IU Ride vs City Crew
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Free safe rides
- Student, faculty, staff service
- Nightly operation (8 PM - 2 AM)
- Within Bloomington city limits
- University-run service
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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/
City Crew
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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.
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
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.
| Parameter | IU Ride | City Crew |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.1 (20 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 20 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 63 MB | 63 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Indiana University | Tuan Anh Le |
In-app purchases
IU Ride
No in-app purchases
City Crew
No in-app purchases









