Chief Mobile vs Firefighters Emergency
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Chief Mobile
Receive and map emergency dispatches from your 911 center with redundant alerting. Get instant push notifications for new incidents, view details and maps, and stay updated on personnel messages and schedules. Update your status and track response ETAs.
- Redundant Tone & CAD alerting
- Receive and map 911 dispatches
- Push notifications for new incidents
- Personnel message communication
- Update status and track ETA
- View company and personal schedules
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Chief Mobile is has redundant alerting using a combination of Tone Alerting & CAD Alerting. Allows you to receive & map incidents from your 911 dispatch center quickly. A push notification will alert you when a new dispatch occurs and forward you to the incident information and map. With Tone Alert, Chief Mobile works like your Fire Pager providing two sources for alerting. You can also receive messages that are sent out by other personnel. Get notified of open shifts, training, and other announcements instantly. The latest version allows you to reply to messages. Allows your personnel to update their status (i.e. Responding Station 1, Available, etc.). Their ETA is tracked while responding. Allows companies that use Chief Scheduling to view the company schedule by day and their own schedule. Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.
Firefighters Emergency
Locate over 30,000 fire emergency facilities and equipment across the United States. Search by map, region, state, or address. Save your favorites for quick access.
- Locate 30,000+ fire emergency facilities
- Search by GPS or address
- Map view of facilities
- Filter by region or state
- Save favorite locations
- Offline data availability
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Get the position (GPS or address) of all the fire emergency facilities and equipments in the United States directly to your iPhone, iPad and iPod. The app provides the following fire emergency facilities and equipments: - dry riser inlet; - fire alarm box; - fire extinguisher; - fire flapper; - fire hose; - fire hydrant; - fire water pond; - suction point; - water tank. The app also allows to: - Search in more than 30000 fire emergency facilities and equipments available; - Check the fire emergency facilities and equipments directly from the map; - Search fire emergency facilities and equipments by region, US state, address, street name or geolocation (latitude, longitude - GPS location service supported); - Save your favorites fire emergency facilities and equipments; - If offline, new fire emergency facilities and equipments are missing; - Coverage United States. IMPORTANT NOTE: the app displays all the AVAILABLE fire emergency facilities and equipments provided by OpenStreetMap (http://openstreetmap.org/) and OverpassTurbo (http://overpass-api.de/). If you don't see some data, please understand it is not app fault but a lack of information at the source. Thus, please do not leave a bad review for this kind of issues. The app displays a banner and an interstitial ads to support dev to implement new features.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Chief Mobile at 66% against Firefighters Emergency's 0%. Chief Mobile also leads on rating (3.4 vs 1.0) and ads (none vs shown). Firefighters Emergency's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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. Chief Mobile sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Firefighters Emergency asks for nothing beyond the download.
Chief Mobile holds the better App Store score, 3.4 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Chief Mobile has 43 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 66% of Chief Mobile's written reviews are positive against 0% of Firefighters Emergency's.
Chief Mobile ships an update every 5 weeks, Firefighters Emergency every 20 months. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Chief Mobile | Firefighters Emergency |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.4 (43 ratings) — better | 1.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 65.9% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 43 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 20 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 113 MB | 46 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Chief Technologies | Andrea Bisegna |
Customer experience
Chief Mobile
Firefighters Emergency
In-app purchases
Chief Mobile
- Pro Version$4.99
Firefighters Emergency
No in-app purchases
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