Axon Respond vs LEAware
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.
LEAware
Access recent data like incidents and arrests from Southern Software Analytics. Requires administrator permissions and agency use of the platform.
- View recent incidents
- Access arrest data
- Requires administrator permissions
- Integrates with Southern Software Analytics
- Supports iOS devices
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Allows Southern Software users to view recent data such as Incidents, Arrests, etc. You MUST have permissions granted by an administrator.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Axon Respond at 3.9 against LEAware's 1.0. Axon Respond also leads on ratings volume (7 vs 2). LEAware's advantage is 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.
Axon Respond holds the better App Store score, 3.9 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 2 respectively.
Axon Respond ships an update every 6 weeks, LEAware every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 18, 2026 and August 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Axon Respond | LEAware |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (7 ratings) — better | 1.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 122 MB | 61 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Axon Enterprise, Inc. | Southern Software, Inc. |
Customer experience
Axon Respond
LEAware
In-app purchases
Axon Respond
No in-app purchases
LEAware
No in-app purchases
