My Earthquake Alerts Pro

My Earthquake Alerts Pro Review: Ad-Free Quake Log, Not an Early Warning

What $2.99 Pro Removes, and Why It Is a Separate App

The free build, listed as My Earthquake Alerts - Map on Google Play with more than 10 million downloads, carries ads and offers no in-app purchase to remove them. Pro is a second app at $2.99 in the U.S. App Store and Google Play, and the developer has told a paying user who still saw ads that they were probably opening the free copy, which stays installed until deleted. On iPhone, Pro adds an Apple Watch app for watchOS 10 and runs on Apple Vision, and its only listed in-app purchase is a $0.99 Buy us a coffee tip. Map, list, search and alerts are otherwise identical. Prices vary by region; check the store.

Notification Type, Within Distance and the One-Rule Limit

Alerts hang on a single Notification Type setting. Developer replies point users to My Country for national alerts and Within Distance for a radius around their location, while the Recent list follows a separate Show Region option and can be re-sorted by Distance Away. The catch is that only one rule applies at a time. You cannot ask for every quake near home plus only the larger ones elsewhere, a request Play reviewers made in 2020 and were still making in August 2026. Each event opens a detail card with magnitude, depth, exact location and distance from you, and since an April 2026 iPhone update some larger quakes also get an intensity map.

Minutes After, Not Seconds Before: MyShake and Android Alerts Compared

The app does not sense shaking itself. According to the developer, a push goes out once an agency such as USGS, EMSC or Red Sísmica de Puerto Rico has published the event, which normally takes a few minutes and longer for quakes few people felt. Recent Play reviews from Pro buyers describe that delay, and some report local quakes that never triggered an alert. In California, Oregon and Washington, warnings that can beat the shaking come from ShakeAlert through MyShake from UC Berkeley or the Earthquake Alerts setting built into Android, which runs Google's own system in other countries. Both cover magnitude 4.5 and up, and Google notes alerts may still arrive during or after shaking.

Pro's Clean Data Labels Versus the Free Build's AdMob and Opensignal SDKs

Pro's Google Play label declares no sharing with third parties, only optional location and a device ID used for app functionality, and its App Store label lists location and a user ID as not linked to you. The free Android build declares location, device IDs and diagnostics shared for advertising and analytics, and says data is not encrypted in transit. Its privacy policy names AdMob, Appodeal, Firebase Analytics and Crashlytics, plus the Opensignal and Low Lag Labs network-measurement SDKs, which stop once you revoke location permission. On iPhone both editions may use location while closed; on Android the developer says the app relies on Google's periodic location checks rather than constant GPS.