Alastar Mobile vs Pinged
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Alastar Mobile
This app helps users securely track their location to manage resources and stream live video. It integrates with a broader situational awareness platform and includes mobile versions of essential forms.
- Secure location tracking
- Live video streaming
- Resource organization
- Mobile Boarding Form
- Activity Log
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Alastar Mobile allows users to securely locate their position to help organize resources and stream live video into Alastar’s wide-area situational awareness platform. Includes the mobile Boarding Form and Activity Log, with links provided to open all Alastar Forms in the default browser. Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.
Pinged
This app maps GPS coordinates and visualizes a radius around them for various practical applications. It can receive location data via email, automatically map it, and notify you of updates. Share locations with your team and receive geofence notifications.
- Map GPS coordinates
- Visualize radius around points
- Receive location data via email
- Automatic mapping and notifications
- Share pings with teams
- Plot points of interest
- Geofence movement notifications
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Pinged by Badge Apps provides practical resources for many applications where mapping GPS coordinates and a visualizing a radius around those points can be helpful. Pinging a phone? Pinged can receive location data from external sources over email and automatically map the locations and notify you of updates. Share pings with your team, plot points of interest or even receive geofence related movement notifications. https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Pinged at 4.8 against Alastar Mobile's 3.0. Pinged also leads on ratings volume (26 vs 2). Alastar Mobile's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On price, update cadence, ads 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
Both are free to download. Pinged sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $14.99 per month. Alastar Mobile asks for nothing beyond the download.
Pinged holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pinged has 26 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Alastar Mobile | Pinged |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) | 4.8 (26 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 26 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 150 MB | 50 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ReadyOp Communications, Inc. | Aaron Benzick |
Customer experience
Alastar Mobile
Pinged
In-app purchases
Alastar Mobile
No in-app purchases
Pinged
- Pinged Premium$14.991 Month
