Comparison

Alertable vs Prodigy Wildfire

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

Prodigy Wildfire

Monitor wildfire activity and control compatible protection systems. Get property-focused risk awareness with custom monitoring radii and notifications for changing conditions. Integrates publicly available fire and weather data.

Highlights
  • Live wildfire data view
  • Property-focused risk awareness
  • Custom monitoring radius
  • Control Prodigy protection systems
  • Push notifications for alerts
  • Integrates public fire and weather data
Features
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Prodigy Wildfire is a third-party app for controlling Prodigy-wildfire protection systems and monitoring publicly available wildfire activity data through EmberWatch. DISCLAIMER: This app is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or representative of any government agency, fire service, or emergency management authority. Prodigy Wildfire Solutions is an independent company. All fire and weather data displayed in this app is sourced from publicly available government and satellite feeds — it is not official emergency guidance. Always follow instructions from your local fire authority and emergency services. It's built for people who live in fire-prone regions and want better awareness, device control, and preparation when conditions change. This is not just a wildfire map. It's a property-focused monitoring and device control platform. Live Wildfire Data View active wildfires and satellite heat detections across the USA, Canada, and Australia using publicly available data from government and satellite sources. • Incident data sourced from NIFC/IRWIN (nifc.gov), Canadian Wildland Fire Information System (cwfis.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca), NSW Rural Fire Service (rfs.nsw.gov.au), and other public agency feeds • NASA FIRMS satellite hotspot detections (firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov) • Fire perimeters where published by source agencies • Evacuation area information when published by authorities • Weather data from Open-Meteo (open-meteo.com) All fire data comes from publicly available sources listed above. No simulated or synthetic data appears. Property-Focused Risk Awareness Prodigy Wildfire helps you understand how nearby fire activity may relate to your location. • Custom monitoring radius around your property • Distance and direction from detected fire activity • Risk indicators based on proximity and weather conditions • Contextual breakdown of contributing factors • Notifications when conditions change Note: Risk information is for situational awareness only. It is not a substitute for official emergency warnings or evacuation orders from local authorities. Control Your Prodigy Protection System If you have a Prodigy-brand wildfire protection system installed with -compatible hardware, the app allows you to manage it directly. • Activate and schedule protection cycles (SmartCycle) • View device connectivity, battery, and status • Monitor system activity • Prepare your system before conditions escalate Monitoring and device control in one place. Notifications Receive push notifications when: • Fire activity enters your monitoring radius • Risk indicators increase • Evacuation information is published by authorities (where available) • Significant weather changes occur near your property Notifications are for awareness purposes. Always verify with official emergency channels. Data Sources: • USA fires: NIFC / IRWIN — https://www.nifc.gov • Canada fires: CWFIS — https://cwfis.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca • Australia fires: NSW RFS — https://www.rfs.nsw.gov.au • Satellite hotspots: NASA FIRMS — https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov • Weather: Open-Meteo — https://open-meteo.com

Screenshots

Alertable4 screens
Prodigy Wildfire4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Alertable at 4.7 against Prodigy Wildfire's 4.0. Alertable also leads on ratings volume (177 vs 4) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.1). Prodigy Wildfire's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 61%). On price, update cadence, ads 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

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 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Alertable has 177 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 61% of Alertable's written reviews are positive against 100% of Prodigy Wildfire's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Alertable ships an update every 2 months, Prodigy Wildfire every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and September 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Alertable versus Prodigy Wildfire: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAlertableProdigy Wildfire
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (177 ratings) — better4.0 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews61.4% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings177 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size49 MB187 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPublic Emergency Alerting Services IncProdigy Wildfire Solutions Inc

Customer experience

Alertable

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

Prodigy Wildfire

All ratings4 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

Prodigy Wildfire

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Alertable

No in-app purchases

None

Prodigy Wildfire

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Alertable free?
Alertable is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Prodigy Wildfire free?
Prodigy Wildfire is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Alertable or Prodigy Wildfire?
Alertable is rated higher. Alertable averages 4.7 out of 5 from 177 ratings, while Prodigy Wildfire averages 4.0 from 4 ratings.
Do Alertable or Prodigy Wildfire have ads?
Neither Alertable nor Prodigy Wildfire shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Alertable or Prodigy Wildfire?
Alertable ships an update every 2 months, and Prodigy Wildfire every 3 months. Most recently, Alertable was updated on October 3, 2026 and Prodigy Wildfire on September 18, 2026.

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