Comparison

FDNY vs Pallio AI

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Six-year schedule display
  • Mutual partner tracking
  • Banked mutual recording
  • Firehouse directory with maps
  • Overtime and pay tracking
  • Event logging
  • Retirement countdown
Features
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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.

About

Pallio AI

Transform your documents into interactive AI experts. Ask questions, get summaries, and generate content grounded in your uploaded files. Features include custom AI personas, multi-document analysis, and accurate citations.

Highlights
  • Document chat with inline citations
  • Custom AI personas from knowledge bases
  • Multi-document cross-referencing
  • Smart retrieval of relevant passages
  • Quiz and flashcard generation
  • Podcast generation from documents
  • Cross-device synchronization
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Pallio turns your documents into an expert you can talk to — and a tutor that teaches you what's inside. Upload PDFs, Word files, slides, spreadsheets or notes. Ask a question in plain words and get an answer grounded in your files, with the source attached. Tap the citation and the document opens at the passage it came from. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Ask your documents anything — manuals, handbooks, policies, contracts, textbooks, research • Tap the citation, land on the page — check an answer against the original in one tap • Teach me — turn any document into a step-by-step course: short lessons, quick checks and review until it sticks • Quizzes — see right or wrong as you go, or get all your results at the end • Flashcards, podcasts, summaries, documents and images made from any chat • Just talk — hands-free voice conversations with your material • Mark my answer — get a written answer marked against your own material • Build your own AI persona from your files and share it, or explore hundreds made by the community • Learn together — share a class, invite people and message the people you learn with BUILT FOR MANY KINDS OF WORK • Teams and onboarding: turn handbooks, SOPs and training manuals into answers new hires can check • Healthcare and life sciences: protocols, guidelines and study material • Legal and compliance: policies, regulations and contracts — find the clause and read it in context • Trades and field service: equipment manuals and procedures on your phone • Sales and support: product docs and FAQs at your fingertips • Research and analysis: work across papers and reports • Teachers, trainers and creators: build a course or persona others can learn from • Students: textbooks, lecture notes and past papers • Anyone learning something new PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your documents aren't used to train AI models. Delete your account and all your data any time from Settings. PLANS Start free. Paid plans add more documents, more chats a day and advanced features. SUBSCRIPTION TERMS Paid subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://pallio.ai/privacy

Screenshots

FDNY4 screens
Pallio AI4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Pallio AI at Free against FDNY's $7.99. Pallio AI also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.2) and review sentiment (100% vs 61%). FDNY's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 8) and ratings volume (84 vs 4). On update cadence, ads, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Pallio AI is free to download; FDNY costs $7.99 up front. Pallio AI sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $12.00 per month. FDNY asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Pallio AI holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: FDNY has 84 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 61% of FDNY's written reviews are positive against 100% of Pallio AI's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

FDNY ships an update every 9 days, Pallio AI every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
FDNY versus Pallio AI: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFDNYPallio AI
Price$7.99Free — better
Rating3.2 (84 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews60.9% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings84 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFreemium — better
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS14.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB47 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperThe Buddy System, LLCCoveLogic LLC

Customer experience

FDNY

All ratings84 ratings
Positive52.4%
Neutral8.3%
Negative39.3%
Written reviews64 reviews
Positive60.9%
Neutral10.9%
Negative28.1%

Pallio AI

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

Pallio AI

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

FDNY

No in-app purchases

8 purchases

Pallio AI

Subscriptions8
  • Pallio Starter$12.001 Month
  • Pallio Professional$35.001 Month
  • Pallio Professional Plus$49.001 Month
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  • Pallio Premium$99.001 Month
  • Pallio Starter$119.991 Year
  • Pallio Professional$334.991 Year
  • Pallio Professional Plus$469.001 Year
  • Pallio Premium$949.001 Year

Questions

Is FDNY free?
FDNY costs $7.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Pallio AI free?
Pallio AI is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, FDNY or Pallio AI?
Pallio AI is rated higher. FDNY averages 3.2 out of 5 from 84 ratings, while Pallio AI averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do FDNY or Pallio AI have ads?
Neither FDNY nor Pallio AI shows ads.
Which is updated more often, FDNY or Pallio AI?
FDNY ships an update every 9 days, and Pallio AI every 2 weeks. Most recently, FDNY was updated on October 31, 2026 and Pallio AI on October 11, 2026.

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