LapSnap vs Garmin Catalyst™
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
LapSnap
Analyze your race track performance with detailed lap data. Visualize your lines, compare laps, and identify areas for improvement. Track your progress with leaderboards and save vehicle setups for future sessions.
- Visualize lap lines and analyze performance
- Compare laps with best or others
- Access historical sessions and laps
- Leaderboards for track comparison
- Save vehicle setup configurations
- Create an 'Ultimate Lap' from best sectors
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Get the most out of your AiM Solo 2, MyChron, GPS enabled GoPro or RaceBox Mini S at a race track by connecting it to your phone and downloading sessions. LapSnap is the first mobile app to connect your AiM device directly to your phone, without extra equipment. Just connect, download and analyze. - Visualize the lines and analyze each lap to see why you’ve been fast or slow in a particular part of the track. You can analyze speed, acceleration or deceleration, gas and brakes application, RPMs, gear change, lean angel for motorcycles, temperatures for Go-Karts, as well as your line on the map. - Compare your laps with your best lap, optimal lap or with someone else’s lap to see what you can do to become faster. - Easy access to each session and each lap. This way you can always refer back to a particular lap. - Leaderboard. See how you stack up against others racers. Each track has a leaderboard. - Save your setup. Every session can contain your vehicle settings like suspension setup, gear ratio, tires you use etc. This way when you're coming back to a track, you can refer to the settings you've used the last time and you're not wasting valuable track time finding a setting that works. - Optimal Lap. Your laps are divided into sectors. By taking best sectors of different laps we can put together an Optimal lap. This way you can see what you are capable of if you get every part of you lap just right. Terms of use: https://lapsnap.app/terms.html This service is not affiliated with, endorsed by or in any way associated with AiM Tech Srl or GoPro Inc. or their products and services. GoPro, HERO, and their respective logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of GoPro, Inc. AiM and its logo is a trademark or registered trademark of AiM Tech Srl. RaceBox and its logo is a trademark or registered trademark of RaceBox Motorsport LLC.
Garmin Catalyst™
Access and analyze your motorsports performance data on your smartphone. Review lap times, session summaries, and driver profiles. Track annual driving activity and session weather conditions.
- Access performance data
- View lap times
- Session summaries
- Customizable driver profiles
- Track annual activity
- Record weather conditions
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For motorsports drivers of all levels, the Garmin Catalyst™ app provides a simple, intuitive way to access your Garmin Catalyst™ performance data — including lap times, session summaries and customizable driver profiles— on your compatible smartphone or tablet. The app also tracks your annual driving activity metrics and provides a record of weather conditions for each session. Garmin Catalyst™ App • Easily access your Garmin Catalyst™ performance data with use of this app on your compatible smartphone or tablet • Shows your session summaries, lap times, session weather conditions, lap-by-lap data and annual driving activity metrics • Customizable icons within the app let you tailor the look of your driver profile and vehicle icons • View vehicles and track notes from your Garmin Catalyst™ device
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Verdict
LapSnap and Garmin Catalyst™ both sit at 4.8 stars, but that hides the real split: 80% of Garmin Catalyst™'s written reviews are positive against 30% of LapSnap's. Garmin Catalyst™ also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 7) and ads (none vs shown). LapSnap's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.5). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. LapSnap sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Garmin Catalyst™ asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for LapSnap against 4.8 for Garmin Catalyst™. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 241 and 120 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 30% of LapSnap's written reviews are positive against 80% of Garmin Catalyst™'s.
LapSnap ships an update fortnightly, Garmin Catalyst™ monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | LapSnap | Garmin Catalyst™ |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (241 ratings) | 4.8 (120 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 30.0% of reviews | 80.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 241 — better | 120 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Monthly |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 16.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 179 MB | 220 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | LapSnap Inc | Garmin |
Customer experience
LapSnap
Garmin Catalyst™
Bugs and requests
LapSnap
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Garmin Catalyst™
Reported bugs
7 issues- Everytime you try logging in the app just glitches anyways can’t even get logged in.
- Comparing to others frequently fails
- Compare to friend feature way to frequently fails with the message about the tracks not matching well enough despite being the same track on the same days even.
- New version is off
- It won’t let me compare the laps with other friends on the same day. Says lap not similar. Literally same day same track same session.
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- Friend integration is currently pretty lacking. When I try to compare laps it complains that the tracks aren't similar enough.
- Worse though is that there's no apparent way of sharing your sessions with friends.
Requested features
17 requests- Option to select 1-5 laps for optimum view
- Watch reference videos side by side on the Catalyst
- Add video review on phone or iPad
- Allow moving videos to iCloud for review
- Ability to download in-car camera footage directly from device to app
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- Compare data from other sessions
- Use for Sim racing games
- More functionality to come
- Make it even more simple
- Overall leaderboard
- Leaderboards of other tracks
- Compare session data between friends
- Fix track matching issues for friend comparison
- Allow browsing friend's sessions
- Add option to compare against other sessions
- Add dark mode option
- Add advanced analytics dashboard
In-app purchases
LapSnap
- Monthly All Access14 Days trial$9.991 Month
- Promo Monthly1 Month trial$9.991 Month
- Annual Black Friday deal$49.991 Year
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- Annual All Access14 Days trial$79.991 Year
- Annual All Access$99.991 Year
- Promo Annual1 Year trial$99.991 Year
- 1 Day Pass$4.99
Garmin Catalyst™
No in-app purchases







