Comparison

Crisis Track vs Visual Pre Plans

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Preliminary damage assessment
  • Road closure tracking
  • Force labor and equipment cost tracking
  • Emergency management task tracking
  • Executive view of operations
  • Dynamic in-field forms
Features
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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.

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

Screenshots

Crisis Track3 screens
Visual Pre Plans4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

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

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Crisis Track versus Visual Pre Plans: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCrisis TrackVisual Pre Plans
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (7 ratings) — better3.8 (21 ratings)
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews64.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings721 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.6
Further details — not scored
Size120 MB194 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEMSystems LLCFlowMSP, Inc

Customer experience

Crisis Track

All ratings7 ratings
Positive85.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative14.3%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

Visual Pre Plans

All ratings21 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral9.5%
Negative23.8%
Written reviews14 reviews
Positive64.3%
Neutral14.3%
Negative21.4%

In-app purchases

None

Crisis Track

No in-app purchases

None

Visual Pre Plans

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Crisis Track free?
Crisis Track is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Visual Pre Plans free?
Visual Pre Plans is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Crisis Track or Visual Pre Plans?
Crisis Track is rated higher. Crisis Track averages 4.4 out of 5 from 7 ratings, while Visual Pre Plans averages 3.8 from 21 ratings.
Do Crisis Track or Visual Pre Plans have ads?
Neither Crisis Track nor Visual Pre Plans shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Crisis Track or Visual Pre Plans?
Crisis Track ships an update every 2 months, and Visual Pre Plans monthly. Most recently, Crisis Track was updated on October 23, 2026 and Visual Pre Plans on October 24, 2026.

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