Beacon vs Practice Driving Test Routes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Beacon
This app serves as a comprehensive digital guide for student life, offering features like timetable viewing, campus navigation, and access to university services. It helps students find contact information, check resource availability, and stay updated on news and events.
- View timetable
- Campus maps and points of interest
- Staff and service contact details
- PC availability checks
- News and events browsing
- Societies and clubs search
- Answers to common service questions
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Beacon is your intelligent digital guide to student life. Just like you, it will be learning more and more skills and knowledge over the years to come, some of the things it can do include: - View your timetable - View campus maps and find points of interests - View the contact details for your lecturers, personal tutor and course leader - Search the staff directory - Check PCs availability - Find contact details for the university services - Request important documents - Browse news and events - Order a new student card - Search the societies and clubs you can join - Get directions to rooms and places on the campus - Get answers to common questions across all our services: Careers, Counselling, Digital, International Student, Library, Student Enabling, Student Services and Students' Union
Practice Driving Test Routes
Prepare for your practical driving test with practice routes and more. This app helps you get ready for your official examination. Access a variety of features designed to enhance your learning experience.
- Practice test routes
- Driving test preparation
- Comprehensive learning tools
- User-friendly interface
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Prepare for your practical driving test by practicing test routes & more! Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Practice Driving Test Routes at 88% against Beacon's 21%. Practice Driving Test Routes also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.5) and ads (none vs shown). Beacon's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.0). On price, ratings volume 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. Practice Driving Test Routes sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Beacon asks for nothing beyond the download.
Practice Driving Test Routes holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 3 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 21% of Beacon's written reviews are positive against 88% of Practice Driving Test Routes's.
Beacon ships an update every 3 weeks, Practice Driving Test Routes weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Beacon | Practice Driving Test Routes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 21.4% of reviews | 88.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 40 MB | 36 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | University of Staffordshire | heirong Ltd |
Customer experience
Beacon
Practice Driving Test Routes
In-app purchases
Beacon
No in-app purchases
Practice Driving Test Routes
- Full Access Weekly$4.997 Days
- Full Access Monthly$9.991 Month
- Full Access Yearly$29.991 Year
- Additional Test Centre Unlock$0.99
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