Chief Mobile vs FireRoster
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.
FireRoster
Manage your work schedule, submit requests, and receive real-time updates from your mobile device. This app simplifies shift trades, leave requests, and keeps you connected, eliminating the need for manual tracking.
- View schedules anywhere
- Submit leave requests
- Submit shift trades
- Real-time updates
- Notifications
- Designed for fire departments
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FireRoster Mobile is designed for line-level users to easily check schedules, look ahead, submit leave and time-off requests, and stay connected through notifications — all from your mobile device. Built by firefighters, for firefighters, FireRoster Mobile puts schedules, trades, leave requests, and overtime right in your pocket — without the spreadsheets, texts, or whiteboard chaos. - View your schedule anywhere - Submit leave & shift trades on the go - Real-time updates & notifications - Designed specifically for fire departments Your roster doesn’t stop when you leave the station — now neither do you.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Chief Mobile at 67% against FireRoster's 0%. Chief Mobile also leads on ratings volume (40 vs 1). FireRoster's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 3.4) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). On price, update cadence, ads and device support 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. FireRoster asks for nothing beyond the download.
FireRoster holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Chief Mobile has 40 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 67% of Chief Mobile's written reviews are positive against 0% of FireRoster's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Chief Mobile ships an update every 5 weeks, FireRoster every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and June 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Chief Mobile | FireRoster |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.4 (40 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 67.4% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 40 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 4 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 113 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Chief Technologies | Battalion 3 Technologies, LLC |
Customer experience
Chief Mobile
FireRoster
In-app purchases
Chief Mobile
- Pro Version$4.99
FireRoster
No in-app purchases
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