Wildland Toolkit vs FireRoster
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Wildland Toolkit
This app provides essential reference materials and instant calculations for wildland firefighters. It includes IRPG, ICS forms, quizzes, and tools for calculating fire behavior metrics like flame length and rate of spread. Log and share weather data easily, with syncing across devices.
- IRPG 2025 and ICS forms
- Fire behavior calculations (FDFM, rate of spread, flame length)
- Weather log storage and sharing
- Fuel model selection with photos
- Safety checklists and reference guides
- Interactive practice quizzes
- Pack Test Timer
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Designed for wildland firefighters, this app has something for newbies as well as seasoned professionals. This is a tool you will use for years, during the off season, at camp, and even on the fireline. Wildland Toolkit provides a plethora of wildland fire reference material, including the actual IRPG 2025, ICS forms, quizzes that cover NWCG courses, photos of tools and aircraft types, etc. Learn new things, and reinforce what you already know. If you’ve had S290 or S390, you know how hard it is to calculate things like FDFM, PIG, rate of spread, flame length, etc. With this app, those numbers are spit out instantly as you take the weather! Now you can store all your weather logs for all your fires right on the app. The goal has always been to make recording the weather easier than paper. Even better, you can share those weather logs from the field if you have network coverage, or wait until later and pull them up on your iPad or M1-based Mac, where all the data is synced, and do further analysis and sharing. Just enter the fuel, weather, and topography information and Wildland Toolkit will generate: --RH and Dewpoint --Fine Dead Fuel Moisture --Probability of Ignition --Flamelength --Rate of Spread --Scorch height --Direction of Max Spread --Effective Windspeed All 54 of the new fuel models are supported, with a guide to select the proper fuel model, complete with sample photos. NOTE: There are no known calculation errors in this version. We will immediately fix any problems reported to us directly. Wildland Toolkit is not a tutorial on wildland fire behavior, so if the terms above do not make any sense, then this application will not teach you. It is assumed that you know the same background information that is presented in an S290 or S390 class. The calculations done in the Wildland Toolkit are similar to what is done with the BEHAVE software, but you will find the user interface much easier to use. --In addition, numerous safety checklists and reference guides are included, such as watchouts, fire orders, safety zones, watchouts, structure defense, sizeups, crew briefing, after action reviews, LCANS, and complexity analysis etc. --Photos and diagrams are provided for cloud types, hand signals, common wildland tools, firefighting aircraft, and ICS org charts. --Interactive practice quizzes are included for basic wildland fire, CPR, NIMS IS-700, S230 and S290. --ICS reference guide with position descriptions, an index of forms, and incident typing --Pack Test Timer guides you through your pack test and tells you your current pace and expected finish time *** --Cool Slope Calculator uses your phone to tell you slope --And if that's not all, the IRPG is provided in PDF form *** Pack Test timer uses GPS. Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life. GPS is not used if the Pack Test is stopped.
FireRoster
Manage your work schedule, submit requests, and receive real-time updates from your mobile device. This app simplifies shift trades, leave requests, and keeps you connected, eliminating the need for manual tracking.
- View schedules anywhere
- Submit leave requests
- Submit shift trades
- Real-time updates
- Notifications
- Designed for fire departments
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FireRoster Mobile is designed for line-level users to easily check schedules, look ahead, submit leave and time-off requests, and stay connected through notifications — all from your mobile device. Built by firefighters, for firefighters, FireRoster Mobile puts schedules, trades, leave requests, and overtime right in your pocket — without the spreadsheets, texts, or whiteboard chaos. - View your schedule anywhere - Submit leave & shift trades on the go - Real-time updates & notifications - Designed specifically for fire departments Your roster doesn’t stop when you leave the station — now neither do you.
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Verdict
Wildland Toolkit and FireRoster both sit at 4.8 stars, but that hides the real split: 80% of Wildland Toolkit's written reviews are positive against 0% of FireRoster's. Wildland Toolkit also leads on ratings volume (330 vs 1) and chart position (#56 vs unranked). FireRoster's advantage is price (Free vs $5.99) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.5). On rating, 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
FireRoster is free to download; Wildland Toolkit costs $5.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
FireRoster holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Wildland Toolkit has 330 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 80% of Wildland Toolkit's written reviews are positive against 0% of FireRoster's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Wildland Toolkit ships an update every 2 weeks, FireRoster every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Wildland Toolkit | FireRoster |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $5.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.8 (330 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 330 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 4 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #56 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.5 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 43 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Peakview Software LLC | Battalion 3 Technologies, LLC |
Customer experience
Wildland Toolkit
FireRoster
Bugs and requests
Wildland Toolkit
Reported bugs
7 issues- Pack test timer accuracy issues
- Distance off in pack test timer
- Errors in FDFM
- Reads out in feet, not chains per hour
- Incorrect nomenclature for Blackhawk
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- Calculations in fire behavior portion are wrong
- Discrepancies between weather charts and app
Requested features
12 requests- More pictures in some areas
- More pictures when choosing fuel styles
- Expansion of task books
- More class quizzes
- 10 and 18 quiz for memorizing
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- Pump/Saw troubleshooting
- Hose lay calculations
- Ability to use in landscape mode
- Link GPS function for automatic data entry
- Include old fuel models
- Support for CFFDRS
- Alaska RH tables
FireRoster
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Wildland Toolkit
No in-app purchases
FireRoster
No in-app purchases
Questions
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