Pulse Planet vs Aimless Drives
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pulse Planet
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Events Collection Maps is a modern, map-focused event discovery app designed to help you explore what’s happening around you with clarity and ease. Instead of browsing endless lists, experience events directly on an interactive map and quickly find concerts, festivals, live music, and more based on location and time. Browse events visually, filter by category, and view detailed information including venue, schedule, ticket pricing, and availability. Every screen is built around map interaction, making it simple to plan where to go next without confusion.
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 ads: Aimless Drives at none against Pulse Planet's shown. Aimless Drives also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 6 days). Pulse Planet's advantage is chart position (#201 vs unranked) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, in-app purchases and device support 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.
Pulse Planet ships an update every 6 days, Aimless Drives every 3 days. Both last shipped on October 6, 2026.
| Parameter | Pulse Planet | Aimless Drives |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Best chart rank | #201 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Manojkumar P K | Bryce Percoco |
In-app purchases
Pulse Planet
No in-app purchases
Aimless Drives
No in-app purchases
Questions
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