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.
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.
- 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
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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.
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.
- 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
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
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.
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.
| Parameter | Response for FirstNet | ArcGIS Mission Responder |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (9 ratings) | 4.8 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 9 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 163 MB | 134 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Intrepid Networks LLC | ESRI |
Customer experience
Response for FirstNet
ArcGIS Mission Responder
In-app purchases
Response for FirstNet
No in-app purchases
ArcGIS Mission Responder
No in-app purchases
Questions
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