Pitbox vs Apex Copilot
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pitbox
Enhance your sim racing experience with real-time telemetry and historical data. Get live insights into sector deltas, tire conditions, car positions, and more. Analyze past performance and prepare for races with circuit guides and strategy tips.
- Real-time sector deltas
- Tire state and temperature monitoring
- Proximity sensor for nearby cars
- Live map with car positions
- Session history analysis
- Circuit guides and race strategy tips
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Pitbox is your real-time sim racing companion. Connect your iPhone to your sim game over UDP and access the data the game doesn't show you. LIVE DURING YOUR SESSION - Sector deltas to the leader - Tyre state and temperature window - Proximity sensor for nearby cars - Penalties and track limit warnings - Fuel load and race pace - Live map with every car's position on track - Live timing board with gaps and lap times for the full field - Swipe or tap to switch between dashboards on the fly SESSION HISTORY Every lap saved automatically. Review lap times, tyre stints, positions and race results, and analyse your pace on interactive charts to spot where you're gaining or losing time. RACE BRIEFING Circuit guides for every track. Compound allocations, strategies by race distance and track tips before you head to the grid. RADIO CHECK Verify your wheel buttons are reaching the car before each session. HOW TO CONNECT Enable UDP telemetry in your game settings, enter your iPhone IP address and Pitbox detects the format automatically. Pitbox is an unofficial app. Not affiliated with Formula One Licensing BV or Electronic Arts. Terms of Use (EULA): https://pitboxapp.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://pitboxapp.com/privacy
Apex Copilot
Transform your mobile device into a real-time telemetry dashboard and race engineer for the Forza Horizon series. Get live data, track analysis, and ghost racing features directly on a second screen, no wires or accounts needed.
- Live telemetry dashboard
- Real-time race engineer
- Forza Horizon series compatible
- Built-in world map and race catalog
- Lap time analysis
- Ghost racing replays
- Input and tire telemetry
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Apex Copilot turns your iPhone or iPad into a real-time telemetry dashboard and race engineer for the Forza Horizon series — a fighter-jet targeting computer for your car. Open the app, point the game's Data Out stream at it over Wi-Fi, and every gauge comes alive at the game's frame rate. No wires. No account needed. Just live data from your console or PC, on a second screen on your desk. WORKS ACROSS THE FORZA HORIZON SERIES Apex Copilot reads the standard "Data Out" telemetry feed, so the live HUD, input scope and G-force work with any game in the Forza Horizon series that broadcasts it — Forza Horizon 4, 5 and 6. The built-in world map and official-race catalog are tuned for Forza Horizon 6. A RACING HUD BUILT FOR THE APEX - A 270° neon tachometer with a redline band and a shift-light bar that tells you exactly when to upshift. - Giant gear and speed readouts, with segmented throttle, brake, clutch and steering bars. - A friction-circle G-force ball with a fading grip trail. - A live best-lap delta bar, so you always know if you're up or down. BUILD THE DASHBOARD YOU WANT Pick the hero — tachometer, live map or timing tower — then fill the slots around it from 18 modules: sectors, delta, G-force, power, tires, steering, turns, boost and more. Choose a layout, save it, and swipe between faces without the screen changing size. PUBLISH A LAP TO APEX CLOUD Optional and free. Sign in with Apple and any completed lap becomes its own page on the web — your route, your traces, your sector and corner splits, your car and tune — and take its place on world leaderboards, per track, per class and per car. Nothing leaves your device until you publish it, and the whole cloud can be switched off in one tap. EVERY OFFICIAL TRACK, BUILT IN All 85 official races ship pre-loaded, each with its real route already drawn on the world map — discipline, length and lap count included — before you've driven a single one. Drive an event and your attempts attach to the right track automatically; improvise a route of your own and it's logged as a custom track. A RACE LOG THAT REMEMBERS EVERY LAP Every attempt is recorded: lap times, sectors, corners, top speed, and whether you crossed the finish line or bailed. The log is car-aware — the same track in different cars keeps separate records and per-car bests. Drill down from a track to a race to a single corner and see where the time went. SEE WHERE YOU LOSE TIME The Track Map traces your route and colors it by speed — or by time gained and lost against your best lap — so you can see which corner is costing you. Circuits and point-to-point street races alike. REPLAY ANY LAP. RACE YOUR GHOSTS. Play back any lap as an animated replay over the map — or run two attempts as a time-synced ghost race with a timing tower and ticking sector splits, then export the battle as a video clip. EVERY INPUT ON ONE SCOPE A scrolling oscilloscope plots throttle, brake, RPM, speed, steering and slip together — the inputs behind every mistake. TIRES, GRIP & DRIVETRAIN Per-corner tire temperatures, slip ratio and angle, suspension travel, drivetrain layout and axle grip use — the full picture of what your car is doing. RACE-READY TOUCHES - The screen stays awake while telemetry is streaming, and sleeps normally in menus. - Haptics fire when you enter the shift window or break traction. MPH or KM·H throughout. TRY IT WITHOUT A CONSOLE A built-in demo mode drives a car around a circuit, so the whole app is alive before you connect. HOW TO CONNECT In Forza Horizon, open Settings ▸ HUD and Gameplay ▸ Data Out, set the IP address and port shown on the Connection screen, and start driving. Telemetry flows only while you're on track. Apex Copilot is an independent, unofficial companion app, not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Microsoft, Turn 10 Studios, or Playground Games. "Forza" and "Forza Horizon" are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation, referenced here only to describe game compatibility.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Apex Copilot at none against Pitbox's 2. Apex Copilot also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 weeks) and ratings volume (13 vs 2). On price, rating, review sentiment 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
Both are free to download. Pitbox sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Apex Copilot asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Pitbox against 5.0 for Apex Copilot. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Apex Copilot has 13 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Pitbox ships an update every 3 weeks, Apex Copilot every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pitbox | Apex Copilot |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (13 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 13 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.2 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 179 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | +12 | 4+ |
| Developer | PITBOX RACING LTD | Kirill Shirinkin |
Customer experience
Pitbox
Apex Copilot
In-app purchases
Pitbox
- Pitbox Pro7 Days trial$4.991 Month
- Pitbox Pro7 Days trial$39.991 Year
Apex Copilot
No in-app purchases









