RaceCoach vs ApexLap
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
RaceCoach
Analyze your track driving footage with AI. This app automatically detects laps and sectors, highlights where you gain or lose time, and calculates your optimal lap. Unlock advanced AI coaching and session management with the Pro version.
- Upload onboard video or GPS data
- Detect laps and sectors
- Compare sector times
- Identify time loss areas
- Calculate optimum lap
- View telemetry maps and lap deltas
- AI coaching
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RaceCoach turns your onboard video into lap times, sector analysis, telemetry views and AI-powered coaching. Upload your track footage. RaceCoach finds your laps, breaks them into sectors, shows where you gain or lose time, and calculates your optimum lap from your best sectors. Free lap analysis. Pro AI coaching. Built for track days, karting, testing and race footage, RaceCoach brings race-team style analysis to drivers without expensive telemetry hardware or complex software. What you can do with RaceCoach: • Upload onboard video or GPS data • Detect laps and sectors • Compare sector times across laps • Find where you are losing time • Calculate your optimum lap • View speed traces, telemetry maps and lap deltas • Compare laps with video and telemetry • Unlock AI coaching with RaceCoach Pro • Save sessions and compare progress over time with Pro RaceCoach is free to start. Core lap and sector analysis is included. RaceCoach Pro unlocks AI coaching, saved session history, multi-session management and cross-session comparison. Compatibility note: RaceCoach works with videos that include GPS telemetry, such as supported GoPro models with GPS enabled. GoPro HERO12 does not include built-in GPS telemetry. RaceCoach is designed for closed-circuit motorsport and track driving only. Analysis quality depends on the video and telemetry data available in your uploaded files. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
ApexLap
This app transforms your phone into a professional data-logger for track days, automatically timing laps with millisecond accuracy. It offers reliable lap timing for cars, motorcycles, and karting, with built-in circuits and the ability to create custom tracks. Advanced features include video overlays, full telemetry, and lap comparisons.
- Automatic lap timing with millisecond accuracy
- Video overlay export with lap data
- Full telemetry: speed, G-force, delta
- Lap comparison tool
- External GPS and OBD-II data support
- Setup sheet logging
- 500+ built-in circuits
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Your phone becomes a professional data-logger. ApexLap times every lap automatically the moment you cross the start line — reliably, every single time. Built for track days: cars, motorcycles and karting. No manual needed, readable in full sun through a visor, usable with gloves. RELIABLE LAP TIMING — FREE FOREVER • Automatic start/finish detection with millisecond interpolation • Every lap is saved the instant it completes — a crash or dead battery never loses your data • 500+ circuits built in worldwide, karting included — no second app to buy • Create your own start line for any track in seconds • Sessions per circuit, laps sorted by best time, best lap and theoretical best • Your recorded laps, sessions and history are never locked behind a paywall APEX PRO — THE FULL DATA-LOGGER • Video overlay export that actually works: lap time, speed, G-force and track map burned into your footage, fast and reliable • Full telemetry: speed traces, G-forces, auto sectors, live delta vs your best lap • Lap comparison: overlay two laps and see exactly where the time is • External 10 Hz GPS receivers (RaceBox, Garmin GLO, Dual…) and OBD-II engine data • Progression analysis per circuit, session after session • Setup sheets: tires, pressures and settings logged with each session • CSV export, unlimited custom circuits Try Apex Pro free for 7 days with the yearly plan. Monthly and one-time lifetime options available. Your location data stays on your device. No account, no tracking. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://develak.com/apps/apexlap/privacy/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: RaceCoach at every 2 weeks against ApexLap's every 3 months. RaceCoach also leads on iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, ratings volume 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. RaceCoach sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $4.99 per month and ApexLap sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for RaceCoach against 5.0 for ApexLap. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
RaceCoach ships an update every 2 weeks, ApexLap every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | RaceCoach | ApexLap |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 38 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Drew Forster | Develak |
Customer experience
RaceCoach
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In-app purchases
RaceCoach
- RaceCoach Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
ApexLap
- Apex Pro (Monthly)$4.991 Month
- Apex Pro (Yearly)7 Days trial$34.991 Year
- Apex Pro Lifetime$49.99
