Comparison

Classride vs Simple Trip

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

Head to head
About

Classride

Connects car owners with passengers for convenient rides. Book a taxi in three simple steps and receive upfront pricing and estimated arrival times. Enjoy safe and reliable transportation around the city, day or night.

Highlights
  • On-demand ride booking
  • Upfront pricing and time estimates
  • Driver and vehicle verification
  • 24/7 customer support
  • In-app payment and driver reviews
Features
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Your ride. Your choice. ClassRide gives you more control over how you travel. Choose your pickup point and destination, select a vehicle category, and propose a price that works for you. Available drivers can send you offers, so you can choose the ride that suits you best. Going somewhere specific or need the flexibility of an open ride? ClassRide makes it easy to request a trip that fits your plans. Why ride with ClassRide? • Set your price and review offers from drivers. • Choose the vehicle category that suits your trip. • Add a note to share helpful details with your driver. • Follow your driver’s arrival and track your trip in the app. • Stay in touch through in-app calls, chat, voice messages, and photos. From everyday journeys to trips across the city, ClassRide puts you in control from request to arrival. Download ClassRide and find your next ride. ClassRide. Lead the way.

About

Simple Trip

Organize your travel plans, from daily itineraries and maps to budgets and photo logs. Keep all your trip details in one place, accessible offline and shareable in various formats.

Highlights
  • Day-by-day itinerary creation
  • Interactive map with itinerary stops
  • Budget tracking and expense recording
  • Trip photo gallery and notes
  • Export trip details (PDF, Markdown)
  • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets
  • Apple Watch integration
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Plan before you leave, stay organized while you travel, and keep the memories when you return. Simple Trip: Plan & Go brings your itinerary, places, maps, budget, photos, and travel progress together in one beautifully designed app. PLAN DAY BY DAY • Create trips with destinations, dates, cover photos, useful links, budgets, and currencies • Organize sights, restaurants, hotels, shopping, and transportation into daily itineraries • Reorder stops and save addresses, opening hours, ticket prices, phone numbers, and notes SEE YOUR JOURNEY ON THE MAP • Search for places or select a location directly on the map • View and filter all the stops in your itinerary • Open directions in Maps when you are ready to go • Mark places as visited or skipped as your plans change KEEP YOUR BUDGET IN VIEW • Record expenses and connect them to specific places • Review spending by category and day • See how much you have spent, what remains, and your daily average REMEMBER AND SHARE • Add notes to each day and build a trip photo gallery • Export a complete trip or a single day as an image, PDF, or Markdown file • Look back on visited places and your travel progress READY WHEN YOU ARE • Check your next stop, today’s route, and trip progress with Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets • Use Siri and Shortcuts to find or update itinerary details • View your next stop and update visit status from Apple Watch YOUR DATA, YOUR CHOICE Trips are stored locally by default. You can choose to enable iCloud and store your profile and trip data in your private iCloud database, making it available across devices using the same Apple Account. Simple Trip supports iPhone, iPad for now. Feature availability may vary by platform. Plan clearly. Go confidently. Keep the memories with Simple Trip.

Screenshots

Classride4 screens
Simple Trip4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Simple Trip at 100% against Classride's 38%. Simple Trip also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.9) and ads (none vs shown). Classride's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 6 weeks) and ratings volume (28 vs 2). On price, in-app purchases, 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

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

Simple Trip holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Classride has 28 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 38% of Classride's written reviews are positive against 100% of Simple Trip's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Classride ships an update fortnightly, Simple Trip every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Classride versus Simple Trip: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterClassrideSimple Trip
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.9 (28 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews37.5% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings28 — better2
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS16.0 — better26.2
Further details — not scored
Size97 MB12 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperclassRideShenzhen Jianjiezhiyuan Technology Co.,Ltd

Customer experience

Classride

All ratings28 ratings
Positive71.4%
Neutral0.0%
Negative28.6%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive37.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative62.5%

Simple Trip

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Classride

No in-app purchases

None

Simple Trip

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Classride free?
Classride is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Simple Trip free?
Simple Trip is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Classride or Simple Trip?
Simple Trip is rated higher. Classride averages 3.9 out of 5 from 28 ratings, while Simple Trip averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Classride or Simple Trip have ads?
Classride shows ads; Simple Trip does not.
Which is updated more often, Classride or Simple Trip?
Classride ships an update fortnightly, and Simple Trip every 6 weeks. Most recently, Classride was updated on November 7, 2026 and Simple Trip on November 6, 2026.

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