ManageBridge vs WAVE PTX
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ManageBridge
This app extends powerful critical event management and communication tools to mobile devices. It allows users to securely send notifications, manage event task lists, and monitor safety reports from anywhere. Stay in control of your critical communications on the go.
- Send secure notifications with images
- Create and manage event task lists
- Monitor notification and safety reports
- View Safety Connection user updates
- Record and send voice messages
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Everbridge ManageBridge brings the same set of rich communication features and critical event management tools available in the desktop version to mobile devices. The mobile app is available to Everbridge clients, providing more control than ever before over their critical communications. Features: - Securely send notifications complete with images to contacts by selecting individuals, groups, rules or a geographical region - Create, launch and manage event task lists from anywhere - Monitor notification and safety event reports - View updates from Safety Connection users - Record a voice message and send it immediately or save it as a template Whether it’s launching notifications on-the-fly or from a template to monitoring Safety Connection activities – ManageBridge makes managing all your critical events available convenient anywhere, anytime!
WAVE PTX
This app enables secure, reliable push-to-talk communication across various networks and devices. It extends existing two-way radio services to broadband users, enhancing team productivity with instant messaging and multimedia sharing.
- Secure broadband PTT communication
- Carrier-independent network use
- Emergency calling
- Real-time streaming video
- Voice and text messaging
- User location tracking
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Take Push-To-Talk Further: Based on 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Mission Critical Push-To-Talk (MCPTT) standards, WAVE PTT provides fast, secure, reliable broadband PTT communication across any network, any device. Expand existing land mobile radio (LMR) service to include broadband users on the devices and networks they already have. Extend two-way radio push-to-talk communication to phones, tablets and PCs and increase team productivity with instant communication anywhere you have a network or Wi-Fi connection. • Carrier-independent, use any 3G/4G LTE, public Wi-Fi, or private data network connection • Emergency calling and other critical communications features • Real time streaming video • Voice messaging, pre-recorded or record-and-send • Group and private 1-1 PTT calls • Group and private 1-1 text messaging • Persistent threaded history of messages, texts, multimedia • Interoperability to LMR networks • Multimedia - share images, videos, or files • Locate and track users on a map WAVE PTT is not available for use by individual consumers. Note: Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.
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Verdict
ManageBridge and WAVE PTX both sit at 3.7 stars, but that hides the real split: 79% of ManageBridge's written reviews are positive against 36% of WAVE PTX's. On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.7 for ManageBridge against 3.7 for WAVE PTX. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 15 and 38 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 79% of ManageBridge's written reviews are positive against 36% of WAVE PTX's.
ManageBridge ships an update every 2 months, WAVE PTX every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and September 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ManageBridge | WAVE PTX |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (15 ratings) | 3.7 (38 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 78.6% of reviews — better | 35.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 15 | 38 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 69 MB | 77 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Everbridge, Inc. | Motorola Solutions, Inc |
Customer experience
ManageBridge
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In-app purchases
ManageBridge
No in-app purchases
WAVE PTX
No in-app purchases
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