Comparison

Nitro Sprint vs Impulse One

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

Head to head
About

Nitro Sprint

Experience high-speed racing with a powerful muscle car, navigating obstacles and collecting nitro boosts to dominate leaderboards. Upgrade your vehicle and customize its appearance for an enhanced driving adventure. Share your achievements with friends across social media platforms.

Highlights
  • Drive a 500 horsepower muscle car
  • Collect nitro dots for speed boosts
  • Avoid obstacles and civilian cars
  • Compete on Game Center leaderboards
  • Upgrade car performance with Nitro Coins
  • Customize car paint colors
Features
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Be the number one test driver! Enjoy your 500 horsepower muscle car on the Nitro Sprint and be the first on the integrated "Game Center" leaderboard! You can easily share your results on Facebook, Twitter or via email. - Avoid obstacles and civilian cars! - Collect nitro dots to fill your nitro! - You have autogas and a min. speed! - Use the pedal on the right for nitro! - More speed, more score points! - You have also a brake pedal! - Puddles makes you slower! - Try the sensitivity slider in the options menu if the control is difficult! - Upgrade your car using "Nitro Coins" for a better performance. - You can choose from 4 different paint colors. Beware: One crash and the trip is over! Have fun!! ******************************** Nitro Sprint is a universal app running on the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. It supports retina display on the iPhone4. The game is also compatible with older devices, but an iPhone 3GS or better is recommended for optimal performance. Please rate the game in the iTunes Store if you've enjoyed it. Feel free to send us an email, if you have opinions, ideas or questions about the game. We are listening! Email: info@catmoongames.com Please take a look at our other racing game "Playroom Racer HD". It is a cool top-down racer.

About

Impulse One

Pilot a spaceship to rescue stranded employees from a chaotic company. Navigate challenging environments with high gravity, timed conditions, and combat.

Highlights
  • Rescue stranded employees
  • Impulse-driven spaceship piloting
  • High gravity challenges
  • Timed conditions
  • Combat with incoming fire
Features
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The soda fountains are on overload. Coffee service has been suspended. A technical state of panic exists. The employees are terrified by arbitrary design decision changes. Rescue stranded employees of the PLBM Games company and return them safely to home in your impulse-driven spaceship. This game is challenging... Can you land the spaceship safely? In high gravity? Under stressful timed conditions? In combat? With real bullets coming back at you?

Screenshots

Nitro Sprint4 screens
Impulse One3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Impulse One at 100% against Nitro Sprint's 51%. Impulse One also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.0) and in-app purchases (none vs 3). Nitro Sprint's advantage is update cadence (every 11 days vs every 11 months) and ratings volume (1.6K vs 2). On price, ads 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. Nitro Sprint sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Impulse One asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Impulse One holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Nitro Sprint has 1.6K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 51% of Nitro Sprint's written reviews are positive against 100% of Impulse One's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Nitro Sprint ships an update every 11 days, Impulse One every 11 months. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Nitro Sprint versus Impulse One: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNitro SprintImpulse One
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (1.6K ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews51.2% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1.6K — better2
Update frequencyEvery 11 days — betterEvery 11 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS3.1.2 — better9.0
Further details — not scored
Size17 MB301 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperIntuitive ComputersKurt Dekker

Customer experience

Nitro Sprint

All ratings1,600 ratings
Positive67.9%
Neutral13.1%
Negative18.9%
Written reviews43 reviews
Positive51.2%
Neutral9.3%
Negative39.5%

Impulse One

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Nitro Sprint

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Game crashes on launch
  • Nitro feature is broken

Requested features

4 requests
  • More cars
  • Add a speedometer
  • Give more lives per run
  • Increase coin payout

Impulse One

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Nitro Sprint

One-time3
  • 2000 coins$0.99
  • 5000 coins$1.99
  • 9000 coins$2.99
None

Impulse One

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Nitro Sprint free?
Nitro Sprint is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Impulse One free?
Impulse One is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Nitro Sprint or Impulse One?
Impulse One is rated higher. Nitro Sprint averages 4.0 out of 5 from 1.6K ratings, while Impulse One averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Nitro Sprint or Impulse One have ads?
Neither Nitro Sprint nor Impulse One shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Nitro Sprint or Impulse One?
Nitro Sprint ships an update every 11 days, and Impulse One every 11 months. Most recently, Nitro Sprint was updated on October 12, 2026 and Impulse One on October 7, 2026.

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