Easy Alert vs Hour
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Easy Alert
This communication tool facilitates emergency preparedness and response for facilities. It enables teams to collaborate, share critical information like GPS locations and images, and access emergency plans. Real-time logging helps improve future incident responses.
- Emergency notifications
- Team collaboration
- Image sharing
- GPS location reporting
- Access to emergency plans
- Real-time activity logging
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NOTE: EASY ALERT REQUIRES AN ACTIVE RAPID RESPONDER ACCOUNT TO USE Easy Alert for Rapid Responder is a communications tool for emergencies and other incidents at your facility. Prepare your teams to collaborate and communicate during any type of emergency (medical, natural disaster, active shooting, etc.). Notify, chat, share images and report GPS positions. Access emergency plans and critical facility information from Rapid Responder. Log and report activities in real-time for after-action reporting later to help you learn and improve your response.
Hour
This app facilitates rapid texting of notifications to contacts for fundraising campaigns. It allows users to efficiently manage and track responses from their phone's contact list.
- Send quick text notifications
- Target specific contacts
- Track responses
- Fundraising campaign support
- Phone contact integration
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The Hour-A-Thon Quicktext app is designed for users of Hour-A-Thon fundraising campaigns to quickly text notifications to specified contacts in their phone and track responses.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Easy Alert at 5.0 against Hour's 3.1. Hour's advantage is ratings volume (143 vs 1) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 4 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Easy Alert holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hour has 143 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Easy Alert ships an update every 4 months, Hour every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on June 25, 2026 and September 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Easy Alert | Hour |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 3.1 (143 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 48.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 143 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 15.3 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 36 MB | 42 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Everi Holdings Inc. | Buynow AF, LLC |
Customer experience
Easy Alert
Hour
In-app purchases
Easy Alert
No in-app purchases
Hour
No in-app purchases
