Racing Lite vs FlagDrop
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Racing Lite
Track schedules and countdowns for NASCAR, IndyCar, and Formula 1 races. Add events to your calendar, share them, and access cached data offline. Supports iPad multitasking.
- Race schedule and countdowns
- Add racing dates to calendar
- Share racing events
- Offline access to cached data
- iPad multitasking support
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Updated for Nascar, Indy Car and Formula 1 races 2017 See the schedule and countdown to the upcoming and current Nascar, Indy Car and Formula One races. Features: - add racing dates to calendar - share racing events - works offline with cached calendar data - support for the iPad multitasking (split view..) Ad supported Freeware
FlagDrop
Never miss a motorsports event again. This app consolidates schedules for F1, NASCAR, IndyCar, and more, displaying them in your local time zone. Get live updates, countdowns, and customizable reminders for every practice, qualifying, and race session.
- Consolidated motorsports schedules
- Local time zone conversion
- Live race countdowns and takeover
- Customizable session reminders
- Home and Lock Screen widgets
- Session sharing feature
- Ad-free and no account required
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Never miss a race again. FlagDrop is the motorsports schedule app for fans who are tired of missing the green flag because the race was at 4 AM their time, the broadcast switched networks, the schedule moved at the last minute, or it's buried across five different apps. Every Formula 1, NASCAR (Cup, O'Reilly, and Craftsman), IndyCar, IMSA, and ARCA Menards race, practice, and qualifying in one app, always in your local time zone. A big countdown to the next green flag, a red takeover the moment a race goes live, where to watch and where to stream every session, and reminders for exactly the sessions you care about. The countdown follows you from the app to your Home Screen to your Lock Screen. Built by a race fan, for race fans. No accounts. No tracking. No ads. Now on iPhone and iPad. WHAT YOU GET - Race Day Live Activities. An hour before green flag, a countdown card appears right on your Lock Screen, with the app closed. It ticks down to the start, flips to LIVE the moment the race goes green, and shows the checkered flag when it ends. Dynamic Island included. Races of the series you follow, automatically. Keep Background App Refresh on and the card takes care of itself. - A live takeover on race day. When a race goes green, the app turns red: race time, where to watch, and what's on after this. Two races at once? A +1 LIVE chip switches between them. - Widgets for your Home Screen and Lock Screen. A live countdown to the next session that ticks in real time and flips to LIVE the moment the green flag drops, with the TV channel and the rest of the weekend at a glance. New widgets default to My Series and automatically match the series you follow, or set any widget to a single series and run as many as you want. - Reminders that show up on time, every time. Toggle notifications for any session: practice, qualifying, sprint, or the race. Set your lead time to live, 15 minutes, 1 hour, or 1 day before, and stack up to two per session. Alerts are delivered from our servers, so they arrive even if you haven't opened the app in weeks. The race won't sneak up on you again. - Share any race in one tap. Send the race as an image card with the series, race name, start time in your time zone, and where to watch, straight to the group chat. Never type out "it's Friday at 6:30 on FS1" again. - Your schedule, your rules. Display and notifications are separate controls: hide the sessions you don't care about from your schedule without touching your alerts, or the other way around. The eye controls what you see, the bell controls what you hear. - Your time zone, automatically. Every race converted to your local time the moment you open the app. No UTC math. No "wait, is that eastern or central?" confusion. - Every series, one app. F1, NASCAR Cup, O'Reilly, and Craftsman, IndyCar, IMSA, and ARCA Menards. Practice, qualifying, sprint, and race sessions in a single schedule, grouped by race weekend and track. - Watch on and Stream on. Every session shows the TV channel and the streaming service separately: FOX, NBC, FS1, The CW, Prime Video, HBO Max, Apple TV, and more. Know where to tune in before you sit down. - Track maps. See the circuit layout for each event, right on the race screen. - Now on iPad. A native layout built for the bigger screen, portrait and landscape. - Feels right. Smooth motion, haptics on every toggle, swipe from the left edge to go back, and Reduce Motion respected. COMING SOON: MotoGP and WEC are on the roadmap. Updates ship all season. Free for the core experience. No accounts required. No ads, ever.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: FlagDrop at none against Racing Lite's shown. FlagDrop also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 29 months) and ratings volume (13 vs 1). Racing Lite's advantage is iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.1). On price, rating, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Racing Lite against 4.9 for FlagDrop. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: FlagDrop has 13 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Racing Lite ships an update every 29 months, FlagDrop weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Racing Lite | FlagDrop |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.9 (13 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 13 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 29 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 35 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Piet Jonas | BAIRD WILLIAM MORLEY |
Customer experience
Racing Lite
FlagDrop
In-app purchases
Racing Lite
No in-app purchases
FlagDrop
No in-app purchases








