Visual Pre Plans vs DutyPay
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Visual Pre Plans
This application streamlines fire department pre-planning and incident response with an image-based system. It allows for quick creation, updating, and sharing of pre-plan data, providing instant on-scene access to critical information for better operational coordination.
- Image-based pre-planning
- Fast pre-plan creation (under 5 minutes)
- Instant on-scene access to pre plans
- CAD notifications and integration
- Risk scoring
- Real-time team location tracking
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WHO WE ARE Visual Pre Plans is an image-based fire department pre planning and operations software designed to eliminate all obstacles preventing successful incident mitigation. With Visual Pre Plans, conveniently pre plan via mobile and desktop applications, easily creating, updating and sharing useful pre plans. HOW IT WORKS Pre-plan a building in as little as 5 minutes Instant on-scene access to pre plans & risk scores for all members via CAD notifications. Estimated time of arrival and team on map help ICs coordinate response. High hazard notes display with incident location details to indicate dangerous locations. Risk scoring & CAD integration Easy program management
DutyPay
This app helps public safety workers track their complex work schedules, project their paychecks, and manage overtime. It accounts for unique shift patterns and pay rules specific to firefighters, EMS, and police.
- Track complex public safety rotations
- Project future paychecks
- Manage overtime and holiday pay
- Track shift trades with coworkers
- Year-end income projection
- Notifications for schedule deviations
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DutyPay is the shift calendar and paycheck projection tool built for public safety workers — firefighters, EMS, police, and corrections officers — by firefighters. Track your rotation. Pick up extra shifts and trade with coworkers. See how every shift, trade, and overtime hour affects your paycheck before it lands. DutyPay shows you exactly what your next check will be, what you've earned year-to-date, and what your year-end income is on pace to be. Built for the schedules that don't fit into normal apps: • 24/48, 48/96, Pitman, 4/10, and other public safety rotations • Kelly days, work period overtime (FLSA §7(k)), holiday pay, and shift differentials • Time trades with coworkers, with both legs tracked end to end • Picked-up shifts, PTO, sick time, and other deviations from your normal schedule What DutyPay does that a regular calendar can't: • Projects your paycheck before it arrives, using your real rate and overtime rules • Flags when an extra shift will tip you into overtime • Shows your effective hourly rate after OT and differentials • Year-end income projection with federal tax bracket awareness • Notifications the day before any shift outside your normal rotation Free, forever. No ads. No upsell. No selling your data. Built by Florida firefighters on the principle that the people who keep cities safe deserve tools that actually understand their work. From the team behind PensionForge, the FRS retirement planning tool.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: DutyPay at 5.0 against Visual Pre Plans's 3.8. DutyPay also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 64%) and update cadence (every 5 days vs monthly). Visual Pre Plans's advantage is ratings volume (21 vs 3). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
DutyPay holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Visual Pre Plans has 21 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 64% of Visual Pre Plans's written reviews are positive against 100% of DutyPay's.
Visual Pre Plans ships an update monthly, DutyPay every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on September 17, 2026 and September 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Visual Pre Plans | DutyPay |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (21 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 64.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 21 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 194 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | FlowMSP, Inc | PensionForge LLC |
Customer experience
Visual Pre Plans
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In-app purchases
Visual Pre Plans
No in-app purchases
DutyPay
No in-app purchases
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