Comparison

Crisis Track vs PTVAS

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

PTVAS

This mobile application provides remote access to a video management platform. It allows users to view live footage, play back recorded videos, download content, and manage events from a local network or remote server.

Highlights
  • Real-time video preview
  • Video playback
  • Video download and storage
  • Event viewing
  • Action linkage
  • Remote viewing
Features
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PTVAS is a mobile software of Packetalk management platform PTVAS Enterprise. It can not only connect the local LAN and remote server, but also provide versatile functions including real-time preview, video playback, video download and storage, event viewing and action linkage, realizing the supporting functions of the lite video management platform for remote viewing on mobile terminal.

Screenshots

Crisis Track3 screens
PTVAS3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: PTVAS at 5.0 against Crisis Track's 4.4. PTVAS also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). Crisis Track's advantage is ratings volume (7 vs 1). On price, update cadence, 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

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

PTVAS holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Crisis Track has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Crisis Track ships an update every 2 months, PTVAS every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Crisis Track versus PTVAS: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCrisis TrackPTVAS
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (7 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings7 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 6 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size120 MB98 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEMSystems LLCPacketalk LLC

Customer experience

Crisis Track

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

PTVAS

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Crisis Track

No in-app purchases

None

PTVAS

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Crisis Track free?
Crisis Track is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PTVAS free?
PTVAS is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Crisis Track or PTVAS?
PTVAS is rated higher. Crisis Track averages 4.4 out of 5 from 7 ratings, while PTVAS averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Crisis Track or PTVAS have ads?
Neither Crisis Track nor PTVAS shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Crisis Track or PTVAS?
Crisis Track ships an update every 2 months, and PTVAS every 6 weeks. Most recently, Crisis Track was updated on November 1, 2026 and PTVAS on November 3, 2026.

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