Flex Touch vs Tyler Shield Mobile
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Flex Touch
Access common Motorola Flex features from your smartphone or tablet. Monitor agency calls, search databases for names, property, and incidents, and view alert warnings for officer safety. Stay updated with real-time call information and efficiently manage reports and comments.
- Monitor agency calls remotely
- Search agency database (names, property, incidents)
- View Flex Involvements
- Display warrant/alert warnings
- Access real-time call updates
- Add photos/documents to records
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This requires Motorola Flex 6.3 with the 2020.2.2 or later release. The Flex Touch® app is designed to provide public safety agencies a quick and convenient way to access common Motorola Flex features using a smartphone or tablet. Personnel with the proper credentials can use Flex Touch to monitor their agency’s calls from anywhere and at any time from the convenience of a mobile device. Flex Touch allows personnel to search their agency database for names, property, vehicles, and incidents from a mobile device. Personnel can also view Flex Involvements® related to any record. In addition, the module helps promote officer safety by displaying records with warrants or alert warnings. The user-friendly design makes it easy for personnel to quickly learn how to navigate the app. Flex Touch allows personnel to access real-time call updates by viewing all active calls, call nature, and any assigned units. Each user can customize the list of calls and units within the jurisdiction. Calls are organized by unit status, providing a quick way to see whether officers have arrived on the scene and if a unit’s timer has expired. When a user has been assigned to a call, that information is displayed prominently. In addition to accessing information, Touch allows first responders to more efficiently complete their work. Users can view call comments and enter their own comments from their mobile device. Using Touch, users can quickly add photos or documents from their mobile device to a record or to a report. Flex Touch requires that the agency uses Motorola Flex and has already purchased the Flex Touch module.
Tyler Shield Mobile
Enhance officer safety and preparedness with intelligent, law-specific dispatching. This app provides context-aware critical information based on role and location, ensuring mission-critical data is always accessible.
- Intelligent, law-specific dispatching
- Context-aware critical information
- Easy-to-read route to calls
- Responder location and ETA
- Instant access to building maps and plans
- Secure communications
- Real-time call details
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Police crews stay safer and better prepared using Tyler Shield Mobil created specifically for licensed users of Tyler Technologies’ Law Enforcement software solutions. With intelligent, law-specific dispatching capabilities, this app offers context awareness, which presents critical information based on your role and where and when you are. This intuitive app knows the information users need – at the moment they need it - ensuring mission-critical information is always at their fingertips with features including: • Easy-to-read route to the call • Location of other responders and their estimated time of arrival • Instant access to building maps, preplans, and tactical plans • Access to building contact information including names and phone numbers • Real-time access to call details and incident narrative • Secure communications with dispatch and other responders • Immediate access to incident summary reports • Search functionality for persons and vehicles Tyler users empower themselves using Shield Mobile with the confidence of knowing they won’t ever miss a call or be delayed waiting on others for information.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Tyler Shield Mobile at 3.8 against Flex Touch's 2.2. Tyler Shield Mobile also leads on review sentiment (53% vs 12%) and ratings volume (305 vs 30). Flex Touch's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 16.6). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Tyler Shield Mobile holds the better App Store score, 3.8 against 2.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tyler Shield Mobile has 305 ratings behind it against 30, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 12% of Flex Touch's written reviews are positive against 53% of Tyler Shield Mobile's.
Flex Touch ships an update every 4 weeks, Tyler Shield Mobile every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Flex Touch | Tyler Shield Mobile |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.2 (30 ratings) | 3.8 (305 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 12.2% of reviews | 52.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 30 | 305 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 36 MB | 147 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Motorola Solutions, Inc | Tyler Technologies, Inc |
Customer experience
Flex Touch
Tyler Shield Mobile
User reviews
Flex Touch
From 30 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Great app for work
- 👍 Ability to look up anything
- 👍 See CAD screen remotely
- 👍 Good tool for those without MDCs
- 👍 Access almost everything
Room to improve
- 🐛 Hardly works properly
- 🐛 Never connects
- 🐛 Won't stay logged in
- 🐛 Issues all the time
- 🐛 Never wants to load
Tyler Shield Mobile
From 305 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Great app overall
- 👍 Works well
- 👍 Informative for supervisors
- 👍 Useful in the field
- 👍 Great for plain clothes/uniform
Room to improve
- 👎 Not user friendly
- 👎 Unreliable in rural areas
- 👎 Was not what was promised
- 👎 Functionality doesn't work
- 👎 App keeps failing
Bugs and requests
Flex Touch
Reported bugs
39 issues- App hardly works properly
- App never connects
- App won't stay logged in
- App has issues all the time
- App never wants to load
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- App won't allow sign in
- Cannot view address advisories
- Only units and other tabs show
- Comments are ran together
- Contrast issues in dark theme
- Scrolling issues lag or log out
- App freezes on law screen
- App locks up constantly
- Poor mapping
- Inconsistent functions
- App auto-updated and now doesn't work
- App disconnects and requires login
- Latest update made app useless
- Cannot login after last update
- Current update not usable
- Rarely allows sign in
- Login failed error
- App doesn't work 75% of the time
- Optimization for full-screen removed
- Cannot change server address on iPad
- iPad version won't work past login screen
- Won't work after latest iOS update
- No calls show
- App takes many attempts to open
- Call notes will not populate
- App refreshes to the top of the call list on update
- Maps not working
- Searching cases is problematic
- App is still buggy
- Unable to login
- Cannot pull up calls
- Font size in notes is too small
- Issue with the more info button after last update
- Unreadable font colors in dark theme
Requested features
17 requests- Ability to upload photos taken from phone to FLEX/Spillman
- Add call ID numbers to screen
- Ability to search call sheets (not just incidents)
- Add messaging functionality
- Add other add-ons
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- Home screen of buttons (unit board, messaging, plate or name search)
- Phone version
- Tablet version variance
- Ability to read narrative of reports from phone
- Car Play Compatibility
- Option to use Google Maps
- Larger font option for notes
- Zoom ability or larger print
- Ability to message units from the app
- Ability to pull up address advisories in app
- More contrast for call notes (black or bold black on white)
- Option to make call note font bigger or pinch to zoom
Tyler Shield Mobile
Reported bugs
8 issues- Date of birth incorrect
- Routing function incorrect
- Can't print
- Clipping to clipboard no longer works
- App re-logs and shows in service if not shut down
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- Calls not updated
- Details not loading
- Buggy
Requested features
9 requests- Wish it had CarPlay
- Connect to Apple CarPlay
- Support for CarPlay
- Add CarPlay capabilities
- Ability to view call details of other calls when on a ticket
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- Fix issue with re-logging and showing in service
- Update in real-time without logging out
- Adjust status order
- Automatically remove secondary location when going back in service
In-app purchases
Flex Touch
No in-app purchases
Tyler Shield Mobile
No in-app purchases







