NICS Mobile vs AMES Phone
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
NICS Mobile
This platform enhances disaster response by providing real-time situational awareness and cross-jurisdictional collaboration. It's designed for coordinating responses to various incidents, supporting both web and mobile users.
- Situational awareness
- Cross-jurisdictional collaboration
- Disaster response coordination
- All-hazard incident support
- Web and mobile clients
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The Next-Generation Incident Command System (NICS) is a scalable, non-proprietary, standards-based software platform that provides rich, timely situational awareness, and cross jurisdictional collaboration to improve disaster response operations. NICS has been developed in close partnership with the Emergency Management Community and has been used on hundreds of real-world events since 2010 to coordinate responses to all-hazard incidents (earthquakes, floods, wildland fires), search and rescue operations, and major security events. NICS supports both web and mobile clients. More information is available at: https://public.nics.ll.mit.edu.
AMES Phone
This app is designed for researchers to assess executive functions and delay of gratification in children. It features two tasks specifically developed for this purpose and has been tested with children aged 4-12 across different countries.
- Executive function assessment
- Delay of gratification tasks
- Designed for researchers
- Tested with children ages 4-12
- Cross-cultural testing
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The Assessment of Motivation, Effort, and Self-Regulation (AMES) is a mobile app for researchers. It includes two tasks designed to assess executive functions and delay of gratification in children. The app has been tested extensively with children ages 4 to 12 in the U.S., Ivory Coast, Ghana, Bangladesh, Brazil, and other countries.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: AMES Phone at 100% against NICS Mobile's 0%. AMES Phone also leads on rating (5.0 vs 1.0) and ratings volume (3 vs 1). NICS Mobile's advantage is iOS requirement (7.0 vs 15.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
AMES Phone holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 3 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of NICS Mobile's written reviews are positive against 100% of AMES Phone's.
| Parameter | NICS Mobile | AMES Phone |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 22 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 7.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 40 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Stanford University |
Customer experience
NICS Mobile
AMES Phone
In-app purchases
NICS Mobile
No in-app purchases
AMES Phone
No in-app purchases
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