Car Performance Tracker
GPS, OBD, Map & Community
$13.99 · In‑App Purchases
Universal Links, racetrack length checks, chat pins, join badges & mid-route group drives — plus Performance & CarPlay.
Car Performance Tracker is the app for enthusiasts who measure, compare, and share drives — on the road, on track, and in the community.
RECORDING & ANALYSIS
• Record GPS routes with just a few taps
• Acceleration runs (0–60, 0–100, etc.) alongside your route
• OBD support for RPM, speed, and vehicle data (Bluetooth LE)
• Detailed analysis with charts, sectors, and global comparisons
• GPX import and export
• Apple Watch & Live Activity for the current drive
MEMBER MAP
• Real-time live locations of community members
• GPX tracks and routes on the map
• Weather, POIs, and (in Germany) Tankerkönig fuel prices
• Follow mode for live drivers
CARPLAY & NAVIGATION
• Navigation and free drive with Mapbox
• Group drives: the lead driver shares a route — everyone else automatically gets the same route on their navigation
• Stay together on the tour without losing each other
• Performance recording directly from CarPlay
• Live map and trip planner
• Save reminder after disconnecting from the car
COMMUNITY & EVENTS
• Communities, group chats, and events
• Feed, messages, and event registration
• Shared tracks and racetrack leaderboards
• Group chat with offline mode, read receipts, and emoji reactions
MORE FEATURES
• Racetrack database with lap times and statistics
• Route planner on iPhone
• Selectable units: Regional, Metric, or Imperial
• Multilingual (15 languages)
• In-app help: feature guides with full-text search (Settings → Help)
• Privacy settings per track type (Live, Racetrack, Drag, Route)
Car Performance Tracker is built for drivers who want to document their performance and connect with like-minded people — at the track, on a country road, or every day.
Support: https://carperformancetracker.de/help
Privacy: https://carperformancetracker.de/datenschutz-privacy-policy
Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
more NEW
• Universal Links (Build 48): Share event/community/track as https://carperformancetracker.de/… — opens the app; without the app → App Store
• Racetracks — length validation (Build 48): cloud expected length, soft-delete with Keep, checks/badges; optional sector order
• Communities — join requests (Build 48): push to all admins/mods in each recipient’s language; warning badges on list and tab bar
• Events — join requests (Build 48): push to creator and co-authors; accent badges on event list and tab bar
• Chat — pin (Build 48): personal pins (groups & private); admins/mods can pin chats for everyone (sticky)
• Group drive (Build 48): resume mid-route (“from here”); Performance restarts after pause/crash without asking when it was on
IMPROVED
• Route planner (Build 47): refine start/stop/destination on a hybrid map; “End Navigation” after arrival dismisses phone turn-by-turn again
• Hub — Cars (Build 47): racetrack times (best lap / theoretical best) restored on car detail; “Top 3 VMax” section
• Racetrack push (Build 48): copy in each recipient’s language
• Weather history (Build 48): clear in-app note when history is unavailable
FIXED
• Performance — racetrack detail crash during section analysis (Build 47)
• Chat — last word in text bubbles no longer clipped (Build 48)
• Stability/sync fixes around join badges, mid-route, and cloud hooks (Build 48)
2.1.3 Aug 12
What's New
New route planner with improved current location handling, favorites, and Home/Work support.
Group Drives: Share routes, follow other drivers, discover community drives, and continue drives after pauses.
Community join requests now send notifications to community creators.
New Performance Tracker widgets for Home Screen, Lock Screen, Control Center, and CarPlay.
Daily Quests and an expanded Trophy system with milestones, Hall of Fame, and celebrations.
Choose between Regional, Metric, or Imperial units throughout the app.
Redesigned performance gauges with improved readability.
Live Member Map with real-time locations and driving trails.
Improved CarPlay experience including trip planning, recording, and instrument cluster support.
Weather information and enhanced fuel station details.
Offline chat with automatic synchronization.
Read receipts, emoji reactions, quotes, and improved accessibility in chat.
