Bryx Mobile vs DHQ
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bryx Mobile
This app enhances communication and situational awareness for first responders. It delivers critical alerts with scene details, routing, and navigation, while also offering features like hydrant information, past call data, and real-time messaging.
- Real-time alerts from CAD
- Routing and navigation tools
- Hydrant information
- Past call data
- Site survey data attachment
- Live location updates
- Internet dispatch radio streams
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Bryx Mobile is a free mobile alerting and messaging app that provides enhanced communications and situational awareness for first responders. Receiving data directly from the CAD, Bryx Mobile sends alerts to mobile devices, providing priority information about the scene along with routing and navigation tools. The app boasts industry-leading speed, content, and ease of use, and is completely free for first responders serving communities around the world. Bryx Mobile is packed with features that empower you and your team, before and at the scene. • View hydrants around the job, color-coded for flow rate and condition. • Quickly view job information for prior calls to the same address. • Attach site survey data to include entry access and hazardous materials information. • Enhance team communication through real-time messaging and live location updates for users. • View the exact job location within your district and a highlighted route from your station to the scene. • Enable dispatching by agency or unit and view supplemental updates from CAD in real time - all without creating any extra work for dispatchers. • Configure internet dispatch radio streams and play them directly from Bryx Mobile. Some hardware required. • Bryx Mobile’s first-in-class engineering is backed by dedicated, round-the-clock support from the same engineers who built the system. This app is only intended to be used by first responders, and your station chief must add users to the approved access list. Note: This app may use background audio streaming. Continued use of audio streaming running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life. Bryx, Inc.
DHQ
This app allows government agencies to share informative alerts and manage duty assignments. It facilitates communication between nearby agencies and enables users to track their availability, accept or deny tasks, and view task locations on a map.
- Share informative alerts with nearby agencies
- Manage roll-call and duty assignments
- Receive notifications for new duties
- Accept or deny assigned tasks
- View task locations on a map
- Edit and comment on existing items
- Adjust push notifications
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With the Advance feature of AWA Government Agencies can now share informative alerts to their near by agencies from DHQ app. Feature: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.Add regular roll-call call item which stay locally to that Government agency 2. AWA alert can be shared with near by agencies so that they can share their alerts if any, 3. Edit roll-call/AWA item from mobile device. 4. Share updates on existing item and add comments on it. 5. View image montage from app view. 6. Adjust app push notifications module wise. 7. Switch department feature from one department to another from login screen. 8. Ability to share your device uniqueness through QR code. 9. View archive roll-call items from mobile. 10. Share file library item with super access. An app for Government Agencies to manage their details and overtime in DHQ Features ========== - Users can add availability time. - Users get a notification when a new duty assigned. - The calendar view will list all the available tasks. - Users have the privilege to accept/deny the newly assigned duty. - The map view will annotate the task-related locations. -
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Bryx Mobile at 257 against DHQ's 7. DHQ's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.1). 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 Bryx Mobile against 4.4 for DHQ. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bryx Mobile has 257 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Bryx Mobile ships an update every 3 weeks, DHQ every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 9, 2026 and June 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bryx Mobile | DHQ |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (257 ratings) | 4.4 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 60.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 257 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 18.1 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 41 MB | 25 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Bryx | End2End Public Safety, LLC |
Customer experience
Bryx Mobile
DHQ
In-app purchases
Bryx Mobile
No in-app purchases
DHQ
No in-app purchases









