Comparison

ESD vs Aimless Drives

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

Head to head
About

ESD

Find and manage EV charging stations with real-time status and information. This service offers e-wallet management and support for home and public charging solutions.

Highlights
  • Charging Station Finder
  • Real-time Charging Status
  • E-wallet Management
  • Support System
  • Home and Public Charging
Features
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ESD-Global is the EV Charging solution service that helps you get the best charging experience including Charging Station Finder, Charging status and info, E-wallet management and Support system operated Wallbox and Alfen EV chargers from Spain and Netherlands for home use and business purposes (AC Charger) and the DC Charger distributor for public charging station with high standards of full installation services provided by specialists.

About

Aimless Drives

Generates three unique driving routes that start and end at your current location, avoiding highways. Select your desired drive time and open the route in Google Maps for turn-by-turn navigation.

Highlights
  • Generates three unique driving loops
  • Customizable drive times (60, 90, 120 minutes)
  • Avoids highways, favors back roads
  • Shows route distance and drive time
  • Integrates with Google Maps for navigation
  • No account, sign-up, ads, or tracking
Features
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Aimless makes driving loops that start and end exactly where you are. Pick how long you want to be out — 30, 60, 90, or 120 minutes — and Aimless hands you three routes that wander out and come back without retracing themselves. Tap one and it opens in Google Maps, ready to drive. It exists because aimless drives have a flaw. You head out with no destination, you get too far from home, and the drive back becomes dead time retracing roads you just covered. A loop fixes that. The whole drive is the good part. WHAT IT DOES • Generates three loops starting from your current location • Shows each on a map with real distance, drive time, and highway percentage • Hands off to Google Maps for turn-by-turn navigation • Favors back roads — loops with significant highway are filtered out BUILT FOR BACK ROADS Aimless deliberately avoids highways. Every candidate route is checked for motorway content and anything with a meaningful share is discarded, because a highway loop is not a drive worth taking. The times are honest, too. Aimless routes each loop through the exact waypoints it hands to Google, so the duration you see is the duration you drive — not an optimistic estimate of a route you were never going to take. WHAT IT DOESN'T DO No account. No sign-up. No history, no sync, no ads, no tracking. It doesn't store anything, including where you have been. Open it, tap once, drive. Aimless needs a location fix to know where your loop should start, and it needs Google Maps for navigation. That's the whole dependency list. Good for a Sunday morning, a passenger worth talking to, and no particular place to be.

Screenshots

ESD4 screens
Aimless Drives4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Aimless Drives at 100% against ESD's 0%. Aimless Drives also leads on rating (5.0 vs 1.0) and update cadence (every 3 days vs every 18 months). ESD's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). 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

Aimless Drives holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 3 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of ESD's written reviews are positive against 100% of Aimless Drives's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ESD ships an update every 18 months, Aimless Drives every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
ESD versus Aimless Drives: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterESDAimless Drives
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings23 — better
Update frequencyEvery 18 monthsEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size95 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSaascharge IncBryce Percoco

Customer experience

ESD

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Aimless Drives

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

ESD

No in-app purchases

None

Aimless Drives

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ESD free?
ESD is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Aimless Drives free?
Aimless Drives is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, ESD or Aimless Drives?
Aimless Drives is rated higher. ESD averages 1.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Aimless Drives averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do ESD or Aimless Drives have ads?
Neither ESD nor Aimless Drives shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ESD or Aimless Drives?
ESD ships an update every 18 months, and Aimless Drives every 3 days. Most recently, ESD was updated on November 3, 2026 and Aimless Drives on October 31, 2026.

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