Comparison

PagerDuty vs VOLT

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

VOLT

Receive real-time alerts and detailed incident information, including images and location context, to quickly understand and respond to safety events. Access historical data and support for various incident types to enhance situational awareness.

Highlights
  • Real-time incident notifications
  • Detailed incident information
  • Image and location context
  • Historical event records
  • Detection of safety-related incidents
  • Integration with IP camera infrastructure
Features
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The VOLT app gives authorized users immediate access to alerts, incident details, images, and location context so they can quickly understand what is happening and take action from anywhere. With the app, users can receive real-time notifications, review active and resolved incidents, examine supporting images and timeline context, and access a historical record of events across their organization. VOLT supports detection of incidents such as weapons, fights, person down, fire and smoke, loitering, unattended objects, and other safety-related activity. Designed to work with existing IP camera infrastructure, VOLT helps schools, campuses, and organizations improve situational awareness and respond faster when it matters most.

Screenshots

PagerDuty4 screens
VOLT4 screens

Verdict

The call

PagerDuty and VOLT both sit at 4.8 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of VOLT's written reviews are positive against 25% of PagerDuty's. VOLT also leads on monetization model (free vs ad-supported). PagerDuty's advantage is ratings volume (5.2K vs 12) and iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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

VOLT 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 12, 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 VOLT's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PagerDuty ships an update weekly, VOLT every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
PagerDuty versus VOLT: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPagerDutyVOLT
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (5.2K ratings)5.0 (12 ratings) — better
Positive reviews24.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings5.2K — better12
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 8 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supportedFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size79 MB113 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperPagerDuty Inc.Volt Inc

Customer experience

PagerDuty

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

VOLT

All ratings12 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews6 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

VOLT

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

PagerDuty

No in-app purchases

None

VOLT

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is PagerDuty free?
PagerDuty is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is VOLT free?
VOLT is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, PagerDuty or VOLT?
VOLT is rated higher. PagerDuty averages 4.8 out of 5 from 5.2K ratings, while VOLT averages 5.0 from 12 ratings.
Do PagerDuty or VOLT have ads?
Neither PagerDuty nor VOLT shows ads.
Which is updated more often, PagerDuty or VOLT?
PagerDuty ships an update weekly, and VOLT every 8 days. Most recently, PagerDuty was updated on November 1, 2026 and VOLT on October 31, 2026.

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