LapTAR

Know which corner cost you.

A lap timer for your phone that tells you where the time went, corner by corner, and what to change on the next lap.

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Free on iPhone and Android: every feature, ten minutes or five laps a session, and your first track day on Pro.

The overlay LapTAR exported for a real lap: Estoril, 13 Sep 2026, lap 3.

The app, as it is today.

Real screens from the current build. On track you read one big number at a glance; in the paddock every lap opens up.

Live screen: 0.30 ahead of the optimal lap on lap 3, 1 km/h faster, turn 4 graded brake weak, trail limit, turn unloaded, exit limit, current lap 0:37.23
LiveThe gap to your optimal lap and speed against it. Each part of a turn shows its time and its grade: how to read them.
Estoril session: best lap 2:10.500, optimal 2:09.191, where the time is: T1 brake weak, brake 10 m later
SessionBest and optimal lap, the car's peaks, and the corners worth the most time, each with its fix.
Analyser on lap 22: satellite map of turn 1, brake and throttle traces, and four fixes for turn 1 with their cost
AnalyserSatellite map, traces and channels for any lap, and what each corner cost against your optimal.
Lap table with lap times, speeds and apex speeds, breaks between runs marked, and analyse, upload, share and overlay actions on lap 22
LapsEvery lap side by side, the best and worst in each column marked, breaks between runs kept apart.
Lap 22 overlay export settings: keyed MP4, alpha MOV or alpha WebM, 1080p, 4K or 720p, 60 or 30 fps
OverlayAny lap as a video overlay for your onboard footage. The blue is the key colour your editor removes; transparent MOV and WebM need none.
OBD-II screen: adapter brand, car profile and the fast channels polled, with alerts
OBDPair an adapter, pick the channels per car, and set alerts. Optional: the phone alone times every lap.
Timer home: choose a track, GPS receiver, car, delta reference, resume Estoril, start a new session
TimerPick the circuit, the car and what the delta chases, then resume a session or start a new one.

The car, on your video.

Pair an OBD adapter and the overlay grows an engine: RPM on its own dial, throttle and braking as bars and traces, intake and coolant temperatures in the corner. The coach's words land on the footage too, and so does the verdict.

Braga, 20 Sep 2026, lap 4 (1:41.708). The coach calls "Next right. Brake 15 metres later" before the corner, then rates corner 7 better by 0.07 s.

One corner, four fixes.

Every turn is split into four parts: brake, trail, turn and exit. Each part gets two answers, and they are kept apart on purpose: the time it cost against your optimal lap, and a grade for how much of the car you used.

Live corner card, turn 4: brake +.11 weak, trail +.10 coast, turn −.04 unloaded, exit +.01 limit; 132 km/h in, 64 apex
Live, after each turnRead on the next straight. Left column: time against your optimal, green gained, red lost. Right column: the grade. A demo run at Estoril, turn 4.

Estoril · 13 Sep 2026Best · lap 222:10.500Optimal2:09.191

Analyser, turn 1 on lap 22: +0.65 s. Turn: take your lap 23's line, at the car's limit, +0.22. Brake 10 m later and harder, +0.22. Trail the brakes in, +0.11. Exit: take your lap 23's line, +0.06
After the session, one fix per partTurn 1 on the best lap, worst part first. The turn and exit were at the car's limit and still lost time: that is the line, so the fix is the line from lap 23.
What do the grades mean?
limit
The car was at its grip limit. Nothing to fix in the driving; if it still lost time, the line did.
early
Braked before the car needed to. Brake later.
weak
Braked softer than the car can take. Brake harder.
released
Came off the brakes before turn-in. Stay on the brakes to turn-in.
coast
Coasted between the brakes and turn-in. Trail the brakes in.
slow
Carried less speed through the middle than the car had. Carry more speed.
unloaded
Let the load off in the middle. Hold the load through the middle.
lifted
Lifted where the car takes it flat. Stay flat.
delayed
Waited for the throttle after the apex. Throttle sooner.
soft
Fed the throttle in instead of going to full. Full throttle.
Why can "limit" still cost time?

The two columns measure different things. vs your optimal is time: how this part of the corner compares with the best you have driven it. vs the car is grip: how close you were to what the car can do on the line you took.

So a part can be graded limit and still slow, when the car was working flat out on a slower line, as in turn 1 above. And a part can be graded weak while costing almost nothing, when you left grip unused but the line made up for it. The fix tells you which one to work on.

