up much space or interfere with my use of the app. Recently, the app is becoming more and more obnoxious about asking me to change its location access. It’s notable that the developer has evolved the “give me your location always!” screens to be more frequent, cover more of the screen, and be less easily dismissed. As of this version, it covers the whole screen and a dismiss icon only shows up after the notice has been on screen several seconds. Other than that major impediment to usability, I like the app. I live in the city and appreciate knowing where and when crime has been happening lately. I do wish the default radius were something I could configure, but that’s not a huge problem.
Interesting but needs more moderation

By n64king (Pcmac user)

They need someone to moderate this more. An Xmas parade is not an incident, to be marked by red. Police blocking off the road for an event is not cause for alarm. What is cause for alarm is when there’s a “woman exposing herself” type event and there’s like 10 comments of people being overly sexual saying they wish they didn’t miss it, people threatening others and cussing up a storm. Also it hinders the app when people post these grainy blurry smudged videos of the aftermath where they can’t hold the phone upright, obviously not a developer issue but it’s nonetheless an issue that takes away from the app. Like you’re warning me about someone with a loaded gun but you’re showing me a blurry video of you waving the phone around in the darkness and you’re yelling into the mic. It’s basically 2020 and people still don’t know how to use a phone. The idea is good and this is still useful but those issues are major.
Fun and informative.

By Amongmany (Pcmac user)

UPDATE: The always-on location requirement has become even more intrusive (ie you can't use the app without allowing always-on location access). One star and deleted. ====== Woulda been a 5-star review but the app just started prompting for always-on location access EVERY time you open the app. Not cool. Annoying enough that I'm now considering deleting an app that I tend to check on a daily basis. EDIT: The developer was kind enough to respond to my review clarifying that they do indeed perform the action that I've claimed is intrusive and annoying. But it's ok because they promise to protect my privacy in the process. "Hi there, this app's mission has always been to keep people informed and protected by using technology responsibly. We ask that you enable your location settings so that this app can work in the background, even when you're not using the app, to send you real-time, sometimes life-saving crime and safety alerts. We understand some users are concerned about their privacy when sharing their location data. We can assure you that this app protects all user data by storing as little as necessary to run our safety network. We encrypt all data and connections. And we will never share or sell user data to third parties. If your settings aren't properly configured, you will see a reminder to update them. You can dismiss that modal to continue into the app, but it will appear again the next time you open this app."
Needs tweaking

By Staya (Pcmac user)

Great concept. Two issues need to be addressed: 1) The developers need to enable “filtering of events” so that the map only shows events from the time frame the user designates. For example, you should be able to filter for events that have occurred in the past 24hrs. Or even events that have occurred over the past 2hrs. Or even a map that shows only events that have been reported within the past 30 minutes... 2) In baltimore we frequently get reports of carjackings etc that are 10 hrs off from the the time that it actually occured. The app states that “carjacking was reported on june 6” but does not report the time that the carjacking actually was called in to 911, or even the time that the victim states it occurred. Instead, it gives a time many hours later.