Comparison

PagerDuty vs HackerTracker

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

Head to head
About

PagerDuty

This app helps organizations manage digital operations and resolve incidents quickly. It provides real-time alerts, incident response tools, and team scheduling to ensure seamless customer experiences.

Highlights
  • Push notification alerts with custom sounds
  • Respond to incidents (acknowledge, resolve, reassign)
  • View incident details and resolution timelines
  • Manage on-call schedules and team overrides
  • Create new incidents and loop in responders
  • Execute custom actions on incidents
Features
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PagerDuty, Inc. (NYSE:PD) is a leader in digital operations management. In an always-on world, organizations of all sizes trust PagerDuty to help them deliver a perfect digital experience to their customers, every time. Through its SaaS-based platform, PagerDuty arms developers, IT operations, support, security, and business leaders to prevent and resolve incidents when seconds matter. Over 12,000 businesses including GE, Vodafone, Box, and American Eagle Outfitters rely on PagerDuty to continuously improve their digital operations. PagerDuty for iOS allows you to: * Receive unlimited push notification alerts and set custom sounds for alerts * Easily access and respond to open incidents (acknowledge, resolve, or reassign) * View incident details, grouped alerts, and resolution timelines at a glance * View your on-call timeline and team schedules, and book overrides for yourself or your teammates * Access a contact list of all users in your account and their contact information * Create new incidents directly from the mobile app * Loop in responders for additional help * Execute custom actions (like restarting servers, running diagnostics, etc.) on incidents NOTE: A PagerDuty user account is required to use this application. Some features’ availability depends on your PagerDuty plan.

About

HackerTracker

Organize your attendance at information security conferences. Save and view your preferred talks and events from multiple conferences, including DEF CON and BSides, with an on-device schedule that updates automatically.

Highlights
  • On-device schedule management
  • Save preferred talks and events
  • Supports multiple conferences
  • Automatic schedule updates
  • View talks, contests, and events
Features
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Plan your visit to any number of information security conferences. HackerTracker features an on-device schedule for viewing and saving your preferred talks and events from different events, including DEF CON, local BSides events, OWASP global conferences, and others. The schedule for talks, contests, and events are included and HackerTracker updates automatically for other conferences as data becomes available.

Screenshots

PagerDuty4 screens
HackerTracker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: PagerDuty at 4.8 against HackerTracker's 4.2. PagerDuty also leads on ratings volume (5.2K vs 47). HackerTracker's advantage is review sentiment (58% vs 25%) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

PagerDuty holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PagerDuty has 5.2K ratings behind it against 47, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 25% of PagerDuty's written reviews are positive against 58% of HackerTracker's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PagerDuty ships an update weekly, HackerTracker fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
PagerDuty versus HackerTracker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPagerDutyHackerTracker
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (5.2K ratings) — better4.2 (47 ratings)
Positive reviews24.7% of reviews57.6% of reviews — better
Number of ratings5.2K — better47
Update frequencyWeekly — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supportedFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size79 MB20 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperPagerDuty Inc.Seth Law

Customer experience

PagerDuty

All ratings5,235 ratings
Positive96.9%
Neutral1.4%
Negative1.7%
Written reviews150 reviews
Positive24.7%
Neutral13.3%
Negative62.0%

HackerTracker

All ratings47 ratings
Positive74.5%
Neutral10.6%
Negative14.9%
Written reviews33 reviews
Positive57.6%
Neutral21.2%
Negative21.2%

Bugs and requests

PagerDuty

Reported bugs

19 issues
  • Font sizing issue
  • Unable to change alert sound
  • Cannot change settings
  • Couldn't acknowledge incident
  • Crashes on startup
Show 14 more
  • Crashes frequently
  • Unresponsive after alerts
  • Vibration and sound settings not obeyed
  • App unresponsive after alert
  • Login Fail
  • Major bug in update
  • Logs out me every few weeks
  • Crashes
  • Crashes
  • Crashes
  • Useful...now broken
  • Still buggy
  • Couldn't acknowledge incident
  • Couldn't acknowledge incident

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add ability to use custom sound for emergencies
  • Add ability to use custom sound for emergencies
  • Add ability to put services in maintenance mode
  • Improve Resolved Incidents view to show oldest first
  • Provide easy way to allow calls/texts during DND

HackerTracker

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

PagerDuty

No in-app purchases

None

HackerTracker

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is PagerDuty free?
PagerDuty is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is HackerTracker free?
HackerTracker is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, PagerDuty or HackerTracker?
PagerDuty is rated higher. PagerDuty averages 4.8 out of 5 from 5.2K ratings, while HackerTracker averages 4.2 from 47 ratings.
Do PagerDuty or HackerTracker have ads?
Neither PagerDuty nor HackerTracker shows ads.
Which is updated more often, PagerDuty or HackerTracker?
PagerDuty ships an update weekly, and HackerTracker fortnightly. Most recently, PagerDuty was updated on October 12, 2026 and HackerTracker on October 7, 2026.

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