Alpha Racehub vs Backseat Driver
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Alpha Racehub
Stay connected with your kart club by accessing all your events, receiving notifications, and viewing live timing. Spectators can also follow current events and review past results from their favorite clubs.
- Centralized event access
- In-event notifications
- Live timing
- Event noticeboard documents
- Past results review
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Racehub is an app which gives you close interaction with your kart club. Access all your events from all your clubs in one place, receive in-event notifications and messages from your clubs, as well as access live timing and see the documents on the event noticeboard. If you're a spectator, you can easily access live timing for current events, as well as look back at all the previous results from your favourite clubs.
Backseat Driver
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Backseat Driver: The Motorsport Hub Never miss a session again. Backseat Driver gives every motorsport fan a single place to track races across all the major championships, without hunting across multiple apps, websites, or broadcast schedules. What you get: Live countdowns to the next session across F1, NASCAR, WRC, IMSA and more Your favourite series front and centre on the home screen Full session schedules for every race weekend An Atlas so see what's happening around the world Built by a motorsport fan, for motorsport fans.
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Verdict
Alpha Racehub and Backseat Driver are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Alpha Racehub | Backseat Driver |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 40.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 35 MB | 72 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Alpha Timing | Benjamin Elias |
In-app purchases
Alpha Racehub
No in-app purchases
Backseat Driver
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Alpha Racehub free?
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Do Alpha Racehub or Backseat Driver have ads?
Which is updated more often, Alpha Racehub or Backseat Driver?
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