CopCal vs Axon Respond
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CopCal
Manage your work schedule with custom categories and repeating patterns. Ideal for public safety professionals or anyone needing to separate work shifts from personal life. Supports custom fields for specific event types like court cases.
- Repeating non-traditional work schedules
- Customizable event categories
- Dynamic fields for specific categories
- Separate work and personal schedules
- Track time off and earned comp time
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This was developed for public safety officials but can be used for anyone wanting to keep their work schedule separate. Includes functionality to create a repeating non-traditional (different days on/off) work schedule. If other categories are selected, additional fields are created (e.g. "Court" category adds "case number" field). Categories include: - Work - Court - Training - Meeting - Detail - Sick time - Comp time used - Comp time earned - Vacation - Furlough Day - Other This is a feature derived from the larger U.S. Cop app. Please visit officerbrooks.com or search "U.S. Cop" for information.
Axon Respond
This app enhances law enforcement safety by providing commanders with real-time situational awareness. It allows supervisors to track officer locations and view live body camera feeds during urgent events, ensuring rapid response and improved officer well-being.
- Real-time urgent event notifications
- Officer location tracking
- Livestream body camera broadcasts
- Enhanced situational awareness
- Secure communication for law enforcement
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The Axon Respond mobile app provides a secure and powerful tool to help law enforcement commanders and supervisors keep their officers safe. It boosts situational awareness by notifying commanders in real-time when urgent events occur. With the Axon Respond mobile app commanders and supervisor can see the location of officers and view livestream broadcasts from an officer's body camera. All of this happens seamlessly and instantly with just a few clicks on their mobile device. The Respond app also runs on iPad OS version 16.0 or later in iPhone compatibility mode.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Axon Respond at 3.9 against CopCal's 1.8. Axon Respond also leads on review sentiment (50% vs 23%). CopCal's advantage is iOS requirement (7.1 vs 16.0). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Axon Respond holds the better App Store score, 3.9 against 1.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 16 and 7 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 23% of CopCal's written reviews are positive against 50% of Axon Respond's.
CopCal ships an update every 2 months, Axon Respond every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CopCal | Axon Respond |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.8 (16 ratings) | 3.9 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 22.9% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 16 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 7.1 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 35 MB | 122 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | App Holdings | Axon Enterprise, Inc. |
Customer experience
CopCal
Axon Respond
In-app purchases
CopCal
No in-app purchases
Axon Respond
No in-app purchases
