Crisis Track vs TRACK
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.
TRACK
This incident management system software helps track personnel, equipment, and assignments using NIMS/ICS compliant methods. It reads agency identification tags and allows for incident creation, assignment management, and personnel accountability reports.
- NIMS/ICS Compliant
- Reads Salamander Tags (PDF417 & QR)
- Data Synchronization
- Incident Creation & Management
- Assignment Management
- Resource Tracking
- Personnel Accountability Reports (PAR)
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The Salamander TRACK APP is National Incident Management System (NIMS) compliant Incident Command System (ICS) software for your tablet or smartphone that will read your Salamander created agency identification or accountability tags. The software is compatible with all current and previous versions of Salamander TAG APP and ID solutions including PAS V, fireTRAX, & interTRAX PDF417 or QR barcoded tags. Features & functionality include: Data Synchronization – Activity data can be shared with any of Salamander’s full line of tracking and reporting products. Downloadable Resources – Download resources, personnel and equipment, into the activity from your SalamanderLive™ account. Incident Creation – Start, end, and resume activities by collecting start date and time, elapsed time, and location. Assignment Management – Manually build or scan ICS assignments that can be re-used from activity to activity saving time. Resource Tracking – Read personnel, equipment, or company tags (PDF417 & QR Codes). Electronically scan or manually place them into assignments and create a date and time stamped history of activity. Manual Entry – Manually create personnel on the fly even if they don’t already have a Salamander ID tag. Personnel Accountability Reports (PAR) – Conduct PAR checks to verify personnel counts.
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Verdict
Crisis Track and TRACK both sit at 4.4 stars, but that hides the real split: 50% of Crisis Track's written reviews are positive against 0% of TRACK's. On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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.
TRACK holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 5 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 50% of Crisis Track's written reviews are positive against 0% of TRACK's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. Both last shipped on November 1, 2026.
| Parameter | Crisis Track | TRACK |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (7 ratings) | 4.6 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 120 MB | 27 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | EMSystems LLC | OrangeHook, Inc. |
Customer experience
Crisis Track
TRACK
In-app purchases
Crisis Track
No in-app purchases
TRACK
No in-app purchases









