# Hot Wheels® id — Collect. Race. Level Up.

> Virtual and physical Hot Wheels car racing, collecting, and performance tracking game. (iPhone/iPad app by Mattel.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/hot-wheels-id/id1413506036 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Mattel](https://appshunter.io/developer/365039495)
- Category: Games, Entertainment, Action, Racing
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Rating: 4.77/5 from 31,379 App Store ratings · 52 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 11.0 · 1.1 GB
- Languages: English
- Released: 2019-06-05
- Data updated: 2026-06-10
- Monetization: free with in-app purchases
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/hot-wheels-id/id1413506036/reviews.md

## What is Hot Wheels® id?

Think you can drive the fastest? Nail the gnarliest stunts and win the most races? With Hot Wheels id, now you can prove it. 

Hot Wheels id dares you to challenge your limits, prove your skills and measure your performance with every speed posted, every stunt conquered, and every race won. Collect cars, compete in challenges and level up for the ultimate bragging rights. 

For additional high-octane thrills, enhance your gameplay experience with a seriously rad collection of Hot Wheels id die-cast vehicles, the Race Portal and the Smart Track Kit.  

COLLECT AND LEVEL UP
Hot Wheels cars are off the rails! Killer designs, honkin’ big wheels, and peerless performance make the chillest rides ever. Stock your virtual garage with a huge variety of the sickest cars, then race ‘em, stunt ‘em, and enjoy some serious gains: performance boosts, new races to unlock and rad rewards to win. 

SCAN YOUR HOT WHEELS ID VEHICLES
Elevate your Virtual Garage by scanning your physical Hot Wheels id die-cast vehicles with your NFC enabled iPhone. iPhone 7 and above support this awesome technology to collect your physical die-cast into your virtual garage. Don’t have the latest NFC-enabled iPhone? No problem. You can also use the Hot Wheels id Race Portal with your tablet or non-NFC enabled iPhone to build up your collection.

MEASURE YOUR PERFORMANCE
Track your progress as every mile you drive, race you win, stunt you nail and speed you crush is recorded. With every milestone reached, your racing prowess is boosted. 

RISE TO THE CHALLENGE 
With each course you conquer, challenge your previous record and then challenge the world. It’s only a matter of time before everyone knows how great you are.

SO MANY WAYS TO PLAY
Hot Wheels id amplifies vehicle play to a new level of pulse pounding excitement, offering a first-of-its kind mixed play experience, where the more you play in the physical the more you level up in the digital. Get ready to race through a limitless world where records need to be broken and the challenges keep on coming.

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Mattel supports principles of safety, and privacy and security by design in producing mixed play experiences, and encourages you take a moment to review our Privacy Statement and our FAQ with answers to some frequently asked questions about Hot Wheels id and our privacy and security practices.  You can access them both below.

Frequent Asked Questions: http://www.hotwheels.com/faq-id

EULA: https://hotwheels.mattel.com/Static/pdf/HWid-eula-iOS.pdf

Privacy Statement:https://www.mattel.com/en-us/privacy-statement

Help & Support: https://service.mattel.com/us/ContactUs.aspx

## Key features

- Collect virtual cars
- Race and perform stunts
- Level up vehicles
- Measure racing performance
- Scan physical die-cast cars
- Unlock new races and rewards

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 100 Redlines | $1.99 | one-time |
| 310 Redlines | $4.99 | one-time |
| 820 Redlines | $9.99 | one-time |
| 2010 Redlines | $19.99 | one-time |
| 41200 Hot Wheels™ id Coins | $4.99 | one-time |
| 13200 Hot Wheels™ id Coins | $1.99 | one-time |
| 109200 Hot Wheels™ id Coins | $9.99 | one-time |
| 268000 Hot Wheels™ id Coins | $19.99 | one-time |
| Haunt Wheels 2020 | $4.99 | one-time |
| Valentine's 2021 | $2.99 | one-time |


## What do users think of Hot Wheels® id?

Overall sentiment: positive

**Pros**

- 🚀 Great real-world/virtual play experience
- 👍 Fun and polished game with great graphics
- 🎨 Awesome concept of connecting physical and digital toys
- 💎 Valuable for Hot Wheels collectors

