Comparison

Fastest Lap vs DrawLap

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

Head to head
About

Fastest Lap

Experience a pure time-attack racing challenge with no opponents or luck. Master each circuit with precise driving, where every mistake costs. Enjoy a minimalist aesthetic and procedurally generated music.

Highlights
  • Top-down time-attack racing
  • No opponents or contact
  • Deterministic simulation
  • Minimalist flat color graphics
  • Procedurally generated music
  • 24 unique circuits
  • 21-round career mode
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Fastest Lap is a top-down time-attack racer. One car, one circuit, one clean lap. No opponents, no contact, no luck — and nothing to blame. Pick it up in ten seconds. Then spend a month on one corner. NOBODY SAID IT SHOULD BE EASY Every circuit sets a target time, and it is not a generous one. A career round is cleared by a clean lap driven in that session, under that target. A personal best you set last week cannot clear it for you. Clean is not a judgment call. Put a wheel off the road and the lap is gone; it's decided the same way every time — the simulation is deterministic, so the same inputs produce the same lap on every device. That is also why a ghost and a leaderboard here are worth trusting. The career is ordered by how much a mistake costs, not by lap time. It opens on grass and run-off. It ends on walls three metres from the road. Restarting is one gesture and under half a second. You will use it more than the throttle. That is the design, not an apology. FLAT COLOUR, AND NOTHING ELSE There is not one texture in this game. No gradients, no glow, no lighting — every shape on screen is a flat coloured polygon, and the whole app ships three images, all of which are the icon. Everything else it builds itself: • Twenty-four circuits, each traced from real-world geometry and given a fictional name. Forest, island, desert flats, harbour walls, floodlit night streets. • The night circuits invert every tone, until the road and the lit barriers are the only bright things on screen and the layout draws itself in light — which is what a street circuit lit for racing looks like from above. • Curbs appear only where a corner earns one. Barriers, run-off and scenery are derived from the geometry rather than decorated onto it. • Nothing is painted on: anything the car can reach is solid or drivable, and water stops the car the way a treeline does. • Each circuit's portrait is its own racing line, teal flat-out through to red under heavy braking. It is computed from a driven lap rather than drawn, so two circuits with a similar outline look nothing alike. • The music is generated as it plays rather than recorded. Every circuit has its own tune; the menus are its breakdown, and the lights are its drop. WHAT ELSE IS IN IT • A twenty-one-round career on one car, in order, each circuit opening the next. Four of the rounds are run in the rain. • Rain changes the lap, not just the picture: less grip, a slower target, and a wet ghost of its own to chase. • Your best lap becomes a ghost on the road beside you. Beat it, and it becomes the next one to beat. • A timing screen you can read at speed — a split at every sector, a live delta to your own best, and the four colors a timing screen has used for decades. • Ten liveries, paint and nothing else. Every car drives identically; none is quicker than another, and none costs extra. • Two control layouts — a wheel, or a thumb zone in each corner — picked with the car in your hands during three short drills, and swappable mid-lap without losing your place. • Per-circuit leaderboards and achievements through Game Center, and a record kept on your device whether you sign in or not. ONE PAYMENT No subscription, no adverts, no energy timers, no waiting. The circuits added later cost nothing. Built for one thing: the next lap being quicker than the one you just drove.

About

DrawLap

Features
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Your finger is the throttle. Trace the racing line with your finger and your car runs exactly what you drew — every hesitation, every corner you took too fast. Move quickly and it goes quickly. Slow down before a corner and it brakes. Carry too much speed in and the tail steps out, you scrub the wall, and the clock punishes you for it. That is the whole game. It takes ten seconds to understand and a long time to be good at. WHAT YOU GET · 32 tracks across 8 championships — Germany, England, Japan, Spain, France, Italy, the United States and Australia · Six cars that are genuinely different: one is fast and demanding, one forgives your mistakes, one carries corner speed, one has a longer boost, one brakes deep into the corner, and one you build yourself · Three target times on every track. Beat each one for one more star, and stars open the next championship · Your best lap comes back as a black ghost car. Beating yourself is the point · A different track every single day · RANKED: race three real players at once. Not bots — their actual saved laps, with their name and their flag, on a track drawn at random from the ones you have open. Win and you climb the six divisions, from Rookie to Legend. Opens at 20 stars · Pass & Play for up to four friends on one phone BUILT TO BE FAIR The physics runs at a fixed step, so the same line gives you exactly the same time on a cheap phone and on the newest one. Your records mean something. NO NONSENSE No account. No sign-up. Works with the plane in flight mode. Your records never leave your device unless you switch the online leaderboards on.

Screenshots

Fastest Lap4 screens
DrawLap4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Fastest Lap at none against DrawLap's shown. DrawLap's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price and in-app purchases 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. Fastest Lap sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and DrawLap sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Fastest Lap versus DrawLap: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFastest LapDrawLap
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 days—
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMaksym BilanALEX COSIALLS I BORRAS

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Fastest Lap

One-time1
  • Unlock Full Game$5.99
2 purchases

DrawLap

One-time2
  • CUSTOM CAR$2.99
  • NO ADS · UNLIMITED$3.99

Questions

Is Fastest Lap free?
Fastest Lap is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is DrawLap free?
DrawLap is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Fastest Lap or DrawLap have ads?
DrawLap shows ads; Fastest Lap does not.

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