Comparison

AdMo+ vs Pulsar by CampaignSidekick

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

Head to head
About

AdMo+

Access real-time political advertising data and competitive insights on linear, digital, and connected TV. Stay informed about spending, view newly airing creatives, and customize alerts for fast, smart decision-making on the go.

Highlights
  • Political spending alerts and daily recaps
  • Watch and share newly airing creatives
  • Customizable push notifications by race
  • Analytics for every political race
  • Presidential spending tracker
  • Ad of the Day feature
Features
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The first mobile app for political ad intelligence. AdMo+ puts AdImpact's full political data platform on your iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. Track spending as it happens. Catch new creatives before the opposition does. Monitor ACR-measured reach across linear, CTV, and digital — all without being at your desk. Sign in with your AdImpact credentials and your races are already waiting. One tap to turn on alerts. That's it. Features: -Spend Intelligence: Know the moment money moves. Real-time alerts surface new spend activity across your favorited races. Filter by date range to see total, past, current, and future spending for any race or market that matters to you. -Creative Detection: New ad up? You'll know. AdMo+ alerts you when a new creative is captured. Watch it in-app. Share it with your team via text, email, or Slack in one tap. -ACR Reach & Frequency: Go beyond spend. Monitor ACR-measured reach and frequency across linear and streaming platforms to see who's actually getting eyes on ads — not just who's buying time. -The Monday Brief: Start every week with a curated snapshot of the races and markets that matter most to you. Spend trends, top spenders, creative shifts — before your first call. -Race-Level Analytics: Top spenders. Party advantage. Recent creatives. Every race, instantly accessible. Filter by date range to cut the view you need, when you need it. -Custom Push Notifications: Set alerts by race, market, or ad type. Adjust on the fly as priorities shift. You control the signal. Apple Watch: Glanceable intelligence on your wrist. Catch spend alerts and creative detections without pulling out your phone. AdImpact captures over one billion TV ad occurrences daily across all 210 DMAs, 41,000+ zip codes, and 20 million+ IP addresses — across linear, CTV, and digital. AdMo+ is the mobile front end to that data, purpose-built for the pace of a race. Out of the office. Never out of the game.

About

Pulsar by CampaignSidekick

This app provides a comprehensive voter contact and data management system for political campaigns and advocacy groups. It offers tools for voter identification, phone banking, and data flow, making campaigns more efficient and effective.

Highlights
  • Voter contact and data management
  • Customizable surveys
  • Real-time data flow
  • Walking and phone banking
  • Nationwide voter database
  • Map views and GPS tracking
  • Offline capabilities
Features
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The premier app for political campaigns and advocacy organizations, Pulsar is a complete voter contact and data management system for any size campaign. From city council to United States Senate, we help you find your target set of voters with customizable surveys, an easy to use app and real time data flow. With a nationwide database, our app lets you connect with voters, making your campaign efficient and effective. Pulsar is an "all in one" app with walking and phone banking capabilities, built with every voter contact scenario in mind. For your username and password, please contact the campaign you are currently working on. The Pulsar app is a voter contact app for political campaigns and advocacy organizations. With an "all in one" door knocking and phone banking components, the Pulsar app supercharges your campaigns voter ID and GOTV efforts. Tied to a relational database, the Pulsar app creates seamless data flow from voter contact efforts back to your data inside the Pulsar system. With map views, GPS tracking, offline capabilities and more, the Pulsar app is the premier app in politics today. Built by a team of grassroots operators, the app has been used in local, state and federal elections for years.

Screenshots

AdMo+4 screens
Pulsar by CampaignSidekick4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: AdMo+ at 5.0 against Pulsar by CampaignSidekick's 3.4. Pulsar by CampaignSidekick's advantage is update cadence (every 11 days vs every 6 weeks). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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

AdMo+ holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 13 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

AdMo+ ships an update every 6 weeks, Pulsar by CampaignSidekick every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on September 15, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
AdMo+ versus Pulsar by CampaignSidekick: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAdMo+Pulsar by CampaignSidekick
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (8 ratings) — better3.4 (13 ratings)
Positive reviews—75.0% of reviews
Number of ratings813 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 11 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.1
Further details — not scored
Size28 MB93 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperAdvertising AnalyticsCampaignSidekick LLC

Customer experience

AdMo+

All ratings8 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Pulsar by CampaignSidekick

All ratings13 ratings
Positive46.2%
Neutral15.4%
Negative38.5%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%

In-app purchases

None

AdMo+

No in-app purchases

None

Pulsar by CampaignSidekick

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is AdMo+ free?
AdMo+ is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Pulsar by CampaignSidekick free?
Pulsar by CampaignSidekick is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, AdMo+ or Pulsar by CampaignSidekick?
AdMo+ is rated higher. AdMo+ averages 5.0 out of 5 from 8 ratings, while Pulsar by CampaignSidekick averages 3.4 from 13 ratings.
Do AdMo+ or Pulsar by CampaignSidekick have ads?
Neither AdMo+ nor Pulsar by CampaignSidekick shows ads.
Which is updated more often, AdMo+ or Pulsar by CampaignSidekick?
AdMo+ ships an update every 6 weeks, and Pulsar by CampaignSidekick every 11 days. Most recently, AdMo+ was updated on September 15, 2026 and Pulsar by CampaignSidekick on September 22, 2026.

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