Crisis Track vs PubWorks
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Crisis Track
This app streamlines disaster management for communities by integrating damage assessments and FEMA grant applications into existing workflows. It offers features for tracking road closures, labor costs, and emergency tasks, providing an executive view of operations.
- Preliminary damage assessment
- Road closure tracking
- Force labor and equipment cost tracking
- Emergency management task tracking
- Executive view of operations
- Dynamic in-field forms
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Crisis Track helps a community conduct damage assessments and process FEMA grant applications by integrating disaster management into an organization’s typical disaster workflows - clearing roads, inspecting buildings, maintaining parks, and mapping the community. The consolidation of these activities provides the emergency manager with a community-wide view of disaster management operations. Crisis Track Features include: Preliminary Damage Assessment - consistently conduct a preliminary damage assessment with little or no team training. Road Closures - capture debris and damage information due to closures on roadways and bridges Force Labor and Equipment Cost Tracking - accumulate disaster costs into the FEMA Preliminary Damage Assessment forms based on preloaded rates. Emergency Management Task Tracking - track typical and atypical emergency management tasks to help you keep appraised of their status. Executive View – provide your leadership with real-time updates on disaster operations, current damage assessments, and FEMA declaration thresholds. Dynamic Forms – update the in-field mobile apps upon request should your information needs change. Flexible Licensing – provide unlimited access to your departments and partner organizations The Crisis Track system will enhance your emergency management operations for a faster, more efficient, more collaborative disaster management process. Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.
PubWorks
Empower your public works department with a mobile workforce solution. Record work in real-time, respond to service requests instantly, and manage inspections and assets efficiently. Seamlessly integrates with your main database for instant updates.
- Real-time work recording
- Mobile work orders
- Service request management
- Inspections
- Asset inventory
- Seamless database integration
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This app is for PubWorks customers only. Equipping your crew with tablets will create your new mobile workforce – allowing them to record work as they go, and quickly respond to new work orders and service requests. This divide-and-conquer field-recording capability will increase your department’s efficiency and productivity. With mobile mapping, work orders, service requests, inspections and asset inventory, you’ll be better equipped to deal with sudden change of crew needs. This mobile public works tool designed to seamlessly interact, securely and in real-time, with the main PubWorks database which can be hosted on-site or in the cloud. This allows in-office updates to reach field crews automatically and instantly. Field crews will be able to act on the latest information and record their work allowing office staff to see their accomplishments, notes and photos in seconds.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Crisis Track at 50% against PubWorks's 0%. Crisis Track also leads on rating (4.4 vs 2.0). PubWorks's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 2 months) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 13.0). On price, ratings volume, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Crisis Track holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 2.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 10 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Crisis Track's written reviews are positive against 0% of PubWorks's.
Crisis Track ships an update every 2 months, PubWorks monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Crisis Track | PubWorks |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (7 ratings) — better | 2.0 (10 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 7 | 10 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 120 MB | 79 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | EMSystems LLC | gWorks |
Customer experience
Crisis Track
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In-app purchases
Crisis Track
No in-app purchases
PubWorks
No in-app purchases
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