Rocky Mountain Radar vs DeckPilot
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Rocky Mountain Radar
This app provides an accurate speed reading using your device's geolocation, offering a digital speedometer, compass, and odometer. It also includes a trip tracker and a unique panic button feature to save travel data for contesting speeding tickets.
- Accurate GPS speed tracking
- Digital speedometer
- Compass
- Odometer and trip tracker
- Panic button for ticket defense
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Is your speedometer accurate? How would you know? Accurately track your speed, and location and see if you truly know how fast you are driving! There are also many other convenient features to keep you driving safely, and ticket free! *True Accuracy Your car speedometer reads driveshaft rotations to give you a pretty close estimate of your speed. In contrast, the app reads your real geolocation and calculates speed based on distance traveled and time. *High Contrast Digital Readout Easy to read guage with digital speedometer, compass and odometer. *Trip Tracker Track your mileage with the built-in odometer. *Compass Easily identify your heading in degrees plain English. *Panic Button If you get pulled over, push the "I got pulled over" button. We will save your travel data for the previous 60 minutes. You'll be able to contest a speeding ticket using verified data store by our cloud data service.
DeckPilot
Transform your iPhone, iPad, or Apple Watch into custom button decks for your Mac. Streamline workflows with customizable buttons, macros, and gestures that adapt to your active application. Enjoy tactile feedback and dynamic visual cues for enhanced productivity.
- Customizable button decks for Mac apps
- Macro builder with AppleScript and Shortcuts integration
- Tactile feedback and customizable haptics
- Dynamic button states and visual cues
- Trackpad gesture emulation
- Touch Bar functionality on mobile devices
- MIDI support for DAWs
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Made for people who care about how they work with their Mac. The keyboard, mouse, and trackpad shape how you reach into your Mac. There's another way. DeckPilot turns your iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch into custom button decks that follow whichever app you're in. Logic, Xcode, Figma, Slack: the right buttons are always under your thumb. Quick to set up Install on your Mac and iPhone, connect once over Wi-Fi or USB. Auto-reconnects the way AirDrop does. No hardware to buy. Buttons for everything Tap to open Figma. Tap to mute Zoom. Tap to fire a 5-step macro. Build them from apps, files, websites, keyboard shortcuts, AppleScript, or Apple Shortcuts, and chain anything together in a visual macro builder. 300,000+ icons, or bring your own. One button, more than one move Tap for one thing, double-tap for another, hold for a third. Or hold to pop open a whole submenu of buttons from a single tile. One button can run your whole flow. Buttons you can feel Every press lands with a real mechanical click and a tactile thump. Pick the feel, from a crisp keyboard to a soft, heavy thock, with sound and haptics you tune separately. Your Mac's clipboard, on your phone Everything you copy on your Mac lands in a searchable history on your phone. Pin what you reuse, see when you copied it, and send any snippet back to your Mac with a tap. Images come through full-size. Every workflow its own look A teal gradient and big icons for your DAW. A tight grid with greyscale icons for your code editor. Pick from the community gallery or design your own. Buttons that already know A red mic pill on your Zoom button when you're muted. A live waveform on Spotify when it's playing. You stop checking your Mac, because the buttons already know. Keep your favorites close Pin the decks you live in and they stay a swipe away, whatever app you're in. Trackpad gestures you know Two fingers down to minimize, two up to maximize, three across to switch spaces. Or bind any swipe to almost anything: Apple Shortcuts, AppleScript, macros, jumping decks. Touch Bar, reborn Apple's Touch Bar is gone. DeckPilot brings it back as a floating glass strip on your phone. Volume, brightness, media, mic mute, a clock, and live Battery, CPU, and Memory readouts, colored to match each deck. Widgets on every screen Home Screen widgets put your top buttons one tap from anywhere. The Lock Screen widget shows your active deck without unlocking, and joins iOS 17+ StandBy on a charger. On your wrist, too A dedicated Apple Watch deck with multiple pages and real app icons. Digital Crown for volume and brightness. Complications for one-tap Mute and Play/Pause. Built-in MIDI for any DAW Faders, knobs, XY pads, velocity pads, and transport for Logic Pro, GarageBand, Ableton Live, FL Studio, and anything that speaks MIDI. Also good - Built-in AppleScript editor with ten dark themes - Auto-lock and OLED-safe auto-dim after a short idle - Share .deckpacks, browse community templates, try Demo Mode without pairing - Privacy-first. Commands stay on your Wi-Fi, nothing leaves your network Made for developers, designers, streamers, and musicians who want a faster way to drive their Mac. To unlock the full kit, DeckPilot offers an optional Pro subscription. Pro: $7.99/month or $39/year, auto-renewable. Lifetime: $79 one-time. Pro adds multi-page decks, larger grids, MIDI, macros, AppleScript, app-aware switching, multi-launch buttons, advanced gestures, Apple Watch, per-deck themes, and Shortcuts. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. Terms: https://deckpilot.co/terms Privacy: https://deckpilot.co/privacy Support: https://deckpilot.co/support
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: DeckPilot at 5.0 against Rocky Mountain Radar's 4.5. DeckPilot also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs weekly) and ratings volume (7 vs 2). Rocky Mountain Radar's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and iOS requirement (6.0 vs 17.0). On price, review sentiment, ads and device support 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. DeckPilot sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Rocky Mountain Radar asks for nothing beyond the download.
DeckPilot holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 7 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Rocky Mountain Radar ships an update weekly, DeckPilot every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Rocky Mountain Radar | DeckPilot |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 7 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 6.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Matt Myers | Keshav Kewlani |
Customer experience
Rocky Mountain Radar
DeckPilot
In-app purchases
Rocky Mountain Radar
No in-app purchases
DeckPilot
- DeckPilot Pro$7.991 Month
- DeckPilot Pro$39.001 Year
- Founding Member$79.00









