Comparison

RACER+ vs Drive

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

RACER+

Stream motorsports, car builds, and enthusiast content with an extensive library of live and on-demand programming. Offers exclusive events and original series for a premium experience.

Highlights
  • Extensive racing and car build library
  • Exclusive live events
  • On-demand programming
  • Original series content
  • Mobile, CTV, and desktop versions
  • Advanced search bar
Features
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The New and Free RACER+ app offers motorsport fans and auto enthusiasts an unparalleled streaming experience, boasting the most extensive library of racing, build & enthusiast, news & information and original series content. Catering to a global audience, it curates the best in motorsports, delivering a diverse range of exclusive live events and on-demand programming. With a commitment to quality and innovation, RACER+ ensures that users immerse themselves in the thrill of high-speed action and the intricacies of vehicle customization, providing the ultimate premium experience for aficionados worldwide. Key features include: mobile, CTV and desktop versions, FREE SIGN UP for optimized and custom experience, Carousel header with programming priorities, LIVE & UPCOMING & LIVE with countdown and detail info, SPOTLIGHT featured row curated by expert fans, new episodes row, RACER+ Original featured row, genre based rows for enhanced browsing in addition to advanced search bar, daily new releases including VOD exclusives, FAQ & CONTACT dedicated pages for assistance. For any further information including managing you account please go to https://www.mavtv.com/app-faq on your Mobile or Desktop device. Terms of Use - https://racer.com/terms-and-conditions/ Privacy Policy - https://racer.com/racernetwork/privacy-policy/ For auto-renewing subscriptions please see Apple's Terms of Use (EULA) https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Drive

This app transforms your phone into a telemetry logger, recording your car's performance metrics like G-force, speed, and acceleration. Analyze your drives, track favorite roads, and get alerts for speed cameras.

Highlights
  • Real-time G-force friction circle
  • Customizable performance stats
  • Standing-start time tracking (0-60, 1/4 mile)
  • Drive history and mapping
  • Speed camera alerts
  • Road memory and reminders
Features
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Drive turns the phone in your pocket into a telemetry logger for the days you actually care about driving. Mount it on the dash before you set off. Drive reads the sensors already inside your iPhone — the accelerometer, the gyroscope, the barometer and GPS — and records what the car did. Then you can export your session as a poster to share. --- THE GAUGE A live friction circle shows the forces on the car: braking up, throttle down, cornering left and right. The border is one g. A blue trail follows about the last two seconds, so the shape of a corner stays visible after you have driven out of it. Peak markers hold the hardest moments of the session. Your speed, your max g-force and the outside temperature sit alongside it. --- PICK YOUR FOUR Tap + to choose the four stats under the gauge: • Turns and best corner speed, distance, elevation and grade, density altitude • Butt dyno — your estimated peak horsepower, from how hard the car pulls. Add each of your cars once, find its weight right from the app, and switch between them in a tap. • 0-60 mph, 0-100 mph, 1/4 mile and 1 mile — your best standing-start times. Track use only. --- RECORD THE RUN Press record and Drive keeps the whole drive: the route as a GPS trace, a pin where you cornered hardest and where each straight peaked, and the stats that go with them. Every drive lands in a history you can page back through — one card per drive, each with its own map — and any drive can be sent as a poster: your max g, the road, your route and your stats. --- ROADS YOU LOVE Drive remembers the roads you record. Arrive at one again and it can offer to record; on a Friday evening it can suggest a Saturday morning run. A bell on each drive turns that road's reminders on or off. --- PLATE READERS, ON THE MAP Automatic licence-plate readers have gone up on most main roads. Drive shows the ones the OpenStreetMap community has mapped: a marker for every camera near you, and a heads-up as you approach one, with the distance and which way the lens faces. The list is built into the app, so nothing about your drive leaves your phone to look a camera up. It is community-mapped and incomplete — no alert does not mean no camera. Drive is a privacy tool, not a law-evasion tool; you are responsible for how you use it. --- WHAT PRO ADDS The live gauge, your speed and the outside temperature are free, and stay free. Pro unlocks the stat cards, the map with its plate-reader markers and heads-up, and the drive history. Buy it once, or subscribe monthly with a 7-day free trial. --- BUILT FOR THE PASSENGER SEAT AND THE PADDOCK Drive is set up before you move and read after you stop. It is for track days, autocross, a morning on a road you love, and the passenger who wants to know what the car is doing. It is not a driving aid, and nothing in it should be operated while you are driving. Drive asks you to confirm that every single time it opens. --- PRIVACY No account. No sign-in. No ads. Your drives, roads and cars stay on your phone — never uploaded, no server holding them. Drive uses your location for speed, distance, the map, the plate-reader heads-up and road reminders, all worked out on the phone. It sends your coordinates to Apple Weather for the outside temperature, and a car's name to Google only when you tap Find weight. Usage analytics are anonymous and aggregate: no advertising identifier, no cross-app tracking. --- REQUIREMENTS iPhone with iOS 17 or later. Drive needs location and motion access to do anything; both are requested on first open, and the app says why before it asks. Use a dash or vent mount. --- SUBSCRIPTION TERMS Drive Pro Monthly ($2.99 per month, with a 7-day free trial for new subscribers) renews automatically until cancelled in your App Store settings. Drive Pro Lifetime ($19.99) is a one-time purchase and does not renew. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://viablelabs.ai/privacy

Screenshots

RACER+4 screens
Drive4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Drive at 100% against RACER+'s 8%. Drive also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.6) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 months). RACER+'s advantage is ratings volume (209 vs 1) and device support (4 vs 1). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. RACER+ sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month and Drive sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Drive holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: RACER+ has 209 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 8% of RACER+'s written reviews are positive against 100% of Drive's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

RACER+ ships an update every 2 months, Drive every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
RACER+ versus Drive: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRACER+Drive
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.6 (209 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews8.1% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings209 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size99 MB18 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRacer Network, LLCViable Labs LLC

Customer experience

RACER+

All ratings209 ratings
Positive65.6%
Neutral1.4%
Negative33.0%
Written reviews62 reviews
Positive8.1%
Neutral1.6%
Negative90.3%

Drive

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

5 purchases

RACER+

Subscriptions5
  • STANDARD Monthly$7.991 Month
  • PREMIUM Monthly$19.991 Month
  • PREMIUM 3 Month$39.993 Months
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  • STANDARD Annual$79.991 Year
  • PREMIUM Annual$99.991 Year
3 purchases

Drive

Subscriptions2
  • Drive Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Drive Pro Annual$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Drive Pro Lifetime$19.99

Questions

Is RACER+ free?
RACER+ is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Drive free?
Drive is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, RACER+ or Drive?
Drive is rated higher. RACER+ averages 3.6 out of 5 from 209 ratings, while Drive averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do RACER+ or Drive have ads?
Neither RACER+ nor Drive shows ads.
Which is updated more often, RACER+ or Drive?
RACER+ ships an update every 2 months, and Drive every 2 days. Most recently, RACER+ was updated on October 1, 2026 and Drive on September 30, 2026.

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