Comparison

Response for FirstNet vs ArcGIS Mission Responder

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

Facilitate team communication and coordination for daily and emergency operations. Organize information into segregated channels for different operations, departments, or investigations. Features include real-time location tracking, collaborative workspaces, and emergency notification tools.

Highlights
  • Overarching channels for information segregation
  • Real-time user location tracking (Locate module)
  • Interactive information sharing workspace (Connect module)
  • Emergency notification and mobilization tool (Activate module)
  • Integrated to-do lists and task management
  • Push-to-talk 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

ArcGIS Mission Responder

This app allows field personnel to actively participate in ongoing missions by providing real-time situational awareness. It facilitates communication, collaboration, and reporting within an organization's operational picture.

Highlights
  • Real-time messaging with attachments and sketches
  • Secure connection to ArcGIS Enterprise
  • View and interact with mission maps and resources
  • Location sharing for situational awareness
  • Create and respond to user-specific tasks
  • Optimized report forms for field data collection
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ArcGIS Mission Responder is the mobile app that enables users in the field to participate in active missions as part of Esri’s ArcGIS Mission product. ArcGIS Mission is a focused, tactical situational awareness solution that is fully integrated with Esri’s market leading ArcGIS Enterprise product. ArcGIS Mission allows organizations to create, share, and operate in missions using integrated maps, teams, and other mission related materials like photographs, documents, map products, and other information types. ArcGIS Mission is designed to provide organizations with a real-time view of their common operating picture using location sharing, whether the app is in the foreground or background, and provides remote, mobile users with situational understanding to be able to answer the question, “What’s going on around me right now?”. As the mobile component of ArcGIS Mission, Responder is the mobile app that enables operators to maintain communications and collaboration with their teammates as well as others in support of, and participating in, the mission through real time messaging and reporting. Key Features: - Chat messages that allow text, attachments, and sketches (A map markup) - Secure, protected connection to ArcGIS Enterprise - View and participate in active missions of ArcGIS Enterprise - View, interact and explore mission maps, layers and other resources - Send instant messages to other users, teams and all mission participants - Create, receive, view, and respond to user-specific tasks - Use an optimized report form to create and view reports from the field - Create simple map sketches to communicate and collaborate with other mission participants - Real-time location sharing for situational awareness ArcGIS Mission Responder for ArcGIS Enterprise 12.1, 12.0, 11.5, 11.4, 11.3, 11.2, and 11.1. Note: Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life. To access ArcGIS Mission Responder 10.9, please use this link: https://appsforms.esri.com/products/download/index.cfm?fuseaction=download.all#ArcGIS_Server

Screenshots

Response for FirstNet4 screens
ArcGIS Mission Responder4 screens

Verdict

The call

Response for FirstNet and ArcGIS Mission Responder are too close to call on the numbers: across 9 compared parameters — price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Response for FirstNet against 4.8 for ArcGIS Mission Responder. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 9 and 5 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Response for FirstNet ships an update every 2 months, ArcGIS Mission Responder every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Response for FirstNet versus ArcGIS Mission Responder: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterResponse for FirstNetArcGIS Mission Responder
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (9 ratings)4.8 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings9 — better5
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size163 MB134 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperIntrepid Networks LLCESRI

Customer experience

Response for FirstNet

All ratings9 ratings
Positive88.9%
Neutral11.1%
Negative0.0%

ArcGIS Mission Responder

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Response for FirstNet

No in-app purchases

None

ArcGIS Mission Responder

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Response for FirstNet free?
Response for FirstNet is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is ArcGIS Mission Responder free?
ArcGIS Mission Responder is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Response for FirstNet or ArcGIS Mission Responder?
Response for FirstNet and ArcGIS Mission Responder are both rated 4.8 out of 5 on the App Store, from 9 and 5 ratings respectively.
Do Response for FirstNet or ArcGIS Mission Responder have ads?
Neither Response for FirstNet nor ArcGIS Mission Responder shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Response for FirstNet or ArcGIS Mission Responder?
Response for FirstNet ships an update every 2 months, and ArcGIS Mission Responder every 3 months. Most recently, Response for FirstNet was updated on November 11, 2026 and ArcGIS Mission Responder on November 4, 2026.

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