INVENTORY vs Response for FirstNet
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
INVENTORY
Manage equipment issued, returned, and consumed during events. Track asset status and ensure proper maintenance reporting through a centralized database. Assign equipment to personnel by scanning tags and update inventory levels in real-time.
- Track issued, turned-in, and consumed inventory
- Assign equipment to personnel via tag scanning
- Scan equipment tags for returns
- Real-time inventory updates
- Equipment maintenance reporting
- Integrates with SalamanderLive™
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Quality inventory management is an important aspect to maintaining situational awareness during events. Track inventory that is issued, turned-in, and consumed during incidents and events with Salamander’s interoperable INVENTORY APP. Assure that your equipment is properly maintained and reported on from within the INVENTORY MANAGEMENT equipment database through SalamanderLive™. Issue mode: From a mobile device, the app user can scan a Salamander personnel TAG and then scan one-to-many equipment TAGs to assign equipment to that personnel. The fixed assets will decrement in SalamanderLive as they are assigned to show they are active in the field. Return mode: Equipment can be returned to your inventory by scanning the equipment TAG. When equipment is turned in, the quantity on-hand is incremented and reflected in SalamanderLive.
Response for FirstNet
This platform enables teams to communicate, collaborate, and coordinate during daily operations and emergencies. It offers features for managing multiple operations, sharing information, and mobilizing teams with real-time location tracking and notifications.
- Overarching channels for segregating information
- Real-time user location tracking
- Interactive information sharing workspace
- Emergency notification and team mobilization
- Integrated to-do lists and task management
- Push-to-talk (EPTT) integration
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The Response for FirstNet platform is a mobile situational awareness platform for day-to-day and emergency operations allowing teams or user groups to communicate, collaborate, and coordinate. With our overarching channels feature, you can segregate information into operational containers and only allow invited users to share and view the data. Channels enable organizations to manage multiple operations, departments, sectors, or investigations at the same time. Within Response for FirstNet are three modules that can be purchased individually. Locate is the geospatial solution that provides real-time positions of users, static markers, and shapes combined with direction capability and traffic all displayed on the map interface. The Connect module is an interactive information sharing workspace where teams can share texts, videos, whiteboards, documents, audio files, and photographs. Annotate and draw on all items and integrated to-do lists/task management. The Activate module is a very simple to use emergency notification and team mobilization tool. Users can accept or decline activation and get turn-by-turn directions to the incident as well as necessary details. Lastly, we integrate leading cellular EPTT (push to talk) solutions so that calls can be made directly from within Response. Call us for more details.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Response for FirstNet at 9 against INVENTORY's 3. INVENTORY's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, rating, 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for INVENTORY against 4.8 for Response for FirstNet. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 9 respectively.
INVENTORY ships an update every 3 months, Response for FirstNet every 2 months. Both last shipped on June 4, 2026.
| Parameter | INVENTORY | Response for FirstNet |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (3 ratings) | 4.8 (9 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 9 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 35 MB | 142 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | OrangeHook, Inc. | Intrepid Networks LLC |
Customer experience
INVENTORY
Response for FirstNet
In-app purchases
INVENTORY
No in-app purchases
Response for FirstNet
No in-app purchases








