Comparison

PagerDuty vs 1st Flight

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

1st Flight

This app guides users through creating mobile-first marketing campaigns, including push notifications and surveys. It explores audience features, A/B testing, and message optimization. Users can connect their account to send messages to their own device and learn about mobile marketing strategies.

Highlights
  • Create push notifications
  • Design surveys
  • Explore audience features
  • Learn A/B testing
  • Send messages to your device
  • Optimize mobile marketing strategies
Features
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Download 1st Flight today and learn how Airship can power mobile-first marketing. The app guides you through creating push notifications, surveys, and other messages that you can send to your own device. You’ll also learn about audience- and event-related features, A/B testing, and more. Unleash your creativity, optimize your strategies, and achieve remarkable success in mobile marketing. Try it it now! Create an account at go.airship.com. We’ll email you a magic link so you can connect your account with the 1st Flight app.

Screenshots

PagerDuty4 screens
1st Flight3 screens

Verdict

The call

PagerDuty and 1st Flight both sit at 4.8 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of 1st Flight's written reviews are positive against 25% of PagerDuty's. 1st Flight also leads on monetization model (free vs ad-supported) and iOS requirement (16.6 vs 18.0). PagerDuty's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 6 months) and ratings volume (5.2K vs 10). On price, rating, 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

1st Flight holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PagerDuty has 5.2K ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 25% of PagerDuty's written reviews are positive against 100% of 1st Flight's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PagerDuty ships an update weekly, 1st Flight every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
PagerDuty versus 1st Flight: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPagerDuty1st Flight
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (5.2K ratings)5.0 (10 ratings) — better
Positive reviews24.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings5.2K — better10
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 6 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supportedFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.016.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size79 MB62 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPagerDuty Inc.Urban Airship, Inc

Customer experience

PagerDuty

All ratings5,239 ratings
Positive96.9%
Neutral1.4%
Negative1.7%
Written reviews150 reviews
Positive24.7%
Neutral13.3%
Negative62.0%

1st Flight

All ratings10 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

1st Flight

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

PagerDuty

No in-app purchases

None

1st Flight

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is PagerDuty free?
PagerDuty is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is 1st Flight free?
1st Flight is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, PagerDuty or 1st Flight?
1st Flight is rated higher. PagerDuty averages 4.8 out of 5 from 5.2K ratings, while 1st Flight averages 5.0 from 10 ratings.
Do PagerDuty or 1st Flight have ads?
Neither PagerDuty nor 1st Flight shows ads.
Which is updated more often, PagerDuty or 1st Flight?
PagerDuty ships an update weekly, and 1st Flight every 6 months. Most recently, PagerDuty was updated on October 23, 2026 and 1st Flight on October 24, 2026.

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