Comparison

Planet Patrol vs Hurd

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Planet Patrol

This app empowers users to contribute to global environmental data collection, helping to fill knowledge gaps on key issues. By collecting data, users help build influential datasets that provide insights into environmental challenges.

Highlights
  • Community-powered data collection
  • Environmental issue insights
  • Global dataset building
  • Empowers environmental action
Features
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The Planet Patrol app unites communities worldwide empowering you/them to take action to help save the planet through people powered data collection. We fill knowledge gaps on key environmental issues, helping build the largest and most influential datasets with your contributions, to provide insight that would otherwise be impossible to capture at scale.

About

Hurd

This app helps you drive positive change in your workplace by providing practical tips, inspiring stories, and a community of like-minded individuals. It offers bite-sized lessons and tools to address climate and social issues at work, making it easier to make an impact regardless of your role or industry.

Highlights
  • Peer-led action feed
  • Bite-sized lessons and tools
  • Industry insights
  • Stories from changemakers
  • Community of changemakers
Features
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Making a difference at work, made easy. Feeling overwhelmed by climate change, inequality, or not knowing where to start? You're not alone. Lifestyle tweaks can feel too small, and driving change at work might seem too big. But wherever you are in your career – regardless of industry, role and seniority – you can make an impact. Hurd makes it easier to drive positive change from within your workplace. We bring together practical tips, inspiring stories, and a community of like-minded changemakers. What you’ll find inside Hurd: • A vibrant feed of peer led action, ideas, and inspiration • Bite-sized lessons and tools to act on climate and social issues at work • Industry insights on who's stepping up and how • Stories from real people making a difference across industries Why Hurd? Because workplace action matters. Small steps, taken together, can lead to real change. Start today. Take action. Share your journey. Be the hero your workplace needs - with Hurd.

Screenshots

Planet Patrol4 screens
Hurd4 screens

Verdict

The call

Planet Patrol and Hurd both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Hurd's written reviews are positive against 48% of Planet Patrol's. Planet Patrol's advantage is monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Planet Patrol against 5.0 for Hurd. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 2 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 48% of Planet Patrol's written reviews are positive against 100% of Hurd's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Planet Patrol ships an update every 5 weeks, Hurd monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Planet Patrol versus Hurd: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPlanet PatrolHurd
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews47.6% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings4 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterAd-supported
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS14.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size45 MB85 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPlastic Patrol CICKite Insights Limited

Customer experience

Planet Patrol

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews21 reviews
Positive47.6%
Neutral4.8%
Negative47.6%

Hurd

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Planet Patrol

No in-app purchases

None

Hurd

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Planet Patrol free?
Planet Patrol is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Hurd free?
Hurd is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Planet Patrol or Hurd?
Planet Patrol and Hurd are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 4 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Planet Patrol or Hurd have ads?
Neither Planet Patrol nor Hurd shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Planet Patrol or Hurd?
Planet Patrol ships an update every 5 weeks, and Hurd monthly. Most recently, Planet Patrol was updated on November 6, 2026 and Hurd on November 3, 2026.

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