Urbex vs Aimless Drives
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Urbex
Discover and explore abandoned, hidden, and unusual locations worldwide. Plan visits with integrated maps and navigation, browse detailed information, and contribute to a community of urban explorers and photographers. Access exclusive content and immersive videos.
- Discover abandoned locations
- Integrated maps and navigation
- Detailed location information
- Community contributions
- Short-form video content
- Save favorite spots
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Explore abandoned, hidden, and unusual places around the world with our app designed for urban explorers, travelers, photographers, and adventure enthusiasts. Discover unique locations, browse detailed information about abandoned sites, and plan visits using integrated maps and navigation tools. The app features a large collection of places organized by country, region, and category, making it easy to explore forgotten destinations and interesting landmarks. Stay informed about location updates, save favorite spots, and contribute to the community by adding new places, editing information, or updating statuses such as abandoned, restricted, restored, or demolished. The app also includes immersive short-form video content that showcases real exploration footage, atmospheric locations, and unique urban discoveries from around the world. Free Version Includes: - Add up to 2 locations - Limited access to detailed place information - Limited edits for existing locations - Basic browsing and map features Premium Features: - Unlimited location additions - Full access to detailed location content - Advanced search and filtering tools - Unlimited edits and community updates - Access to exclusive videos and additional content Whether you enjoy urban exploration, travel photography, history, or discovering unusual destinations, our app offers a convenient and engaging way to explore hidden places worldwide. Subscriptions & In-App Purchases: Weekly — $4.99 Monthly — $12.99 Yearly — $39.99 Lifetime Access — $59.99 Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current billing period. You can manage or cancel your subscription anytime through your device settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://sites.google.com/view/urbexcore/privacy-policy?authuser=1
Aimless Drives
Generates three unique driving routes that start and end at your current location, avoiding highways. Select your desired drive time and open the route in Google Maps for turn-by-turn navigation.
- Generates three unique driving loops
- Customizable drive times (60, 90, 120 minutes)
- Avoids highways, favors back roads
- Shows route distance and drive time
- Integrates with Google Maps for navigation
- No account, sign-up, ads, or tracking
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Aimless makes driving loops that start and end exactly where you are. Pick how long you want to be out — 30, 60, 90, or 120 minutes — and Aimless hands you three routes that wander out and come back without retracing themselves. Tap one and it opens in Google Maps, ready to drive. It exists because aimless drives have a flaw. You head out with no destination, you get too far from home, and the drive back becomes dead time retracing roads you just covered. A loop fixes that. The whole drive is the good part. WHAT IT DOES • Generates three loops starting from your current location • Shows each on a map with real distance, drive time, and highway percentage • Hands off to Google Maps for turn-by-turn navigation • Favors back roads — loops with significant highway are filtered out BUILT FOR BACK ROADS Aimless deliberately avoids highways. Every candidate route is checked for motorway content and anything with a meaningful share is discarded, because a highway loop is not a drive worth taking. The times are honest, too. Aimless routes each loop through the exact waypoints it hands to Google, so the duration you see is the duration you drive — not an optimistic estimate of a route you were never going to take. WHAT IT DOESN'T DO No account. No sign-up. No history, no sync, no ads, no tracking. It doesn't store anything, including where you have been. Open it, tap once, drive. Aimless needs a location fix to know where your loop should start, and it needs Google Maps for navigation. That's the whole dependency list. Good for a Sunday morning, a passenger worth talking to, and no particular place to be.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Aimless Drives at 5.0 against Urbex's 3.0. Aimless Drives also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 4) and update cadence (every 3 days vs every 4 months). Urbex's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price, ratings volume and ads 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. Urbex sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Aimless Drives asks for nothing beyond the download.
Aimless Drives holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 3 respectively.
Urbex ships an update every 4 months, Aimless Drives every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Urbex | Aimless Drives |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 129 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Heather Christenson | Bryce Percoco |
Customer experience
Urbex
Aimless Drives
In-app purchases
Urbex
- Weekly$4.997 Days
- Weekly-Trial3 Days trial$4.997 Days
- Monthly$12.991 Month
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- Yearly$39.991 Year
Aimless Drives
No in-app purchases







