Comparison

onTrackTools vs PB Buddy

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

Head to head
About

onTrackTools

Analyze motorsport telemetry data with professional-grade tools. Visualize speed, G-forces, and GPS traces, compare laps side-by-side, and gain actionable insights into driving performance and car setups. Features AI assistants for notes and math channels.

Highlights
  • Import and analyze telemetry data (VBO, LD)
  • Customizable analysis dashboard (PRO)
  • Driver profiles and lap attribution (PRO)
  • AI assistants for notes and math channels
  • Synchronized video overlay
  • Side-by-side lap comparison
  • Interactive track maps
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onTrackTools brings professional-grade motorsport telemetry analysis to your iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Vision Pro. Whether you're refining your driving skills, comparing laps, or validating car setup changes, onTrackTools turns raw track-day data, video, and logged signals into clear, actionable insight. Key Features • Import & Analyze Telemetry: Load VBO and LD session files, then explore speed, acceleration, lateral/longitudinal Gs, GPS traces, and any other logged channel. • Analysis Dashboard (PRO): Build your own analysis screens from line charts, XY scatter plots, track maps, histograms, heatmaps, frequency plots, and statistics. Compare every session on a track, filtered by car, setup, or driver. • Drivers (PRO): Keep a profile for each driver, attribute laps stint by stint, and see who drove each lap. • Batch Import (PRO): Import a whole folder of sessions in one go on Mac, iPad, and Apple Vision Pro, with track, date, vehicle, and drivers worked out from each file. • Session Types: Tag sessions as Track Day, HPDE, Race, Time Attack, Autocross, and more, then filter and search by type or driver. • AI Assistants (Apple Intelligence): Dictate your impressions right out of the car and get structured session notes, create math channels by describing them in plain language, and manage your garage and drivers conversationally, every change echoed back for confirmation. Hands-free voice mode on every assistant. All processing happens on-device: your data never leaves your device. • Siri & Spotlight: Open sessions, show setups, create sessions, and capture notes without opening the app. • Math Channels: Create reusable calculated traces with formulas, unit-aware inputs, derivatives, integrals, and common math functions. • Built-In Track Library: 600+ track layouts, with automatic track and direction detection during import. • Automatic Sector Detection: Generate sector splits from corners, braking zones, speed peaks, or equal distances, then fine-tune them on the track map. • Automatic Weather: Conditions for every session are retrieved from Apple Weather. • Plan Your Track Day: Create a session before the data exists, log vehicle, setup, conditions, and notes at the track, then attach telemetry and video later. • Synchronized Video Overlay: Pair any video file, or one from your Photos Library, with your data. Not tied to any proprietary logger or camera. • Side-by-Side Lap Comparison: Compare laps aligned by time or distance and see where you gain or lose time. • Interactive Track Maps: GPS traces, car position, and sectors on the circuit map. Tap a sector to zoom straight to it. • Custom Tracks & Open Courses: Define your own tracks, sectors, or separate start and finish lines for hillclimbs, rally stages, and more. • Lap & Sector Tables: Best sectors highlighted and your theoretical ideal lap. • Persistent Analysis State: Laps, traces, zoom, and map view are restored per session set. • Garage Management: Vehicles, configurations, and setup changes for every session. • iCloud Sync: Sessions, tracks, garage, drivers, dashboards, videos, and math channels sync across all your devices. Plans Every feature is free for your first week, with nothing to sign up for. After that, the free plan keeps your three most recent sessions open; onTrackTools unlocks unlimited sessions, and onTrackTools PRO adds the dashboard, drivers, and batch import. Both are available monthly, yearly, or as a one-time purchase. Nothing you create is ever deleted. AI features require a device that supports Apple Intelligence running iOS/iPadOS 26, macOS 26, or visionOS 26 or later. Everything else works on every supported device. Whether you're chasing personal bests, fine-tuning driving technique, or testing car upgrades, onTrackTools is designed to help you get the most out of every lap. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://lvsoftware.io/privacy/

About

PB Buddy

This lap timer app is designed for HPDE and time trials, offering a simple interface for drivers of all levels. It provides instant feedback on lap and sector times, helping users improve their performance on the track. Users can also export their session data for further analysis.

Highlights
  • Easy setup and use
  • Instant lap and sector feedback
  • Big, bright visual elements
  • Data export (CSV and developer-friendly)
  • Supports US race tracks
  • Works with built-in and external GPS
Features
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PB Buddy is a lap timer app for HPDE and time trials. It offers an easy-to-use, minimalist interface that allows you to focus on what matters most. The user experience has been crafted to work well for drivers of all skill levels, from beginners to seasoned racers. The app has been tested at numerous Time Trials and helped set over a dozen class records across the US. Key features: 1. Easy to set up. The app walks you through the setup and explains how to use it. You don’t need to be an IT professional just to see your lap times. 2. Easy to use. Once the initial setup is complete, simply open the app, press the button to start recording, confirm the track, and you're ready to go! 3. Quickly get feedback on your current lap. Thanks to big, bright visual elements and fun, vibrant colors, you can easily see if you’re on a good lap or lost too much time to set a new personal best (PB). Forget counting the number of tiny LEDs! 4. Fast and targeted feedback. It’s too late to review data in the paddock if you only have one session in the morning when the conditions are best! With PB Buddy, you get instant feedback for each sector of the track (or even per corner!), so you can turn even a bad lap into an opportunity to try something new in that tricky corner you’re struggling with, and find another tenth of a second for your next hot lap. 5. YOU own your data. Export data for each session in CSV format compatible with many existing third-party apps, or export every byte recorded by the app in a developer-friendly format if you enjoy tinkering with data. 6. Supports most race tracks in the US, with more tracks and configurations coming soon. 7. Supports the built-in GPS receiver, but works best with third-party Bluetooth-enabled GPS devices.

Screenshots

onTrackTools4 screens
PB Buddy3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: PB Buddy at none against onTrackTools's 7. PB Buddy also leads on ratings volume (10 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 18.6). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. onTrackTools sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. PB Buddy asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for onTrackTools against 5.0 for PB Buddy. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PB Buddy has 10 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

onTrackTools ships an update every 6 weeks, PB Buddy monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
onTrackTools versus PB Buddy: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameteronTrackToolsPB Buddy
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (10 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings110 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS18.615.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size170 MB19 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperLudovico VerducciTimur Iskhodzhanov

Customer experience

onTrackTools

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

PB Buddy

All ratings10 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

7 purchases

onTrackTools

Subscriptions4
  • onTrackTools Monthly$1.991 Month
  • onTrackTools PRO - 1 month$3.991 Month
  • onTrackTools Yearly$6.991 Year
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  • onTrackTools PRO - 1 year$19.991 Year
One-time3
  • Lifetime purchase$12.99
  • Lifetime PRO, upgrade from base$24.99
  • Lifetime PRO Purchase$34.99
None

PB Buddy

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is onTrackTools free?
onTrackTools is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is PB Buddy free?
PB Buddy is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, onTrackTools or PB Buddy?
onTrackTools and PB Buddy are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 10 ratings respectively.
Do onTrackTools or PB Buddy have ads?
Neither onTrackTools nor PB Buddy shows ads.
Which is updated more often, onTrackTools or PB Buddy?
onTrackTools ships an update every 6 weeks, and PB Buddy monthly. Most recently, onTrackTools was updated on November 4, 2026 and PB Buddy on November 5, 2026.

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