Comparison

Alertable vs PilotBrief

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

PilotBrief

Features
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PilotBrief provides real-time aviation weather briefings for pilots across North America. Features: • Interactive map with color-coded flight categories (VFR, MVFR, IFR, LIFR) • Live METAR and TAF weather reports for thousands of airports • NOTAMs and TFRs displayed on map • Airport webcam feeds • Detailed airport information including runways, frequencies, and elevation • Search by ICAO code, airport name, or city • Premium features: route weather briefings, go/no-go advisor Plan your flights with confidence. Check weather conditions at a glance with our intuitive color-coded map, or dive deep into individual airport weather data. Designed by pilots, for pilots.

Screenshots

Alertable4 screens
PilotBrief4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Alertable at 12.0 against PilotBrief's 15.1. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Alertable versus PilotBrief: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAlertablePilotBrief
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (177 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews61.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings177 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size49 MB34 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPublic Emergency Alerting Services IncMike Christie

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

PilotBrief

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Alertable

No in-app purchases

None

PilotBrief

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Alertable free?
Alertable is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PilotBrief free?
PilotBrief is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Alertable or PilotBrief have ads?
Neither Alertable nor PilotBrief shows ads.

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