Comparison

IU Ride vs City Crew

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

Head to head
About

IU Ride

This app provides free, safe rides home for students, faculty, and staff within Bloomington, Indiana. It operates nightly between 8 PM and 2 AM, offering a convenient transportation option for the university community.

Highlights
  • Free safe rides
  • Student, faculty, staff service
  • Nightly operation (8 PM - 2 AM)
  • Within Bloomington city limits
  • University-run service
Features
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IU RIDE is a student run service at Indiana University Bloomington, providing free safe rides home between the hours of 8PM - 2AM for students, faculty, and staff. Rides are provided within Bloomington, Indiana city limits and are subject to restrictions. See the IU Ride website for more information - https://iuride.indiana.edu/

About

City Crew

Features
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City Crew is a hand-picked guide to Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi, Da Nang, Hoi An, Hue, Da Lat, Hai Phong, Ninh Binh and Vung Tau in Vietnam, and Melbourne. No account needed to look around. PLACES Cafés, restaurants, bars and places worth going out of your way for. Our editors check every one before it appears, so the list stays short and stays good. See them as a list or as pins on a map, sort by what is nearest or best rated, and open one for its hours, photos and a map of where it is. The app opens on the city nearest you. COLLECTIONS Lists made by people who actually go: where to take a date, where to bring six friends, which cafés are worth the ride. Browse them, or sign in and make your own. PLANS Pick a day, say whether you are going out in the afternoon or the evening, and say who is coming. You get a short route: places near each other, in an order that gets you to each one while it is open. Edit it, save it, send it to the people coming with you. YOUR CREW Add friends, invite them to a trip, see what they have been saving. Easier than five people pasting links into a group chat. PRIVACY Browsing needs no account. Signing in takes an email address and a password. Your location is used on the phone to pick the nearest city and to sort places by distance. When you set where a plan starts, it goes through our server to Google to name the street — and it is never stored. No ads, no tracking. You can delete your account from inside the app. More cities are on the way.

Screenshots

IU Ride2 screens
City Crew4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: City Crew at every 4 days against IU Ride's every 3 months. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

IU Ride ships an update every 3 months, City Crew every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
IU Ride versus City Crew: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterIU RideCity Crew
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.1 (20 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings20 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size63 MB63 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperIndiana UniversityTuan Anh Le

In-app purchases

None

IU Ride

No in-app purchases

None

City Crew

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is IU Ride free?
IU Ride is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is City Crew free?
City Crew is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do IU Ride or City Crew have ads?
Neither IU Ride nor City Crew shows ads.
Which is updated more often, IU Ride or City Crew?
IU Ride ships an update every 3 months, and City Crew every 4 days. Most recently, IU Ride was updated on November 5, 2026 and City Crew on November 6, 2026.

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