Axon Respond vs Skylar App
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.
Skylar App
This app provides teams with a customizable infrastructure for managing guards, scheduling, and dispatching. It simplifies team coordination and operational oversight.
- Guard management
- Team scheduling
- Dispatching capabilities
- Customizable infrastructure
- Operational oversight
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The Skylar App offers teams a customized infrastructure solution that offers guard management, scheduling, and the dispatching of teams with ease.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Skylar App at 13.0 against Axon Respond's 16.0. On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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 — 3.9 for Axon Respond against 4.0 for Skylar App. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 4 respectively.
Axon Respond ships an update every 6 weeks, Skylar App every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Axon Respond | Skylar App |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (7 ratings) | 4.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 122 MB | 35 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Axon Enterprise, Inc. | Skylar Security, LLC |
Customer experience
Axon Respond
Skylar App
In-app purchases
Axon Respond
No in-app purchases
Skylar App
No in-app purchases
