Comparison

ParkPulse vs Great Circle Map

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

Head to head
About

ParkPulse

Features
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ParkPulse remembers where you parked, so you can get on with your day. SAVE YOUR SPOT Save your location, a photo, level, row, garage column, space, and notes in seconds. Your essential parking details stay on your device and remain available offline. STAY AHEAD OF THE CLOCK Choose a 15, 30, 60, or 120 minute timer, or create your own. Get reminders 15, 10, and 5 minutes before expiry, plus one when time runs out. Prefer no limit? ParkPulse tracks elapsed parking time until you return. FIND YOUR WAY BACK See the distance to your car, get walking directions, and optionally receive a reminder when you return close to your saved spot. BUILT FOR TRAVEL AND GARAGES Use your preferred currency, reference price estimates, local restriction notes, and on-device OCR to record a garage floor, column, or space. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No ads. No trackers. You control permissions and can delete your parking history in Settings. Parking rates and rules are reference information only. Always follow posted signs, tickets, and official operator instructions.

About

Great Circle Map

Features
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A globe you can turn in any direction, including straight over the poles. Great circle routes cross the poles, so we built a globe that follows them there. Enter two airports and the shortest path between them is drawn on the Earth itself, with distance and bearing on every leg. A Globe With No Pole Clamp Most map apps clamp the view at the poles. North stays up, and the globe stops turning right where great circle routes go. Great Circle Map uses a quaternion arcball instead. Drag in any direction and the globe follows, straight over the North or South Pole. Drag along the outer edge and the view rolls, so any direction can face upward. Find Any Airport β€’ Search the full OurAirports database by IATA code, ICAO code, or city name. β€’ Enter two airports and the great circle between them is drawn with its distance. β€’ Recent routes save automatically and recreate with one tap. Waypoints and Weather β€’ Double-tap anywhere on the globe to drop a waypoint. Double-tap it again to delete it. β€’ Add as many waypoints as you want. There is no limit. β€’ Every waypoint shows current conditions, temperature, and wind direction and speed in knots, from Open-Meteo. Distance on Every Leg β€’ Each leg carries a sliding distance label and its initial bearing. β€’ A running total stays pinned at the top of the screen. β€’ Units switch between kilometers, nautical miles, and statute miles. Choose Your Earth β€’ NASA Blue Marble satellite imagery or Natural Earth relief. β€’ Toggle borders, airports, labels, and the grid. β€’ View the globe in perspective or orthographic projection. Share the Route β€’ Create Map exports your route as a flat map projection image. β€’ The map unrolls across the antimeridian, so polar routes render cleanly. Privacy There are no analytics and no tracking. Weather requests send only waypoint coordinates to Open-Meteo. The privacy policy is at https://greatcirclemap.app/privacy-policy-great-circle-map Learn More The guide at https://greatcirclemap.app/guide.html walks through every feature.

Screenshots

ParkPulse4 screens
Great Circle Map4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: ParkPulse at Free against Great Circle Map's $0.99. Great Circle Map's advantage is device support (4 vs 2) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 26.0). On ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

ParkPulse is free to download; Great Circle Map costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard3 real differences Β· 3 level
ParkPulse versus Great Circle Map: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterParkPulseGreat Circle Map
PriceFree β€” better$0.99
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsβ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac β€” better
Requires iOS26.015.6 β€” better
Further details β€” not scored
Size4 MB17 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerjosuar ochoaThe NFC Mint LLC

In-app purchases

None

ParkPulse

No in-app purchases

None

Great Circle Map

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ParkPulse free?
ParkPulse is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Great Circle Map free?
Great Circle Map costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do ParkPulse or Great Circle Map have ads?
Neither ParkPulse nor Great Circle Map shows ads.

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