Hidden Newcastle vs Dérive app
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hidden Newcastle
Discover the hidden history of Newcastle with this app. Explore intriguing tales and macabre stories from over 800 years of the city's past, brought to you by local archives and museums.
- Uncovers remarkable, tragic, and macabre stories
- Explores intriguing tales of the city and its people
- Features over 800 years of history
- Produced by Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums
- Developed with Newcastle Libraries
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Hidden Newcastle is a free app uncovering the remarkable, tragic and macabre stories from Newcastle’s hidden past. Explore intriguing tales all about the city and its people, unearthed from over 800 years of Newcastle upon Tyne’s history. This app has been produced by Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums and NE1 Ltd with Newcastle Libraries.
Dérive app
Explore urban spaces in a spontaneous and engaging way. This app merges Situationist ideals with digital tools to encourage unplanned discovery and break daily routines. It aims to open up new urban experiences by introducing external suggestions into your city explorations.
- Spontaneous urban exploration
- Unplanned discovery
- Digital tool for city exploration
- Breaks daily routines
- Introduces external suggestions
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Dérive app is created as a simple but engaging platform that allows users to explore their urban spaces in a care-free and casual way. It takes the ideals of the Situationists and merges it with digital means in order to create a tool that allows for the exploration of urban space in a random unplanned way, as a game. Too often in urban centers we are controlled by our day to day activities thus closing off urban experiences that exist around us. Dérive app was created to try to nudge those people who are in this repetitive cycle to allow the suggestions and subjectivities of others to enter into their urban existences.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Dérive app at 94% against Hidden Newcastle's 59%. Hidden Newcastle's advantage is iOS requirement (8.0 vs 11.0). On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Hidden Newcastle ships an update every 3 weeks, Dérive app every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Hidden Newcastle | Dérive app |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 3.8 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 58.8% of reviews | 94.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 11.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Fluid Pixel Limited | Babak Fakhamzadeh |
Customer experience
Hidden Newcastle
Dérive app
In-app purchases
Hidden Newcastle
No in-app purchases
Dérive app
No in-app purchases
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