Pelican RALS vs CentralSquare Field Ops
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pelican RALS
Control your Pelican RALS lighting devices remotely from your smartphone. Adjust brightness and power with a simple interface. This app is compatible with Bluetooth-enabled RALS products, including the Pelican 9440B.
- Remote operation via smartphone
- Bluetooth connectivity
- Simple on/off button
- Dimming slider for brightness control
- Compatible with Pelican 9440B
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Now operate your Pelican RALS via your smart phone. The new Pelican app allows you to operate any Bluetooth enabled versions of the RALS product range. Features include a simple on/off button and a dimming slider to select the required setting for your lighting application. Compatible products: Pelican 9440B
CentralSquare Field Ops
Access critical Computer-Aided Dispatch (CAD) and Records Management System (RMS) data directly from your mobile device. Securely capture and upload information to case records, ensuring CJIS compliance with robust authentication and encryption.
- Real-time CAD data access
- Secure case record capture
- Information upload to case records
- Single sign-on for CAD/RMS
- CJIS compliant authentication
- Secure data encryption
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Field Ops brings some of the most important CAD and RMS features directly to your smartphone or tablet device including access to real-time CAD data and the ability to securely capture and upload to a case record. Users can quickly sign in to Field Ops using the same credentials they use to sign in to their CAD and/or RMS system. Users and system administrators can rest easy knowing that Field Ops contains all the necessary authentication and encryption requirements needed to meet CJIS compliance.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: CentralSquare Field Ops at 3.0 against Pelican RALS's 2.5. CentralSquare Field Ops also leads on ratings volume (20 vs 2). Pelican RALS's advantage is iOS requirement (7.0 vs 15.6). On price, review sentiment, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
CentralSquare Field Ops holds the better App Store score, 3.0 against 2.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: CentralSquare Field Ops has 20 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 17% of Pelican RALS's written reviews are positive against 10% of CentralSquare Field Ops's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Pelican RALS ships an update every 2 months, CentralSquare Field Ops every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pelican RALS | CentralSquare Field Ops |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.5 (2 ratings) | 3.0 (20 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 16.7% of reviews — better | 10.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 20 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 7.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 71 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Pelican Products, Inc. | CentralSquare Technologies, LLC |
Customer experience
Pelican RALS
CentralSquare Field Ops
In-app purchases
Pelican RALS
No in-app purchases
CentralSquare Field Ops
No in-app purchases
