RFS ACTIV vs PatternMate
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
RFS ACTIV
This app allows members of the New South Wales Rural Fire Service to manage their availability and respond to incidents. Users can set their status, receive notifications, and indicate their attendance.
- Set availability status
- Receive incident notifications
- Respond to incidents
- Indicate attendance
- Member management
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RFS ACTIV is the New South Wales Rural Fire Service Member Availability and Response System. RFS ACTIV will allow members to set their availability status, be notified of an incident and respond to an incident with ‘attending’ or ‘not attending’.
PatternMate
Manage your sewing pattern collection with custom tags, photos, and notes. Track your progress on ongoing projects and easily reference your inventory while shopping for fabric.
- Organize patterns with tags, photos, and notes
- Reference collection while fabric shopping
- Track sewing project progress
- Add notes to ongoing projects
- Customizable tagging system
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Organise your sewing patterns - Keep track of your pattern collection with custom tags, photos and notes. - Quickly reference your collection while fabric shopping to make sure that perfect find fits with your pattern plans. - Never dig through boxes of patterns again just to pull out one small detail. Track your sewing projects - Start projects from a pattern and keep notes of your progress. - Remember where you were up to with each project if you've got multiple pieces of work on the go at once.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: PatternMate at 100% against RFS ACTIV's 25%. RFS ACTIV's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.6). On price, update cadence, ads 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. PatternMate sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. RFS ACTIV asks for nothing beyond the download.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on August 25, 2026 and September 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | RFS ACTIV | PatternMate |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 25.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 6 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 61 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | NSW Rural Fire Service | Daniel Nitsikopoulos |
Customer experience
RFS ACTIV
PatternMate
In-app purchases
RFS ACTIV
No in-app purchases
PatternMate
- Super PatternMate Monthly$0.991 Month
- Super PatternMate Yearly$9.991 Year
