Comparison

SPUR vs DrawLap

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

Head to head
About

SPUR

Features
Currently charting
Read full description

You draw the line. The car drives it. SPUR is a racing game with exactly one input: a finger on the glass. Before the lights, you trace your racing line over the circuit — and the speed you draw at becomes the speed you drive at. Quick down the straight, slow into the corner. Then the race plays itself out, and you watch what your hand decided. THE CAR DOES NOT BRAKE FOR YOU That is the whole mechanic and the whole challenge. Ask a corner for more than the grip allows and your line lights up red while you are still drawing it — and afterwards the car visibly runs wide of it. Hold one steady pace all the way round and you lose about a tenth of the lap without it ever looking like a mistake. After every race the game tells you where the time went: which stretch, how many seconds, and whether you were too fast there or too slow. THIRTEEN CIRCUITS THAT ARE REALLY DIFFERENT No circuit is a variation of another. The road changes width, corners are banked, four circuits have hills, and the surface is not just paint: on snow and dirt the car measurably holds less. One circuit runs at night, with headlights. And since this update it can rain or snow — with a real effect on grip, not only in the picture. THE WAY THROUGH Easy to hard. Bronze on one circuit unlocks the next. Three medals each, raced against three ghosts that drive real laps rather than being numbers — and once you have beaten them all, you race your own best time. SIX PEOPLE, ONE DEVICE Hot seat: everybody draws their lap, then all of them race at once. Names, cars and liveries are each player's own choice, and no colour appears twice. Times stay hidden until the race, or the next player knows exactly what to beat. CHAMPIONSHIPS Four track packages or your own selection, points per finish, a table, and a prize ceremony with a podium and an honour lap at the end. A championship survives closing the app. ALSO Three cars with real differences — measured, none of them wins everywhere. German and English, switchable in settings. Fully offline. No account, no sign-in, no data collection.

About

DrawLap

Features
Read full description

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 Ā· 32 tracks across 8 championships — Germany, England, Japan, Spain, France, Italy, the United States and Australia Ā· 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 Ā· Three target times on every track. Beat each one for one more star, and stars open the next championship Ā· Your best lap comes back as a black ghost car. Beating yourself is the point Ā· A different track every single day Ā· 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 Ā· 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

SPUR4 screens
DrawLap4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: DrawLap at Free against SPUR's $2.99. DrawLap also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). SPUR's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ads (none vs shown). On device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

DrawLap is free to download; SPUR costs $2.99 up front. DrawLap sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. SPUR asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard5 real differences Ā· 1 level
SPUR versus DrawLap: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSPURDrawLap
Price$2.99Free — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Best chart rank#118 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMichael KnochenALEX COSIALLS I BORRAS

In-app purchases

None

SPUR

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

DrawLap

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

Questions

Is SPUR free?
SPUR costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is DrawLap free?
DrawLap is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do SPUR or DrawLap have ads?
DrawLap shows ads; SPUR does not.

Other comparisons