What is the optimal lap?

Not a sum of your best sectors. LapTAR measures what your car proved it can do in the session: the grip it held, the hardest stop it made, its pull on each straight. A physics model then drives that along the best line you took through each group of corners, joined on the straights. So it knows where you could have braked later and how fast each corner could go, and it is never slower than any lap you drove.

It is not a faster driver's ghost: every figure in it is one your car has already shown. It is rebuilt after every lap. On 13 Sep at Estoril the best lap was 2:10.500 and the optimal 2:09.191.

The live screen can chase the optimal or the session's best lap; you choose on the Timer tab.

A co-driver in your ear.

Pick a corner on the session's list and the coach calls it through on every lap: brake, turn, power, full throttle, each word timed to land on your optimal lap's own point. The corners you leave to it get an instruction before and a verdict after.

Turn 1 · a corner you picked

  1. 0.0 sNext right. On my call.
  2. 3.3 sBrake.
  3. 6.5 sTurn.
  4. 11.0 sPower.
  5. 12.5 sWorse.
The brake call moves with your speed: arrive faster than the optimal did and it comes earlier, by the distance the extra speed needs. Never later than the optimal's point.

Turn 7 · a corner the coach picked

  1. 0.0 sNext right. Brake 45 metres later.
  2. 14.0 sBetter.
The corners that cost the most on your last lap, against your optimal: one to four of them, your choice. The fix before, better, worse or the same after. Both logs: Estoril, 13 Oct 2026, a lap replayed through the app, word for word from its log.
Session screen, where the time is, against the optimal: turn 3 brake weak, brake 15 m later, +0.46 s; turn 1 brake weak, +0.26 s, its megaphone lit; turn 7 +0.16 s; the lap table below
Pick it on the listWhere the time is, on any session. The megaphone on a row makes it the coach's: called through on every lap at that circuit, from the next session on.
Voice coach settings: Off, Laps or Coach, the voice, corners per lap from one to four, and the corners chosen at Estoril with a Clear button
How much it saysOff, laps only, or the coach. One to four corners a lap; the ones you chose come first and the coach fills the rest.
How does it know when to say "brake"?

From your optimal lap, not from a map. The optimal carries where it braked, where it turned in, where the power went on and where it was flat, so each word is aimed at one of those points. The brake call is the one that moves: the app reads your speed on the approach, predicts your arrival, and says it earlier when you need more road to shed the speed, never later than the optimal's own point. Each word is said about seven tenths of a second before its point, the time a voice takes to start and a foot takes to answer.

What happens when the lap goes wrong?

It says "Missed", at once. No braking after the call, or time lost inside the corner beyond what the last lap lost there, and the rest of that corner's calls are dropped with that one word, so you are not left waiting for "Turn". No verdict follows: there is no plan left to grade. A car ahead on the approach means the corner is not called at all; a co-driver does not call a braking point into traffic. The next lap starts clean.

Why does it say "next right" and not "turn four"?

Because the app's turn numbers are not the circuit's. It finds every bend that leaves a mark in the data, including ones the track map does not count, so a number could be one off from the one in your head. A direction is never wrong. Two corners on a lap can get the same words; the app knows which one it meant.

Everything it does.

A lot happens behind one number. Open anything to see how it works.

On track

Optimal lapSimulated from your car's proven limits, not added-up sectors.

The car's grip, braking and power as measured in the session, driven by a physics model on your best line through each group of corners. It shows the braking points and corner speeds that are within reach, and is rebuilt after every lap.

Live deltaAhead or behind, in one number you can read at speed.

The top of the live screen is the gap to your reference lap, updated as you drive, green when you are ahead and red when behind. Below it, your speed against the reference at the same point, so you see where the gap is being made.

Corner verdictsBrake, trail, turn and exit, graded as you leave each turn.

Each turn is split into four parts. As you leave it, the card shows the time each part cost against your reference and how much of the car you used, with the entry and apex speeds beside them.

Voice coachYour corners called through; the rest coached before and after.

A corner you pick is called like a co-driver would: "Next right. On my call." then brake, turn, power, full throttle on your optimal lap's points, every lap. For the corners that cost the most, the coach says the fix before, for example "Next left. Brake 30 metres later", and better, worse or the same after. It calls the lap at the line, and goes quiet in a corner that goes wrong. How it works.

GPSThe phone's own GPS, or a Bluetooth receiver.

The phone alone times every lap. You can also pair an external Bluetooth GPS receiver; the satellite count and the receiver's state sit at the bottom of the live screen.

