Wardrive Go vs dead air
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
dead air
Learn Morse code through interactive drills and a unique combat game. Master sending and copying characters with adjustable speed and pitch. Progress through lessons and unlock achievements in this offline, ad-free experience.
- Morse code drills using the Koch method
- Sending and copying skill practice
- Combat-themed game progression
- Adjustable speed (5-25 WPM) and pitch
- Endless practice mode
- 58 achievements
- In-app field manual
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dead air teaches you morse code. it goes about it the way the old typing tutors did. you drill, the drills get harder as you get better, and there is a game wrapped around them so you come back tomorrow. the method is koch, which is how morse has actually been taught since the 1930s. you start at full speed with two characters. once those stick you get two more. no charts, no counting dots, no memorizing a tree. twenty lessons, forty characters including numbers and punctuation, then a last run where all of them turn up at once. there are two skills in morse and the game grades them apart. sending is one. you tap out characters on a straight key, short for a dot and long for a dash, and the timing has to come from you. copying is the other, and it is the one that takes longer. nothing is written on screen for it. you hear a character and answer on the keypad. the game around the drills: a radio station in sector 55 is being overrun, and you clear the people coming for it by keying or copying whatever they carry. six kinds turn up. one of them speeds up when you get it wrong, one takes two correct answers, one blacks out the characters near it, and every third lesson finishes with a boss that needs five clean answers to put down. also in it: - an endless practice mode on a rolling set of characters, for when you only want reps - speed from 5 to 25 words per minute, and a pitch control for the tone - 58 achievements, one for every lesson on each of the two tracks - a field manual covering morse, the koch method, every enemy and how the lessons work, so you are not reading a wiki in another window - a key tester for finding your timing before anything is coming at you the tone is generated as it plays rather than read off a sound file, so the pitch control does what it says and the timing is what you set. no account, no network, no ads, no telemetry. your progress is three files on your own device. music by freshley crusher. digital gangster for eternity. rip to the fallen homies. momino is beautiful and amazing. written by ytcracker (KR4CKR) and clord. (c)2026 digital gangster enterprises, llc
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: dead air at none against Wardrive Go's 2. dead air also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 5 days) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). Wardrive Go's advantage is ratings volume (8 vs 1). On price, rating, review sentiment 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. Wardrive Go sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. dead air asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Wardrive Go against 5.0 for dead air. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Wardrive Go has 8 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Wardrive Go ships an update every 5 days, dead air daily. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Wardrive Go | dead air |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (8 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 92 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jeremy Yablan | digital gangster enterprises, llc |
Customer experience
Wardrive Go
dead air
In-app purchases
Wardrive Go
- WarBLE Go Pro2 variants$2.99
dead air
No in-app purchases









