Axon Respond vs NIRLab
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Axon Respond
This app enhances law enforcement safety by providing commanders with real-time situational awareness. It allows supervisors to track officer locations and view live body camera feeds during urgent events, ensuring rapid response and improved officer well-being.
- Real-time urgent event notifications
- Officer location tracking
- Livestream body camera broadcasts
- Enhanced situational awareness
- Secure communication for law enforcement
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The Axon Respond mobile app provides a secure and powerful tool to help law enforcement commanders and supervisors keep their officers safe. It boosts situational awareness by notifying commanders in real-time when urgent events occur. With the Axon Respond mobile app commanders and supervisor can see the location of officers and view livestream broadcasts from an officer's body camera. All of this happens seamlessly and instantly with just a few clicks on their mobile device. The Respond app also runs on iPad OS version 16.0 or later in iPhone compatibility mode.
NIRLab
Instantly identify substances using near-infrared spectra. This app is part of a comprehensive data management system for field-based analysis. A compatible infrared spectrometer is necessary for data acquisition.
- Instant substance identification
- Near-infrared spectra analysis
- Field data acquisition
- Complete data management ecosystem
- Quality monitoring
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The NIRLab app instantly identifies substances on the field with their near infrared spectra. The application is part of a complete data management ecosystem covering from data acquisition to quality monitoring. A MircoNIR infrared spectrometer is required to acquire new spectra.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: NIRLab at 5.0 against Axon Respond's 3.9. NIRLab also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 6 weeks) and device support (3 vs 1). Axon Respond's advantage is ratings volume (7 vs 1). 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.
NIRLab holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Axon Respond has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Axon Respond ships an update every 6 weeks, NIRLab every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Axon Respond | NIRLab |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (7 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 122 MB | 112 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Axon Enterprise, Inc. | NIRLAB Forensics Sarl |
Customer experience
Axon Respond
NIRLab
In-app purchases
Axon Respond
No in-app purchases
NIRLab
No in-app purchases
