GUNTRACK vs AlertRoster
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
GUNTRACK
Securely store and manage all your firearm records, including details on firearms, accessories, ammo, and maintenance history. Access your encrypted data from any device, anytime, even if you lose your phone. Protect your investment and simplify insurance claims.
- Secure firearm record storage
- Real-time tracking of firearms, accessories, and ammo
- Detailed maintenance and shooting activity logs
- Image storage for firearms and targets
- Total investment tracking
- 256-bit encryption and SSL security
- Accessible from any device
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GUNTRACK is a firearm inventory and gun collection management app designed to help firearm owners organize important firearm records in one secure, convenient place on iPhone and iPad. Track firearms, ammunition, accessories, shooting activity, maintenance history, photos, costs, and collection value from your iPhone or iPad. Whether you manage a few firearms or a larger collection, GUNTRACK helps keep your firearm inventory organized and accessible when you need it. Firearm Inventory and Records Create detailed records for handguns, rifles, and shotguns. Store manufacturer, model, caliber, serial number, purchase information, photos, value, and other important firearm details together. GUNTRACK works as a digital firearm inventory and gun collection management system, helping you organize your firearms without relying on scattered notes, photos, receipts, or spreadsheets. Ammo Inventory and Caliber Tracking Track ammunition inventory by caliber and quantity. See rounds remaining, recorded costs, and ammunition totals across your collection. The built-in ammo tracker works alongside your firearm records so you can quickly understand what ammunition you have on hand and how it relates to the firearms in your collection. Accessories and Equipment Keep firearm accessories, equipment, optics, and related gear organized alongside your firearms and ammunition. Create detailed accessory records and keep important equipment information together inside your GUNTRACK inventory. Shooting and Range Logs Log shooting activity and range sessions with dates, range information, firearms used, calibers, and rounds fired. Review your shooting history and range logs to maintain a useful record of when and how firearms in your collection have been used. Maintenance and Malfunction History Keep firearm maintenance records organized with your collection and review maintenance history for individual firearms. Document cleaning, service, repairs, and malfunction records to maintain a more complete history for each firearm over time. Inventory Intelligence Go beyond a simple gun list. GUNTRACK Inventory Intelligence helps you understand the numbers behind your firearm collection. View recorded investment, estimated current value, category totals, ammunition quantities, caliber information, and collection composition from one streamlined dashboard. See where your money is invested and gain a clearer picture of the size and value of your firearm inventory. Search, Filter, and Sort Find firearm records quickly with search, filtering, and sorting tools. Switch between detailed and compact record views to make browsing larger firearm, ammunition, accessory, and shooting inventories faster and easier. Photos and Collection Details Keep firearm photos and important record information associated with the correct inventory item, making it easier to maintain a detailed digital record of your collection. Organize purchase details, values, calibers, accessories, ammunition, shooting activity, and maintenance history from one connected mobile experience. Genesis 2.1.2 Genesis 2.1.2 introduces a completely redesigned GUNTRACK Mobile Edition experience for iPhone and iPad. The Genesis release includes redesigned navigation, faster access to firearm records, improved inventory views, guided record creation, enhanced search and filtering, and the new Inventory Intelligence experience. GUNTRACK brings firearm inventory records, ammo tracking, accessories, range logs, shooting history, maintenance records, photos, costs, and collection information together in one organized mobile app. Whether you are building your first firearm inventory or managing a larger gun collection, GUNTRACK gives you the tools to keep your records organized and understand your collection. Build and manage your firearm inventory with GUNTRACK Mobile Edition for iPhone and iPad.
