DriveitHOME vs Defensive
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
DriveitHOME
This free app provides resources for parents of new teen drivers. It includes a driving agreement, practice lesson ideas, and instructional videos to support supervised driving sessions.
- Parent-teen driving agreement
- Weekly practice lesson ideas
- Instructional videos
- Resources for new teen drivers
- Free to download
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The National Safety Council is pleased to offer our new DriveitHOME app for parents of new teen drivers. When your child is learning to drive, we encourage you to download this free phone app and keep it with you during practice sessions behind the wheel. The resource offers a parent-teen driving agreement, ideas for weekly practice lessons, instructional videos and more.
Defensive
Manage your driving school schedule with this official mobile application. View upcoming lessons and book your next behind-the-wheel, observation, or classroom sessions.
- View upcoming lessons
- Schedule behind-the-wheel sessions
- Schedule observation sessions
- Schedule classroom sessions
- Official driving school app
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Official Defensive Driving School mobile app. View upcoming lessons and schedule your next behind the wheel, observation or classroom session.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Defensive at 2.0 against DriveitHOME's 1.2. Defensive also leads on review sentiment (33% vs 0%). DriveitHOME's advantage is update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 6 months). On price, ratings volume, 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.
Defensive holds the better App Store score, 2.0 against 1.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 9 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of DriveitHOME's written reviews are positive against 33% of Defensive's.
DriveitHOME ships an update every 4 weeks, Defensive every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | DriveitHOME | Defensive |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.2 (6 ratings) | 2.0 (9 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 33.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 6 | 9 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks — better | Every 6 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 56 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | National Safety Council | GoRoadie Limited |
Customer experience
DriveitHOME
Defensive
In-app purchases
DriveitHOME
No in-app purchases
Defensive
No in-app purchases
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