Comparison

Grid Pulse vs Podium

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

Head to head
About

Grid Pulse

Features
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Grid Pulse is an independent companion for fans of racing. It pulls together everything you want during a race weekend — and everything you want to look back on between them — into a single, focused app. — RACE WEEKEND, EVERY SESSION — Open any event and pull up the full weekend at a glance • Free Practice schedules • Qualifying results • Sprint Qualifying and Sprint race results • Race classifications, including status (finished, lapped, retired, DNF) • A standings snapshot taken right after the chequered flag, so you can revisit how the championship looked at any point in the season — THE GRID PULSE FEED — The race weekend conversation, powered by Bluesky. Read what fans and the paddock are saying as it happens. Link a Bluesky account — optional, and only if you want to post, reply, like and repost without leaving the app. Sign-in happens on Bluesky's own page, so Grid Pulse never sees your password. These posts are public content from the Bluesky network, written by other people rather than by Grid Pulse. There is zero tolerance for objectionable content or abusive behaviour, so the feed ships with moderation built in: • Report, hide, mute or block from a menu on every post and comment • Reporting an account silences it in Grid Pulse straight away • Posts labelled adult or graphic are filtered out automatically • Blocked and muted accounts stay hidden, even offline • A moderation list in your profile shows everyone you've blocked or muted, with one tap to undo — DRIVERS & CONSTRUCTORS — Browse driver and constructor cards for the current season, with quick access to championship positions and points. — THE PASSPORT — Grid Pulse's passport is a personal scrapbook of your fan history. Stamp the Grand Prix you've watched or attended in person and they appear, organised by season, as a record of where your fandom has been. Add notes and let the in-app AI summary help recap the weekend in your own collection. — GRAND PRIX MAP — See every race weekend pinned on a world map, so you can plan a trip — or just relive the calendar. — RACE REMINDERS — Set reminders for the sessions you care about, from Free Practice 1 through the race, including Sprint Qualifying and Sprint Shootout where applicable. — YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS — Your stamped Grand Prix, pinned circuits, scrapbook photos and profile picture stay on your device and sync only through your own private iCloud. You can delete your account, and the data stored with it, from inside the app at any time. — BUILT FOR FANS, BY A FAN — Grid Pulse is independent. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by any league, team, driver, or sanctioning body. Open-wheel racing data is provided via the Ergast and Jolpica community APIs; live timing is not included.

About

Podium

Features
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The race weekend, right on your Home Screen. Podium shows when the next race starts, who won the last one and how the championship is going. Every session time is converted to your time zone, so there is no mental arithmetic with European clocks. HOME SCREEN WIDGETS · Next race with a countdown · Your driver: position and points · Your team: its standing and both drivers · Weekend schedule: every session from first practice to the race · Results of the latest race · Drivers' and constructors' standings 17 themes: clean dark, carbon, chequered flag, circuit, tyres, midnight, sunset and more. Set one theme for every widget, or a different one per widget. TITLE FIGHT Works out who can still mathematically win the championship, how many points are left in play and what the leader needs to settle it early. Plus head-to-head duels: who beat whom in races and qualifying, poles, podiums, retirements, average finish. HISTORY SINCE 1950 Any season in full: the calendar, every race podium, the champion of the year and the standings as they were at any race. Loaded once, then kept on device. REMINDERS Separate switches for the race, qualifying, sprint and practice. You choose the lead time: an hour, half an hour, 15 minutes, or right at the start. They work offline because your phone schedules them itself. THREE LANGUAGES English, Russian and Uzbek. Switches instantly, no restart, and the widgets follow. Terms: https://fayzikhanovsystems.uz/podium/terms Privacy: https://fayzikhanovsystems.uz/podium/privacy No personal data collected, no ads, no tracking. Podium is an independent app. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by any racing series, team or event organiser.

Screenshots

Grid Pulse4 screens
Podium4 screens

Verdict

The call

Grid Pulse and Podium are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Grid Pulse versus Podium: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGrid PulsePodium
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB5 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperArman HusicNozir Tukhtamurodov

In-app purchases

None

Grid Pulse

No in-app purchases

None

Podium

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Grid Pulse free?
Grid Pulse is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Podium free?
Podium is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Grid Pulse or Podium have ads?
Neither Grid Pulse nor Podium shows ads.

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