Bryx Mobile vs Rapid Radios
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.
Rapid Radios
Communicate instantly with others using a walkie-talkie interface. Enjoy unlimited range and no subscription fees for group conversations. The app requires several permissions to function fully, with a commitment to user privacy and data security.
- Unlimited range communication
- No monthly fees
- Group walkie-talkie functionality
- Secure user data
- Wireless dialogue
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Use the Rapid Radios app to communicate with your friends, family, and team who have Rapid Radios walkie-talkies - with unlimited range and no monthly fees. This is a walkie-talkie application which can talk with group members through wireless dialogue through the app. The application requires the user to give the permission to read storage space, telephone permission, microphone permission, location information permission, camera permission to start and fully use all the functions of the application program. We guarantee that we will not use the right to read these permissions to violate the privacy of users, and we are committed to maintaining the security of users' information and not disclosing users' privacy.
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Verdict
Bryx Mobile and Rapid Radios both sit at 4.2 stars, but that hides the real split: 49% of Bryx Mobile's written reviews are positive against 0% of Rapid Radios's. Bryx Mobile also leads on ratings volume (282 vs 4). Rapid Radios's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 18.2). On price, rating, 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.2 for Bryx Mobile against 4.3 for Rapid Radios. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bryx Mobile has 282 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 49% of Bryx Mobile's written reviews are positive against 0% of Rapid Radios's.
| Parameter | Bryx Mobile | Rapid Radios |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (282 ratings) | 4.3 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 48.7% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 282 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 18.2 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 82 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bryx | Rapid Consulting LLC |
Customer experience
Bryx Mobile
Rapid Radios
Bugs and requests
Bryx Mobile
Reported bugs
6 issues- Scanner feature only works when app is left open
- App mutes phone when open, pausing audio
- App crashes when opened, then fine after restart
- Removed from Apple CarPlay in newest update
- Stopped getting alerts and notifications on iPhone
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- Map doesn't always work or is not accurate
Requested features
10 requests- Navigation options for apps to use
- Notes with time stamps and updates for call to see while enroute
- Apple Watch integration
- Easy in and out of duty feature (long press, shortcut, action button, widget)
- Settings stored in iCloud
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- Set alert tone by unit rather than call type
- Ability to upload custom alert tones
- Toggle critical alerts inside the app
- Filter calls by unit, especially at night
- CarPlay functionality improvements
Rapid Radios
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Bryx Mobile
No in-app purchases
Rapid Radios
No in-app purchases









