SA Fires vs CFSScan
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SA Fires
Access up-to-date fire information from South Australia's Country Fire Service. View incidents by recency, severity, or proximity, and see their locations on a map.
- Real-time fire information
- Sort by latest, severity, or proximity
- Map fire locations
- Country Fire Service data
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SA Fires provides the current fire information from South Australia's Country Fire Service's web site. The information can be listed in latest information first, most severe status first or the closest fires first. The fires can also be mapped out on a google map to give some indication on their locations. Disclaimer: P4G make no representations, either express or implied, as to the accuracy, currency, completeness or suitability for any particular purpose of the information and accepts no liability for any use of the information or any responsibility for any reliance placed on that information. The user acknowledges that the incident information cannot be guaranteed error free and that use of the incident information is at the user's sole risk and that incident information may be subject to change without notice.
CFSScan
Access real-time emergency services pager messages with push notifications for custom rules. View detailed incident information, search historical data, and find nearby water points. The app also provides live traffic updates and route planning.
- Real-time push notifications
- Custom rule alerts
- Historical incident search
- Detailed incident information
- Map point referencing
- Live pager feed
- Water point and stand pipe locator
- Real-time traffic and route planning
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The CFSScan Official mobile application gives you real time access to the SA GRN Emergency services pager messages. Receive real-time push notifications for your custom rules and perform historical search. Access detailed incident information including map point referencing and agency tasking. Instance access to the Live Pager feed. The feed stays awake while you change pages keeping you up to date. Find all previous incidents with our advanced key word searching algorithms. Manage your account and push notifications directly from the application. Locate your nearest water point and standpipe while on route. Gather Realtime traffic details and plot the best route to the incident.
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Verdict
SA Fires and CFSScan both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 76% of SA Fires's written reviews are positive against 31% of CFSScan's. SA Fires also leads on ads (none vs shown) and chart position (#72 vs unranked). CFSScan's advantage is price (Free vs $0.99) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 5 months). On rating, in-app purchases and device support 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
CFSScan is free to download; SA Fires costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for SA Fires against 5.0 for CFSScan. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 76% of SA Fires's written reviews are positive against 31% of CFSScan's.
SA Fires ships an update every 5 months, CFSScan every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SA Fires | CFSScan |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 76.5% of reviews — better | 30.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #72 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 34 MB | 37 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | P4G Pty Ltd | Nico VanHaaster |
Customer experience
SA Fires
CFSScan
Bugs and requests
SA Fires
Reported bugs
21 issues- App no longer works on iPad
- Font size in red for current fire too large, covers appliance numbers
- Doesn't work on my iPad
- Hasn't been updated for 12 months
- Server unable to be updated for watch zones
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- Not displaying the map or updating info
- Won't even open
- Watch zone does not work (no radius, no alerts)
- Cannot delete unwanted watch zones
- Watch zone function does not work (deletes entries)
- Cannot search for a location by entering an address
- Doubled notifications
- Notification badge hardly ever updates
- Hasn't refreshed since 5/5/19
- Not refreshing
- No longer updates incidents
- Won't load at all
- Wrong state shown
- Little response
- Will not go past the loading screen
- Just hangs
Requested features
7 requests- More information on fires (size, units)
- Include local wind/fire direction
- Shorten fields to not cover appliance numbers
- Different icons for different incidents (e.g., tree down)
- Ability to delete old location alerts
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- Restrict notifications to fires only, not RTAs
- Ability to search for locations by address
CFSScan
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
SA Fires
No in-app purchases
CFSScan
No in-app purchases







