Comparison

New Drive vs Live Reads

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

New Drive

Easily track your teenager's driving practice with a stopwatch or manual entry. Log street, highway, day, and night drives, add notes, and export logs. The app notifies you when required hours are met.

Highlights
  • Track driving hours with stopwatch
  • Manual driving hour entry
  • Log street, highway, day, and night drives
  • Add notes for each drive
  • Export logs and notes as PDF
  • Set and track required driving hours
  • Notifications for completed hours
Features
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Having your teenager learn to drive can be hard enough. Then you have to keep track of their driving usually on index cards. Enter: New Drive. New Drive allows you to track their driving within an easy to use app. You can use the stopwatch to track their time, or you can manually enter it. Track if the driving occurred on the street, highway, and day or night. Need to take notes about something that happened? New Drive has you covered with a notes log too. Now you can export or print the log and notes. Enter the hours needed before they can get their license and New Drive will notify you when they've completed the required hours. ** This app does not require GPS. NO ADS. NO IN-APP PURCHASES. Just purchase the app one time and get all future updates included. DETAILS • Log driving hours with a stopwatch. • Log driving hours manually by typing the time. • Export driving log as a PDF mail attachment. • Manual or stopwatch entries are kept in an easy to use log. • Search later for entries that were: Highway, street, day or night. • Log other notes for the drive. • Export driving notes as a PDF mail attachment. • Set needed hours before completion. • New Drive notifies you when they have met the hours requirement. DESIGN • Simply, easy to use design. • Easy on the eyes and allows you to keep an eye on the road. • No need to create an online account or give an email address. • Just simple. New drive allows you to track your teenager's driving quickly and keep that extra eye on the road. Throw away those old index cards and start using this app today! It'll make your life easier.

About

Live Reads

This app helps broadcasters, podcasters, and announcers manage sponsored messages read live during broadcasts. It allows for easy creation, editing, and timestamping of these "live reads" for efficient delivery and post-event reporting.

Highlights
  • Create and edit live reads
  • Timestamped affidavit for reporting
  • Offline functionality
  • Customizable event types and schedules
  • Easy to use interface
Features
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Create, edit, timestamp, and deliver. Live Reads - the only app that lets you easily manage your live reads. Create, edit, and manage all of your Live Reads in one easy to use platform. This iPad App allows broadcasters, podcasters, and announcers to always deliver the right Live Read at the right time. A Live Read is any message, sponsored or otherwise, that is read "on-air" during an audio or video broadcast. The Live Reads app organizes these reads, so they can be easily viewed by the broadcaster, podcaster, or announcer, and allows "time-stamping", making post event reporting a breeze. - Easy to use with no learning curve - Advertiser reporting with timestamped affidavit - Works even with no internet connection - Customizable event types, schedules, and more Live Reads is great for sports announcers, radio broadcasters, tv and Youtube personalities, and podcasters.

Screenshots

New Drive4 screens
Live Reads3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Live Reads at Free against New Drive's $0.99. Live Reads also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 3 months). New Drive's advantage is review sentiment (33% vs 0%) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On rating, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Live Reads is free to download; New Drive costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 2.4 for New Drive against 2.3 for Live Reads. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 3 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 33% of New Drive's written reviews are positive against 0% of Live Reads's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

New Drive ships an update every 3 months, Live Reads every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on November 2, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
New Drive versus Live Reads: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNew DriveLive Reads
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating2.4 (7 ratings) — better2.3 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews33.3% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings7 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBrandon FichouErnst Media

Customer experience

New Drive

All ratings7 ratings
Positive28.6%
Neutral14.3%
Negative57.1%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive33.3%
Neutral16.7%
Negative50.0%

Live Reads

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

None

New Drive

No in-app purchases

None

Live Reads

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is New Drive free?
New Drive costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Live Reads free?
Live Reads is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, New Drive or Live Reads?
New Drive is rated higher. New Drive averages 2.4 out of 5 from 7 ratings, while Live Reads averages 2.3 from 3 ratings.
Do New Drive or Live Reads have ads?
Neither New Drive nor Live Reads shows ads.
Which is updated more often, New Drive or Live Reads?
New Drive ships an update every 3 months, and Live Reads every 2 weeks. Most recently, New Drive was updated on November 2, 2026 and Live Reads on November 2, 2026.

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