Comparison

112 India vs EGK WarCom

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

112 India

This app connects individuals in distress with local emergency services and volunteers. It sends alerts with your location and details to control rooms and emergency contacts, facilitating a swift response from police, health, and fire departments.

Highlights
  • Single panic app for emergencies
  • 24/7 efficient response system
  • Involves local citizen volunteers
  • Dispatches police, health, fire resources
  • Integrates with existing emergency systems
  • Citizen profile and feedback management
Features
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The 112 SOS Mobile App is a part of the Emergency Response Support System (ERSS), a Govt of India initiative. The application is functional in most of the states in India. Visit https://112.gov.in/states * Currently launched in Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Nagland, Punjab, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu only. The App will be launched soon in the rest of the states. In an emergency situation, a person in distress may seek for the assistance of local emergency service delivery departments and volunteers through the App. The App will send emergency alerts with the user's details(name, age, emergency contacts) and location information, along with a generated call to ‘112’ - to the State Emergency Control Room and the person’s emergency contacts. The system forwards the emergency alert to nearby online local volunteers if available. The emergency alert is notified with an audible sound/ visual alert on the volunteer smartphones. The volunteers can mark their consent to help and the volunteer details along with photo and contact number will be forwarded to the person in distress. Highlights * Providing single panic app across the country for addressing citizen emergency. * Providing 24 x 7, efficient and effective response system, which can involve local volunteers from citizens to provide efficient emergency response service * Timely dispatch of field resources (police, health, fire & disaster management) to the location of incidence using the system. * Integration with existing emergency response systems. * It aims to make the operations citizen-friendly, more transparent, and efficient and provides citizen profile management and feedback mechanisms. * It will also help to keep track of the progress of incidents and the services delivered taking emergency services to the next level.

About

EGK WarCom

Features
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EGK WarCom is a battlefield-grade offline mesh communication app engineered for the moments when infrastructure fails. Whether cellular towers are destroyed, internet is severed, or signals are jammed, EGK WarCom keeps your team connected using only the devices in your hands. Built on Apple's MultipeerConnectivity framework, EGK WarCom weaves a self-healing peer-to-peer mesh network across Bluetooth and Wi-Fi Direct simultaneously. Every device acts as both a sender and a relay node, automatically forwarding messages deeper into the mesh — extending range far beyond a single Bluetooth hop with zero configuration required. There is no account to create. No server to reach. No login screen. The moment you launch, your device is assigned a unique military-style callsign and becomes an active node. Your identity persists across sessions, messages survive app restarts, and your queue transmits automatically the instant a peer comes back into range. DIRECT CHANNELS give you private one-to-one communication with any node. BROADCAST sends simultaneously to every unit on the mesh — critical for coordinating movements, issuing alerts, and relaying intelligence. Four priority levels — ROUTINE, URGENT, FLASH, and EMERGENCY — ensure critical transmissions are immediately recognizable under pressure. The MESH TOPOLOGY MAP renders your network live, showing every node, signal lines, and animated data packets travelling between peers in real time. The SITREP dashboard tracks messages sent, received, relayed, bytes transferred, peak peer count, and session uptime — giving commanders a precise picture of network health at a glance. All sessions are end-to-end encrypted by design. Zero location data collected. Zero personal information stored. No data ever leaves your local mesh. The offline queue caches every undelivered message to disk and flushes automatically on reconnect. Built for soldiers, combat journalists, disaster relief coordinators, search and rescue teams, emergency medical responders, and preppers — EGK WarCom runs on hardware you already carry. No external antennas. No specialist radios. Install on any iPhone and you are operational in under sixty seconds. No subscription. No cloud. No compromise. When the grid goes dark, EGK WarCom lights the mesh. Each device you add strengthens the mesh. Range scales with node density. More iPhones means deeper reach and a harder network to silence. Deploy more, communicate further. HOW TO CONNECT TWO DEVICES Getting two devices talking takes under 60 seconds: 1. INSTALL on both devices and launch EGK WarCom. Each device is automatically assigned a unique military callsign (e.g. BRAVO-03) — no registration needed. 2. TAP THE MESH TAB (antenna icon, second tab) on both devices. 3. TAP "START" on Device 1. The button turns red and the pulse rings begin animating — your node is now broadcasting and scanning. 4. TAP "START" on Device 2. Within seconds, both devices discover each other. The HANDSHAKING list shows the discovered node, and within moments it moves to CONNECTED with a green indicator. 5. ONCE CONNECTED, tap the "MSG" button next to the peer's callsign in the CONNECTED list. This creates a dedicated direct channel between the two devices. 6. SWITCH TO THE COMMS TAB (chat bubble icon, first tab). Your new channel appears at the top of the list. Tap it to open the chat and begin communicating. 7. TYPE YOUR MESSAGE and tap Send. Messages are delivered instantly over the mesh with end-to-end encryption. Select a priority level — ROUTINE, URGENT, FLASH, or EMERGENCY — before sending to flag critical communications. If either device moves out of range, outgoing messages are automatically cached in the PENDING QUEUE and delivered the moment the connection restores — no message is ever lost.

Screenshots

112 India4 screens
EGK WarCom4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: EGK WarCom at every 3 months against 112 India's every 16 months. 112 India's advantage is iOS requirement (14 vs 18.6). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

112 India ships an update every 16 months, EGK WarCom every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
112 India versus EGK WarCom: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameter112 IndiaEGK WarCom
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews21.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 16 monthsEvery 3 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS14 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size82 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperC-DAC TECHNOLOGY PROMOTION CENTREIsaac Eng Gian Khor

In-app purchases

None

112 India

No in-app purchases

None

EGK WarCom

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is 112 India free?
112 India is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is EGK WarCom free?
EGK WarCom is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do 112 India or EGK WarCom have ads?
Neither 112 India nor EGK WarCom shows ads.
Which is updated more often, 112 India or EGK WarCom?
112 India ships an update every 16 months, and EGK WarCom every 3 months. Most recently, 112 India was updated on September 25, 2026 and EGK WarCom on September 8, 2026.

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