UL vs Nova Circle
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
UL
Easily search for bus and train trips, view travel options with walking distances, and track your bus in real-time. Purchase tickets for various durations using multiple payment methods. Stay informed about traffic disruptions and delays.
- Quick trip search
- Real-time bus tracking
- Ticket purchase
- Multiple payment options
- Traffic disruption alerts
- Save favorite trips
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In the UL app, you can search for your trip quickly and easily and buy tickets for our buses and trains. Search travel: • Quickly search for your trip from your current position or by choosing where and when you want to travel. • The search results show various travel options and possible walking distances to the stops as well as a map that makes it easier to find the right one. • Save your most frequent trips as favorites. Use the heart in the search results to favorite a trip. • Keep an eye on the bus and see where it is directly on the map. Buy ticket: • Buy a 75-minutes, 24- or 72-hour ticket in just a few seconds. • Pay easily with Swish, credit card (Visa or MasterCard) or travel funds. • If a ticket reader is on board, tap the phone with the ticket towards it, otherwise you will show the ticket to the bus driver or train host. Traffic disruptions: • Any traffic disruptions or delays are displayed along with your search result. You need an internet connection to be able to buy tickets and apply for travel. The app also needs to have access to the mobile's location function to be able to suggest travel options from your current location. See you on board!
Nova Circle
Discover and share genuine recommendations from trusted friends for places to go, eat, and drink. Organize your favorite spots globally and get inspired by like-minded individuals, saving you time on endless searches.
- Save and share top recommendations
- Organize favorite spots worldwide
- Get inspired by like-minded people
- Follow friends and expand your circle
- Create wishlists for future visits
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We believe that a recommendation from a real friend is worth more than the opinion of a thousand strangers. Nova Circle is your single space for saving and sharing top recommendations around the world while getting inspired by likeminded people. Our app simply gathers genuine recommendations from people you trust, allowing you to save time and skip the endless search for the best places to go/eat/drink/stay. - Organize all your favorite spots around the world - Share your top picks with friends - Expand Your Circle: Follow your friends in the app and invite those not here yet - Wishlist: Save the places and recommendations you want to remember and visit in the future
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Nova Circle at 100% against UL's 8%. Nova Circle also leads on rating (5.0 vs 1.4) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months). UL's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (22 vs 1). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Nova Circle holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: UL has 22 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 8% of UL's written reviews are positive against 100% of Nova Circle's.
UL ships an update every 2 months, Nova Circle fortnightly. Both last shipped on September 16, 2026.
| Parameter | UL | Nova Circle |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.4 (22 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 8.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 22 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 57 MB | 113 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Landstinget i Uppsala län | Nova Circle Technologies AB |
Customer experience
UL
Nova Circle
In-app purchases
UL
No in-app purchases
Nova Circle
No in-app purchases