Built-in guides with search and support for multiple languages.
Redesigned navigation and menu layout.
New video overlay hub.
Faster app launch and smoother performance.
Reduced battery and CPU usage while recording and using the live map.
Improved badge browsing, celebrations, and Hall of Fame.
More responsive chat with faster updates.
Better Community, Event, and Member Map experience.
Improved CarPlay performance and lower device heat generation.
Modernized profile, settings, routes, tracks, and community screens.
Improved search for routes and tracks.
Refreshed light and dark mode appearance across the app.
Fixed
Fixed several issues with Events and reminders.
Fixed occasional chat synchronization and duplicate message issues.
Fixed crashes in various parts of the app.
Improved CarPlay stability and navigation reliability.
Fixed Member Map and live location issues.
Fixed performance recording recovery after unexpected app closures.
Fixed several display issues in light and dark mode.
Numerous additional stability improvements and bug fixes.
2.1.2 Aug 9
Stability & Bug Fixes
* App icon badge resets reliably again when opening the app
* Crashes fixed when handling push notifications, racetrack lap time display, and performance tooltips
* Deep links (sportfahrer:// for tracks, drags, community) work again
* Quick Actions (long-press app icon: Performance / Chat) and Siri Shortcuts (start/stop performance) restored
* XGPS connection improved when switching between foreground and background
Performance / Live Location
* Live location upload works reliably again (Eco mode had previously blocked the timer)
* More stable timer and more robust live position uploads
* XGPS position is used for live uploads when an XGPS receiver is connected
* Race condition in ACL for LiveLocation fixed
Performance / OBD
* No more flicker in the OBD value table: Live values update without a brief gray flash.
* Glass effect on cells is configured once at load time, not on every value refresh.
* Visible table rows are updated in place instead of reloading entire rows.
Member map — camera & location follow
* New camera control architecture: Own GPS follow and live follow of another member are clearly separated and no longer conflict.
* Follow modes via button: Follow → Compass (heading) → 3D → Follow again.
* No separate “free” mode: Panning or zooming the map automatically pauses follow — the icon is grayed out while paused.
* Tap again to resume the last follow mode.
* Zoom is preserved: After pausing by panning/zooming, reactivating keeps your current zoom level (no reset to default).
* Live member location: Dedicated button icon (map_people_lens); tap to stop live follow and return to paused own-position mode.
Member map — button & icons
* Restored original arrow icons for Follow and Compass modes.
* 3D mode: Readable white “3D” label on a dark background (original asset was hard to see on the map).
* Paused follow: same icon at 45% opacity (grayed out).
2.1.1 Jul 1
Welcome back – version 2.1.0 brings major updates:
• Route Planner: New dedicated tab with Mapbox navigation, trip preview, and free drive
• Apple CarPlay: Turn-by-turn navigation in your car, synced with your iPhone – including search history and favorites
• GPX import: Import routes from the Files app – display on the map or start guided navigation
• EV routing: Plan charging stops, track state of charge (SoC), and view energy consumption along your route
• Eco mode: Protects battery and device during longer performance sessions (automatic or manual)
• Map: Fuel and charging station filters, map labels in your system language
• 16 languages: App, route planner, and Apple Watch now available in more languages
• Tab bar: Customizable order and refreshed default layout
• Various stability and performance improvements
2.1.0 Jun 17
refreshed the app to a new map version
2.0.0 Apr 29
Racecircuits are better recognized
DSGVO: Delete the data and it account is now possible in the app
1.1.2 03/01/2023
Race tracks:
- The module for the acquisition of race tracks has been completely redeveloped
- more precise data acquisition
- more possibilities for evaluation
- better processing of the video data
- 10Hz detection of the most accurate position over the sections
chat:
- new option to copy and delete messages
video editor:
- data offset can be set
- Refference lap the complete lap is displayed as overlay
Crashfix:
- It could happen that the chat crashes when loading new messages (very rare)
- Rare crash when viewing that someone is following you.
