Crisis Track vs ICS
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.
ICS
This application simplifies the creation and sharing of ICS-214 forms. It offers an intuitive workflow for adding details and activity entries, with offline capabilities for uninterrupted work. Users can pre-populate forms with default fields to save time during ongoing incidents.
- Friendly workflow for details and entries
- Offline authoring and editing
- Shareable ICS-214 form export
- Set default fields for pre-population
- Optimized for field use
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An easy-to-use app to help prepare and share the ICS-214 form. Friendly workflow: Add details and activity entries using a friendly workflow optimized for field use. Work Offline: Designed to work completely offline for authoring and editing activity details even while off the grid. Share Official ICS-214: When connectivity is available, use the share option to export or send out a copy of the ICS-214 form. Set Default Fields: Use the "214 Default Fields" option in settings to set defaults that will pre-populate new ICS-214 forms upon creation. This will save time when working the same incident and/or with the same team for multiple operational periods. Coming next: Support for spreadsheet format, preview the form, edit filename, attach images & location, electronically sign PDFs, and more.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: ICS at 86% against Crisis Track's 50%. Crisis Track's advantage is rating (4.4 vs 4.2). 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 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 12 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 50% of Crisis Track's written reviews are positive against 86% of ICS's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
| Parameter | Crisis Track | ICS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (7 ratings) — better | 4.2 (12 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 85.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 7 | 12 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 14.0.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 120 MB | 43 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | EMSystems LLC | Mike Comer |
Customer experience
Crisis Track
ICS
In-app purchases
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No in-app purchases
ICS
No in-app purchases









