Response for FirstNet vs Incident Management Tablet
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
Incident Management Tablet
This application provides a centralized mobile workspace for public safety organizations to manage incidents, personnel, and resources. It streamlines ICS documentation, reduces paper forms, and allows for direct calling and data export. Essential for efficient emergency response and operational planning.
- Incident and operational period management
- Personnel and resource tracking
- Electronic ICS form completion
- PDF report generation
- CSV data import/export
- Direct calling from app
- GPS integration
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Incident Management Tablet is an incident management and ICS documentation application designed for fire departments, EMS, emergency management agencies, and other public safety organizations. The app provides incident leaders and responders with a centralized mobile workspace for managing incidents, operational periods, personnel, resources, assignments, communications, medical planning, and ICS documentation. Built for field operations, Incident Management Tablet helps reduce reliance on paper forms while keeping critical incident information organized and accessible. Users can manage incidents and operational periods, maintain personnel and unit resources, complete ICS forms, generate PDF records, import and export data, place calls directly from the app, and access GPS information throughout the application. Incident Management Features • Create and manage multiple incidents • Manage incident and operational period information • Maintain personnel, units, teams, and resources • Assign personnel and resources to incident documentation • Reuse incident and resource information across ICS forms • Access GPS coordinates throughout the application ICS Forms and Documentation Electronic workflows are provided for: • ICS 204 – Assignment List • ICS 205 – Incident Radio Communications Plan • ICS 206 – Medical Plan • ICS 208 – Safety Message/Plan • ICS 213 – General Message • ICS 213-RR – Resource Request Message • ICS 214 – Activity Log • ICS 225-WF – Incident Personnel Performance Rating Forms integrate incident, operational period, personnel, and resource information to reduce repetitive data entry and improve consistency. ICS 206 Medical Planning Enhanced medical planning helps personnel quickly identify medical resources. Hospitals can be sorted by distance from the incident, helping users identify nearby facilities. GPS coordinates support navigation, location verification, and operational planning. Calling From the App When telephone information is available, users can initiate calls directly from the application, providing quick access to hospitals, medical resources, agencies, personnel, and operational contacts. CSV Import and Export CSV import and export allows agencies to exchange structured data, maintain resource information, and use exported information with spreadsheets, reporting processes, agency records, and other systems. PDF Generation ICS documentation can be generated as professional PDF files for sharing, printing, archiving, and inclusion with incident records. Personnel and Resource Management Maintain personnel and unit information and use those resources throughout incident workflows. Personnel can be associated with units and selected on applicable ICS forms, reducing duplicate data entry. ICS 214 Activity Documentation Maintain chronological activity records by operational period, associate personnel and units with activity logs, and generate organized ICS 214 documentation. Location and GPS Awareness GPS coordinates are available throughout the application to support incident documentation, navigation, medical planning, resource coordination, and field operations. Designed for Public Safety Incident Management Tablet supports routine incidents, planned events, emergency operations, mutual-aid responses, disaster deployments, and complex incidents involving multiple operational periods. Incident Management Tablet provides one digital platform for managing resources, documenting operations, locating medical facilities, communicating with contacts, importing and exporting data, completing ICS forms, and maintaining professional incident records. Incident Management Tablet is an incident management and documentation tool and does not replace agency policies, procedures, command practices, official emergency communications systems, or medical direction.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Incident Management Tablet at every 2 days against Response for FirstNet's every 2 months. Incident Management Tablet also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8). Response for FirstNet's advantage is ratings volume (9 vs 2) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.6). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Incident Management Tablet holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 9 and 2 respectively.
Response for FirstNet ships an update every 2 months, Incident Management Tablet every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Response for FirstNet | Incident Management Tablet |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (9 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | 9 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 142 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Intrepid Networks LLC | Ryan Watson |
Customer experience
Response for FirstNet
Incident Management Tablet
In-app purchases
Response for FirstNet
No in-app purchases
Incident Management Tablet
No in-app purchases
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