Crisis Track vs Visual Pre Plans
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.
Visual Pre Plans
This application streamlines fire department pre-planning and incident response with an image-based system. It allows for quick creation, updating, and sharing of pre-plan data, providing instant on-scene access to critical information for better operational coordination.
- Image-based pre-planning
- Fast pre-plan creation (under 5 minutes)
- Instant on-scene access to pre plans
- CAD notifications and integration
- Risk scoring
- Real-time team location tracking
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WHO WE ARE Visual Pre Plans is an image-based fire department pre planning and operations software designed to eliminate all obstacles preventing successful incident mitigation. With Visual Pre Plans, conveniently pre plan via mobile and desktop applications, easily creating, updating and sharing useful pre plans. HOW IT WORKS Pre-plan a building in as little as 5 minutes Instant on-scene access to pre plans & risk scores for all members via CAD notifications. Estimated time of arrival and team on map help ICs coordinate response. High hazard notes display with incident location details to indicate dangerous locations. Risk scoring & CAD integration Easy program management
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Crisis Track at 4.4 against Visual Pre Plans's 3.8. Visual Pre Plans's advantage is review sentiment (64% vs 50%) and update cadence (monthly vs every 2 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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 3.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 21 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 50% of Crisis Track's written reviews are positive against 64% of Visual Pre Plans's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Crisis Track ships an update every 2 months, Visual Pre Plans monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Crisis Track | Visual Pre Plans |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (7 ratings) — better | 3.8 (21 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 64.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 7 | 21 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 120 MB | 194 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | EMSystems LLC | FlowMSP, Inc |
Customer experience
Crisis Track
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In-app purchases
Crisis Track
No in-app purchases
Visual Pre Plans
No in-app purchases
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