Impulse Market
Online Shopping Simulator
$9.99 · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Impulse Market is an online shopping simulator and spending outlet with no real spending. It's built for those moments when the urge something to buy hits... you can browse, fill a cart, and check out, except the balances, the credit, and the deliveries are all pretend. Nothing is ever purchased, charged, or shipped. The feeling gets somewhere to go, it's fun, and your real money stays where it belongs. A simple, harmless way to sit with the impulse instead of acting on it and spend less where it actually matters.
What you can do:
"Buy" anything in the store.
Open fake/simulated credit cards (yes, with limits you will absolutely ignore, just like real life.)
Track fake deliveries like you’re waiting for emotional closure
Purchase cars and watch them immediately depreciate (relatable)
See your monthly spending.
Build a collection of expensive regret… safely
DISCLAIMER:
This app is purely for entertainment.
This is not a real marketplace
No real money is used
No credit is issued
No real items exist
No deliveries will ever arrive
Everything you see is fictional and just for fun
Basically: you can’t go broke here, this is your shopping safe-space. We double checked.
Ratings & Reviews
- This app hasn’t received enough ratings or reviews to display an overview.
Seven ways to look at things you are not buying.
Impulse has themes now. Tap the palette on the Shop tab and pick a decade:
• Frutiger Aero — glossy bubbles, tropical sky, unshakeable 2007 optimism
• Windows 98 — silver bevels on a teal desktop, right down to the title bars
• Xbox Original — translucent green slabs glowing in the dark
• Liquid Glass — frosted depth over a slow colour drift
• Synthwave — neon grid, magenta sun, endless horizon
• Newsprint — ink on paper; your spending, as reported
• Impulse — the original mint, still here and still default
Every theme changes the whole app: backgrounds, buttons, cards, charts, credit
cards, even the type. Pick one and the tab bar changes with it.
412 more things not to buy.
The catalog nearly doubled — 933 products across 57 categories. Ten of those
categories are new: Vinyl & Turntables, E-Bikes & Scooters, Winter Sports,
Water Sports, Golf, Drinkware & Hydration, Telescopes & Optics, 3D Printing,
Sleep & Recovery, and Art & Craft Supplies. Every existing aisle got restocked
too.
Fixes
• Tapping a category no longer opens whatever product was lurking underneath it
• Closing a credit card mid-checkout no longer takes the app down with it
• Orders can finally be deleted — swipe, or tap Edit on the Tracking tab
• The depreciation chart no longer offers to show you months before you bought
the car, and no longer gives up after five years
• Every product photo now ships inside the app, so the storefront works with
the Wi-Fi switched off
• Shipping addresses stop accepting "New Yorkkkkk" as a state
• Assorted repairs to charts, layout and empty screens
Still fake. Still great. Still nothing arrives.
The developer, Christopher Elliott, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Christopher Elliott
- Size
- 72.5 MB
- Category
- Shopping
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.6 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.6 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.6 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.6 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.3 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Chris Elliott

