Vector vs ArcGIS Mission Responder
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Vector
Manage your work schedule on the go. Receive and respond to callback shifts, submit time off and trade requests, and stay updated with group notifications. Requires your organization to be a Vector Scheduling member.
- Receive callback shifts
- Respond to group notifications
- Check work schedule
- Submit time off requests
- Submit trade requests
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This is the Vector Scheduling mobile application. This application will allow you to receive and respond to callback shifts, send and respond to group notifications, check your work schedule, submit time off and leave requests, submit trade requests, and more. This application requires that your organization be a member of Vector Scheduling.
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
The clearest difference is review sentiment: ArcGIS Mission Responder at 100% against Vector's 11%. ArcGIS Mission Responder also leads on rating (4.8 vs 1.9). Vector's advantage is ratings volume (59 vs 5) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, update cadence, 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.
ArcGIS Mission Responder holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 1.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Vector has 59 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 11% of Vector's written reviews are positive against 100% of ArcGIS Mission Responder's.
Vector ships an update every 5 months, ArcGIS Mission Responder every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 2, 2026 and June 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Vector | ArcGIS Mission Responder |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.9 (59 ratings) | 4.8 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 11.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 59 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 134 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Vector Solutions, Inc. | ESRI |
Customer experience
Vector
ArcGIS Mission Responder
In-app purchases
Vector
No in-app purchases
ArcGIS Mission Responder
No in-app purchases
