Comparison

New School Prepper vs GridDown

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

Head to head
About

New School Prepper

Features
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New School Prepper - Offline Emergency Planning for SHTF Scenarios This aint your daddy's survival manual. Take control of your emergency preparedness with a suite of real tools. New School Prepper helps you organize, track, and maintain your readiness plans and supplies. Key Features: Scenario Builder: Create detailed emergency scenarios with multiple phases, resource requirements, and needed skills Bug Out Planning: Design and manage evacuation routes with waypoints, equipment lists, and emergency contacts Team Management: Organize your preparedness group with defined roles, responsibilities, and equipment assignments Supply Tracking: Monitor food, water, and equipment with expiration alerts and location management Food Storage: Track your long-term food storage with nutritional information, serving counts, and expiration dates Interactive Checklists: Use and customize templates for equipment maintenance and preparedness tasks What Sets Us Apart: Works 100% offline for reliable access during emergencies Linking between scenarios, teams, and plans Detailed inventory management with expiration tracking Location-based organization of supplies and resources Shareable reports for team coordination Whether you're preparing for natural disasters, power outages, or other emergencies, New School Prepper provides the tools you need to stay organized and ready. Built with military planning principles in mind, our app helps you develop and maintain comprehensive preparedness plans for you and your family. Download now and take the first step toward better emergency preparedness. Privacy Notice: New School Prepper respects your privacy. All data is stored locally on your device and no internet connection is required. New School Prepper is a project of the New School Army suite of iOS Apps.

About

GridDown

Features
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GridDown is your personal emergency preparedness and survival planning app. Build your survival team, organize essential supplies, save bug-out locations, create emergency plans, and know exactly where to go when normal systems are unavailable. BUILD YOUR SURVIVAL TEAM Create your trusted emergency network and assign members to important roles including Leadership, Security, Medical, Food & Water, Shelter, Communications, and Morale. Add skills, contact information, notes, photos, and saved locations for each member. PLAN YOUR BUG-OUT LOCATIONS Save multiple bug-out destinations, rally points, supply locations, and other important places. Choose your primary destination and use Apple Maps to view locations and navigate when needed. TRACK FOOD & WATER Build an inventory of emergency food, water, and long-term storage items. Organize quantities, expiration dates, storage locations, and preparedness goals. ORGANIZE YOUR SUPPLIES Track medical supplies, power equipment, lighting, communications gear, tools, fuel, clothing, hygiene products, vehicle equipment, and other essentials. BUILD GO BAGS Create individual emergency bags for yourself, family members, vehicles, or specialized purposes. Use checklists to quickly see what is ready and what is missing. CREATE EMERGENCY PLANS Prepare plans for power outages, severe storms, evacuations, extended grid failures, communication outages, and other emergencies. Create rally points, assign responsibilities, and organize the actions your team should take. SEE YOUR READINESS GridDown brings your preparedness information together into a simple dashboard so you can quickly identify missing team roles, supplies, locations, and planning tasks. MAP YOUR PLAN View team member locations, bug-out destinations, rally points, medical locations, supply caches, and other important places using Apple Maps. OFFLINE-FIRST & PRIVATE Emergency information shouldn't depend on an internet connection or an online account. GridDown is designed around locally stored preparedness information so your essential plans remain available on your device. Whether you're preparing for a storm, extended power outage, evacuation, natural disaster, or simply want your family better organized, GridDown gives you one place to build your plan before you need it. Know your people. Know your supplies. Know where you're going. Be ready with GridDown.

Screenshots

New School Prepper4 screens
GridDown4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: New School Prepper at $0.99 against GridDown's $2.99. New School Prepper also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 26.5). On ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

New School Prepper costs $0.99 and GridDown $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
New School Prepper versus GridDown: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNew School PrepperGridDown
Price$0.99 โ€” better$2.99
Update frequencyโ€”Every 6 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 โ€” better26.5
Further details โ€” not scored
Size31 MB6 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperPolemics Applications LLCYOURFULLSTACK, LLC

In-app purchases

None

New School Prepper

No in-app purchases

None

GridDown

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is New School Prepper free?
New School Prepper costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is GridDown free?
GridDown costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do New School Prepper or GridDown have ads?
Neither New School Prepper nor GridDown shows ads.

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