Hotlap vs APEX Pro (New)
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hotlap
This app offers GPS lap timing and data logging for track day enthusiasts. Compare your performance with others in a community setting to improve your personal bests.
- GPS lap timing
- Data logging
- Performance comparison
- Community features
- Personal best tracking
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Experience the competitive spirit and camaraderie of track days from anywhere. Hotlap is an exciting new community for track day enthusiasts. With intuitive GPS lap timing and data logging you can ealiy compare your performance with fellow drivers to achieve your next personal best.
APEX Pro (New)
This app provides advanced data acquisition and analysis for motorsports enthusiasts. It offers real-time feedback and detailed post-session insights to help drivers improve their performance on the track. Features include GPS lap timing, vehicle diagnostics, and performance modeling.
- Real-time in-car feedback
- Extensive post-session analysis
- GPS lap timing
- Vehicle diagnostics (OBDII)
- Performance modeling (APEX Score)
- Lap replay and data overlay
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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! EULA: https://apextrackcoach.com/eula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: APEX Pro (New) at every 8 days against Hotlap's monthly. On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Hotlap sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and APEX Pro (New) sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.3 for Hotlap against 4.4 for APEX Pro (New). Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 79 and 42 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 69% of Hotlap's written reviews are positive against 75% of APEX Pro (New)'s.
Hotlap ships an update monthly, APEX Pro (New) every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Hotlap | APEX Pro (New) |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (79 ratings) | 4.4 (42 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 69.4% of reviews | 75.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 79 — better | 42 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 8 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 118 MB | 154 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Extravehicular Activity, Inc. | Apex Pro LLC |
Customer experience
Hotlap
APEX Pro (New)
Bugs and requests
Hotlap
Reported bugs
10 issues- Data lost after phone transfer
- App not working/updating
- Photo upload stops at 90%
- App is very buggy and slow
- OBD2 recording feature broken
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- Live delta time feature broken
- Cannot select custom car
- Sessions not being recorded
- OBD2 adapters not recognized
- App not functioning as expected
Requested features
7 requests- Record times while screen is off
- CarPlay support
- Update profile picture setting
- Make app work in background
- More accurate track layouts
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- Support for 'other' car type
- Improve telemetry graph readability
APEX Pro (New)
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Hotlap
- Hotlap Plus Monthly$2.991 Month
- Hotlap Plus Annual$23.991 Year
APEX Pro (New)
- Monthly Subscription1 Month trial$9.991 Month
- Annual Subscription$98.991 Year
Questions
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