Comparison

Church Quest vs Aimless Drives

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

Head to head
About

Church Quest

Features
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Church Quest is the app for anyone who wants to explore churches! It's like a scavenger hunt, just for churches! Collect churches where you stand, using GPS – and build your own collection. See how many churches you have collected, climb the leaderboard, and discover new churches nearby. You can also create your own leagues with friends and family and compete among yourselves. See your friends' churches and photos. Pick a friend and get the list of churches they have collected – and the photos they have shared from them. You decide for yourself whether your own churches are shared. The app is perfect for: – Holidays, hikes and day trips – Family activities and outdoor life – Culture lovers who want to discover church history – Anyone who enjoys collecting and completing challenges – Those who collect stave churches, historic churches or church ruins Create a profile, get started – and see how many churches you can collect! Church Quest Plus – optional subscription Plus gives you the route planner, additional map types and deeper insight into your own church hunt. The app is free to use without a subscription. – Church Quest Plus Monthly: NOK 29 per month – Church Quest Plus Yearly: NOK 299 per year Payment is charged to your Apple ID upon confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage and cancel your subscription in your device settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://kirkejakten.no/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

Church Quest4 screens
Aimless Drives4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Aimless Drives at none against Church Quest's 3. Church Quest's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Church Quest sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Aimless Drives asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Church Quest ships an update every 5 days, Aimless Drives every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Church Quest versus Aimless Drives: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChurch QuestAimless Drives
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—3 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB1 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperMoen Advisory ASBryce Percoco

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Church Quest

One-time3
  • Unlock country$1.99
  • All European countries$7.99
  • Complete region$7.99
None

Aimless Drives

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Church Quest free?
Church Quest is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Aimless Drives free?
Aimless Drives is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Church Quest or Aimless Drives have ads?
Neither Church Quest nor Aimless Drives shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Church Quest or Aimless Drives?
Church Quest ships an update every 5 days, and Aimless Drives every 3 days. Most recently, Church Quest was updated on October 24, 2026 and Aimless Drives on October 6, 2026.

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