Comparison

New Drive vs Trimlight Edge

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

Trimlight Edge

Control a permanent holiday lighting system with millions of color and pattern options. Customize lighting for any holiday or special event, or create unique daily displays. The app seamlessly integrates with the lighting system, hiding wires for a clean look.

Highlights
  • 16 million color options
  • Millions of patterns and combinations
  • Individual light control
  • Custom pattern creation
  • 365-day calendar and daily timer
  • Holiday and event scheduling
Features
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Trimlight is the original and still the best lighting system for permanent holiday lights available. Trimlight perfectly hides all the wires during the day while providing any building, home, deck, or structure amazing lighting at night. With 16 million color options and millions of different patterns, combinations of colors, and features your lights will look amazing from every angle. Our patented channel holds all the lights and wires securely to blend into the architectural features of any structure. This app works exclusively with the Trimlight Edge lighting system for the user to have full control of each individual light. With this very intuitive app the user can customize exact patterns and quantity of the diodes to custom create any pattern imaginable. This app includes a full 365 day calendar and a daily timer to customize which lights you want on for every holiday or you can set custom patterns and colors for any day of the year. Trimlight makes remembering holidays and special events like birthdays and anniversaries a breeze. Forget the hassle of putting lights up and taking them down every year. With Trimlight Edge you will have custom set lighting features for every holiday, forever!

Screenshots

New Drive4 screens
Trimlight Edge4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Trimlight Edge at Free against New Drive's $0.99. Trimlight Edge also leads on ratings volume (419 vs 7) and rating (2.7 vs 2.4). New Drive's advantage is review sentiment (33% vs 21%). On update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Trimlight Edge 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

Trimlight Edge holds the better App Store score, 2.7 against 2.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Trimlight Edge has 419 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 33% of New Drive's written reviews are positive against 21% of Trimlight Edge's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

New Drive ships an update every 3 months, Trimlight Edge every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
New Drive versus Trimlight Edge: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNew DriveTrimlight Edge
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating2.4 (7 ratings)2.7 (419 ratings) — better
Positive reviews33.3% of reviews — better21.5% of reviews
Number of ratings7419 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.012.0
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB49 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBrandon FichouShenzhen Sperll Optoelectronic Technology Co., Ltd.

Customer experience

New Drive

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

Trimlight Edge

All ratings319 ratings
Positive37.9%
Neutral7.8%
Negative54.2%
Written reviews233 reviews
Positive21.5%
Neutral11.2%
Negative67.4%

Bugs and requests

New Drive

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Trimlight Edge

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • App crashes frequently
  • Schedules not working as expected
  • Lights not responding to app commands
  • Sync issues between app and hardware
  • Unexpected light behavior after updates

Requested features

5 requests
  • More customization options
  • Improved scheduling functionality
  • Automatic sunset/sunrise adjustment
  • Better UI/UX design
  • Ability to share custom patterns

In-app purchases

None

New Drive

No in-app purchases

None

Trimlight Edge

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is New Drive free?
New Drive costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Trimlight Edge free?
Trimlight Edge is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, New Drive or Trimlight Edge?
Trimlight Edge is rated higher. New Drive averages 2.4 out of 5 from 7 ratings, while Trimlight Edge averages 2.7 from 419 ratings.
Do New Drive or Trimlight Edge have ads?
Neither New Drive nor Trimlight Edge shows ads.
Which is updated more often, New Drive or Trimlight Edge?
New Drive ships an update every 3 months, and Trimlight Edge every 2 months. Most recently, New Drive was updated on November 6, 2026 and Trimlight Edge on November 7, 2026.

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