Comparison

RaceChrono Pro vs LapTAR

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

RaceChrono Pro

This app serves as a comprehensive lap timer and data logger for motorsports, enabling users to record and analyze performance. It offers video recording with data overlays and supports a wide range of external GPS and OBD-II devices for enhanced accuracy.

Highlights
  • Lap timing with sectors and optimal lap
  • Track library with over 2600 pre-made tracks
  • Data analysis with synchronized graphs and maps
  • Predictive lap timing
  • Video recording with data overlay
  • Support for external GPS and OBD-II devices
  • Unlimited session length
Features
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RaceChrono Pro is a versatile lap timer, data logging and data analysis app designed especially for use in motorsports, replacing your traditional lap timers and data loggers. The RaceChrono Pro app also enables you to record videos and overlay them with the logged data. RaceChrono apps have a strong following, currently over 100000 active users. If you look around at pits during your race or track day, chances are that you’ll see someone using RaceChrono. Even many professionals, such as factory test drivers and race driving instructors, are known to use this app! No matter whether you ride motorbikes, drive go-karts or cars, on closed circuit or special stage tracks – this is the motorsports app for you. RaceChrono Pro has following major features: • Lap timing with sectors and optimal lap • Track library of over 2600 pre-made race tracks • Custom user defined circuit and point-to-point tracks • Smoothly scrolling data analysis with synchronised graph, X/Y graph, map, video and comparison video • Predictive lap timing and time delta graph • Hardware accelerated video export with configurable data overlay • Multiple camera recording and picture-in-picture video export • Video recording using internal camera • Linking and synchronising video files from almost all action cameras • Support for external GPS receivers; Dragy Pro/DRG70/DRG70-C/Lite, RaceBox Mini/Mini S/Micro, Qstarz BL-818GT/BL-1000GT/LT-8000GT, Columbus P-9 Race, Dual XGPS 150/160, VBOX Sport, Garmin GLO • Support for OBD-II readers; OBDLink MX+ Bluetooth, OBDLink CX Bluetooth, Dragy OBD, Vgate vLinker FS, Vgate vLinker/iCar BLE, PLX Kiwi 3/4, Carista OBD2 Bluetooth, Tonwon BLE 1/2/Pro, Veepeak OBDCheck BLE, UniCarScan UCSI-2000, OBDLink MX Wi-Fi, generic Wi-Fi OBD-II • Support for Bluetooth LE heart rate monitors • Unlimited session length, good for 24 hour races • Session data export in .ODS (session summary for Excel), .NMEA, .VBO and .CSV formats

About

LapTAR

Features
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LapTAR turns your phone into a lap timer that coaches. It times every lap on GPS, shows the live gap to your own fastest possible lap, and tells you which corner — and which part of that corner — cost the time. TIME EVERY LAP Pair a RaceBox or Dragy GPS receiver over Bluetooth and drive. The track is recognised from where you are, the start/finish line is already drawn for the circuits in the library, and you can draw your own for a kart track or a hillclimb. THE GAP THAT MATTERS The delta on screen is not to your best lap. It is to your optimal lap — a physics simulation of what your car has proven it can do, on the best lines you have driven — so you are always chasing a time within your reach. CORNER BY CORNER Every corner is scored in four phases — braking, entry, apex and exit — against that optimal. Lights show where you gained and where you lost; the numbers sit underneath for later. A CO-DRIVER IN YOUR EAR At the line the voice calls the lap: a new best, or how far off. Pick a corner on the session's list and it is called through on every lap — "Next right. On my call." then brake, turn, power, full throttle, each word timed to land on your optimal lap's own point, the brake call earlier when you arrive faster. The corners you leave to the coach get the fix before — "Next left. Brake 30 metres later" — and better, worse or the same after. One to four corners a lap, your choice. When a corner goes wrong it says “Missed” at once and leaves the rest to you. Nothing to read at speed. ANALYSE IN THE PADDOCK Speed, delta and g traces per corner, laps drawn over the track on satellite imagery, and trends across sessions. Log the surface and your setup sheet with every session; the tyres and alignment the car was on that day stay with it, so a change in the garage never rewrites an old lap. VIDEO OVERLAY Export a lap as a data overlay — lap time, delta, speed, corner lights — ready to drop onto your camera footage in CapCut, DaVinci Resolve or Premiere. ENGINE DATA Add a Bluetooth LE OBD adapter for RPM, throttle and more, recorded alongside the GPS. Practising at home? LapTAR also takes Assetto Corsa telemetry straight from the game. FREE, AND LAPTAR PRO Your first track day is on Pro: everything on, all day. After that, Free records the first ten minutes of each session, or the first five timed laps when those take longer — counted down on the live screen, with the coach on one corner a lap; the session is kept like any other. Importing from other apps is free with no limit. LapTAR Pro, an optional in-app purchase (monthly or lifetime), records the whole session, every session; remembers the track (your best ever lap as the live reference, trends across sessions, earlier setups, laps from other days to compare); coaches up to four corners a lap and calls the corners you choose through; and adds clean, transparent and 4K overlays, advanced OBD (custom PIDs and alerts) and export to other apps' formats. A free account is required — just an email and a password. It is the same account as on timeattack.run. LapTAR Pro Monthly is an auto-renewing subscription: it renews each month until cancelled, and can be cancelled any time in your App Store account settings at least 24 hours before the period ends. LapTAR Pro Lifetime is paid once. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://timeattack.run/privacy

Screenshots

RaceChrono Pro4 screens
LapTAR4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: LapTAR at Free against RaceChrono Pro's $19.99. LapTAR also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3) and update cadence (every 5 days vs monthly). RaceChrono Pro's advantage is chart position (#13 vs unranked). On ads, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

LapTAR is free to download; RaceChrono Pro costs $19.99 up front. RaceChrono Pro sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. LapTAR asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

RaceChrono Pro ships an update monthly, LapTAR every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
RaceChrono Pro versus LapTAR: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRaceChrono ProLapTAR
Price$19.99Free — better
Rating4.7 (184 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews57.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings184 — better—
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
Best chart rank#13 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.615.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size43 MB66 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRaceChrono OySergei Belov

In-app purchases

3 purchases

RaceChrono Pro

One-time3
  • Reference session 3$0.99
  • Reference session 2$4.99
  • Reference session 1$8.99
None

LapTAR

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is RaceChrono Pro free?
RaceChrono Pro costs $19.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is LapTAR free?
LapTAR is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do RaceChrono Pro or LapTAR have ads?
Neither RaceChrono Pro nor LapTAR shows ads.
Which is updated more often, RaceChrono Pro or LapTAR?
RaceChrono Pro ships an update monthly, and LapTAR every 5 days. Most recently, RaceChrono Pro was updated on October 26, 2026 and LapTAR on October 22, 2026.

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