Sessions that resumeStop for the pits, carry on the same session.

Stopping saves the session. Resume it later and the new laps join it, with the lap that spans the break flagged so it never counts as your best.

In the paddock

Where the time isThe corners worth the most, each with its fix.

Every session opens on its best and optimal laps, the car's peaks (top speed, lateral and braking g, and engine temperatures and RPM with OBD), how consistent your best laps were, and the corners that cost the most against your optimal, each with the change to make.

AnalyserMap, traces and channels for any lap.

Pick a lap and a corner: a satellite map with your line, traces of acceleration, braking, throttle and RPM, and a list of fixes for that corner with what each one costs.

Lap tableEvery lap and every number side by side.

Lap times, top speeds and apex speeds for every turn, the best and worst in each column marked. Breaks between runs stay visible, and from any lap you can analyse, share or export its overlay.

Track trendsEvery turn followed across your sessions.

For each circuit, each turn's best and typical time, apex speed and braking, session after session, so you can see what actually improved. Filter to dry sessions only.

Setup sheetTyres, pressures and geometry with every session.

Note the tyres, cold and hot pressures and geometry for a session, save it as a named setup, and mark the surface dry or wet. Named setups show up in the trends.

Tyres and alignment, rememberedEvery session keeps what it was driven on.

The tyres on the car and its camber, caster and toe are stamped on each session as they were that day, from the garage. Change them in the garage later and the old sessions keep theirs, so a lap time always sits next to the setup that produced it, and the trends can be sliced by tyre and by setup to show what a change actually did.

Overlay exportYour lap's numbers on your onboard video.

Export any lap as a video overlay to lay over your camera footage in an editor: a keyed MP4 that works everywhere, or a transparent MOV or WebM. 720p, 1080p or 4K, at 30 or 60 fps, with the lead-in and lead-out you choose. With an OBD adapter it also shows RPM, throttle and engine temperatures.

Your kit

OBDThrottle, brake, RPM and more, per car.

Pair a Bluetooth OBD adapter and choose which channels to poll fast; fewer channels update faster. Each car keeps its own channels, custom PIDs and alerts. Optional: everything else works without it.

GarageSeveral cars, each with its own profile.

Keep every car you drive. The car you pick decides the OBD profile and is noted on each session.

RaceChrono importBring the sessions you already have.

Import RaceChrono sessions and they get the same analysis as laps recorded in LapTAR: optimal lap, corners, trends.

CircuitsNearest first, with the line already drawn.

Choose the circuit before you start, nearest first; the start/finish line is already drawn for the circuits in the library, and the app recognises the one you are at. A circuit it does not know, you draw yourself.

Free, and Pro.

Your first track day is on Pro: everything on, all day, on real laps. After that, Free is the whole app, the coach included, for the first ten minutes of every session, or the first five timed laps when those take longer: enough to drive a few coached laps everywhere, from a kart track to a long circuit. Pro records the whole day, remembers the track across sessions, coaches as many corners as you ask, and adds the studio end: clean, transparent and 4K overlays, deep OBD and export to other apps. Importing your data is always free, with no limit.

Free

$0

  • Your first track day on Pro, until midnight
  • Then every feature on this page, the voice coach on one corner a lap
  • Ten minutes of recording per session, or five timed laps when those take longer, counted down on the live screen; imported sessions have no limit
  • Lap timing with the phone's GPS or a Bluetooth receiver
  • Live delta, speed delta and corner verdicts against this session
  • Optimal lap, where the time is, analyser, lap table
  • Setup sheet and the session's tyres and alignment, garage
  • Standard OBD-II channels; overlay export as keyed MP4 up to 1080p, with the LapTAR mark
  • Import from RaceChrono, DragyLap and NMEA

Pro

$5/month · $39.99 once

In the app on iPhone and Android: monthly, cancel any time in the store, or once for life.

  • No recording limit: the whole session, every session
  • The track remembered: your best ever lap here as the live reference, trends across every session, earlier setups to load, laps from other days to compare
  • Coach depth: up to four corners a lap, and the corners you choose called through
  • Clean overlays, transparent (MOV and WebM with alpha) and 4K
  • Advanced OBD: custom PIDs, alerts, native high-rate adapters
  • Export to RaceChrono, DragyLap and NMEA

How it compares.

The lap timers, devices and overlay tools drivers use most, as their makers list them. Scroll sideways to see them all.

