Flight Simulator vs Dérive app
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Flight Simulator
Experience the quiet joy of air travel without leaving home. This app lets you choose a destination and embrace peaceful solitude, perfect for unwinding.
- Choose your destination
- Experience peaceful solitude
- Simulated air travel
- Relaxing ambiance
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Flight Simulator is an ode to airplane mode. It celebrates the best part of air travel: peaceful solitude. Choose a destination, enable airplane mode, and enjoy.
Dérive app
Explore urban spaces in a spontaneous and engaging way. This app merges Situationist ideals with digital tools to encourage unplanned discovery and break daily routines. It aims to open up new urban experiences by introducing external suggestions into your city explorations.
- Spontaneous urban exploration
- Unplanned discovery
- Digital tool for city exploration
- Breaks daily routines
- Introduces external suggestions
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Dérive app is created as a simple but engaging platform that allows users to explore their urban spaces in a care-free and casual way. It takes the ideals of the Situationists and merges it with digital means in order to create a tool that allows for the exploration of urban space in a random unplanned way, as a game. Too often in urban centers we are controlled by our day to day activities thus closing off urban experiences that exist around us. Dérive app was created to try to nudge those people who are in this repetitive cycle to allow the suggestions and subjectivities of others to enter into their urban existences.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Dérive app at Free against Flight Simulator's $1.99. Dérive app also leads on review sentiment (94% vs 85%). Flight Simulator's advantage is rating (4.8 vs 3.8) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 6 weeks). On 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
Dérive app is free to download; Flight Simulator costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Flight Simulator holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Flight Simulator has 38 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 85% of Flight Simulator's written reviews are positive against 94% of Dérive app's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Flight Simulator ships an update every 3 weeks, Dérive app every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Flight Simulator | Dérive app |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.8 (38 ratings) — better | 3.8 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 84.6% of reviews | 94.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 38 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 11.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Soft Applications, LLC | Babak Fakhamzadeh |
Customer experience
Flight Simulator
Dérive app
In-app purchases
Flight Simulator
No in-app purchases
Dérive app
No in-app purchases
