Comparison

Resgrid Responder vs GCACDispatch

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

Head to head
About

Resgrid Responder

This app provides a comprehensive logistics, communication, and management system for first responder organizations. It helps coordinate personnel, resources, and incidents, with features for dispatching, staffing, and reporting.

Highlights
  • Personnel and apparatus status tracking
  • Automated staffing schedules
  • Dispatch management with notes and files
  • Multi-channel dispatch notifications
  • Incident logging and note-taking
  • Big Board for station display
Features
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Resgrid is a logistics, communication and management (LCM) system that can be used by fire departments (volunteer and career), police, emergency medical services (EMS), search and rescue (SAR), hazmat, CERT, emergency management and other first responder or disaster response organizations to coordinate, communicate and manage personnel, resources (units/apparatuses), incident and reporting. Resgrid will show you the status and staffing level of all your personnel and apparatuses. Set automated staffing schedules, attach notes, images and files to dispatches (calls), blast out messages, poll personnel, create and view callbacks and much more. Log calls, take notes, use the Big Board to show all information on a monitor in your station. Resgrid can manage your calls, generated either internally or from an external CAD system. Auto import calls via emails, text messages or API calls. Resgrid can dispatch via Push Notifications, Email, Text Messages and Voice Calls. So even your personnel without smart phones or cell phones at all can use land lines to get dispatched from anywhere in the world. Resgrid is the only complete LCM (Logistics, Communication & Management) system for first responders and disaster response. With a suite of mobile applications (for Personnel, Units, Incident Commands and Data Reporting) and a zero-installation cloud based SaaS backend you can get up and running in minutes. Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.

About

GCACDispatch

Features
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This app is for the usage for Canadian Coast Guard Auxiliary or SAR team. This application is used by our volunteer members to receive emergency calls, or other situations on the water. The configuration is that each unit has one or more dispatchers (who create the calls and select the members to answer them) and member decide to be available or not to the call. The dispatcher can see how long it takes the member to get to the boat. If the member does not respond within 30 seconds, the system sends an SMS.. Cette application est destinée à l’usage de la Garde côtière auxiliaire canadienne. Elle est utilisée par nos membres bénévoles pour recevoir des appels d’urgence ou d’autres situations en mer. Chaque unité dispose d’un ou plusieurs répartiteurs (qui créent les appels et sélectionnent les membres pour y répondre), et les membres décident s’ils sont disponibles ou non pour répondre à l’appel. Le répartiteur peut voir combien de temps le membre met pour arriver au bateau. Si le membre ne répond pas dans les 30 secondes, le système envoie un SMS.

Screenshots

Resgrid Responder4 screens
GCACDispatch3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: GCACDispatch at every 2 months against Resgrid Responder's every 5 months. GCACDispatch also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.1). On price, ads, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Resgrid Responder ships an update every 5 months, GCACDispatch every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 6, 2026 and September 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Resgrid Responder versus GCACDispatch: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterResgrid ResponderGCACDispatch
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (7 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews38.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings7 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.113.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size127 MB43 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperResgrid, LLC.Maxime Labrie

In-app purchases

None

Resgrid Responder

No in-app purchases

None

GCACDispatch

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Resgrid Responder free?
Resgrid Responder is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is GCACDispatch free?
GCACDispatch is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Resgrid Responder or GCACDispatch have ads?
Neither Resgrid Responder nor GCACDispatch shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Resgrid Responder or GCACDispatch?
Resgrid Responder ships an update every 5 months, and GCACDispatch every 2 months. Most recently, Resgrid Responder was updated on September 6, 2026 and GCACDispatch on September 11, 2026.

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