Comparison

Response for FirstNet vs JMS PreBooking

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

JMS PreBooking

Features
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Mobile Companion iOS App for Southern Software's Jail Management System (JMS) •Expedites the booking process and saves time for everyone. •Scan driver's license to quickly input data •Can access mapping or the device’s location to obtain the exact arresting address •Notifications sent to jail through the message center about the incoming person(s) and give the jail a forewarning about any indicators associated with them (intoxicated, violent, medical, mental evaluation).

Screenshots

Response for FirstNet4 screens
JMS PreBooking4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: JMS PreBooking at 10.0 against Response for FirstNet's 15.0. On price, update cadence, 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

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

Response for FirstNet ships an update every 2 months, JMS PreBooking every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Response for FirstNet versus JMS PreBooking: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterResponse for FirstNetJMS PreBooking
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (9 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings9 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 6 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.010.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size142 MB82 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperIntrepid Networks LLCSouthern Software, Inc.

In-app purchases

None

Response for FirstNet

No in-app purchases

None

JMS PreBooking

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Response for FirstNet free?
Response for FirstNet is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is JMS PreBooking free?
JMS PreBooking is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Response for FirstNet or JMS PreBooking have ads?
Neither Response for FirstNet nor JMS PreBooking shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Response for FirstNet or JMS PreBooking?
Response for FirstNet ships an update every 2 months, and JMS PreBooking every 6 weeks. Most recently, Response for FirstNet was updated on October 10, 2026 and JMS PreBooking on October 2, 2026.

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