Wildland Toolkit vs Tablet Command
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.
Tablet Command
This app provides tactical incident management tools for emergency responders on iPads. It allows users to drag and drop units, track progress with checklists, and time-stamp actions. Reports can be exported for after-action analysis, enhancing safety and organization during emergencies.
- Drag and drop unit assignments
- Automatic PAR timers
- Timestamped action logging
- Customizable checklists
- Incident report export
- Resource management
- Map and satellite views
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Tablet Command is the premier tactical worksheet app for iPad OS. Tablet Command was created by a team of career emergency responders and professional software developers and supports all-hazard incident command and incident management. Tap and drag units into assignments, map progress against critical checklists, and time-stamp every action throughout an incident. Tablet Command is a real-time incident command platform designed for emergency response operations, helping incident commanders manage resources, assignments, and accountability with clarity and speed. POWERFUL COMMAND FEATURES ON YOUR iPAD: - Drag and drop units to create assignments and set automatic PAR timers - Toggle between scene views: satellite, map or units view - Automatically timestamp every action - Create groups and divisions that can accept multiple units - User-defined work and PAR timers - Export time-stamped incident reports directly off the fire ground via e-mail or SMS - Increase safety by recognizing crew fatigue with automatic work timers per unit - Assess overall incident status at a glance - Track elapsed incident time to the second from anywhere on the fireground - Configure and customize an unlimited number of resources - Create and use customized checklists for any type of emergency - Manage resources in a map view (Especially useful for wildland) - Export detailed incident data to support after-action analysis Tablet Command provides an all-risk incident command system (ICS)- aligned response, accountability, and resource management solution. INTERNET CONNECTION IS NOT REQUIRED FOR CORE FUNCTIONALITY TABLET COMMAND IS AN IDEAL TRAINING PLATFORM for aspiring incident managers and will be a trusted companion for veteran managers in real-time emergency management. Incident commanders who use Tablet Command are more organized and more apt to follow standard operating guidelines. TABLET COMMAND ENTERPRISE Tablet Command is also available as an enterprise solution for your department. ENTERPRISE FEATURES: - CAD Integration - requires custom development - Customize Mapping - Supports ArcGIS Online Integration to support customized web maps for your agency - Staffing Integration - supports various staffing solutions including Telestaff, Crewsense, CAD, etc - Automatic vehicle location (AVL) of units on the map - Transfer Command of incidents in progress to other incident managers - Fire Mapper Enterprise integration to display live Fire Mapper layers on the incident map - Standardize checklists, resources, and assignments department wide - View incidents and CAD comments from CAD feed - Auto-populate units assigned to incident from CAD feed - Configure and share resources via a web portal Location services disclaimer: Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Tablet Command at Free against Wildland Toolkit's $5.99. Wildland Toolkit's advantage is rating (4.8 vs 4.1) and ratings volume (330 vs 14). On review sentiment, 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
Tablet Command is free to download; Wildland Toolkit costs $5.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Wildland Toolkit holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Wildland Toolkit has 330 ratings behind it against 14, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 80% of Wildland Toolkit's written reviews are positive against 75% of Tablet Command's.
Wildland Toolkit ships an update every 2 weeks, Tablet Command every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Wildland Toolkit | Tablet Command |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $5.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.8 (330 ratings) — better | 4.1 (14 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better | 75.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 330 — better | 14 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #58 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.5 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 43 MB | 222 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Peakview Software LLC | Tablet Command, Inc |
Customer experience
Wildland Toolkit
Tablet Command
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
Tablet Command
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Wildland Toolkit
No in-app purchases
Tablet Command
No in-app purchases
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