Comparison

APEX Pro (Legacy) vs DriverMonitor

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

Head to head
About

APEX Pro (Legacy)

This app provides powerful data acquisition for motorsports, offering real-time feedback and extensive post-driving analysis. It helps drivers improve their skills by modeling track and vehicle capabilities, with features for both hardware users and a standalone lap timer.

Highlights
  • Real-time LED feedback
  • Extensive post-session analysis
  • Machine learning track modeling
  • Lap Timer Plus subscription
  • OBDII engine data and diagnostics
  • GPS lap timing and analysis
  • Crew View live feed
Features
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APEX Pro is powerful, cost effective, data acquisition for motorsports. APEX Pro's mission is to lower the barrier to quality data acquisition by providing simple to use standalone hardware, controlled by your Apple/ iOS device, and the NEW APEX Pro Lap Timer feature that does not require hardware. The APEX Pro Hardware uses a 9 Axis IMU, a 10HZ GPS and machine learning to model the track and your vehicle's capabilities. APEX provides real-time feedback via LED's while in car and extensive information on the app post driving session. Who is APEX Pro for? APEX helps drivers learn to drive the car at the limit of the tire's grip. Whether you are a racer, track day driver, or autocrosser, that is a valuable skill to have. It is a Grip Gauge that shows you where extra grip is being left on the table. APEX Pro customers participate in all types of four wheeled motorsports: Road Racing, Autocross, Rally, Track Days/ HPDE, Time Attack. What does APEX offer with the APEX Pro Hardware? 10 x GPS accuracy and frequency of the smartphone GPS, APEX’s proprietary machine learning model (APEX Score) for real-time, in-car analysis, MPH/KPH selection, Crew View: Access Live Feed posting of User Records, Ability to post laps to “Top Ten” record board, Extensive post-session analysis, Overlay APEX Score, Speed, Lat G, Long G, OBDII channels (with OBDII hardware), Yaw Rate on GPS image, histogram plots, X,Y chart, and Scatterplot, Lap Replay, Interactive Speedometer, Light Bar replay, AirDrop Data sharing, Overlay laps from different days or sessions at the same track. Gain/ Loss Time overlay on GPS Satellite image. What does the App offer with APEX Pro OBDII? For everyday use: Gage cluster for live engine data. Check engine light (MIL) diagnostic codes. Zero-to-sixty MPH timer. For racing: High quality GPS Lap Timing with Phone GPS, Access to Crew View Live feed, GPS Satellite image overlay with heat maps showing Speed and Long. G, Speed trace and histogram plots for further analysis, OBDII data channels recorded, Lap replay function with interactive speedometer, AirDrop data sharing for data overlay with other drivers on the same track, Auto track selection at hundreds of official tracks around the world. Toggle “Enable Phone GPS Logging” to use the app with no APEX Pro Hardware. What does the App offer with 'Lap Timer Plus' subscription? After your first lap on track, the timer can be used to show your predicted lap time or the delta between your current lap and your best so far. This allows competitive drivers to quickly identify the effect of changes in the driving line or the effect of traffic. For review, the track can be split into sectors and a theoretical best lap calculated to set goals for your next session. Video can be recorded during a driving session and then rendered with data overlays after the session. Please visit www.apextrackcoach.com for detailed information, FAQ’s / documentation, videos and more. Follow @officialapexpro on Facebook and Instagram!

About

DriverMonitor

This app provides in-car, glanceable live timing and scoring for motorsports. It displays your race position, lap times, and competitor data to help you compete effectively. Ideal for sprint, endurance, and qualifying sessions.

