Virtual Cockpit vs Virtual Dashboard
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.
Virtual Dashboard
Create custom dashboards using your device's sensors to display speed, altitude, and more. Navigate with a map featuring route planning, points of interest, and breadcrumb tracking. Customize units, themes, and map views for a personalized experience.
- Customizable sensor gauges
- Speedometer and odometer
- GPS and barometric altimeter
- Artificial horizon
- Navigational map with overlays
- Route planning and ETA
- Points of interest search
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Bring your iPhone and iPad's sensors to life on Virtual Dashboard. Arrange a variety of different gauges to create your own custom dashboards. You can choose from: ○ Speedometer (with peak hold) ○ Odometer (distance travelled, resettable) ○ GPS Altimeter (absolute altitude) ○ Barometric Altimeter (relative altitude) ○ Accelerometer (with peak hold) ○ Artificial Horizon (pitch and roll) ○ Compass (with magnetic heading and true track indicator) ○ Elapsed time (with average speed) Swipe to display a navigational map with resizable gauge overlays. You can select from road, bike, nautical chart, satellite, topographic, and survey (blank) modes. The map shows your current coordinates, track, and heading, and drops breadcrumb markers as you travel. Tap to set a destination and the map displays your distance, bearing, direction to steer, and ETA to the destination. Search the map for points of interest or street addresses. Customize your units, map features, and gauge behavior. Select from one of the many available themes (theme requires in-app purchase). Connect your external MFI GPS device and see faster updates. We currently support the Bad Elf GPS units.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Virtual Dashboard at 100% against Virtual Cockpit's 64%. Virtual Dashboard also leads on rating (4.4 vs 3.9). Virtual Cockpit's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 5 months) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 13.0). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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 Virtual Dashboard sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Virtual Dashboard holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 11 and 11 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 64% of Virtual Cockpit's written reviews are positive against 100% of Virtual Dashboard's.
Virtual Cockpit ships an update every 3 weeks, Virtual Dashboard every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and June 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Virtual Cockpit | Virtual Dashboard |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (11 ratings) | 4.4 (11 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 64.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 11 | 11 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 5 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 | 36 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Fidel Eduardo Lopez Mayorga | Kevinnovate, LLC |
Customer experience
Virtual Cockpit
Virtual Dashboard
In-app purchases
Virtual Cockpit
- Remove ads$0.99
Virtual Dashboard
- Donate for Development$0.99
- Unlock All Themes$2.99
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