AlertRoster
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AlertRoster was built for search-and-rescue teams. The roster in its name is the SAR team roster. When a call-out goes out, AlertRoster notifies the volunteers on duty tonight and continues down the list until someone answers. The first acknowledgment stands the rest of the team down, so you can mobilize without waking people who aren't needed. The same roster and escalation run critical infrastructure alerting for the on-call engineer, who has to be woken up when a site goes dark at 2am. WHO IT SERVES • Search and rescue — land, mountain, cave, swiftwater, and K9 teams • Volunteer fire and rescue • Coastal and water rescue • Ski patrol and avalanche • Community response and disaster relief • On-call clinical and veterinary rotas • Utility and restoration crews • IT and infrastructure on-call HOW A CALL-OUT RUNS 1. The roster knows who is on. Rotations, shifts, and handovers are scheduled in advance, and no one is alerted outside the period they signed up for. 2. The call-out goes out. Everyone on the active roster is alerted at once, or in waves — whichever your team runs. 3. It escalates if nobody answers. Silence is treated as a failure, not an outcome, and the alert moves to the next person on the policy. 4. The first yes stops the rest, so the team mobilizes without waking anyone who is not needed. 5. Every step is on the record — who was alerted, when, who answered, and how long it took. Useful for the debrief and for knowing whether your roster actually works. HEARTBEAT MONITORING A monitored system that stops checking in raises an incident by its own absence. That is how you find out about a site that has gone completely dark, where nothing is left running to tell you. GETTING THROUGH A SILENCED PHONE Call-outs are sent to the app at the highest available interruption level. Where Apple has granted the critical alert capability and you have allowed it, a call-out can sound through silent mode and Focus. Where it has not, AlertRoster falls back to a time-sensitive alert automatically — nothing to configure and nothing to forget. You stay in control. Critical alerts are requested explicitly, can be refused, and are used only for live call-outs—never for reminders, summaries, or anything that can wait until morning. You receive nothing outside your scheduled on-call periods. WHAT ALERTROSTER IS NOT AlertRoster is a call-out notification and escalation tool. It notifies people who have agreed in advance to be notified and records what happened. It is not an emergency service and does not contact one on your behalf. It is not a fire alarm, a security alarm, or a monitored alarm system, and it is not certified to any life-safety standard. It is not a replacement for your team's official paging arrangements, and it should not be the only way a call-out can reach your people. Alerts are delivered on a best-effort basis over networks and devices outside our control — mobile carriers, Apple Push Notification service, the internet, and the responder's own phone and its settings. AlertRoster requires an account. Visit alertroster.com to set up your team. Built by Cloud Bedrock.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: AlertRoster at none against GUNTRACK's 1. AlertRoster also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 weeks). GUNTRACK's advantage is iOS requirement (15.6 vs 18.0). On price, 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. GUNTRACK sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. AlertRoster asks for nothing beyond the download.
GUNTRACK ships an update every 3 weeks, AlertRoster every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | GUNTRACK | AlertRoster |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (158 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 79.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 158 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 68 MB | 129 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | INLANDLIGHT LLC | Cloud Bedrock, LLC |
Bugs and requests
GUNTRACK
Reported bugs
10 issues- Custom caliber field not working
- App occasionally glitches and kicks user back
- Pictures of long rifles and shotguns are cut off in list view
- Screen won't rotate on iPad with keyboard
- App not loading (spinning wheel)
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- Shooting events sometimes show and sometimes don't
- Cleanings sometimes show and sometimes don't
- Accessories linked on desktop not showing on mobile app
- Input screen font is difficult to read
- Link in app for suggestions not working
Requested features
20 requests- Add a 'Suppressor' category
- Bulk add pictures
- Add more picture slots (more than 3)
- Add a field for current market value
- Add a 'where purchased' field
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- Reloading database integration
- Export feature (Excel, PDF)
- Printable PDF reports
- Sort by preference (A-Z, drag and drop)
- Improve image quality
- Add more manufacturers
- Add .348 WCF cartridge
- Improve font readability for older users
- Add ability to rotate on iPad with keyboard
- Allow editing of images
- Make app open source
- Add more details on ammo (grain, tip, notes)
- Add a 'DOPE' book feature
- Add a 'reloader's log' feature
- Add a 'boating accident' calculation for total cost
AlertRoster
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
GUNTRACK
- Full featured version.$9.99
AlertRoster
No in-app purchases









