TC Mobile vs Firefighters Emergency
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TC Mobile
Receive real-time emergency incident information, including location and type, directly on your iPhone. Get updates from your computer-aided dispatch system and easily navigate to incident locations using your preferred mapping app.
- Real-time incident notifications
- Incident location and type details
- Unit assignments and comments
- Navigation integration with mapping apps
- Progressive incident updates
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TC Mobile brings the insight and control of Tablet Command’s enterprise service to your iPhone. TC Mobile is an iPhone application that delivers Apple Push Notifications and emergency incident information including incident location and type, units assigned and comments from your computer-aided dispatch (CAD). Tap on the address to be routed to the location of the incident via Apple Maps, Google Maps, Waze, or Foreflight Mobile.* Receive up-to-date information from the CAD including progressive comments throughout the incident.* TC Mobile requires Tablet Command’s enterprise incident command service. Tablet Command and TC Mobile can be interfaced with your agency’s computer aided dispatch system and provide instant notifications of incidents to your iPad and iPhone. Contact us to learn how we can provide a reliable and accurate interface to your CAD. support@tabletcommand.com * Accurate location and CAD comments depend on the availability of data CAD integration data available. Location services disclaimer: Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.
Firefighters Emergency
Locate over 30,000 fire emergency facilities and equipment across the United States. Search by map, region, state, or address. Save your favorites for quick access.
- Locate 30,000+ fire emergency facilities
- Search by GPS or address
- Map view of facilities
- Filter by region or state
- Save favorite locations
- Offline data availability
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Get the position (GPS or address) of all the fire emergency facilities and equipments in the United States directly to your iPhone, iPad and iPod. The app provides the following fire emergency facilities and equipments: - dry riser inlet; - fire alarm box; - fire extinguisher; - fire flapper; - fire hose; - fire hydrant; - fire water pond; - suction point; - water tank. The app also allows to: - Search in more than 30000 fire emergency facilities and equipments available; - Check the fire emergency facilities and equipments directly from the map; - Search fire emergency facilities and equipments by region, US state, address, street name or geolocation (latitude, longitude - GPS location service supported); - Save your favorites fire emergency facilities and equipments; - If offline, new fire emergency facilities and equipments are missing; - Coverage United States. IMPORTANT NOTE: the app displays all the AVAILABLE fire emergency facilities and equipments provided by OpenStreetMap (http://openstreetmap.org/) and OverpassTurbo (http://overpass-api.de/). If you don't see some data, please understand it is not app fault but a lack of information at the source. Thus, please do not leave a bad review for this kind of issues. The app displays a banner and an interstitial ads to support dev to implement new features.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: TC Mobile at 50% against Firefighters Emergency's 0%. TC Mobile also leads on rating (3.8 vs 1.0) and ads (none vs shown). Firefighters Emergency's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). On price 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.
TC Mobile holds the better App Store score, 3.8 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: TC Mobile has 48 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of TC Mobile's written reviews are positive against 0% of Firefighters Emergency's.
TC Mobile ships an update every 3 weeks, Firefighters Emergency every 20 months. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | TC Mobile | Firefighters Emergency |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (48 ratings) — better | 1.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 48 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 20 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 199 MB | 46 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tablet Command, Inc | Andrea Bisegna |
Customer experience
TC Mobile
Firefighters Emergency
In-app purchases
TC Mobile
No in-app purchases
Firefighters Emergency
No in-app purchases
Questions
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