Comparison

Wardrive Go vs Sim Checklists

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

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About

Wardrive Go

This app transforms the invisible Bluetooth signals around you into a game. It maps nearby devices on a live radar, allowing you to log and track them as you move. Compete on leaderboards and unlock achievements as you discover more Bluetooth signals.

Highlights
  • Live Bluetooth radar mapping
  • Color-coded device identification
  • Detailed device signal readout
  • Log and sort discovered devices
  • Game Center leaderboards
  • Achievements system
  • Export logged data
Features
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Wardrive Go turns the invisible wireless world around you into a game. Every phone, watch, earbud, beacon, and gadget nearby is quietly broadcasting Bluetooth Low Energy signals. Wardrive Go listens for them and plots each one on a live sonar radar -- the closer a device, the closer it sits to the center. The more you move through the world, the more signals you log. It's wardriving, reimagined as a pick-up-and-play hunt. Walk a busy street, ride the train, wander a venue, and watch the radar fill up. THE HUNT - A live radar sweep that maps every BLE device around you in real time - Color-coded contacts: Apple gear, named devices, and unknowns - Tap any blip for a full readout: signal strength, proximity, TX power, raw service UUIDs, how many times you've seen it, and more - Sort your catch by signal, recency, frequency, or name; filter ALL / WI-FI / BLE - A live trip banner: new networks, in range, pace, distance, open networks, speed ADD WI-FI WITH iosESP BOARDS - Link an inexpensive ESP32 board running the free iosESP firmware (rocketgod.dev/iosESP) and Wardrive Go connects to it automatically, no pairing - Run several boards at once: they split the Wi-Fi channels between them, and boards with 5 GHz cover 5 GHz - Turn one board into a Bluetooth scanner: it sees the real device addresses iOS keeps from apps, so those devices count when you upload - Update a board's firmware over Bluetooth with one tap - Wi-Fi access points stream into the same list as Bluetooth, clearly marked, with band, channel and security - Every run is logged as one WiGLE-compatible file with real GPS coordinates - A built-in console shows exactly what your boards are doing UPLOAD AND CLIMB THE BOARDS - Add your WiGLE, WDGWars and/or Wardrift API key -- one tap uploads your run to every service you set up, and nothing is sent until you tap - WiGLE and WDGWars leaderboards and your upload history, right in the app - Game Center leaderboards for Lifetime Contacts and your Best Single Run, with achievements from your First Contact all the way to ten million KNOW WHAT'S AROUND YOU - Trackers (AirTag / Find My, Tile, SmartTag, Chipolo), cameras, body cams, drones, smart glasses, hidden-camera setup networks and other notable devices are named on sight, called out with a banner, and collected in their own list - Perfect for checking a rental, a parking lot, or your own gear THE FIELD REPORT - The full breakdown of everything you've ever logged, free for everyone - Drill into any category by maker, then tap any device for its complete detail - Export your current run to CSV, free 17 THEMES, ALL FREE Teal, Amber, Sonar Blue, Crimson, Toxic, Plasma, WiGLE, WDGWars, The Pirates' Plunder, WiGhoul, BBS, Pro, Pwnagotchi, DOOM, Pac-Man, Slate and Clarity. WARDRIVE GO PRO Everything above is free. A single unlock (no subscription) adds one thing: - Export your full history to CSV -- every device you've ever logged, with maker, type, best signal, services, and first and last seen It also funds a solo developer building this for the love of it. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Everything Wardrive Go hears is read and stored on your own device. Your numeric leaderboard score goes to Game Center; nothing else leaves your phone unless you add an API key and tap UPLOAD -- then only the run you chose goes to the services you picked. The phone's own radar sees only the randomized Bluetooth IDs iOS provides, so nothing there points to a person. Wardrive Go only reads the public advertisements devices already broadcast; the only things it ever connects to are your own iosESP boards. Note: "contacts" are signals logged, not unique devices -- phones rotate their Bluetooth ID for privacy, so the same one is often counted more than once. It's a measure of how much you hunt, not a census. Requires Bluetooth. Location is used to tag your log with coordinates. Grab your phone and go hunting.

About

Sim Checklists

Features
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Flight Sim Checklists keeps the cockpit flow in your hand while you fly on the sim. Pick your aircraft, work the checklist challenge-and-response style, and tap each line as it's called — no scrolling a PDF on a second monitor, no losing your place halfway down the approach. Built for desktop simmers who fly with a phone or tablet propped up next to the yoke. AIRCRAFT INCLUDED • Airbus A320 / A330 — 11 sections, Cockpit Preparation through Securing the Aircraft • Airbus A300 — 9 sections, Before Start through Securing Aircraft • Boeing 737 NG — 10 sections, Preflight through Secure 158 items in total, written in the ACTION → RESPONSE layout used on the flight deck, so what you read matches what you'd hear. RUN A CHECKLIST • Tap any line to check it off — it dims so your eye lands on what's left • Mark a whole section complete in one tap, or unmark it to run it again • Move between sections with buttons labelled with the actual next and previous section names • Haptic feedback on every check, with a distinct confirmation when a section completes SEE WHERE YOU ARE • A progress ring on each aircraft card shows how far through the flight you are • The section menu colour-codes every section: not started, in progress, or complete • Reopen an aircraft and it drops you straight back at the first section you haven't finished • Aircraft with a flight in progress sort to the top of the home screen • Reset a single section or the whole aircraft whenever you want a clean start • Progress clears itself after a day of inactivity, so the next flight never starts half-checked BUILT FOR iPHONE AND iPAD • iPad runs a two-column layout — section list on the left, live checklist on the right • iPhone keeps the checklist full-screen with the section list one tap away • Portrait and landscape, so it works flat on the desk or clipped to a stand • Dark mode, Dynamic Type, and full VoiceOver labelling on every item NO STRINGS • Works completely offline — every checklist ships inside the app • No account, no sign-in, no subscription • No ads, no analytics, no tracking, nothing collected about you For flight simulation and training-familiarisation use only. Not for use in real-world aviation. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Airbus, Boeing, Microsoft, or any aircraft manufacturer or simulator publisher. Always fly the real aircraft by its official, current documentation.

Screenshots

Wardrive Go4 screens
Sim Checklists3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Sim Checklists at none against Wardrive Go's 2. Wardrive Go's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Wardrive Go sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Sim Checklists asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Wardrive Go versus Sim Checklists: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWardrive GoSim Checklists
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (8 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings8 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJeremy YablanLeon Nwankwo

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Wardrive Go

One-time1
  • WarBLE Go Pro2 variants$2.99
None

Sim Checklists

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Wardrive Go free?
Wardrive Go is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Sim Checklists free?
Sim Checklists is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Wardrive Go or Sim Checklists have ads?
Neither Wardrive Go nor Sim Checklists shows ads.

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