SITREP

I like getting the push notifications on major breaking news, and I really like how the data is organized in the briefings. 5 stars if I could dial in which push notifications I get because it's too much currently, and I've only got a handful of countries on my watch list that I want updates on periodically. Overall, great work team 💪💪

The apps works but I keep getting old notifications and old news about things that aren’t happening and isn’t being covered by any other sources.

I downloaded this app and immediately had doubts about its security. After digging into its permissions and background activity, I became concerned that it might be collecting more data than it needs. Based on the behavior and lack of transparency from the developers, I don’t believe they have the infrastructure or experience to protect user data. Use at your own risk.

TLDR: great for tips and leads for further investigation. Extremely unreliable in its current format and the UI is frankly bad. As a graduate student (US citizen, English language speaker) studying global intelligence with a focus on cybersecurity and defense intelligence, this app has been an interesting novelty over the course of my trial period and it has provided me some breaking news I would have otherwise missed. However, for an average user unable to proactively vet sources— or for a user with significant time constraints— this app represents an informational overload. Absent the ability to directly investigate the “curated” sourcing of specific briefings/notifications, it is NOT an authoritative source for breaking intelligence, even in cases where sourcing could later be evaluated as credible. The app has huge potential and I will continue to use it but if you are seeking an authoritative source, without the need to extensively vet the claims provided, I HIGHLY advise seeking a different product. Additionally, there are frequent UI bugs that make the design of the app unintuitive and decrease its usability. The map feels like a gimmick that takes away from the readability on the reports, forcing you to scroll frequently while looking as a map display that takes up 1/3-1/2 of your device’s screen while providing no additional information. At $10/mo I cannot recommend this application, despite its novelty and ingenuity. It increases the uncertainty of a decision-maker and likely exposes them to superfluous/ extraneous data unrelated to their needs as an intelligence consumer, in its present form. If these challenges can be overcome, this is a revolutionary platform for a wide variety of users.

As a news junkie I’ll never use anything else. This is bar none, the best app available for real time breaking news & events. I get notified on SitRep HOURS, sometimes DAYS before the major outlets pick it up. I feel this has so much potential to change reporting & information sourcing as we know it. If you wanna be first in the know give it a shot.

I love how quick the updates are. Seems to be a constant rate of information coming in. It’s great to read news from literally the whole world.

I love the reporting, and the followed tab is excellent. 5 stars for those! What irks me is having to log in half the time I open the app. Please, just keep me logged in. This is what takes it down stars in my book.

As someone who travels regularly, having SITREP keeps me informed at all times without having to search every individual country. SITREP is simply the only app that does this.

This app is a cool idea. It’s a little slow. The updates all seem to be sourced from mainstream news unlike its claim to also source from social media channels. The use of AI is excessive and becomes repetitive quickly. The same bad prompts lead to paragraphs and paragraphs of useless text. The historical context which is also generated by AI doesn’t seem to include recent history so they’re using a model that doesn’t consume the very breaking news they claim to support. It would at least be much better with Grok as a backend because the historical analysis is always out of context. I think $10 is prob too much monthly even if everything was fixed.

This initially helped us see everything going on worldwide, putting the information we needed all in one place so we could prioritize events for discussion, but In the SITREP reports, we received frequent inaccuracies, some small, some large (such as referring to certain well known government officials by incorrect title or position on more than one occasion). Additionally, my group (consisting of Democrats and Republicans alike) seemed to agree, the information we were receiving tended to have a significant amount of political bias, both in the information provided and analysis. We could care less if you lean left or right. We rely on facts and information only. We don’t care about politics or agendas. This was an interesting concept but it seems to have missed the mark. Subscription cancelled.