Comparison

PagerDuty vs Access Northpark

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 prevent and resolve critical incidents by providing real-time alerts and incident management tools. It allows teams to respond quickly to issues, view schedules, and execute custom actions to ensure perfect digital experiences.

Highlights
  • Unlimited push notification alerts with custom sounds
  • Respond to incidents (acknowledge, resolve, reassign)
  • View incident details and resolution timelines
  • Access on-call schedules and team timelines
  • Create new incidents from the app
  • 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

Access Northpark

Unlock doors and access facilities using your smartphone. This utility app provides convenient entry control through your mobile device.

Highlights
  • Smartphone access control
  • Unlock doors
  • Facility access
  • Mobile entry
Features
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Access Northpark with your smart phone!

Screenshots

PagerDuty4 screens
Access Northpark4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Access Northpark at 100% against PagerDuty's 25%. Access Northpark also leads on iOS requirement (9.0 vs 18.0). PagerDuty's advantage is ratings volume (5.2K vs 8) and rating (4.8 vs 4.5). 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 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PagerDuty has 5.2K ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 25% of PagerDuty's written reviews are positive against 100% of Access Northpark'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, Access Northpark fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
PagerDuty versus Access Northpark: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPagerDutyAccess Northpark
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (5.2K ratings) — better4.5 (8 ratings)
Positive reviews24.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings5.2K — better8
Update frequencyWeekly — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPod, Apple Watch
Requires iOS18.09.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size79 MB44 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPagerDuty Inc.ZENDACCESS, INC

Customer experience

PagerDuty

All ratings5,246 ratings
Positive96.9%
Neutral1.4%
Negative1.7%
Written reviews150 reviews
Positive24.7%
Neutral13.3%
Negative62.0%

Access Northpark

All ratings8 ratings
Positive87.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative12.5%
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

Access Northpark

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

PagerDuty

No in-app purchases

None

Access Northpark

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is PagerDuty free?
PagerDuty is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Access Northpark free?
Access Northpark is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, PagerDuty or Access Northpark?
PagerDuty is rated higher. PagerDuty averages 4.8 out of 5 from 5.2K ratings, while Access Northpark averages 4.5 from 8 ratings.
Do PagerDuty or Access Northpark have ads?
Neither PagerDuty nor Access Northpark shows ads.
Which is updated more often, PagerDuty or Access Northpark?
PagerDuty ships an update weekly, and Access Northpark fortnightly. Most recently, PagerDuty was updated on November 10, 2026 and Access Northpark on November 2, 2026.

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