Soundtrails vs Pure Rush
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Soundtrails
Experience places through immersive audio stories triggered by your GPS location. Explore history, culture, and myths as you walk, or listen from anywhere in manual mode. Discover the hidden narratives of a region with this innovative auditory journey.
- GPS-triggered audio stories
- Site-specific historical narratives
- Cultural and mythical soundscapes
- Manual listening mode
- Online listening option
- Regional focus in Australia
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Soundtrails - stories for your ears. Soundtrails takes you into the heart of a place through a rich mix of sonic stories. Walk the streets, follow the paths, and journey into sounds, history, culture, myths and music. Soundtrails brings an innovatively produced audio experience to the streets and regions of Australia. It uses GPS to track your location so as you walk, you trigger site-specific stories. For those who want to know more about a place than what can be seen, Soundtrails takes you deep beneath the surface. Download the Soundtrail closest to you, put on your headphones and walk in and out of stories. Alternatively, listen from your lounge room in manual mode or online at the Soundtrails website. Soundtrails is starting in regional New South Wales and growing to other areas.
Pure Rush
Navigate through various Australian landscapes, avoiding illegal drugs and their effects to reach a music festival. This interactive game provides evidence-based information on the harms of drug use, making it a useful tool for health education.
- Interactive drug education
- Classic side-scrolling runner gameplay
- Evidence-based harm information
- Four Australian-themed levels
- Collect star points for upgrades
- Sound on/off option
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Pure Rush is a fun and engaging way to learn about illegal drugs. There are only 2 tickets left for the music festival and time is running out… Race through suburban, outback and cityscapes but beware! You'll have to avoid illegal drugs and their effects to get there as fast as possible. Pure Rush offers a unique interactive approach to drug education. Players navigate through four Australian-themed levels, learning as they do about the potential harms associated with drug use. Avoiding drugs is the key to success as players race for the best “Pure Rush” time. During focus testing, feedback from students aged 14-17 indicated they found the game enjoyable, age-appropriate, and found the information presented useful and understandable. Secondary teachers will find this app useful in supporting their Health and Physical Education lessons. Features * Suitable for ages 14 and up * Classic side-scrolling runner game * Incorporates evidence-based information about harms related to use of cannabis, pills/ecstasy, methamphetamines, and hallucinogens * Available as mobile and web app * Collect star points to spend on upgrades including health, height of jumps, double jump and star point magnets. * Sound on/off option to suit classroom or personal use Pure Rush was funded by the Australian Government, and developed by 2and2, the Centre of Research Excellence in Mental Health and Substance Use, and the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre at the University of New South Wales. Find out more about our drug education resources at www.positivechoices.org.au and www.comorbidity.edu.au/cre-resources
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Soundtrails at 100% against Pure Rush's 86%. Pure Rush's advantage is iOS requirement (6.0 vs 15.0). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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.
Soundtrails ships an update every 6 weeks, Pure Rush every 2 months. Both last shipped on November 1, 2026.
| Parameter | Soundtrails | Pure Rush |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 4.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 85.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 6.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 35 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Sound Trails Pty Ltd | Centre of Research Excellence in Mental Health and Substance Use |
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In-app purchases
Soundtrails
No in-app purchases
Pure Rush
No in-app purchases
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