FDNY vs Vamo Delivery Driver
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.
Vamo Delivery Driver
Earn money by completing errands with this user-friendly application. Log in and set your availability to receive errand offers. GPS services are required to utilize the app's functionality.
- Earn money running errands
- Choose your own work hours
- Log in to become available
- Receive errand offers
- Requires GPS services
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Start earning money by running errands with our easy-to-use app. You are free to choose when to run an errand. You just have to log into the app and make yourself available so that we know that we can offer errands to you.* *To use the runner app you’ll have to allow the gps services within the app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Vamo Delivery Driver at Free against FDNY's $7.99. FDNY's advantage is chart position (#174 vs unranked). On rating, review sentiment, 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
Vamo Delivery Driver is free to download; FDNY costs $7.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Vamo Delivery Driver holds the better App Store score, 3.3 against 3.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 84 and 145 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 61% of FDNY's written reviews are positive against 54% of Vamo Delivery Driver's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
FDNY ships an update every 9 days, Vamo Delivery Driver every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | FDNY | Vamo Delivery Driver |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $7.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.2 (84 ratings) | 3.3 (145 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 60.9% of reviews — better | 53.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 84 | 145 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Ad-supported — better |
| Best chart rank | #174 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 55 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | The Buddy System, LLC | Errand |
Customer experience
FDNY
Vamo Delivery Driver
User reviews
FDNY
From 84 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Great for FDNY chart
- 👍 Useful for schedule tracking
- 👍 Good for OT and mutuals
- 👍 Firehouse locator helpful
- 👍 Syncs with iCal
Room to improve
- 👎 New version complicated
- 👎 Older version preferred
- 👎 Not user-friendly
- 👎 Cluttered interface
- 👎 Difficult to navigate
Vamo Delivery Driver
From 145 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Fast and efficient delivery routes
- 💰 Competitive pay compared to competitors
- 👍 User-friendly app interface
- 🤝 Responsive and helpful customer support
- ⚡ Quick onboarding process
Room to improve
- 💸 Payment delays and non-payment issues
- 🔐 Requires extensive personal information upfront
- 🐛 App crashes and loading failures
- ⚠️ Geographic availability limitations
- 📉 Pay reductions without notice
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
Vamo Delivery Driver
Reported bugs
9 issues- App crashes and won't load properly
- Keyboard covers verify button during signup
- Login timeout redirects to join screen instead of password reset
- Instant payment feature returns error messages
- Cannot view payment history or completed routes
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- Missing delivery notes on repeat locations
- Server connection errors preventing website access
- App session timeouts during onboarding
- Inaccurate mileage and hour calculations
Requested features
8 requests- More frequent payout options (every 3 days instead of weekly)
- Payment history visibility in app
- More route availability in service areas
- Better car model dropdown options
- Improved app performance and stability
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- Faster instant cash-out processing
- Enhanced background check integration
- Better communication about pay changes
In-app purchases
FDNY
No in-app purchases
Vamo Delivery Driver
No in-app purchases
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