Comparison

Apex vs DOWNLINK

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

Head to head
About

Apex

Track your motorcycle rides with live lean angle, GPS mapping, and performance metrics. Compete on famous passes, climb leaderboards, and earn badges for your riding achievements. Designed for entertainment and personal tracking.

Highlights
  • Live lean-angle meter
  • GPS ride recording
  • Auto-saved ride history
  • Pass leaderboards
  • Earn riding badges
  • Real-time g-force
Features
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Apex measures your lean angle with the phone you already ride with. Mount it on the bars or drop it in a pocket, hit Start, and ride. RIDE • Live lean angle, speed and G-force while you ride • Every corner pinned on your route with the angle you carried through it • Left and right lean, lean over time, speed segment by segment • Records offline, with no signal at all COMPETE • Famous passes become segments with their own leaderboards • The Apex Score ranks how well you rode a road, not just how fast • Race mode recognises thousands of circuits SHARE • A poster for every ride: your photo, your route and your lean, straight to Instagram RIDE SAFER • Crash alert: if Apex detects a crash and you don't respond, it sounds an alarm and gets a text with your location ready for your emergency contact • Riding weather: a heads-up the evening before a genuinely good day to ride Every ride is recorded and saved. The lean angle, score and full detail come with apex Pro. SUBSCRIPTIONS • apex Pro: $39.99 per year, $19.99 every 3 months, $9.99 per month or $3.99 per week. • apex Elite: $19.99 per month. Everything in Pro plus traction circle, tip-in rate, braking g and corner phases. Prices are in USD and charged in your local currency. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel in your App Store account settings. Apex is for entertainment and personal tracking. Always obey traffic laws and speed limits, mount your phone securely, and never operate it while riding. Terms: https://getapexrider.com/terms Privacy: https://privacy-policy-lac-five.vercel.app/apexrider/

About

DOWNLINK

Features
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DOWNLINK is a sports telemetry camera. It records your ride and draws your speed, lean angle, G-force, altitude and route onto the video — saved into the file. INSTRUMENTS FOR EVERY ACTIVITY • Motorcycle: lean angle arc, deepest lean each side, G-force • Car / Track: route panel, cornering G, 0–100 and 0–60 timer • Bicycle: grade, elevation strip, climb and descent • Ski / Snowboard: slope, vertical drop, run count LIVE MAP The minimap turns with your heading, zooms out as you speed up and draws the road you have ridden over Apple Maps. Switch it off in Settings when a start or finish should stay private. ONE-TAP REEL When you stop, DOWNLINK finds the best moments in the telemetry — top speed, deepest lean, tightest hairpin — and cuts a 15-second vertical video: the route draws itself on the map, then each moment slows into its peak. Ready for TikTok, Reels and Shorts. RIDE SUMMARY AND SHARE IMAGE Top and average speed, distance, climb, route and place name on one page. Make an image of the ride with the route on the map, with the start and finish hidden if you like. HONEST NUMBERS Every value comes from this phone's own GPS, barometer and motion sensors. When a sensor has no reading, the display says SIM instead of guessing. Lean and G assume the phone is mounted upright; phone GPS updates about once a second — a good record of the ride, not timing equipment. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account, no ads, no tracking. Your videos and rides stay on your phone. Free: record with one activity and the Drive instruments. DOWNLINK PRO unlocks every activity, the ride summary, the share image and reels without the watermark with a single purchase. Screenshot and preview footage: A. Thiessen, roadstertouren, J. Holleboom, Viennaaa — CC BY 3.0.

Screenshots

Apex4 screens
DOWNLINK4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Apex at none against DOWNLINK's 1. Apex also leads on iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.6). DOWNLINK's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price and device support 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. DOWNLINK sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Apex asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Apex versus DOWNLINK: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterApexDOWNLINK
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 days—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS16.4 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size72 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperIgor LendermanEmre ALICI

In-app purchases

None

Apex

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

DOWNLINK

One-time1
  • DOWNLINK PRO$1.99

Questions

Is Apex free?
Apex is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is DOWNLINK free?
DOWNLINK is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Apex or DOWNLINK have ads?
Apex shows ads; DOWNLINK does not.

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