FDNY vs Croker Fire
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
FDNY
This app simplifies managing your work schedule, including mutuals, vacations, and paydays. It also provides a directory of firehouses with map and contact information. Track overtime and special events with ease.
- Six-year schedule display
- Mutual partner tracking
- Banked mutual recording
- Firehouse directory with maps
- Overtime and pay tracking
- Event logging
- Retirement countdown
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Tired of fumbling with your FDNY Chart to figure out when you’ll be working two months from now? Sick of coloring the boxes and adding reminders about your mutuals? FDNY to the rescue! Custom-designed with the help of New York City firefighters, FDNY is smart about your chart. It knows about the 25 groups and their schedules, pairing of mutual partners, vacations, RSOT, and so on. The calendar screen always shows your day and night tours and your partner’s tours (using colors of your own choosing) for the next six years from “today.” It takes only a few taps to enter a mutual with your partner. A few more taps and you’ve got a banked mutual recorded with somebody else. Separate balances are maintained for each person. And, there’s no need for a new chart every year. FDNY also contains a list of NYC firehouses and callboxes, complete with locations (one touch to see maps) and firehouse phone numbers (one touch to make calls). Features: • Displays your schedule for the next six years, including vacations, holidays, and paydays. • Double-tap any day to see the day and night group numbers, just like the printed chart. • You can enter colleagues for other groups. • Records banked mutuals. Tracks tours earned or owed on a person-by-person basis. • Formats emails for sending out mutual offers. • Contains a Logbook for keeping track of tours or hours of your choosing. • Shows your vacation periods. • Logs “events” with date, time and location — you can edit the title, text, and location details when you have time. • Displays your tours and those of your mutual partner simultaneously. • Adjustable colors for day/night tours, vacations, RSOT holidays, etc. • Track all overtime, P/P, A2R, and CFR-D by pay period. • Mark special days such as training or medical appointments. • Quickly locate any NYC firehouse on a map. Sort the list by engine or ladder. • Countdown to retirement. • Extensive Help pages for every feature and screen; indexed. If you need help, or have questions or comments, the best way to contact me is by using the in-app email button on the Help screen (2nd best: fdny@buddy.com).. Please don't put questions or suggestions in a review; there's no way for me to reply directly to you. -- Jeff I reply to all emails immediately (or within a few hours if I'm sleeping or traveling, which isn't often). If you didn't hear from me promptly, it means there was failure in the "Tubes." Please try again to contact me. FDNY is for members of the New York City FD (including Fire Marshals, EMS, ABCD, and Light Duty). If you’re not a member of that department, then you do not want this app. Instead, check out Scheduler, which can handle repeatable shift schedules and on which FDNY is based.
Croker Fire
This app provides essential fire and life safety information for businesses. It helps buildings maintain safety awareness, preparedness, and prevention standards to ensure a secure environment for occupants during emergencies.
- Emergency preparedness guidance
- Fire safety information
- Life safety awareness
- Business continuity support
- Prevention standards
- Safe environment maintenance
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What to do before, during and after an emergency is critical for the ongoing continuity of business operations. The CFD App delivers critical fire and life safety information to aid buildings with safety awareness and preparedness, maintain high standards towards prevention and sustain a safe environment for all building occupants.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Croker Fire at Free against FDNY's $7.99. Croker Fire also leads on rating (4.0 vs 3.2). FDNY's advantage is update cadence (every 9 days vs every 6 weeks) and ratings volume (84 vs 3). On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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
Croker Fire is free to download; FDNY costs $7.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Croker Fire holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: FDNY has 84 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.
FDNY ships an update every 9 days, Croker Fire every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 12, 2026 and September 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | FDNY | Croker Fire |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $7.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.2 (84 ratings) | 4.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 60.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 84 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #198 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 37 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | The Buddy System, LLC | Croker Fire Drill Corp. |
Customer experience
FDNY
Croker Fire
Bugs and requests
FDNY
Reported bugs
8 issues- Overtime hours not adding up
- Events not saving on calendar
- App crashes regularly
- All data lost
- New version unusable
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- Erased old events
- Paycheck button crashes app
- Dark mode unreadable elements
Requested features
18 requests- Comprehensive user guide
- Tutorial video
- iCloud syncing
- Native iPad support
- ABCD chart for modified schedule
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- Military leave tracking
- Vacation entry feature
- Alarm integration for scheduler
- Mutual exchange via text messages
- Highway boxes
- New transit boxes
- Vacation letter chart integration
- EMS side support
- Add station numbers to contacts
- OT shifts slot
- EMS only stations slot
- Ability to turn off dark mode
- Revert to older version
Croker Fire
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
FDNY
No in-app purchases
Croker Fire
No in-app purchases







