Dérive app vs Haze Explr
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
Haze Explr
Discover hidden urban exploration spots and share your findings with a community of like-minded adventurers. Contribute your own discoveries to unlock access to exclusive locations, ensuring a trusted network of explorers.
- Discover urbex locations
- Share exploration experiences
- Unlock shared locations
- Contribute to community access
- Map of forgotten places
- Find abandoned buildings and ruins
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Find urbex & off-the-beaten-path locations and share your experiences with other explorers. The more you contribute to the community, the more locations you unlock. This helps to make sure that locations are only shared with explorers who will respect them. Explore abandoned buildings, ghost towns, ruins, natural sights, and other forgotten locations on the map created by the Haze Explr community. Find adventures, make memories Terms of Service: https://app.haze-explr.com/terms/ © 2026 Haze Explr
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Haze Explr at 4.8 against Dérive app's 3.8. Haze Explr also leads on ratings volume (900 vs 5). Dérive app's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and review sentiment (94% vs 85%). On price, update cadence, ads and monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Haze Explr sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.00 per month. Dérive app asks for nothing beyond the download.
Haze Explr holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Haze Explr has 900 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 94% of Dérive app's written reviews are positive against 85% of Haze Explr's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Dérive app ships an update every 6 weeks, Haze Explr monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Dérive app | Haze Explr |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (5 ratings) | 4.8 (900 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 94.1% of reviews — better | 84.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 900 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 170 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Babak Fakhamzadeh | Eclectic Services LLC |
Customer experience
Dérive app
Haze Explr
Bugs and requests
Dérive app
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Haze Explr
Reported bugs
2 issues- Locations disappearing from account
- Unable to create account or get approved
Requested features
4 requests- Favorite/bookmark locations
- Offline mode for memos and location data
- Ability to filter by location type
- Notification when near unlocked locations
In-app purchases
Dérive app
No in-app purchases
Haze Explr
- Haze Edgerunner$5.001 Month
- Haze Edgerunner Overclocked$10.001 Month