FeatureLapTARPhone app · by TimeAttackRaceChronoPhone app · ProHarry's LapTimerPhone app · all editionsTrackAddictPhone app · Free / ProGarmin Catalyst 2Lap-timer deviceAiM Solo 2/ Solo 2 DL · deviceRaceBox MiniGPS + appdragy·LapGPS + appRaceRender 3Desktop softwareTelemetry OverlayDesktop software
PriceFree: every feature, ten minutes or five laps a session, first track day on Pro. Pro $5/mo or $39.99 once$19.99 once (iOS); Android $18.99 or in-app$8.99–$27.99 once, by editionFree (3 recordings, logo); Pro $8.99 once$1,199.99 device€430 / €750 DL (excl. tax)€249 device; app free$199–$249 device; app freeFree (3 min, logo); $39.95–$59.95 once$199 once
Runs oniPhone, AndroidiPhone, AndroidiPhone, AndroidiPhone, AndroidOwn device + appOwn device + PC softwarePhone + devicePhone + deviceWindows, MacWindows, Mac, Linux
Extra hardwareNo (GPS, OBD optional)OptionalOptionalOptionalIs the deviceIs the deviceRequiredRequiredn/an/a
Live deltaYesYes (Pro)YesYesYesYesYesYesn/an/a
Optimal lapYes, simulated from your car's proven limits on your best linesYes: best sectors added up?Yes: best sectors added upYes: True Optimal Lap, best segments joinedYes: best splits added up, in software————
Per-corner analysisYes: brake, trail, turn, exit—— (sector times)—Yes: by segment—?——— (corner-speed gauges)
Per-corner coachingYes: the fix and its cost———Yes: top three opportunities—————
Voice coachingYes: your corners called through (brake, turn, power); the fix before, the verdict after???Yes———n/an/a
OBD-IIYes: standard free, advanced ProYes (Pro)YesYes—DL model onlyNo (vendor: not yet)YesFrom log filesFrom log files
External GPSYesYesYesYes—Built inIs the GPSIs the GPSn/an/a
Overlay videoYes: keyed MP4 to 1080p free; 4K ProYes (Pro)Yes (from Petrolhead)Yes (logo on free)Yes (1440p camera)With SmartyCam (sold separately)YesYesYes, 4KYes
Transparent overlayPro: MOV, WebM with alphaMask video (separate MP4)?——?——— (chroma key)Yes (ProRes 4444)
Data exportPro: RaceChrono, DragyLap, NMEACSV, VBO, NMEA, GPX, ODSSeveral (list ?)CSV, GPX, KML, VBO—CSV, reportsCSV, VBO, GPX (cloud)VBOCSV, GPX, KMLSeparate product
ImportFree: RaceChrono, DragyLap, NMEAVBO, NMEAVBO, GPX, NMEA—n/aAiM data—GoPro, DJI videoMany formatsMany formats

Checked on 8 October 2026 against each maker's website and app store listings. Prices are one-off unless stated, in US dollars except AiM and RaceBox, which list euros; they change by region and over time. "—" means the maker does not list the feature, not that it is confirmed absent; "?" means we could not verify it; n/a means it does not apply.

Product names are trademarks of their owners and are used only to identify them; LapTAR is not affiliated with any of them. Spotted something wrong or out of date? Tell us and we will correct it.

Questions.

Do I need any extra hardware?

No. A phone in a mount is enough for lap times, the live delta, corner verdicts and the voice coach. An external GPS receiver and an OBD adapter add to it.

What does Free record?

Your first track day, all of it, on Pro. After that, the first ten minutes of each session, or the first five timed laps when those take longer — the same few coached laps at a kart track and at a long circuit — with every feature on and the coach on one corner a lap. The live screen counts it down; when it runs out the recording stops and the session is kept like any other, laps, corners and analysis. Sessions you import have no limit. Pro records the whole day.

What does Pro remember that Free does not?

Anything across sessions. Free analyses each session on its own: its laps, its optimal, its corners, its setup sheet. Pro keeps the track: your best ever lap here as the live reference, every turn's trend session after session, earlier setups to load, and laps from other days to compare in the analyser.

Who makes it?

The people behind TimeAttack, the Portuguese time attack championship, who wanted a timer that says what to change rather than only how much it cost.

Can I try it before a track day?

Yes: the Timer has a demo run at Estoril that plays through the live screen, delta, corner cards, coach and all.

Next session, coached.

Free on iPhone and Android.

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