Formula Nova vs PulpMX 2.0
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Formula Nova
Experience thrilling arcade-style racing with this free top-view game. Customize your car, compete on leaderboards, and unlock achievements. Additional track and car packages are available for purchase.
- Top-view arcade racing
- Car customization (color)
- Multiple control options
- Leaderboards and achievements
- Car durability and repair system
- Realistic car visuals and explosions
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Gamers seeking the excitement, thrill and challenge for race arcade games can now download free Formula Nova for iPod and iPhone, featuring retina display for iPhone 4. Formula Nova is a free iPhone/iPod unic top view racing game, including 2 tracks and 2 different cars, the game also bundles in app purchase for "Package 1" featuring 5 tracks and 5 faster cars with different physic setups, new track packages to be available soon. The game has a leader-board for each track, you can beat your time or your friends from OpenFeint scoreboard. You also have 16 achievements to unlock! Races have turbo points and fix points. Each car features durability, that is the amount of hits a car can have before its engine blows, once your car has been crashed, you will need to run over a fix point to fix it, you still be able to get the turbo, but it will have less effect. Formula Nova brings back the arcade racing style gaming. You can customize your car color and the game control from 3 ways: - tap button to turn - drag steering wheel - accelerometer Featuring realistic cars and awesome explosion effects. Enjoy the game! If you like the game get the Package 1 to unlock faster cars and new tracks.
PulpMX 2.0
Access exclusive content from PulpMX.com, including show archives, editorials, and technical information. Enjoy a vastly improved media player with offline download capabilities and a live show schedule.
- Global search functionality
- Improved media player
- Offline archive downloads
- Save favorite content
- Live show schedule
- Optimized website content
- Sound drops library
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The official PulpMX app, rebuilt from the ground up as a native iOS app for better speed and feel everywhere. Full archives for every PulpMX show, stream or download for offline. Live show schedules with countdowns and alerts when shows go live. New episode notifications, customizable per show. Auto-download new episodes the moment they release. CarPlay support: Listen Now, Shows, Live, and Downloads on your dash. Make your own clips from any episode and share them. Save favorites. See your listening stats. Browse the PulpMX.com Stories archive without leaving the app. Play and share your favorite drops, including as auto-generated videos sent straight to iMessage, Instagram, X, TikTok, or anywhere else from the share sheet. PulpMX+ members get app-exclusive podcasts, partner discount codes via flash sales, and fine-grained alerts/auto-download controls for The Steve Matthes Show subshows. Plus the in-app World Vets game (high scores, leaderboard, and a few hidden moto heads to unlock) and a shortcut to PulpMX Fantasy. Stuff to mess with when you're not listening. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: PulpMX 2.0 at 4.1 against Formula Nova's 3.4. PulpMX 2.0 also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 5 months). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume 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
Both are free to download. Formula Nova sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and PulpMX 2.0 sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
PulpMX 2.0 holds the better App Store score, 4.1 against 3.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 21 and 41 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 67% and 67% positive.
Formula Nova ships an update every 5 months, PulpMX 2.0 every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Formula Nova | PulpMX 2.0 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.4 (21 ratings) | 4.1 (41 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 21 | 41 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 67 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Gil Beyruth | Steve Matthes |
Customer experience
Formula Nova
PulpMX 2.0
Bugs and requests
Formula Nova
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
PulpMX 2.0
Reported bugs
26 issues- Stays frozen on “checking for updates”
- Never actually finds the updates
- App just sits on the title page and never actually loads or opens to any content
- Paid for the app and it’s never opened..... just stuck on the pulp Mx screen
- Won’t load anything
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- After a few seconds it will shut off, an go back to my home screen
- App not working
- It just will not load anything
- It is the one thing thats constant. It never works right. Probably never will.
- The new app has been nothing but issue after issue
- Deleting and reinstalling isn't even working
- App cuts out on live shows
- Archives are all screwed up and won't play either
- App cuts out while listening live
- I have to delete the app and reinstall to change between shows
- Nothing plays on app
- Uninstalled and reinstalled and now just goes to a white screen
- If I have to delete this app and load it over and over again is getting old
- Can't play the next show unless you clear all content thru the help page and then sometimes that doesn't work and you have to delete the app and reinstall
- The update makes it completely not work
- After the last update now nothing plays
- App crashes when I try to play an archive
- Keeps crashing while trying to listen to bonus pod
- Unable to use the play/pause controls on the lock screen or swipe up controls
- Press pause, it keeps playing and visa versa
- When I would hit play again, it would crash
Requested features
3 requests- New app coming Friday (for the last 3 years)
- Fix your app
- Go back to the old app
In-app purchases
Formula Nova
- FormulaNova track package 1$2.99
PulpMX 2.0
- PulpMX+$2.991 Month
Questions
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