Jefferson Lines vs Drively
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Jefferson Lines
Purchase bus tickets, locate stops, and receive travel alerts directly from your phone. This app offers contactless travel tools to enhance your journey without unnecessary interaction.
- Contactless ticket purchasing
- Locate nearby bus stops
- Monitor travel alerts
- Track your bus in real-time
- Innovative travel tools
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Go Contactless. Easily access innovative travel tools from your phone to assist you while you travel. You can now purchase tickets, find nearby bus stops, monitor travel alerts, track your bus, and more without the unnecessary interaction. Download the Jefferson Lines Mobile App 2.0 for free!
Drively
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Every drive you take is data you never get to see. A racing driver ends every session with a debrief: the telemetry comes off the car, and an engineer walks them through what their hands and feet actually did. DriveSafe does that for the drive to school. Tap Start when you pull away, then put the phone down. There is no live score, on purpose — nothing on this screen is worth looking at while you are moving. When you park, the debrief is waiting. HOW SMOOTH WERE YOU, REALLY The score is built on jerk: how quickly your acceleration changes. Planned, progressive inputs score high. Sudden ones score low. It is the difference between a passenger who keeps reading their phone and one who reaches for the door handle. EVERY TIME YOU PICKED UP YOUR PHONE DriveSafe detects phone handling while the car is moving, marks each one on the timeline, and takes points off for it. It is the one thing in the score that has nothing to do with smoothness, and it is there because a phone in your hand is the habit worth breaking first. WHEN YOU DROVE LATE Drive after dark and the debrief says so. Crash risk for new drivers peaks in those hours, so the note asks for more following distance and lower speeds. It changes no number — it just makes sure you saw it. BEFORE YOU SET OFF A reaction-time check with racing start lights. Tired, or not sure you should be driving at all? Run it and see your number against your own baseline, then decide. WHAT THE DEBRIEF SHOWS YOU - Your route, drawn green through red, so you can see which corner actually cost you - Every braking, cornering, and acceleration event — tap one for the accelerometer trace behind it - Distance, driving time, and the highest g-force you pulled - Lifetime average and personal best, so you can watch yourself get better THINGS YOU START TO NOTICE That you brake harder when you are running late. That the roundabout you take every single day is your roughest ten seconds. That you reach for your phone at exactly the same junction every morning. Nobody has ever shown you this about your own driving. Everything works with no account, and trips stay on your phone. Sign in with Apple to back them up across devices. The score measures smoothness and phone handling. It is not a safety rating, it is not an assessment of you as a driver, and it is not validated against crash outcomes. A perfectly smooth drive can still be a bad one. Location is used in the background during a trip so your route keeps recording with the screen off, and is only read between tapping Start and the end of the trip.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Drively at none against Jefferson Lines's shown. On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Jefferson Lines | Drively |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.9 (30 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 9.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 30 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 10 months | — |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 36 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Jefferson Partners L.P. | Jesse Luo |
In-app purchases
Jefferson Lines
No in-app purchases
Drively
No in-app purchases









