Blast Wi vs PPE Mobile
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Blast Wi
Easily create a secure guest Wi-Fi network for visitors. Set up parental controls and manage network access for household members. This app simplifies home network management.
- Guest Wi-Fi network setup
- Parental controls
- Basic policy management
- Device association to household members
- Intuitive and easy-to-use interface
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Blast Wi-Fi Powered by ITC is an intuitive, easy-to-use mobile application that lets subscribers set up a guest Wi-Fi network, set parental controls, provide basic policy management and associate devices in the network to household members.
PPE Mobile
This app helps firefighters manage their gear, checklists, and maintenance records. It allows users to track equipment, perform inspections, and report issues, even without an internet connection. Features are dependent on department setup and user access.
- Gear and equipment tracking
- Digital checklists
- Maintenance and inspection logging
- Problem reporting with photos
- Offline functionality
- Controlled substance tracking
- Vehicle and permit management
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PPE Mobile is the phone app for firefighters whose department uses PPE Software. Sign in with your department account and your gear, checklists and maintenance work go where you go, with or without a signal. WHAT NEEDS YOU Home shows what's waiting on you: equipment to acknowledge, gear that needs attention, signature requests, and quick starts for the things you do most. YOUR EQUIPMENT Everything assigned or loaned to you, grouped and searchable. Open an item for its details, notes and history. Acknowledge what you received and untick anything you didn't. SCAN THE LABEL One scanner for gear, vehicles, stations, containers and badges. Printed PPE labels open the item in the app, ready for a checklist, maintenance or a problem report. CHECKLISTS Start a checklist from your items, a search or a scan. Work through it section by section, jump to unanswered questions and flag problems with a photo. Results and history stay with the item. MAINTENANCE AND REQUESTS Record inspections as passed or failed. Report a problem with a photo and follow it to resolution. Report missing equipment and keep your sizes up to date. CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES Checks, counts, moves and signatures from your phone, for departments that track controlled substances. Records you sign without a signal are delivered when you're back online. NO SIGNAL? KEEP WORKING After you sign in, PPE Mobile downloads your work data. Checklists, maintenance records and problem reports save on your phone and send when you're back online. Saved work shows where each one stands. ALSO Your vehicles and permits, incident equipment for users with access, a digital badge, and sign-in with a password or QR code. Features depend on your department's setup and your access. PPE Mobile requires a PPE Software account from your fire department.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: PPE Mobile at every 10 days against Blast Wi's every 3 months. Blast Wi's advantage is ratings volume (13 vs 2). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Blast Wi against 5.0 for PPE Mobile. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Blast Wi has 13 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Blast Wi ships an update every 3 months, PPE Mobile every 10 days. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | Blast Wi | PPE Mobile |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (13 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 13 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 138 MB | 55 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | INTERSTATE TELECOMMUNICATIONS COOPERATIVE,INC. | PPE Software LLC |
Customer experience
Blast Wi
PPE Mobile
In-app purchases
Blast Wi
No in-app purchases
PPE Mobile
No in-app purchases
