LiveWire · vs Pinged
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
LiveWire ·
This app offers real-time location tracking for team members, enhancing situational awareness for first responders. It also includes push-to-talk walkie-talkie functionality for seamless team communication.
- Real-time team location view
- Situational awareness for first responders
- Push-to-talk walkie-talkie functionality
- Team coordination
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LiveWire provides a situational awareness for first responders, enabling a real-time location view of team members. Coordinate with your team in walkie-talkie fashion by utilizing LiveWire's push-to-talk functionality.
Pinged
This utility app helps visualize GPS coordinates and map areas of interest. It can receive location data via email, automatically map points, and notify users of updates. Share locations with teams and set up geofence notifications for movement.
- Map GPS coordinates
- Visualize radius around points
- Receive location data via email
- Automatic mapping of locations
- Share pings with teams
- 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 4.6 against LiveWire ·'s 4.3. 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.
Pinged holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 12 and 11 respectively.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on June 9, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | LiveWire · | Pinged |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (12 ratings) | 4.6 (11 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 12 — better | 11 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 47 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Motorola Solutions, Inc | Badge Apps LLC |
In-app purchases
LiveWire ·
No in-app purchases
Pinged
No in-app purchases