**Cons**

- 🔒 Requires additional physical hardware (Race Portal) to fully utilize
- 💰 Expensive to get the full experience with cars and portal
- 🔋 Fuel/juice mechanic limits playtime
- 🐛 Connectivity issues, car data loss, and other bugs

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Inability to scan cars on certain devices
- Inconsistent car performance and 'rubber banding' issues
- Challenges not registering owned cars properly

**Most requested features**

- Add online/multiplayer functionality
- Implement free roam mode
- Improve car management and sync across devices
- Increase variety of tracks and gameplay modes

## Recent user reviews (10 of 52)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/hot-wheels-id/id1413506036/reviews.md

### 5/5 — Unacceptable to discontinue!!!

*2023-12-15*

This game is nothing like I've ever seen every hot wheels lover in the world cares about this game so much And I think it's even part of my DNA this app because I love it so much and I am so connected to it if you discontinue this how are you will go crazy for the rest of my childhood and even My cousin is wanting to bring back this game because this game is the best game in the world!!!!! Even think it is 1, trillion times better than hot wheels unleashed two turbo charged!!!!! Billions of hot wheels super fans are wanting to not discontinue this game because it is the biggest masterpiece of all history!!! This is a very important message because if you keep this game going for at least 100 years you're a brand will become famous because it is so popular!!!!!!!!(go to the developer if you accepted this message of not to discontinuing this game you will be admired and I will be so grateful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

### 2/5 — Eee

*2023-09-04*

This game is meant for children (obviously (not saying adults can’t play)). But assuming that this is a kid’s game you may want to acknowledge a few things before you get this app. First and foremost most kids won’t have a phone to always play on, so from what I find most kids have an IPad now that’s not a bad thing but it if you don’t want to spend 30-40 dollars on a launch pad that can add their ID cars then don’t. Now before you do anything this isn’t all their fault, because the ID cars use NFC which only IPhones have. But I do see a solution, if you add a Bluetooth chip in the car then it’d boost the price a few bucks but then it’d be accessible on almost any device (though the app is shutting down the first day of 2024 so they wouldn’t change the product at this point).

Secondly, let’s say your child accepts the face they cannot use their car and just wants to play online. They will soon see that the game can be played freely (in this case meaning without the use of money), but the benifits of spending a few bucks are, not jokingly, about 10 times the amount of in-game currency for spending 5 bucks then playing for 2 hours. 

If you are fine with this then the game is just right for you if not I strongly recommend that you do not download this.

Lastly, the game is closing down the first day of 2024, so this won’t make too many fun experiences.

Thank you for reading!!!

### 4/5 — Great Real/Virtual Toy. Fun to play

*2023-01-06, version 3.9.0*

Great real world /virtual play experience.  Whether you playing with an actual track and cars or just race virtually with the app, you will not be disappointed.  Appeals to a broad age range.  Connects to Id track and portals via Bluetooth.  I’ve not had any connectivity problems yet with iOS platform.   Would give 5 stars but Mattel has abandoned the track and are no longer making the cars that are needed for the track and portal.

### 5/5 — Still good in 2022

*2022-11-13, version 3.9.0*

Even though I’m having a hard time trying to scan in a OP car. I will figure it out soon and I’ll be able to be good? this game is really fun and you don’t need to have a real life ID car. also you can buy cars in the shop. The tutorial will help you go through that. but my opinion it’s actually a good digital hot wheels game. this game needs more players in 2022.

### 3/5 — Refuses To Work

*2022-08-09, version 3.8.0*

I’ve probably been blacklisted by the App Store already, but I need to warn you that if you don’t have the Race Portal (physical, $20 item), you basically can’t play. It gives you a starter car, which is nice, but I can’t figure out how to scan an ID car I bought over a year ago, which I just opened when I got the app. But the app itself is unresponsive when I press the ‘Scan Car’ button. Please note this before you download, it could be really cool, but I myself, according to the app, does not have the proper physical items and materials to play.

### 1/5 — My hot wheels car data has been deleted!

*2022-07-27, version 3.8.0*

Well I actually liked the game for the most part. Racing with my 2 overpowered Id cars I got for Christmas. I managed to get a Lamborghini Miura, a classic batmobile, Twin mill, and a Lamborghini Centario. But when I logged in today to do the daily cup, I found that all my car data was deleted! All the cars I worked hard to get, gone. All my other progress and data was still there, but my cars were gone. I have know idea what caused this, but I could not find any information about this car data loss bug. I got frustrated and removed the game from my phone. If any of you had this problem and/or know how to fix it, please tell me!

