Comparison

Borderline vs formula telemetry

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

Head to head
About

Borderline

Test your baseball umpiring skills by calling balls and strikes on real MLB pitches. See where pitches landed and compare your calls to official data. Features multiple game modes, including a daily challenge and full game simulation.

Highlights
  • Real MLB pitch data
  • Automated Ball-Strike system rules
  • Arcade mode
  • Daily Challenge mode
  • Full Game mode (Pro)
  • Personal stats tracking
  • Umpire search (Pro)
Features
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Think you can outperform a Major League umpire? Put your eye to the test with real Statcast pitch data — the same technology MLB uses during official ABS challenges. Every pitch in Borderline is a real called pitch from a real MLB game. You see the ball fly in from the pitcher's perspective, and you have to call it: ball or strike. Then the rulebook strike zone appears, and you find out exactly where it landed — and whether the umpire behind the plate got it right. REAL MLB DATA Every pitch comes from Baseball Savant's Statcast database. Real coordinates, real spin rates, real umpires — no simulations. If Laz Diaz blew a call, you'll see exactly why. THE ABS STRIKE ZONE Borderline uses MLB's Automated Ball-Strike system rules. If any part of the ball touches the rulebook zone, it's a strike — the same standard used in official ABS challenges. The batter's zone height adjusts dynamically per player. FOUR WAYS TO PLAY Arcade — 10 random borderline pitches. Quick, free, addictive. Daily Challenge — 10 blown calls from yesterday's games. Same pitches for every player worldwide. Share your score. Full Game — Pick any real MLB game. Call every pitch in order with live count, score, and batter data. [Pro] Blown Calls — Filter any game to only the pitches the umpire missed. [Pro] PERSONAL STATS Track your accuracy over time. See which pitch types fool you most and where in the zone you struggle. Are you better on fastballs or breaking balls? Inside or outside? UMPIRE SEARCH Find every game called by a specific umpire this season. Search for Laz Diaz, Angel Hernandez, or CB Bucknor and relive their worst games. [Pro] FREE TO PLAY Arcade mode and Daily Challenge are always free. Borderline Pro is a one-time purchase that unlocks full game browsing, umpire search, and blown calls mode — no subscription, ever. Data sourced from Baseball Savant (Statcast) and the MLB Stats API. Not affiliated with or endorsed by MLB. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

formula telemetry

Enhance your F1 gaming experience with live telemetry and in-depth lap analysis. Track car performance, driver stats, and race history in real-time. Analyze your laps with detailed charts and compare them to optimize your performance.

Highlights
  • Live timing and classification
  • Real-time car map
  • Detailed driver performance metrics
  • Full-screen dashboard display
  • Lap replay and comparison
  • Session history and export
  • Setup sheets and circuit data
Features
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Formula Telemetry turns your iPhone, iPad or Mac into a race engineer's pit wall for the F1® video games. Connect it to the game over Wi-Fi and see everything the car and the field are doing, live, then dig into every lap once the session is over. LIVE TIMING • Full classification with gaps, intervals, sectors and tyre compounds • Personal and overall best sectors coloured per session, invalid laps ignored • Penalties: time penalties, drive-throughs and stop-gos, served and still to serve LIVE MAP • Every car on the circuit in team colours • Heading-up or north-up view, pinch and scroll zoom, corner numbers and sector boundaries • Circuit maps built from our own scans of every layout DRIVER PAGE • Speed, gear, throttle and brake on a large gauge • Battery and ERS deployment, including the 2026 Overtake mode • Tyre wear and temperatures, fuel, gaps to the cars ahead and behind • Lap history and position summary for any car in the session DASHBOARD • A full-screen car display that switches to landscape by itself, for a second screen next to your rig TELEMETRY AND LAP ANALYSIS • Record your laps and the laps of any driver you pick • Compare laps on speed, throttle, brake, gear, steering, g-force, tyre temperatures and wear, ERS, fuel and Overtake • Lap replay on the map with the real driven line, coloured by racing line, tyre temperature, battery use or sector performance • Pinch to zoom the charts; the map follows the car RACE HISTORY • Position of every car lap by lap, with flashbacks taken into account SESSIONS • Every recorded session is kept on the device and synced through iCloud • Share sessions as a zip file • Export a lap as a structured JSON bundle, with wheel physics, lockups, wheelspin and your own notes per corner, ready for analysis in any tool or AI assistant SETUPS AND EXPLORE • Setup sheets for every circuit • Circuits, teams and drivers of the current season, lap records and facts TRAINING • Reaction time test for race starts SUPPORTED GAMES F1® 25 and F1® 26, as well as F1® 22, F1® 23 and F1® 24. HOW TO CONNECT In the game open Settings > Telemetry Settings, turn UDP Telemetry on, set the IP address to the one shown in the app and the port to 20777. The device and the console or PC must be on the same network. No telemetry at hand? Open Home > Sessions > View demo session to explore a full recorded session. Available in English and Russian. Formula Telemetry is an unofficial app and is not associated in any way with the Formula 1 companies, the FIA, Electronic Arts or Codemasters. F1, FORMULA ONE, FORMULA 1, FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, GRAND PRIX and related marks are trade marks of Formula One Licensing B.V. All other trademarks, team names and driver names belong to their respective owners and are used for identification only.

Screenshots

Borderline4 screens
formula telemetry4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: formula telemetry at none against Borderline's 1. formula telemetry also leads on ads (none vs shown) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). Borderline's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (18 vs 1). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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. Borderline sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. formula telemetry asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

formula telemetry holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Borderline has 18 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Borderline ships an update fortnightly, formula telemetry every 2 months. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Borderline versus formula telemetry: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBorderlineformula telemetry
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (18 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings18 — better1
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 2 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.526.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB64 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLucas AzzopardiDmitrii Ivanov

Customer experience

Borderline

All ratings15 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

formula telemetry

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

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Borderline

One-time1
  • Premium$2.99
None

formula telemetry

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Borderline free?
Borderline is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is formula telemetry free?
formula telemetry is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Borderline or formula telemetry?
formula telemetry is rated higher. Borderline averages 4.8 out of 5 from 18 ratings, while formula telemetry averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Borderline or formula telemetry have ads?
Borderline shows ads; formula telemetry does not.
Which is updated more often, Borderline or formula telemetry?
Borderline ships an update fortnightly, and formula telemetry every 2 months. Most recently, Borderline was updated on October 31, 2026 and formula telemetry on October 31, 2026.

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