Fire Shifts vs Visual Pre Plans
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Fire Shifts
This app provides a free, customizable calendar for Fire and EMS personnel to manage their work schedules. Users can select from various shift types and personalize labels and colors for easy visual organization of their personal schedule.
- Customizable shift calendar
- Multiple shift type options
- Personalized labels and colors
- Free updates
- Works indefinitely
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A free customizable Fire and EMS Shift Calendar. Easily select various shift types such as 24/48 (ABC), 48/96 (AABBCC), etc. Customize labels and colors for each of your shifts to easily highlight your personal schedule. Visit www.fireshifts.com to see a full list of scheduling options. Ad supported. Works indefinitely. No purchasing of yearly licenses, free updates, no subscriptions fees. Email kevin@fireshifts.com for support.
Visual Pre Plans
This application streamlines fire department pre-planning and incident response with an image-based system. It allows for quick creation, updating, and sharing of pre-plan data, providing instant on-scene access to critical information for better operational coordination.
- Image-based pre-planning
- Fast pre-plan creation (under 5 minutes)
- Instant on-scene access to pre plans
- CAD notifications and integration
- Risk scoring
- Real-time team location tracking
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WHO WE ARE Visual Pre Plans is an image-based fire department pre planning and operations software designed to eliminate all obstacles preventing successful incident mitigation. With Visual Pre Plans, conveniently pre plan via mobile and desktop applications, easily creating, updating and sharing useful pre plans. HOW IT WORKS Pre-plan a building in as little as 5 minutes Instant on-scene access to pre plans & risk scores for all members via CAD notifications. Estimated time of arrival and team on map help ICs coordinate response. High hazard notes display with incident location details to indicate dangerous locations. Risk scoring & CAD integration Easy program management
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Visual Pre Plans at monthly against Fire Shifts's every 27 months. Visual Pre Plans also leads on review sentiment (64% vs 37%) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Fire Shifts's advantage is iOS requirement (12.4 vs 16.6). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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 — 3.8 for Fire Shifts against 3.8 for Visual Pre Plans. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 62 and 21 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 37% of Fire Shifts's written reviews are positive against 64% of Visual Pre Plans's.
Fire Shifts ships an update every 27 months, Visual Pre Plans monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Fire Shifts | Visual Pre Plans |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (62 ratings) | 3.8 (21 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 36.8% of reviews | 64.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 62 — better | 21 |
| Update frequency | Every 27 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.4 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 194 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kevin Jordan | FlowMSP, Inc |
Customer experience
Fire Shifts
Visual Pre Plans
Bugs and requests
Fire Shifts
Reported bugs
5 issues- App shows wrong year (2020 instead of 2018)
- Black screen issue
- App crashes
- App stopped working
- Calendar not highlighting current day
Requested features
13 requests- Ability to change shift colors
- Ability to write notes on days
- Make current day obvious
- Add white and gray colors
- Ability to change labels
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- Add alarms for days
- Add custom shift patterns
- Add notes to dates
- Add Kelly days
- Add payday
- Input notes into calendar
- Change week start to Monday
- Input schedule with numbers/letters and colors
Visual Pre Plans
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Fire Shifts
No in-app purchases
Visual Pre Plans
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Fire Shifts free?
Is Visual Pre Plans free?
Which has better reviews, Fire Shifts or Visual Pre Plans?
Do Fire Shifts or Visual Pre Plans have ads?
Which is updated more often, Fire Shifts or Visual Pre Plans?
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