New Drive vs Drive Logger
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
Drive Logger
Easily log your supervised driving practice to meet licensing requirements. Track daytime and nighttime drives with simple one-tap recording and view your progress at a glance. All your data is securely stored on your device.
- Log practice drives with one tap
- Track daytime and nighttime driving
- View driving history and statistics
- Manual drive recording
- Export drive data
- iOS 14 home screen widgets
- On-device data storage
- Open source
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Got your drivers permit? Now you need to practice driving in order to get your full license. Drive Logger helps you log how much you have been driving making sure that you get your practice hours in. # Simple, Easy, Fast It takes just one tap to start recording your current drive. When you're finished, one tap records it. This simplicity allows you to focus on learning how to drive while giving you peace of mind that you’re getting your required hours. # Information at a glance Easily see how long you have been driving, broken down into daytime and nighttime drives. Additionally, view statistics about your driving habits. iOS 14 homescreen widgets allow you to easily see your progress. # Completely on device None of your data is sent over the internet. Instead, it is stored completely on device. Drive Logger is an open source app, so anyone can take a look at the source code. Features: - View your driving history at a glance, broken down by day and night drives - One tap to start recording a drive and one tap to save it - Fast and easy to use - Manually record drives - Export your drive data - iOS 14 Widgets allow you to track your progress from your home screen - All data is stored on device - Open source
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Drive Logger at Free against New Drive's $0.99. Drive Logger also leads on rating (4.1 vs 2.4) and update cadence (weekly vs every 3 months). New Drive's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 14.0). On ratings volume, ads, in-app purchases 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
Drive Logger is free to download; New Drive costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Drive Logger holds the better App Store score, 4.1 against 2.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 15 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 33% of New Drive's written reviews are positive against 50% of Drive Logger's.
New Drive ships an update every 3 months, Drive Logger weekly. The most recent releases landed on June 1, 2026 and July 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | New Drive | Drive Logger |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 2.4 (7 ratings) | 4.1 (15 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 7 | 15 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Brandon Fichou | Ronan Furuta |
Customer experience
New Drive
Drive Logger
In-app purchases
New Drive
No in-app purchases
Drive Logger
No in-app purchases
