Chief Mobile vs Active911 ActiveTeam
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.
Active911 ActiveTeam
Easily access your agency's schedules and manage your shifts directly from your smartphone. View your monthly schedule, see who is working each shift, and claim or request open positions.
- Access agency schedules
- View monthly schedule
- See shift assignments
- Claim open positions
- Request open positions
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ActiveTeam helps you access your agencies schedules; view the days which you are scheduled, and request/claim open positions within a shift, right from your smartphone. -Log in to agencies ActiveTeam account -View Monthly Schedule per agency -Scheduled days are noted with colored dot -See who is working each shift and what position -Claim and or Request open positions
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Chief Mobile at 67% against Active911 ActiveTeam's 0%. Chief Mobile also leads on rating (3.4 vs 2.9) and ratings volume (40 vs 13). Active911 ActiveTeam's advantage is 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. Active911 ActiveTeam asks for nothing beyond the download.
Chief Mobile holds the better App Store score, 3.4 against 2.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 40 and 13 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of Chief Mobile's written reviews are positive against 0% of Active911 ActiveTeam's.
Chief Mobile ships an update every 5 weeks, Active911 ActiveTeam every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Chief Mobile | Active911 ActiveTeam |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.4 (40 ratings) — better | 2.9 (13 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 67.4% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 40 — better | 13 |
| 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 — better | 14.7 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 113 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Chief Technologies | Active911 |
Customer experience
Chief Mobile
Active911 ActiveTeam
In-app purchases
Chief Mobile
- Pro Version$4.99
Active911 ActiveTeam
No in-app purchases
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