Carshift vs Driving School
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Carshift
Experience realistic driving and drifting with this racing game. Compete in single-player or multiplayer modes, including drag races and infected car challenges. Explore open-world environments, collect coins, and unlock new cars.
- Realistic driving and drifting physics
- Single-player exploration and races
- Multiplayer infected cars mode
- Online drag race competitions
- Coin collection and car unlocking
- Open-world city and mountain exploration
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The real world of racing has finally come to you! Beat your adrenaline with the unique experience that carshift offers! Driving and drifting have never been so realistic and fun! Burn the map playing single or multiplayer with your friends. Collect coins joining different races, buy fuel and play online with your team competing on Drag Race or having fun on Infected Cars. Climb the mountains or chill in the city roads experiencing the real graphics or visuals. Make your driving ride come true. Win drag races. Make your choices and GO ON! Single Player Mode Play single without the need to brake! The city is all yours. Explore it. Enjoy it. Join the races around the city following the signs and get rewarded with different amount of coins! Once you have the coins, you have the chance to buy fuel and save a little to unlock your favorite car! Infected cars Play online with your friends and explore how fast can you ride to expand the infection or get away from it. Five players can join and only one is infected in the beginning! Will they be able to share the syndrome to other cars or not? Who will stay un-infected? Who is the fastest? There is only one way to find out. Hurry up!! Drag Race Gives you the opportunity to compete with your friends online, so you better prepare! Play single, win money, buy the fastest car and come to win against your competitor in the Drag Race Online.
Driving School
Learn to drive and master parking in a realistic car simulator. Explore an open world, practice road rules, and test your skills in various modes, including multiplayer.
- Realistic driving mechanics
- Open world map
- Multiplayer mode
- Free ride mode
- Ride with traffic
- Realistic damage system
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Master your driving and parking skills in new realistic car driving simulator - Driving School 2018. Now you can drive your favorite car and learn rules of the road! The huge open world map is designed in a creative way to test your extreme car driving skills and provide the best gameplay experience. Get your driving license now! Play with your friends in a free ride multiplayer mode! Driving School Simulator Features: • Open world map • Many different cars • Realistic driving mechanics • Free ride mode • Multiplayer mode • Ride with traffic • Smooth and realistic car handling • Realistic damage system • Ultimate car driving expirience • Crash your car! • Drift mode
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Carshift at 4.2 against Driving School's 3.6. Carshift also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 7) and review sentiment (76% vs 41%). Driving School's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 months). On price, ratings volume, monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Driving School sells 7 one-off in-app purchases. Carshift asks for nothing beyond the download.
Carshift holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 3.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 104 and 137 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 76% of Carshift's written reviews are positive against 41% of Driving School's.
Carshift ships an update every 3 months, Driving School every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and August 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Carshift | Driving School |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (104 ratings) — better | 3.6 (137 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 75.7% of reviews — better | 41.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 104 | 137 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 391 MB | 313 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Genc Sadiku | Oleksii Hohol |
Customer experience
Carshift
Driving School
Bugs and requests
Carshift
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Driving School
Reported bugs
25 issues- Car brakes too late
- Tires glitch into the ground
- Game gets laggy
- Headlights barely work
- Breaks don't work
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- Steering wheel doesn't work well
- Cannot reverse
- Controls are terrible
- Steering is hard
- Headlights are weak
- Game crashes
- Car was off and ended up in the underworld
- Bought a car and cannot use it
- Downloaded a virus
- Brakes do not work
- Indicators do not work properly
- Lag is not fixed
- Acceleration and breaking are terrible
- No interior camera
- Fail level with only 2 mistakes
- Restore purchases doesn't work
- Steering wheel is bugged
- Cannot close ads
- Cannot download Driving School 2017
- Game is not available in my country
Requested features
27 requests- Add option for password-protected multiplayer rooms
- Add more admins
- More driving views
- Gyro mode without auto-reverse
- Larger map and mini-map
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- Ability to get out of car and enter others
- Add helicopter access
- Add clutch mode
- Add new cars
- More car customization options
- Add SUV/van/family car options
- Add racing between friends
- Add timer games
- More career levels
- Levels adapted to supercars
- Alternative multiplayer games
- Add manual gear shift
- Add more levels
- Add more car modifications
- Add interior view
- Add slider pedals
- Make it multiplayer
- Add realistic cars
- Add more maps and modifications
- Add horn
- Add imperial units option
- Add clutch driving mode
In-app purchases
Carshift
No in-app purchases
Driving School
- Gold 100$0.99
- Gold 250$1.99
- Remove AD's$1.99
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- Gold 500$2.99
- Gold 1000$5.99
- Gold 3000$9.99
- Gold 10000$19.99
Questions
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