SmoothTrack vs Tanks 2D Live
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SmoothTrack
Enhance your simulation gaming experience with phone-based head and eye tracking. This app allows for intuitive, 6-degrees-of-freedom head movements to control your in-game perspective without any extra hardware. Seamlessly look around cockpits, check blind spots, or zoom in on details with natural head gestures.
- 6DoF head tracking
- Optional eye tracking
- No extra hardware required
- Works with FreeTrack/TrackIR games
- Customizable view presets
- Exaggerated head movements for control
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SmoothTrack 2.0 uses the head and eye tracking AR capabilities of your phone to provide the simplest and best head tracker for 6 degrees-of-freedom head movements in your sim games. ----- "The best new controller on the market." - Charlie Hall, Polygon Customer reviews: "SmoothTrack just works. Less than 5 minutes to install, setup and fly. Love not being tethered to my desk! 5 stars!!" "This worked perfectly and way better than expected! Totally enhanced my experience with MFS 2020!" --- It's a near magical experience to seamlessly slightly move your head and have your game perspective immediately play along (the movements in the game are exaggerated so that you only have to make slight movements of your head to control the camera). Additionally, since version 2, your eyes are also optionally tracked and will nudge the camera based on where you're glancing on screen! - Simply lean forward to get a closer look at your Flight Simulator cockpit! - Look a bit up to see the overhead panel of your A320! - Simply shift your head a bit to the right to see the direction of the space station you're approaching in Elite: Dangerous! - Look a bit left before a hard left turn in Euro Truck Simulator 2! No headset or extra equipment of any kind is required! Simply set up your device so that it can see your face. Using simple camera gestures, you can shift your perspective in-game. Also, if you want, you can store views (say, a copilot angle, or a cockpit closeup) as Quick Views for easy access later. Your head movements are slightly exaggerated which enables you to look out of a cockpit side window with just a slight movement of your head to the left. Any game that supports the FreeTrack or TrackIR protocol will work with this, including: - Microsoft Flight Simulator - Microsoft FSX - DCS World - Elite: Dangerous - IL2: Sturmovik - Euro Truck Simulator 2 - Kerbal Space Program - ...and many, many others! Email and Discord support is provided if there are any issues (or if you have any ideas for new features!).
Tanks 2D Live
Engage in rapid real-time artillery battles with destructible environments and physics-based combat. Choose your tank chassis, draft an arsenal of weapons, and outmaneuver opponents with strategic shots and power-ups. Play solo or compete online with friends.
- Real-time 2D tank combat
- Destructible terrain
- Physics-based shots
- Chassis and weapon selection
- Online multiplayer
- Solo bot battles
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Tanks 2D Live is a fast real-time artillery game built for quick battles, wild shots, and tense last-second comebacks. Pick your chassis, draft your arsenal, dial in elevation and charge, then trade cannon fire across destructible terrain. Every match is different: wind shifts, hills collapse, fuel runs low, pickups drop from the sky, and one perfect shot can flip the round. Play solo against Ironside, or battle another player online with Game Center multiplayer. Features: • Real-time 2D tank combat • Destructible terrain and physics-based shots • Chassis selection with different strengths • Weapon drafting with finite ammo • Shells, railshots, nukes, seekers, napalm, bouncers, warps, mines, and more • Wind, fuel, pickups, hazards, and sudden death • Solo bot battles • Online multiplayer through Game Center • Fast landscape matches built for iPhone Line up the shot. Watch the wind. Fire before they do.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Tanks 2D Live at Free against SmoothTrack's $14.99. Tanks 2D Live also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and update cadence (monthly vs every 4 months). SmoothTrack's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (250 vs 1). On 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
Tanks 2D Live is free to download; SmoothTrack costs $14.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Tanks 2D Live holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SmoothTrack has 250 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
SmoothTrack ships an update every 4 months, Tanks 2D Live monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SmoothTrack | Tanks 2D Live |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $14.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.7 (250 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 85.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 250 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | John Goering | NICHOLAS EDWARD MAY |
Customer experience
SmoothTrack
Tanks 2D Live
Bugs and requests
SmoothTrack
Reported bugs
2 issues- Tracking issues with certain phone positions
- Compatibility problems with some devices/OSes
Requested features
3 requests- Background mode support
- Ability to use rear camera
- Improved UI and customization options
Tanks 2D Live
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
SmoothTrack
No in-app purchases
Tanks 2D Live
No in-app purchases
Questions
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