fiResponse Texas vs ICS
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
fiResponse Texas
This system manages emergency responses to all-hazard incidents, focusing on wildland fires. It offers a common operating picture for multi-agency use, enabling seamless data sharing across devices and platforms. The mobile app enhances situational awareness for field responders.
- Incident management
- Resource management
- Real-time resource tracking
- Situational awareness
- Multi-agency data sharing
- Incident weather viewing
- GPS mapping
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fiResponse™ is an enterprise system that provides capabilities for managing emergency response to all-hazard incidents with an emphasis on wildland fire. The software is designed to support the entire lifecycle of an incident delivering a common operating picture that allows multi-agency use with seamless synchronization and data sharing between different users, agencies, and devices through multiple platforms, including Desktop, Web, and Mobile. fiResponse™ core capabilities are built for incident management, resource management, and real-time resource tracking through spatially enabled platforms - designed to enhance situational awareness and support operational activities. The fiResponse™ Mobile App is primarily designed for emergency response users in the field to support situational awareness. Key fiResponse™ Mobile App features include viewing, creating, and/or editing incident information; dispatching to an incident and/or selecting an incident to follow; routing to an incident; viewing incident weather; collecting incident photos; mapping from GPS or digitizing on screen incident points, lines, and/or polygons; mapping from GPS in background mode; optionally sharing resource location and viewing other resource locations on the map; and viewing, creating, and/or editing incident log messages. The fiResponse™ system including the Mobile App can be configured to meet organizational needs. Note: This app requires you to have a fiResponse account with the host agency to login and view/edit information.
ICS
This application simplifies the creation and sharing of ICS-214 forms. It offers an intuitive workflow for adding details and activity entries, with offline capabilities for uninterrupted work. Users can pre-populate forms with default fields to save time during ongoing incidents.
- Friendly workflow for details and entries
- Offline authoring and editing
- Shareable ICS-214 form export
- Set default fields for pre-population
- Optimized for field use
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An easy-to-use app to help prepare and share the ICS-214 form. Friendly workflow: Add details and activity entries using a friendly workflow optimized for field use. Work Offline: Designed to work completely offline for authoring and editing activity details even while off the grid. Share Official ICS-214: When connectivity is available, use the share option to export or send out a copy of the ICS-214 form. Set Default Fields: Use the "214 Default Fields" option in settings to set defaults that will pre-populate new ICS-214 forms upon creation. This will save time when working the same incident and/or with the same team for multiple operational periods. Coming next: Support for spreadsheet format, preview the form, edit filename, attach images & location, electronically sign PDFs, and more.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: ICS at 4.2 against fiResponse Texas's 2.4. fiResponse Texas's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 14.0.0). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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.
ICS holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 2.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 6 respectively.
| Parameter | fiResponse Texas | ICS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.4 (8 ratings) | 4.2 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 85.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 14.0.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 305 MB | 43 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Technosylva Inc. | Mike Comer |
Customer experience
fiResponse Texas
ICS
In-app purchases
fiResponse Texas
No in-app purchases
ICS
No in-app purchases








