PubWorks vs Axon Respond
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PubWorks
Empower your public works department with a mobile workforce solution. Record work in real-time, respond to service requests instantly, and manage inspections and assets efficiently. Seamlessly integrates with your main database for instant updates.
- Real-time work recording
- Mobile work orders
- Service request management
- Inspections
- Asset inventory
- Seamless database integration
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This app is for PubWorks customers only. Equipping your crew with tablets will create your new mobile workforce – allowing them to record work as they go, and quickly respond to new work orders and service requests. This divide-and-conquer field-recording capability will increase your department’s efficiency and productivity. With mobile mapping, work orders, service requests, inspections and asset inventory, you’ll be better equipped to deal with sudden change of crew needs. This mobile public works tool designed to seamlessly interact, securely and in real-time, with the main PubWorks database which can be hosted on-site or in the cloud. This allows in-office updates to reach field crews automatically and instantly. Field crews will be able to act on the latest information and record their work allowing office staff to see their accomplishments, notes and photos in seconds.
Axon Respond
This app enhances law enforcement safety by providing commanders with real-time situational awareness. It allows supervisors to track officer locations and view live body camera feeds during urgent events, ensuring rapid response and improved officer well-being.
- Real-time urgent event notifications
- Officer location tracking
- Livestream body camera broadcasts
- Enhanced situational awareness
- Secure communication for law enforcement
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The Axon Respond mobile app provides a secure and powerful tool to help law enforcement commanders and supervisors keep their officers safe. It boosts situational awareness by notifying commanders in real-time when urgent events occur. With the Axon Respond mobile app commanders and supervisor can see the location of officers and view livestream broadcasts from an officer's body camera. All of this happens seamlessly and instantly with just a few clicks on their mobile device. The Respond app also runs on iPad OS version 16.0 or later in iPhone compatibility mode.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Axon Respond at 50% against PubWorks's 0%. Axon Respond also leads on rating (3.9 vs 2.0). PubWorks's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 16.0). On price, ratings volume, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Axon Respond holds the better App Store score, 3.9 against 2.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 10 and 7 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of PubWorks's written reviews are positive against 50% of Axon Respond's.
PubWorks ships an update monthly, Axon Respond every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PubWorks | Axon Respond |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.0 (10 ratings) | 3.9 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 79 MB | 122 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | gWorks | Axon Enterprise, Inc. |
Customer experience
PubWorks
Axon Respond
In-app purchases
PubWorks
No in-app purchases
Axon Respond
No in-app purchases