### 4/5 — Great game but you have to pay

*2022-07-13, version 3.7.0*

This is a really great game the graphics the racing the cars but the only thing you can do is buy cars do challenges and championship’s and more but to creat tracks you have to pay to get the what I think is like around $20 and there cars which is probably like $5 and I am not saying it‘s unplayable if you don’t buy it still is playable just saying if you want more options or have like a couple $100 around collecting dust buy it. Sorry if misspelled any thing I am not good with grammar.

### 1/5 — THE APP DOESN’T WORK

*2022-04-23, version 3.7.0*

I can’t complete daily quests with specific cars even if I own them. There is place place to report this on Mattel site and I bought the actual id cars so it’s not an in app purchase so Apple doesn’t care either. It’s a scam. Does me no good to by ID cars to use in the app if the special events doesn’t acknowledge them. Restarting app doesn’t work scanning car into garage still doesn’t register it for daily or special events. Playing on a new iPhone. And own the id car and the in app version of the car… can’t do events and can’t report problem through any link that you provide. No wonder you discontinued it. It was probably easy than making it work to begin with.

### 5/5 — Game is great! Complainers are wrong!

*2022-04-01, version 3.7.0*

I played this game for almost a year now and I have maybe 30 or 35 of the ID cars and to be honest I’ve never run out of fuel used to race with it eight times by then you want to raise a different car and I’ve never had to pay for anything other than the track and the track is worth the money because you can play with that online as well as all these different games so I don’t know what everybody’s complaining about the game itself is free so there’s that I don’t know I feel like you’re complaining about a free game you got way too much time on your hands!

### 4/5 — Good game….but

*2022-03-17, version 3.6.1*

This is a good game for anyone that has a mobile device with a NFC reader built in.  I had a synching problem because I would try to switch between my iPad Pro and iPhone…bad idea. Maybe in the future this can be addressed but I do love this game.  

Combining a real world toy with the virtual world is actually awesome. You’ve even incorporated augmented reality in a slightly different way than your competitor that only offers virtual cars.  I think I’ll keep this on my phone for a while and go on Hot Wheel I’d hunts at local stores.

## Frequently asked questions about Hot Wheels® id

### What is Hot Wheels id?

Hot Wheels id is a mixed-reality game that allows you to collect and race virtual cars. You can prove your driving skills by performing stunts and winning races, then measure your performance and level up your vehicles for rewards. It integrates physical Hot Wheels id die-cast vehicles for an enhanced experience.

### How do I collect cars in Hot Wheels id?

You can collect cars by racing and performing stunts within the app to earn them. Additionally, you can scan your physical Hot Wheels id die-cast vehicles using an NFC-enabled iPhone (7 and above) to add them to your virtual garage. For non-NFC enabled devices, the Hot Wheels id Race Portal can be used.

### Is Hot Wheels id free to play?

The app itself is free to download and play. However, to enhance the gameplay experience and collect a wider variety of cars, there are optional in-app purchases available, such as the Hot Wheels id die-cast vehicles, the Race Portal, and the Smart Track Kit.

### What devices are compatible with Hot Wheels id?

The app requires an NFC-enabled iPhone 7 or above to scan physical die-cast vehicles directly. For those without NFC-enabled iPhones or using tablets, the Hot Wheels id Race Portal can be used to build your virtual collection. Specific compatibility details can be found in the app's EULA and privacy statement.

### What are the main ways to play Hot Wheels id?

You can play by racing virtual cars, performing stunts, and competing in challenges to level up your vehicles and earn rewards. The game also offers a mixed-play experience where playing with physical Hot Wheels id die-cast cars can help you level up in the digital game. You can also challenge your previous records and compete against others.

## Version history (last 1 release)

### 3.9.0 — 2022-10-05

Keep a lookout for the latest seasons and their brand new campaigns to test out the fresh rides.


Be sure to check out Daily events to prove you have the best collection and upgrade your cars to the Max with PR+.

Don't miss out on the latest limited-time bundle in the store, unlocking special edition cars with their own campaign.

Keep racing!

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