What Reddit Says About Emergency Apps

Also the American Red Cross Emergency app allows you to set up emergency alerts for areas, you can choose what to be alerted for, distance, etc.

I use a free android app called police scanner. I get alerts about fires here in Arizona within minutes of extra listeners tuning in. ... There might be a texting thing from the city/county to sign up for.

Veoci has been the best. WebEOC is nice, but is expensive and slow compared to Veoci if you want to make changes.

Informacast. Works fine in minor emergencies, like local power outages.

An app can’t do off-grid communication if the phone itself doesn’t have the capability. So, if you want to be able to communicate, emergency or otherwise, when in the backcountry with no cellular coverage, then your phone has to have satellite communication technology built in. This is the phone’s j...

I currently have Survival Manual (kinda lame but a few good tidbits in there), FEMA app, First Aid from the Red Cross, Scanner Radio, Radio USA AM/FM, NWS Weather, Hurricane, The Weather Channel and Food Recall.