Comparison

PagerDuty vs TaskCall

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

TaskCall

This service digitizes operations and minimizes downtime by streamlining incident response and stakeholder communication. It offers in-depth analytics to identify infrastructure vulnerabilities and improve efficiency. The mobile app allows for real-time incident management, status updates, and on-call scheduling.

Highlights
  • Incident acknowledgement and resolution
  • Stakeholder communication and status updates
  • On-call scheduling and overrides
  • Infrastructure vulnerability analytics
  • Manual and scheduled incident triggering
  • Conference bridge integration
Features
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TaskCall is an incident response and management service that helps organizations digitize their operations and reduce downtime costs to the minimum by mobilizing their response effort and streamlining stakeholder communication. With our in-depth analytics, companies can find crucial vulnerabilities in their infrastructure and work towards long term efficiency. From the mobile app, incidents can be acknowledged, resolved, reassigned, escalated and snoozed. Users can also un-acknowledge them, amend their urgency, add responders and run response sets to mobilize the response effort, post status updates to keep stakeholders up-to-date with the progress, add notes for internal references and use one-click to join conference bridges to collaborate with other responders. Incidents can also be triggered manually on a service. Users can choose to trigger them immediately or pre-schedule them to trigger at a later time. Users can view their current and upcoming on-call roles on the app, and from their one-click to dial contact information others can easily reach them. They can also override their on-call routines right from the app when they need to. Stakeholders and business managers can readily get a health check on business services from the status dashboard and stay up-to-date on incidents that impact the business performance of the organization.

Screenshots

PagerDuty4 screens
TaskCall4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: PagerDuty at 4.8 against TaskCall's 3.3. PagerDuty also leads on ratings volume (5.2K vs 3) and update cadence (weekly vs monthly). TaskCall's advantage is monetization model (free vs ad-supported) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

PagerDuty holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PagerDuty has 5.2K ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PagerDuty ships an update weekly, TaskCall monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
PagerDuty versus TaskCall: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPagerDutyTaskCall
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (5.2K ratings) — better3.3 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews24.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings5.2K — better3
Update frequencyWeekly — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supportedFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS18.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size80 MB63 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPagerDuty Inc.TaskCall Cloud Services, S.L.

Customer experience

PagerDuty

All ratings5,234 ratings
Positive96.9%
Neutral1.4%
Negative1.7%
Written reviews150 reviews
Positive24.7%
Neutral13.3%
Negative62.0%

TaskCall

All ratings3 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

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

TaskCall

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

PagerDuty

No in-app purchases

None

TaskCall

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is PagerDuty free?
PagerDuty is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is TaskCall free?
TaskCall is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, PagerDuty or TaskCall?
PagerDuty is rated higher. PagerDuty averages 4.8 out of 5 from 5.2K ratings, while TaskCall averages 3.3 from 3 ratings.
Do PagerDuty or TaskCall have ads?
Neither PagerDuty nor TaskCall shows ads.
Which is updated more often, PagerDuty or TaskCall?
PagerDuty ships an update weekly, and TaskCall monthly. Most recently, PagerDuty was updated on September 23, 2026 and TaskCall on September 8, 2026.

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