CFSScan vs Be Informed
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CFSScan
Access real-time emergency services pager messages with push notifications for custom rules. View detailed incident information, search historical data, and find nearby water points. The app also provides live traffic updates and route planning.
- Real-time push notifications
- Custom rule alerts
- Historical incident search
- Detailed incident information
- Map point referencing
- Live pager feed
- Water point and stand pipe locator
- Real-time traffic and route planning
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The CFSScan Official mobile application gives you real time access to the SA GRN Emergency services pager messages. Receive real-time push notifications for your custom rules and perform historical search. Access detailed incident information including map point referencing and agency tasking. Instance access to the Live Pager feed. The feed stays awake while you change pages keeping you up to date. Find all previous incidents with our advanced key word searching algorithms. Manage your account and push notifications directly from the application. Locate your nearest water point and standpipe while on route. Gather Realtime traffic details and plot the best route to the incident.
Be Informed
Stay informed about emergencies and fire bans in South Australia. Get real-time updates on incidents like bushfires, accidents, and floods, along with fire ban forecasts. The app uses your location to highlight nearby events and offers map views for better preparedness.
- Real-time incident alerts
- Fire ban information and forecast
- Fuel prices
- Incident clustering on maps
- Location-based incident display
- Multiple map tile options
- Dark/Light UI modes
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Be Informed is a mobile application that keeps you in the know. Stay safe in South Australia. We tap into the latest incidents, warnings and fire ban information feed from the CFS, and fuel data from data provided by the State of South Australia*. We will show you the status and location of important events such as: * Burn offs * Bushfires * Animal rescues * Vehicle accidents * Gas leaks * Fallen trees * Floods * Storms * Bushfire “Safer Places” and “Last Resort Refuge” information … and many more! In addition to the incidents and warnings feed, Be Informed displays the CFS’s Fire Ban information for the State * Each region in South Australia mapped out and listed * Four-day fire ban forecast You can use the fire ban and incident information to be prepared whenever you go travelling and camping in South Australia Features * Fuel Prices * Major Incident display on the main screen so you can focus on what’s important * List of all incidents in South Australia * Refreshes list of incidents automatically * Clusters incident icons so you can zoom in further and learn more * Satellite, terrain and regular map tiles * Display Safer Place and Last Resort Refugee information around South Australia * Dark/Light UI mode compatibility * Full screen UI The application can use your location to show you the closest incidents. Stay Informed with Be Informed! --- * This app is based on or contains data provided by the State of South Australia (Office of Consumer and Business Services 2021-2023. Copyright of the State of South Australia.) Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: CFSScan at none against Be Informed's 1. CFSScan also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months). Be Informed's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (15 vs 17.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Be Informed sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $0.99 per month. CFSScan asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for CFSScan against 5.0 for Be Informed. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 31% of CFSScan's written reviews are positive against 38% of Be Informed's.
CFSScan ships an update every 2 weeks, Be Informed every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CFSScan | Be Informed |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 30.8% of reviews | 37.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 37 MB | 56 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nico VanHaaster | NEXTFAZE PTY LTD |
Customer experience
CFSScan
Be Informed
In-app purchases
CFSScan
No in-app purchases
Be Informed
- Be Informed Plus Monthly$0.991 Month
