ECM2FIRE vs EnRoute Mobile
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ECM2FIRE
Receive critical emergency alerts and notifications from participating organizations in real-time. This app offers features like push notifications, two-way messaging, and message detail downloads for efficient communication during emergencies.
- Real-time push notifications
- Two-way distribution list messaging
- Message detail downloading
- Emergency alerts
- Organizational notifications
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ECM2 allows participating organizations to receive emergency alerts and notifications. ECM2 features real-time push notifications, two-way distribution list messaging, and message detail downloading in addition to many other features. Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.
EnRoute Mobile
This application provides emergency response personnel with real-time access to critical incident information. It aims to improve response times, enhance situational awareness, and facilitate safer outcomes for law enforcement, fire, and EMS responders.
- Real-time incident information access
- Improved response times with routing
- Visual unit placement on maps
- Silent dispatch capabilities
- Facility diagrams with navigation
- Driver's license scanning
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Emergency response personnel need real-time access to critical, situational information to effectively respond to incidents as quickly and safely as possible. To ensure that your law, fire/EMS, and ambulance responders are properly equipped with the right information at the right time to make informed decisions and deliver faster and safer incident outcomes, you need an easy-to-use, high-performance, mobile computer-aided dispatch (CAD) solution. Improve call response times Your law, fire/EMS, and ambulance responders can respond to incidents faster and have quick and easy access to critical information to help better protect your citizens and themselves. You’ll maximize response performance and safety, and ensure your responders are better able to respond. Your agency can: • Simplify and accelerate response to emergencies and time-critical situations. • Facilitate responder real-time access to critical information. • Reduce responder dependency on dispatch by allowing field personnel to perform status changes and obtain incident information. • Decrease radio traffic from the dispatch center by using silent dispatch • Use visual representation of all units to enhance the strategic awareness and placement of resources. Respond quickly • Improve response times by receiving adjusted routing recommendations from dispatch with turn-by-turn text directions based on factors such as street closures and construction. • View routing information and nearby units on map screens. • Initiate incidents from the field. • Assign additional units as backups on calls. Quickly get critical information • Easily view caution-flag buttons that provide information such as caution notes, emergency contact information, approach instructions, and special equipment requirements. • Quickly access diagrams of major facilities that show ingress, egress, and navigation information, as well as hazmat material locations. • Send and receive messages with the communications center and other field units. • Scan driver’s licenses and photographs. Stay informed of ongoing incidents in real time • Easily update and access incident information, unit states, and situation notes in real time. • Speed up information access with input options such as a keyboard with single-hand support, programmable function keys, touchscreen support, and big-button keypad screens.
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Verdict
ECM2FIRE and EnRoute Mobile both sit at 2.6 stars, but that hides the real split: 68% of ECM2FIRE's written reviews are positive against 0% of EnRoute Mobile's. ECM2FIRE also leads on update cadence (every 10 days vs every 2 months) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.6). On price, rating, ratings volume 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.
EnRoute Mobile holds the better App Store score, 2.8 against 2.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 8 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 68% of ECM2FIRE's written reviews are positive against 0% of EnRoute Mobile's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
ECM2FIRE ships an update every 10 days, EnRoute Mobile every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on June 11, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ECM2FIRE | EnRoute Mobile |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.6 (5 ratings) | 2.8 (8 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 67.5% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 8 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 41 MB | 351 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | ECM2 LLC | Epic Genius LLC |
Customer experience
ECM2FIRE
EnRoute Mobile
In-app purchases
ECM2FIRE
No in-app purchases
EnRoute Mobile
No in-app purchases






