AwareCA vs Angeles Intel.
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
AwareCA
This app provides official, agency-verified public safety information for California. It delivers real-time updates and guidance during emergencies, serving as a trusted source of truth to keep communities informed and prepared.
- Agency-verified public safety information
- Real-time incident updates
- Official guidance during emergencies
- Authoritative source of truth
- Replaces fragmented alerts
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AwareCA is California’s statewide, agency-verified public safety information platform designed to keep communities informed, prepared, and protected. Built to replace fragmented alerts and unverified noise, AwareCA delivers a single, authoritative source of truth that is controlled by public safety agencies and trusted by the communities they serve. Get the information that matters in near-real-time. AwareCA helps ensure you always know where to go for the truth, with official updates and official guidance during everyday incidents and large-scale emergencies.
Angeles Intel.
Stay informed about live incidents and events in Angeles National Forest. Access real-time dispatch feeds, live audio streams, wildfire cameras, and weather forecasts. Download offline maps for areas with no cell service.
- Live incident feed
- Stream command channels
- Map with cameras and lightning strikes
- AI-enhanced incident details
- Offline map downloads
- Push notifications for alerts
- Radio recording archive
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Free, ad-free, and subscription-free! Suitable for wildland staff and civilians alike Live incident feed from Angeles National Forest (ANF) dispatch and CHP (California Highway Patrol, bound to the forest), updated every 60 seconds. Stream Forest Net and LA County Fire command channels (V-1 through V-5) live, and turn any channel on or off so you only carry the ones you monitor View incidents on a map alongside ALERTCalifornia wildfire cameras (live and timelapse), live NOAA lightning strikes, mile markers on state highways and the major forest roads, and optional USFS trail and road overlays. Tap anywhere on the map to see what's closest to that point — mile marker, lightning, incident, camera View an incident to find the radio recordings tied to it and a communications plan when one was called out over the air. AI-assisted details are always labeled as such, so you can tell what came from dispatch and what came from a machine. Read Fire Weather Forecasts from the National Weather Service, and download the forest as an offline map pack for use beyond cell coverage — all without ads or a subscription. Light/dark mode, color themes, and a dark map style included Get push notifications the moment ANF dispatch tones out, and subscribe only to the types you want — Wildland, Incident, Cancel, or Info — so you're interrupted for what matters to you and nothing else. Opt in to alerts for new lightning strikes within ~10 miles of the forest. Optional quiet hours mute notifications on your days off Browse a continuously growing archive of past radio recordings, each labeled Wildland, Incident, Cancel, or Info so you know what you're about to hear. Most Forest Net recordings include a speech-to-text transcript you can read before you listen. Filter by channel, tone type, or length, and jump back to any moment to catch transmissions you missed Agency personnel can verify with a (.gov) work email for Admin Net (Law Talk) access and the ability to manually refresh feeds
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: AwareCA at 143 against Angeles Intel.'s 6. AwareCA also leads on chart position (#87 vs unranked). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.4 for AwareCA against 4.3 for Angeles Intel.. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: AwareCA has 143 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two.
AwareCA ships an update weekly, Angeles Intel. every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on October 19, 2026.
| Parameter | AwareCA | Angeles Intel. |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (143 ratings) — better | 4.3 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 52.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 143 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | #87 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 120 MB | 37 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Intterra, LLC | Mark Mutti |
Customer experience
AwareCA
Angeles Intel.
In-app purchases
AwareCA
No in-app purchases
Angeles Intel.
No in-app purchases









