Comparison

Alertable vs Nordic Pulse

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Alertable

Stay informed about emergencies and daily incidents across Canada. Receive fast, reliable notifications for public safety, severe weather, and local community events. Personalize alerts by type, severity, and location to know before you go.

Highlights
  • Canada-wide public safety alerts
  • Severe weather alerts
  • Customizable notifications
  • Location-based alerts
  • Sharable alerts
  • Local community notifications
  • Workplace alerts
Features
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Alertable emergency alerts and mass notifications keep you informed of emergencies and daily incidents in your community, workplace and school. Use Alertable for locations in Canada to stay aware and plan ahead. Check in advance for community events, closures, restrictions, hazards, danger and more. Know before you go. Keep yourself and others informed and up to date with Alertable. Notifications are fast, reliable and easy to see and hear. Personalize notifications by type and severity. Choose notifications for many locations including home, work, school, cottage, family and friends locations and more. Change your locations and other personalized options in Settings, after the fact. Key features: • Canada wide public safety alerts (from Canada’s Alert Ready emergency alert system) • severe weather alerts (from Environment and Climate Change Canada) • fast and reliable, highly optimized alert notifications • easy to setup and use • customizable, choose the types of critical, advisory and information alerts you wish to receive • targeted, alerts for only locations you are interested in • follow me, alerts for where you are at • maps, helpful for seeing the geographical area the alert is for • sharable, alerts can be shared on social media, email and text message • informative, emergency descriptions, impact areas and actions to take to remain safe • local, community notifications for closures, outages, restrictions, disruptions, re-openings, Interruptions and more • workplace, get alerts from your organization • accessible, full use by people with different abilities • multilingual, translate alerts into your device’s language setting

About

Nordic Pulse

This app aggregates real-time trail condition reports for cross-country skiing. It simplifies the process for ski areas to submit grooming updates, providing skiers with up-to-date information on trail status.

Highlights
  • Real-time trail condition reports
  • Streamlined grooming reporting for ski areas
  • Aggregated trail data
  • Cross-country ski focus
Features
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Nordic Pulse is an app based cross country ski trail grooming report system, bringing trail condition reports from ski areas together and streamlining grooming reporting for ski areas.

Screenshots

Alertable4 screens
Nordic Pulse4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Alertable at 4.7 against Nordic Pulse's 3.7. Alertable also leads on monetization model (free vs ad-supported) and ratings volume (177 vs 19). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Alertable holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Alertable has 177 ratings behind it against 19, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 61% of Alertable's written reviews are positive against 57% of Nordic Pulse's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Alertable versus Nordic Pulse: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAlertableNordic Pulse
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (177 ratings) — better3.7 (19 ratings)
Positive reviews61.4% of reviews — better57.1% of reviews
Number of ratings177 — better19
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterAd-supported
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS12.0 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size49 MB28 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPublic Emergency Alerting Services IncNordic Pulse Incorporated

Customer experience

Alertable

All ratings177 ratings
Positive93.8%
Neutral1.7%
Negative4.5%
Written reviews83 reviews
Positive61.4%
Neutral7.2%
Negative31.3%

Nordic Pulse

All ratings19 ratings
Positive63.2%
Neutral10.5%
Negative26.3%
Written reviews14 reviews
Positive57.1%
Neutral7.1%
Negative35.7%

Bugs and requests

Alertable

Reported bugs

23 issues
  • App not working after update
  • No alerts sent out
  • Misleading and late alerts
  • Old alerts cannot be deleted
  • Confusion with evacuation alert wording
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  • Poor Shuswap updates
  • Unreliable emergency alerts
  • Evacuation alerts too late
  • Garbage app
  • History not deletable
  • High battery drain
  • Alerts not informative enough
  • Too many alerts in a row
  • Early morning notifications
  • Huge drain on battery
  • Very slow to load
  • Not getting audio alerts
  • Cannot select region by panning
  • Alerts don't display properly
  • Useless in BC and most of Canada
  • No cities in California
  • Does not include my city
  • Weak privacy policy

Requested features

14 requests
  • Disable prompts asking to keep receiving alerts
  • Add dark mode
  • Allow selection of entire city by panning map
  • Remove pointless alert types
  • Ability to silence specific alert types
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  • Option to ignore specific alert types
  • Improve location accuracy for alerts
  • Add wildfire alerts
  • Differentiate evacuation alert levels visually
  • Allow deletion of old alerts
  • Provide more informative alerts
  • Include cities in California
  • Include more cities
  • Strengthen privacy policy for location tracking

Nordic Pulse

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Alertable

No in-app purchases

None

Nordic Pulse

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Alertable free?
Alertable is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Nordic Pulse free?
Nordic Pulse is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Alertable or Nordic Pulse?
Alertable is rated higher. Alertable averages 4.7 out of 5 from 177 ratings, while Nordic Pulse averages 3.7 from 19 ratings.
Do Alertable or Nordic Pulse have ads?
Neither Alertable nor Nordic Pulse shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Alertable or Nordic Pulse?
Alertable ships an update every 2 months, and Nordic Pulse every 2 months. Most recently, Alertable was updated on September 24, 2026 and Nordic Pulse on September 21, 2026.

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