Comparison

Finding Lights vs Aimless Drives

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

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About

Finding Lights

Discover holiday and Christmas light displays with an interactive map. Find community-submitted locations, plan routes, and engage in fun seasonal activities like collecting virtual items and completing scavenger hunts.

Highlights
  • Interactive holiday lights map
  • Community-submitted displays
  • Route planning
  • Collectible Lumelings
  • Earnable Lumanites
  • Seasonal scavenger hunts
Features
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FindingLights – Discover Holiday & Christmas Light Displays Near You FindingLights helps you discover the best Christmas lights and holiday light displays near you. Explore an interactive holiday lights map, find community-submitted displays, and plan the perfect route for a magical night out with family and friends. As you explore, you can collect playful Lumelings, earn glowing Lumanites, and complete seasonal scavenger hunts that turn every holiday outing into an adventure. Whether you're searching for Christmas lights near you, neighborhood displays, or hidden holiday gems, FindingLights makes it easy—and fun—to discover them. FEATURES Holiday Lights Map Browse Christmas lights and holiday displays near you on an interactive map. Community Displays Discover light displays shared by people in your community and upload your own for others to enjoy. Lumelings Collect magical Lumelings that appear at displays during seasonal events. Lumanites Earn glowing Lumanites as you explore displays, complete hunts, and participate in events. Scavenger Hunts Join holiday scavenger hunts and themed events that add an extra layer of fun to your light-viewing adventure. Route Planning Plan efficient routes to visit multiple Christmas light displays in one trip. Trending Displays See which holiday light displays are trending near you and across the country. Premium Features Upgrade to FindingLights Premium for exclusive scavenger hunts, extra rewards, family accounts, and early access to new features. Perfect for families, date nights, holiday traditions, and Christmas light road trips. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policty: https://findinglights.com/privacy/

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Finding Lights4 screens
Aimless Drives4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Aimless Drives at none against Finding Lights's 1. Finding Lights's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Finding Lights sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $2.99 per month. Aimless Drives asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Finding Lights against 5.0 for Aimless Drives. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 3 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Finding Lights versus Aimless Drives: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFinding LightsAimless Drives
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings23 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 daysEvery 3 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.6 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size101 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRyan MitchellBryce Percoco

Customer experience

Finding Lights

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Aimless Drives

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Finding Lights

Subscriptions1
  • Finding Lights Premium$2.991 Month
None

Aimless Drives

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Finding Lights free?
Finding Lights is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Aimless Drives free?
Aimless Drives is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Finding Lights or Aimless Drives?
Finding Lights and Aimless Drives are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 3 ratings respectively.
Do Finding Lights or Aimless Drives have ads?
Neither Finding Lights nor Aimless Drives shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Finding Lights or Aimless Drives?
Finding Lights ships an update every 3 days, and Aimless Drives every 3 days. Most recently, Finding Lights was updated on October 30, 2026 and Aimless Drives on October 31, 2026.

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