Comparison

Hotlap vs LapTAR

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • GPS lap timing
  • Data logging
  • Performance comparison
  • Community features
  • Personal best tracking
Features
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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.

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

Hotlap4 screens
LapTAR4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: LapTAR at none against Hotlap's 2. LapTAR also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs monthly). On price, 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

Both are free to download. Hotlap sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. LapTAR asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Hotlap ships an update monthly, LapTAR every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Hotlap versus LapTAR: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHotlapLapTAR
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (79 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews69.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings79 — better—
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.1
Further details — not scored
Size118 MB66 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperExtravehicular Activity, Inc.Sergei Belov

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

LapTAR

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Hotlap

Subscriptions2
  • Hotlap Plus Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Hotlap Plus Annual$23.991 Year
None

LapTAR

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Hotlap free?
Hotlap is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is LapTAR free?
LapTAR is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Hotlap or LapTAR have ads?
Neither Hotlap nor LapTAR shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Hotlap or LapTAR?
Hotlap ships an update monthly, and LapTAR every 5 days. Most recently, Hotlap was updated on October 24, 2026 and LapTAR on October 22, 2026.

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