Virtual Cockpit vs HUD Widgets
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Virtual Cockpit
This app acts as a GPS dashboard for your vehicle, recording travel data in real-time. It displays key metrics like speed, distance, and altitude, and offers features such as speed limit alerts and a HUD mode. Customize your experience with various themes and unit options.
- Real-time speed, distance, and altitude tracking
- Trip and overall travel data recording
- Customizable color themes
- Speed limit alerts (visual and sound)
- HUD mode for windshield reflection
- Metric, imperial, and nautical units
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Virtual Cockpit lets you record all the travel data of your vehicles in a single application. Real-time measurements on main screen: Current speed, total distance, trip distance, altitude, temperature, average speed, top speed, compass and time. Additional features: - Record travel distance, trip distance, top speed and average speed for each vehicle. - Choose from 8 different color themes or create your own combinations. - Speed limit alert (visual and sound). - HUD mode to reflect on the windshield. - Metric, imperial or nautical units. - Optional GPS data measuring on background. Double tap on screen to activate HUD mode. Tap on top speed to switch to average speed. Note: Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.
HUD Widgets
This app provides a suite of driving widgets, including speedometers, trip information, and weather, that can be used in standard or head-up display (HUD) mode. It offers features like driving score calculation, fuel consumption tracking, and a land meter for car slope angles.
- Speedometers (classic, digital, retro)
- GPS trip information (driving score, fuel consumption)
- Land meter (car slope angle)
- Weather and clock
- Eco-driving graphs
- Internet Radio
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HUD Widgets app is a set of handy and popular navigation widgets, like speedometers, trip info, landmeter, weather, eco-driving, etc... All widgets work in regular or head-up display (HUD) mode. Speedometers: — Classic digital speedometer — Digital, with compass, odometer, and distance traveled (Chevrolet Aveo style) — A set of retro speedometers: Cadillac style, arched, circular GPS trip information: — See how safely you drive: the app calculates your driving score based on your acceleration, braking, turns, and speeding data. — Know your fuel consumption per each trip and the expenses on it. — Information on your current, maximum and average speed, distance and time traveled — Large compass — Eco-driving. Acceleration and deceleration graphs indicate driving efficiency Other: — Internet Radio — Land meter. Indicates the angle of car slope or tilt — pitching and rolling — Weather and clock Launch the app, select the widget, and place the smartphone close to the windshield (to use it in HUD mode, with the screen image reflected onto the windshield), or fix it in the mount. Attention! 1. On a clear day, the device screen brightness is typically insufficient to give a decent reflection for HUD mode. In that situation, you can use the app in standard mode with the phone fixed with some mount, OR stay HUD using our HUDWAY Glass accessory (more at hudwayglass.com or see bellow). At night, in dusk, or in dull weather the reflection is normally well-discernible. 2. Continuous use of geolocation services (GPS and GLONASS) may drain your device battery fast. 3. When driving, make sure that your smartphone or tablet is well fixed in some mount or on some sticky pad, and doesn't prevent you from clearly seeing the road. HUDWAY Glass car accessory makes smartphone work as a head-up display in any car even in daytime. Removes doubling, offers sharp enlarged reflection image. Learn more: http://hudwayglass.com Privacy Policy http://hudwayapp.com/privacy Terms of Use http://hudwayapp.com/en/terms/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Virtual Cockpit at 3.9 against HUD Widgets's 3.5. Virtual Cockpit also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months) and review sentiment (64% vs 55%). HUD Widgets's advantage is ratings volume (109 vs 11). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Virtual Cockpit sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and HUD Widgets sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Virtual Cockpit holds the better App Store score, 3.9 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: HUD Widgets has 109 ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 64% of Virtual Cockpit's written reviews are positive against 55% of HUD Widgets's.
Virtual Cockpit ships an update every 3 weeks, HUD Widgets every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Virtual Cockpit | HUD Widgets |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (11 ratings) — better | 3.5 (109 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 64.2% of reviews — better | 55.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 11 | 109 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 58 MB | 54 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Fidel Eduardo Lopez Mayorga | HUDWAY LLC |
Customer experience
Virtual Cockpit
HUD Widgets
Bugs and requests
Virtual Cockpit
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
HUD Widgets
Reported bugs
13 issues- App crashes before starting on latest iOS versions
- Settings reset to default when app is closed
- GPS data inaccuracy error persists after GPS recovery
- Crashes after 3-4 uses
- Compass displays backwards
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- Speed readings significantly inaccurate (10mph shows as 57mph)
- App crashes on older iOS versions (iPhone 4S)
- Cannot get past initial setup screens
- App becomes unresponsive in certain orientations
- Screen burn-in after extended use
- Notification permission requirement blocks app launch
- Incompatibility with certain iOS versions
- Volume control unavailable when using CarPlay simultaneously
Requested features
12 requests- Apple CarPlay support
- Portrait mode (vertical orientation)
- 180-degree screen rotation capability
- OBD2 adapter support for real vehicle data
- Truck vehicle type option
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- Widget support for home screen
- iOS widget integration
- Improved screen rotation for left-hand drive countries
- More speedometer skin options
- Navigation feature integration
- Persistent settings after app close
- Secondary display support for CarPlay head units
In-app purchases
Virtual Cockpit
- Remove ads$0.99
HUD Widgets
- Premium$2.99
Questions
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