Highlights
  • Glanceable live timing and scoring
  • Real-time race position tracking
  • Lap time and split time display
  • Competitor class leader and nearby car data
  • Sprint, endurance, and qualifying session support
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DriverMonitor is the in-car glanceable live timing and scoring display for motorsports. Quickly determine your position in the race, the time or laps elapsed or completed and your split times to or lap times of the class leader and the cars in your class immediately in front and behind you. DriverMonitor displays just the information needed related to your position in the race in a quickly glanceable display to allow you to compete with all the live scoring details of the race in-car with you during the event. Great for sprint & endurance racing and especially during qualifying sessions to know whether you've just been pipped from the pole position and should attempt another flyer or if the session time remaining is sufficient for another flying lap. DriverMonitor Subscriptions DriverMonitor is a subscription service to live race timing feeds. Subscriptions are available with monthly auto-renewing and non-renewing race weekend plans packaged for sprint & endurance racing. Each plan is based on how much access you require to the live feed. DriverMonitor monthly subscriptions are $19.99 per month for SPRINT racing and $34.99 per month for ENDURANCE racing, which includes 30 and 60 hours of live timing feed access, respectively. You will be automatically billed $19.99 or $34.99 through iTunes every 30 days until you cancel your subscription. Your subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. You subscription can be managed and the auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the iTunes Account Settings after purchase. No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during active subscription period. DriverMonitor weekly subscriptions are $11.99 per 7 days for SPRINT racing and $24.99 per 7 days for ENDURANCE racing, which includes 10 and 30 hours of live timing feed access, respectively. Weekly subscriptions do not automatically renew and allow you to pay for just the period and allotment you require. Non-renewing subscriptions are billed to your AppStore account as soon as you purchase in the app. DriverMonitor annual subscriptions are $39.99 per year, which includes 40 hours of live timing feed access. You will be automatically billed $39.99 through iTunes every 365 days until you cancel your subscription. Your subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. You subscription can be managed and the auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the iTunes Account Settings after purchase. No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during active subscription period Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable Terms of Use: https://www.drivermonitor.app/terms-of-use/

Screenshots

APEX Pro (Legacy)4 screens
DriverMonitor4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: APEX Pro (Legacy) at free with in-app purchases against DriverMonitor's subscription. APEX Pro (Legacy) also leads on ratings volume (120 vs 19). DriverMonitor's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.6). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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

Both are free to download. APEX Pro (Legacy) sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and DriverMonitor sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for APEX Pro (Legacy) against 4.9 for DriverMonitor. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: APEX Pro (Legacy) has 120 ratings behind it against 19, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 95% of APEX Pro (Legacy)'s written reviews are positive against 100% of DriverMonitor's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

APEX Pro (Legacy) ships an update every 5 weeks, DriverMonitor every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
APEX Pro (Legacy) versus DriverMonitor: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAPEX Pro (Legacy)DriverMonitor
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (120 ratings)4.9 (19 ratings) — better
Positive reviews95.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings120 — better19
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterSubscription
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.612.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size87 MB37 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperApex Pro LLCLeisure Hound Sports, Inc

Customer experience

APEX Pro (Legacy)

All ratings120 ratings
Positive99.2%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.8%
Written reviews20 reviews
Positive95.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative5.0%

DriverMonitor

All ratings19 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

APEX Pro (Legacy)

Subscriptions4
  • Predictive$4.991 Month
  • Video1 Month trial$9.991 Month
  • Telemetry Streaming$14.991 Month
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  • LTP Membership$98.991 Year
5 purchases

DriverMonitor

Subscriptions3
  • Monthly auto-renewing - SPRINT$19.991 Month
  • Monthly auto-renewing - ENDURO$34.991 Month
  • Annual auto-renewing$39.991 Year
One-time2
  • Single race weekend-SPRINT$11.99
  • Single race weekend-ENDURO$24.99

Questions

Is APEX Pro (Legacy) free?
APEX Pro (Legacy) is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is DriverMonitor free?
DriverMonitor is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, APEX Pro (Legacy) or DriverMonitor?
DriverMonitor is rated higher. APEX Pro (Legacy) averages 4.9 out of 5 from 120 ratings, while DriverMonitor averages 4.9 from 19 ratings.
Do APEX Pro (Legacy) or DriverMonitor have ads?
Neither APEX Pro (Legacy) nor DriverMonitor shows ads.
Which is updated more often, APEX Pro (Legacy) or DriverMonitor?
APEX Pro (Legacy) ships an update every 5 weeks, and DriverMonitor every 6 weeks. Most recently, APEX Pro (Legacy) was updated on October 21, 2026 and DriverMonitor on October 20, 2026.

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