ActiveAlert vs Falconry Journal
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ActiveAlert
This app provides essential call details directly on your smartphone, eliminating the need to manually record information or enter addresses while driving. It automatically maps alarm locations, facilitates real-time response coordination, and organizes past and current calls.
- Real-time call details on smartphone
- Automatic alarm location mapping
- Real-time response coordination map
- Access photos and documents
- Converts dispatch data
- Manage past and current calls
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ActiveAlert helps you respond to calls faster by getting the essential details right in your smartphone. No more copying down dispatch information or trying to enter an address while driving. - Uses Apple Push instead of SMS - Automatically maps alarm location - Coordinate response with others using real-time map - Access relevant photos and documents from your phone - Converts hard-to-read dispatch data into legible sections - Manage past and current calls
Falconry Journal
Digitize your bird feeding, weight, and kill logs. Automatically capture weather, location, and time data for hunts. Predict bird weight to optimize hunting success and securely back up all your data in the cloud.
- Digital bird logging
- Automated weather/location data
- Predictive weight analysis
- Unlimited birds and data
- Cloud backup
- Data export
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Falconry Journal takes that old notebook where you log all of your birds feedings, weight and kills digital. It automatically pulls data about the weather, location and time of your kills to make logging easy and fun. It also provides tools that allow you to more accurately predict your bird(s)' weight at any given time, so that you never miss a hunt. Falconry Journal allows you unlimited birds and data, and backs it all up securely in the cloud in case you need to change phones. Falconry Journal also lets you export your data so that you can further analyze it in any way you choose, making that paper journal completely obsolete! A subscription is required to use Falconry Journal and all features within. You will be prompted to subscribe after you create an account. By using Falconry Journal you agree to the terms of use found here: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ To read more about our data privacy policy, that can be found here: https://www.falconryjournal.com/privacy-policy/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: ActiveAlert at none against Falconry Journal's 1. ActiveAlert also leads on ratings volume (738 vs 17). Falconry Journal's advantage is review sentiment (83% vs 55%) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.6). On price, rating, 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. Falconry Journal sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $1.99 per month. ActiveAlert asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.1 for ActiveAlert against 4.1 for Falconry Journal. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ActiveAlert has 738 ratings behind it against 17, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 55% of ActiveAlert's written reviews are positive against 83% of Falconry Journal's.
ActiveAlert ships an update every 8 days, Falconry Journal weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ActiveAlert | Falconry Journal |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (738 ratings) | 4.1 (17 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 55.2% of reviews | 83.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 738 — better | 17 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 58 MB | 109 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Active911 | Tim Williams |
Customer experience
ActiveAlert
Falconry Journal
Bugs and requests
ActiveAlert
Reported bugs
5 issues- Continuous paging/re-alerting issues
- Inability to disable repeat paging
- Alerts not working when phone is on silent
- Crashing and freezing issues
- Inconsistent behavior when switching between apps
Requested features
8 requests- Favorites or saved calls list
- Ability to adjust alert volume
- More alert tone options
- Improved map routing and integration
- Customizable themes and color schemes
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- Ability to mark on-duty/off-duty status with one button
- Improved call details formatting and organization
- Widgets and CarPlay integration
Falconry Journal
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
ActiveAlert
No in-app purchases
Falconry Journal
- Falconry Journal Subscription$1.991 Month
Questions
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