Crisis Track vs CodeRED Public Alerts
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.
CodeRED Public Alerts
Receive critical public safety alerts directly on your mobile device. Get location-based notifications for emergencies and community events with a simple, ad-free interface. Customize your warning radius for personalized alerts.
- Real-time public safety alerts
- Location-based notifications
- Ad-free interface
- Interactive map with color-coded icons
- Customizable warning radius
- Community event notifications
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Critical Alerts Straight To Your Phone - CodeRED With the CodeRED app, subscribers can sign up to receive public safety alerts directly to their mobile devices, whether at home, on the road, or traveling around the country. These mobile push notifications deliver relevant, location-based alerts based on GPS location to ensure you receive critical information when you are in a CodeRED client’s jurisdiction. CodeRED Benefits: Free download – Protects residents and visitors traveling across CodeRED communities. Real-time detailed alerts – Notifications feature details on the situation along with a map of the location impacted Simple interface – Ad-free, easy-to-use interactive map and color-coded icons for alerts Customizable settings – Establish a personal warning radius and opt to receive community event notifications as well as emergency alerts"
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Crisis Track at 50% against CodeRED Public Alerts's 7%. Crisis Track also leads on rating (4.4 vs 1.6) and device support (3 vs 1). CodeRED Public Alerts's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (23 vs 7). 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 1.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 23 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Crisis Track's written reviews are positive against 7% of CodeRED Public Alerts's.
Crisis Track ships an update every 2 months, CodeRED Public Alerts monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Crisis Track | CodeRED Public Alerts |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (7 ratings) — better | 1.6 (23 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better | 6.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 7 | 23 — 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 |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 120 MB | 76 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | EMSystems LLC | Crisis24 Inc |
Customer experience
Crisis Track
CodeRED Public Alerts
In-app purchases
Crisis Track
No in-app purchases
CodeRED Public Alerts
No in-app purchases
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