My Chatham vs Axon
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
My Chatham
Connect with local government and community services through a user-friendly mobile interface. Submit general questions and non-emergency service requests, track their status, and receive updates.
- Submit general questions
- Report non-emergency service requests
- Pinpoint issue locations
- Attach photos to requests
- Receive status update notifications
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My Chatham links residents with the services and information they need to enjoy their community and stay connected with local government in just a few clicks. This mobile app allows you to submit general questions and non-emergency service requests – all from the convenience of your smartphone. The Request for Service feature allows citizens to easily submit request like: pothole repair, property maintenance issues, missed trash collection, and animal control issues. This app provides residents with an easy way to report a service request for action and resolution. The My Chatham app allows you to pinpoint the issue location, attach photos from your mobile device, and receive automatic notifications of status updates as your requests are fulfilled.
Axon
This app allows public safety professionals to securely manage digital evidence and records on the go. It streamlines workflows, enables field evidence review, and facilitates secure community evidence submission. Users can also write and search records directly from their mobile devices.
- Evidence management (search, playback, metadata)
- Records management (write, submit, search)
- Secure evidence submission from community members
- Field evidence review and analysis
- Dictation support for report writing
- Biometric security integration
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Public safety professionals need tools that are as mobile as they are. The Axon app was built so law enforcement officers and supervisors can securely view and manage their digital evidence and records anytime, anywhere. The intuitive interface includes a homepage dashboard with quick links to evidence that is missing an ID or category. Officers can use the app to complete evidence workflows while in the field, increasing agency efficiency and data compliance, as well as improving officer satisfaction. Officers can review evidence in the field after the incident, providing investigators with the ability to gain a more complete perspective on how events unfolded. They can also use the app to initiate digital evidence collection by inviting witnesses to submit their photos and videos directly to the agency, ensuring a clean chain of custody. Agencies using Axon Records additionally benefit from the ability to write, submit, and search records from the Axon app. Their homepage dashboard also includes pending records tasks, as well as a quick link to create a new record. FEATURES INCLUDE: - Evidence management (DEMS): search, playback, manage metadata - Records management (RMS): search, write, continue/edit, submit, review - Axon Evidence user permissions maintained across desktop and mobile - Homepage dashboard that highlights missing data (plus pending tasks for RMS users) - Integration with the device’s biometric security - Dictation support (talk-to-text) for report writing - Ability to request evidence from a community member - Secure access - all data remains in the cloud with no local storage NOTE: Your agency must have a subscription to Axon Evidence or Axon Records to benefit from this app. Not an Axon customer? Contact us at axon.com/contact.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Axon at 4.8 against My Chatham's 3.5. Axon also leads on review sentiment (40% vs 0%) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 60 months). My Chatham's advantage is monetization model (free vs subscription) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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.
Axon holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Axon has 1.3K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of My Chatham's written reviews are positive against 40% of Axon's.
My Chatham ships an update every 60 months, Axon every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on October 29, 2026.
| Parameter | My Chatham | Axon |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (2 ratings) | 4.8 (1.3K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 40.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 1.3K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 60 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 31 MB | 46 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Chatham County Board of Commissioners | Axon Enterprise, Inc. |
Customer experience
My Chatham
Axon
In-app purchases
My Chatham
No in-app purchases
Axon
No in-app purchases









