Comparison

CarDex vs DriveBunch

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

Head to head
About

CarDex

Identify cars by taking photos to add them to your virtual garage. Discover rare vehicles to earn more points and unlock badges. Turn your scanned cars into collectible stickers with artistic enhancements.

Highlights
  • Automatic car identification via photo
  • Virtual garage collection
  • Rarity-based scoring system
  • Unlockable badges and brand progression
  • Discover and catalog rare cars
  • Create collectible car stickers
  • Daily login bonuses and weekly missions
Features
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Every car you pass in the street is a card to collect. Take a photo of a car, CarDex identifies it, and it joins your garage. A city car pays little. A supercar pays big. A car nobody had found yet pays more still. HOW IT WORKS Point your camera at a car and shoot. CarDex recognises the make, the model, the generation and the year, then scores it by how rare that model is. The rarity shows on the card itself: a quiet frame for an everyday car, gold for a legendary one. LEAGUES A week-long competition among everyone who joined: the most different models wins. Every scan is judged on the spot β€” one more model, a duplicate, or the wrong make β€” and three scans count a day. The top three leave with gold, silver or bronze: badges to wear on your profile. THE LEADERBOARD A real place among every collector, computed from your XP, and a leaderboard among friends. When a car earns you places, you see it right after the reveal. WHAT YOU COLLECT 25 brands and 125 cars in the catalogue. Every brand has its own progress: complete Ferrari, complete Porsche, and watch your garage fill up. Badges unlock on their own from what you own, and each one explains itself with a tap. CARS OFF THE LIST Came across a Pagani? It is not in the catalogue, and it still gets rated: a card is created for it, and it is worth the same to everyone who finds it after you. Your discovery makes the game bigger for every player. YOUR CARDS, YOUR WAY Keep the whole photograph, or cut the car out as a sticker (on supported iPhones). Enhance goes further and puts your car somewhere else: a studio, a sunset, a garage. Your first scene is free. Your original photo is never overwritten, and you can switch back whenever you like. SHARE WHAT YOU FIND Publish a car to the CarDex feed, one car at a time and only when you choose. Follow other collectors, react to their finds, and pin your three favourite cars to your profile. Turn any car into a story card for Instagram, with the city where you spotted it and never the address. THE MAP If you allow location, every car you scan is pinned where you found it. The position is rounded to about a hundred metres before it is stored, and it never appears in the feed. COME BACK EVERY DAY Every day you add a car lights your flame. Three days running and every car earns 20% more XP; thirty days and it is double. And every week brings a mission, the same one for everyone: "3 different Audis", seven days, and a badge at the end. CARDEX PLUS AND CARDEX PRO The free version includes 10 scans, then one free scan a day. A scan that identifies no car is never counted. - CarDex Plus: unlimited scans. - CarDex Pro: unlimited scans, plus Enhance, up to 30 a month. Both are available weekly or yearly, as auto-renewing subscriptions. Prices are shown in the app before you buy. SUBSCRIPTION TERMS Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase. A subscription renews automatically at the same price unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; your account is charged within the 24 hours before renewal. You can manage and cancel your subscription in your Apple Account settings after purchase. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ CarDex Terms: https://playful-text-ba5.notion.site/Conditions-d-utilisation-CarDex-3b1b30ab77048020aa36c37e0107cf7e Privacy Policy: https://playful-text-ba5.notion.site/Politique-de-confidentialit-CarDex-3b1b30ab770480a1bd2ccc8be82d98a2 NO ACCOUNT NEEDED CarDex works without an account: your garage stays on your phone. With one, it is backed up and follows you from one device to the next. No ads. No ad tracking. Ever. --- Identification relies on an artificial intelligence model: it makes mistakes, especially between close generations. The specifications shown are indicative only and carry no expert value.

About

DriveBunch

Features
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DriveBunch is where you keep every car you've ever driven. Add a car, rate it out of ten, and write down what it was like. Your garage becomes a record of everything you've been behind the wheel of, from the everyday to the once-in-a-lifetime. β€’ Log any car from a growing database of manufacturers, models, generations and trims, or add one that isn't there yet. β€’ Rate each drive and write a note. β€’ Add photos to remember the ones that mattered. β€’ Keep a Dream Garage of cars you still want to drive, and move them across once you have. β€’ Join communities of drivers: see each other's garages, follow new drives and react to them. β€’ Sign in with Apple, Google or email. Your garage stays private until you join a community. Members of that community see your driven cars, ratings, photos and notes. Your Dream Garage and your email are never shown. There are no ads, and you can delete your account and everything in it at any time.

Screenshots

CarDex3 screens
DriveBunch4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: DriveBunch at none against CarDex's 6. CarDex's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs fortnightly). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

Both are free to download. CarDex sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. DriveBunch asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

CarDex ships an update every 4 days, DriveBunch fortnightly. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences Β· 6 level
CarDex versus DriveBunch: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCarDexDriveBunch
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews50.0% of reviewsβ€”
Update frequencyEvery 4 days β€” betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo β€” better
MonetizationFreemiumβ€”
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod β€” better
Requires iOS16.415.0 β€” better
Further details β€” not scored
Size75 MB8 MB
Age rating+44+
DeveloperKevin StacchettiDiogo Soares

In-app purchases

6 purchases

CarDex

Subscriptions5
  • CarDex Pro Mensuel$3.991 Month
  • CarDex Plus Hebdo$3.997 Days
  • CarDex Pro Hebdo$4.997 Days
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  • CarDex Plus Annuel$19.991 Year
  • CarDex Pro Annuel$49.991 Year
One-time1
  • CarDex Pro Γ  vie$59.99
None

DriveBunch

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is CarDex free?
CarDex is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is DriveBunch free?
DriveBunch is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do CarDex or DriveBunch have ads?
Neither CarDex nor DriveBunch shows ads.
Which is updated more often, CarDex or DriveBunch?
CarDex ships an update every 4 days, and DriveBunch fortnightly. Most recently, CarDex was updated on October 31, 2026 and DriveBunch on October 31, 2026.

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