Comparison

Resgrid Unit vs MARVLIS Beacon

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

Head to head
About

Resgrid Unit

This app helps emergency response teams coordinate personnel, resources, and incidents. It provides AVL tracking, status updates, and offline support for communication and management in critical situations. It can also manage calls and dispatch personnel via multiple channels.

Highlights
  • Personnel and resource management
  • Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL) tracking
  • Operational status and task tracking
  • Offline support for communication
  • Incident and call management
  • Multi-channel dispatching
Features
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Resgrid is a logistics, communication and management (LCM) system that can be used by fire departments (volunteer and career), police, emergency medical services (EMS), search and rescue (SAR), hazmat, CERT, emergency management and other first responder or disaster response organizations to coordinate, communicate and manage personnel, resources (units/apparatuses), incident and reporting. The Resgrid Unit app is intended to be used by Units, both apparatuses and groups of personnel, to provide AVL (Automatic Vehicle Location) and support for tracking operational status, objective and task completion, events, dispatch units, personnel accountability and much more. The Resgrid Unit app also supports offline scenarios (after syncing with the system via an Internet connection) to allow usage of the app and tracking of events where there is no cellular signal. Resgrid can manage your calls, generated either internally or from an external CAD system. Auto import calls via emails, text messages or API calls. Resgrid can dispatch via Push Notifications, Email, Text Messages and Voice Calls. So even your personnel without smartphones or cell phones at all can use landlines to get dispatched from anywhere in the world. Resgrid is the only complete LCM (Logistics, Communication & Management) system for first responders and disaster response. With a suite of mobile applications (for Personnel, Units, Incident Commands and Data Reporting) and a zero-installation cloud-based SaaS backend, you can get up and running in minutes. Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.

About

MARVLIS Beacon

This application tracks user location in real-time, sending personnel, unit, or vehicle data to a central system. It enhances situational awareness and aids in the deployment of emergency services by leveraging GPS and wireless communications.

Highlights
  • Real-time GPS tracking
  • User ID and coordinate transmission
  • Enhanced situational awareness
  • Improved decision making
  • Emergency service deployment support
  • Background GPS usage
Features
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MARVLIS™ Beacon** is a tracking application designed to provide user location updates in conjunction with the MARVLIS suite of products. When enabled, Beacon utilizes GPS and wireless communications to send user ID and real-time coordinate positions to effectively communicate personnel, unit, or vehicle location data to the MARVLIS system, improving situational awareness, decision making, and the deployment of emergency services. ** Requires MARVLIS Central Authorization Note: To use this application you must be a current MARVLIS Customer. Mobile Area Routing and Vehicle Location Information System™ (MARVLIS) is a family of integrated products designed to reach the bottom line: saving time and money by getting the right resources to the right location at the right time to best meet your client's needs. Using geographic information system (GIS) technology combined with wireless communication and the Global Positioning System (GPS), MARVLIS is bringing fundamental changes to the management and deployment of time sensitive services for a higher level of performance. Dynamic display of available resources, demand forecasting, real-time coverage analysis and intelligent routing are just a few of the ways MARVLIS is helping to save our most important asset. After all, isn't it about time? Other Items: - This application requires the use of GPS in the background while the application is running. - Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.

Screenshots

Resgrid Unit4 screens
MARVLIS Beacon4 screens

Verdict

The call

Resgrid Unit and MARVLIS Beacon are too close to call on the numbers: across 9 compared parameters — price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Resgrid Unit against 5.0 for MARVLIS Beacon. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Resgrid Unit ships an update every 5 months, MARVLIS Beacon every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Resgrid Unit versus MARVLIS Beacon: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterResgrid UnitMARVLIS Beacon
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsEvery 3 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.117.2 — better
Further details — not scored
Size127 MB44 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperResgrid, LLC.Bradshaw Consulting Services, Inc

Customer experience

Resgrid Unit

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

MARVLIS Beacon

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Resgrid Unit

No in-app purchases

None

MARVLIS Beacon

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Resgrid Unit free?
Resgrid Unit is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is MARVLIS Beacon free?
MARVLIS Beacon is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Resgrid Unit or MARVLIS Beacon?
Resgrid Unit and MARVLIS Beacon are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Resgrid Unit or MARVLIS Beacon have ads?
Neither Resgrid Unit nor MARVLIS Beacon shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Resgrid Unit or MARVLIS Beacon?
Resgrid Unit ships an update every 5 months, and MARVLIS Beacon every 3 months. Most recently, Resgrid Unit was updated on October 6, 2026 and MARVLIS Beacon on October 14, 2026.

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