Comparison

Pit Pay vs Drive

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

Head to head
About

Pit Pay

Purchase pit passes for motorsports events in advance from your mobile device. This app simplifies the process with electronic ID verification and secure payment storage, allowing you to get your armband quickly at the track.

Highlights
  • Advance pit pass purchase
  • Electronic ID verification
  • Secure payment storage
  • Favorite tracks and series
  • Event notifications
  • Electronic waiver signing
Features
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Save time! Buy your pit pass before you get to the track with Pit Pay, the only mobile pit pass app for the motorsports industry. Hundreds of tracks, thousands of events...quickly purchase your pit passes in advance using the app for tracks across the U.S. It's easy - once you're set up, all it takes is a few clicks and you're ready to go. At the track, go to the Pit Pay check-in area, present your mobile pit pass and receive your armband. With electronic I.D. verification and waiver execution, the Pit Pay app offers the only safe and secure advance purchase method for pit passes. Features: -Electronic I.D. scanning makes creating your app profile a breeze! -Securely stores credit card information for quick purchases -Search for favorite tracks and series and add them to your favorites list for quick access -Browse nearby events if location services are enabled -Navigate to tracks with one click in the app -Receive notifications if an event is cancelled or postponed -See event descriptions, schedules, etc. in the app -Sign the waiver and release agreement electronically with a few taps -Purchase your mobile pit pass with just a few clicks! -Your mobile pit passes are stored in the app under "My Passes" Download Pit Pay for iPhone and iPad now! Visit pitpay.com to learn more. Terms of Use: https://www.pitpay.com/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://www.pitpay.com/privacy/ For technical support or to report issues, please contact Pit Pay Support via the in-app chat or email support@pitpay.com.

About

Drive

This app transforms your phone into a telemetry logger, recording your car's performance metrics like G-force, speed, and acceleration. Analyze your drives, track favorite roads, and get alerts for speed cameras.

Highlights
  • Real-time G-force friction circle
  • Customizable performance stats
  • Standing-start time tracking (0-60, 1/4 mile)
  • Drive history and mapping
  • Speed camera alerts
  • Road memory and reminders
Features
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Drive turns the phone in your pocket into a telemetry logger for the days you actually care about driving. Mount it on the dash before you set off. Drive reads the sensors already inside your iPhone — the accelerometer, the gyroscope, the barometer and GPS — and records what the car did. Then you can export your session as a poster to share. --- THE GAUGE A live friction circle shows the forces on the car: braking up, throttle down, cornering left and right. The border is one g. A blue trail follows about the last two seconds, so the shape of a corner stays visible after you have driven out of it. Peak markers hold the hardest moments of the session. Your speed, your max g-force and the outside temperature sit alongside it. --- PICK YOUR FOUR Tap + to choose the four stats under the gauge: • Turns and best corner speed, distance, elevation and grade, density altitude • Butt dyno — your estimated peak horsepower, from how hard the car pulls. Add each of your cars once, find its weight right from the app, and switch between them in a tap. • 0-60 mph, 0-100 mph, 1/4 mile and 1 mile — your best standing-start times. Track use only. --- RECORD THE RUN Press record and Drive keeps the whole drive: the route as a GPS trace, a pin where you cornered hardest and where each straight peaked, and the stats that go with them. Every drive lands in a history you can page back through — one card per drive, each with its own map — and any drive can be sent as a poster: your max g, the road, your route and your stats. --- ROADS YOU LOVE Drive remembers the roads you record. Arrive at one again and it can offer to record; on a Friday evening it can suggest a Saturday morning run. A bell on each drive turns that road's reminders on or off. --- PLATE READERS, ON THE MAP Automatic licence-plate readers have gone up on most main roads. Drive shows the ones the OpenStreetMap community has mapped: a marker for every camera near you, and a heads-up as you approach one, with the distance and which way the lens faces. The list is built into the app, so nothing about your drive leaves your phone to look a camera up. It is community-mapped and incomplete — no alert does not mean no camera. Drive is a privacy tool, not a law-evasion tool; you are responsible for how you use it. --- WHAT PRO ADDS The live gauge, your speed and the outside temperature are free, and stay free. Pro unlocks the stat cards, the map with its plate-reader markers and heads-up, and the drive history. Buy it once, or subscribe monthly with a 7-day free trial. --- BUILT FOR THE PASSENGER SEAT AND THE PADDOCK Drive is set up before you move and read after you stop. It is for track days, autocross, a morning on a road you love, and the passenger who wants to know what the car is doing. It is not a driving aid, and nothing in it should be operated while you are driving. Drive asks you to confirm that every single time it opens. --- PRIVACY No account. No sign-in. No ads. Your drives, roads and cars stay on your phone — never uploaded, no server holding them. Drive uses your location for speed, distance, the map, the plate-reader heads-up and road reminders, all worked out on the phone. It sends your coordinates to Apple Weather for the outside temperature, and a car's name to Google only when you tap Find weight. Usage analytics are anonymous and aggregate: no advertising identifier, no cross-app tracking. --- REQUIREMENTS iPhone with iOS 17 or later. Drive needs location and motion access to do anything; both are requested on first open, and the app says why before it asks. Use a dash or vent mount. --- SUBSCRIPTION TERMS Drive Pro Monthly ($2.99 per month, with a 7-day free trial for new subscribers) renews automatically until cancelled in your App Store settings. Drive Pro Lifetime ($19.99) is a one-time purchase and does not renew. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://viablelabs.ai/privacy

Screenshots

Pit Pay4 screens
Drive4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Drive at 100% against Pit Pay's 21%. Drive also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 days vs monthly). Pit Pay's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and ratings volume (2.8K vs 1). On price and monetization model 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. Drive sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Pit Pay asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Drive holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pit Pay has 2.8K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 21% of Pit Pay's written reviews are positive against 100% of Drive's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pit Pay ships an update monthly, Drive every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Pit Pay versus Drive: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPit PayDrive
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (2.8K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews21.1% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings2.8K — better1
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 2 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.5 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size142 MB18 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPit Pay Inc.Viable Labs LLC

Customer experience

Pit Pay

All ratings2,768 ratings
Positive92.7%
Neutral2.5%
Negative4.8%
Written reviews19 reviews
Positive21.1%
Neutral10.5%
Negative68.4%

Drive

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Pit Pay

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Constant update requests even after updating
  • Inability to register/purchase tickets

Requested features

2 requests
  • Ability to buy tickets for family/team without separate accounts
  • Clearer instructions and navigation

Drive

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Pit Pay

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Drive

Subscriptions2
  • Drive Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Drive Pro Annual$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Drive Pro Lifetime$19.99

Questions

Is Pit Pay free?
Pit Pay is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Drive free?
Drive is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Pit Pay or Drive?
Drive is rated higher. Pit Pay averages 4.7 out of 5 from 2.8K ratings, while Drive averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Pit Pay or Drive have ads?
Pit Pay shows ads; Drive does not.
Which is updated more often, Pit Pay or Drive?
Pit Pay ships an update monthly, and Drive every 2 days. Most recently, Pit Pay was updated on October 1, 2026 and Drive on September 30, 2026.

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