1.1.0 09/20/2021
Membermap:
- Tachometer matching the car. (changes at runtime)
- WebSockets: Better reconnect after the device has slept.
- Switching between the different maps also changes the color of the speedometer and the status bar (battery indicator).
Race track speedometer: (2 new options)
- if deviation is more than 2% of best track reference time, all markers light green / red (before 15 seconds fixed)
- background of reference time flashes green when going faster or red when going slower
- Distance traveled
- Distance to finish
Race tracks:
Reference times now include:
- time since start
- distance covered
- average speed
Race track editor
- Map type changed to Hybrid
New data for videos:
- Average speed
- time since start
- Distance traveled
- All drags can be displayed
Wizards
- Tooltips are shown only 3x (before 5x)
- Duplicate usernames are better recognized
Video Editor:
- Drags can now be displayed in videos.
- Improvement of the lap time display for race tracks.
- Better error messages when waiting for data.
- Weather
- Reference lap
- Calculated lap
- Tank capacity in liters
- Improvement of inpolated speed and rpm
- Lap times are displayed correctly
- Distance from start and to finish can be displayed
- Video overlay speed/tachometer matching the car.
- Progress in creating the images is displayed
- Pictures for all speedometers are cached
- Map is now created matching the track every time
OBD:
- Improved connections (stability)
Tooltips:
- Information about the usage of the app in the communities, membermap and performance as tooltip
- The basic info appears 3x
- Tooltips can be reactivated in the settings.
- Awards removed from the settings
1.0.9 08/14/2021
Important new info:
OBD is now directly available for all app buyers
Improvements:
OBD:
- Connection establishment improved
- Background mode enhanced
Race tracks editor:
- Automatic race tracks:
- Means you create a race track, select it and drive it at least one full lap and in the editor it will be shown as background.
- These can now also be saved as GPX to the template.
- Mods and admins can edit race tracks from others
- Creation process improved
- Directions of waypoints can now be adjusted (graphically) or in degrees (°)
Other:
Membermap:
- Race tracks are preserved even when rotating or changing the map
Race track detector:
- It now also checks the driving direction when driving through waypoints.
Performance:
- Link to website added to left menu
Various bugfixes:
- Changing Racetracks does not delete the section name and does not add a number to it anymore.
- When turning the device in the racetrack editing, it is zoomed to the racetrack again.
1.0.8 07/01/2021
Performance:
- The demo mode is only started the very first time.
- In the future you can activate it yourself in the menu on the left.
- Info when demo mode is active.
- Values for speed / RPM are reset after finishing the demo or recording.
OBD:
- If in the car the tank size is specified OBD can now display the remaining amount of fuel.
Communities:
- Communities now count mods and admins as well.
Chat:
- It could happen that the word "dummy" was displayed instead of the text at the receiver.
Statistics:
- New stats: VMax, average speed
- Statistics can now be filtered
Push messages:
- Live push messages are sent only after 30 seconds of recording
Crash fixes:
- none
1.0.7 05/27/2021
Performance:
- Elevation meters uphill / downhill are now stored in the tracks
- OBD display was a little overlapping
Settings:
- Tidied up in submenus
Crashfix:
- The app could crash if a car had wrong values.
Other:
- New stats: VMax, average speed
1.0.6 03/29/2021
Performance:
- If someone explicitly follows you:
-prompt: users who follow you directly are written thick.
-only then your data will be sent every 0.2 seconds in the stream.
MemberMap:
- Tachos for Portrait and Landscape / with White & Dark-Mode
- automatic hiding of speedometers when data is no longer received
- speeds available as mph & kmh
- it is now reported when explicitly following a user. (thick font)
- Bugfix: partly the receiving of the data could not be stopped.
Settings:
- The app can be recommended to others.
- Link to share current live positions via settings.
https://carperformancetracker.de/membermap
Crashfix:
- The app could crash if no GPS signal was detected for 60 seconds and weather data was to be retrieved.
Other:
- Better connection recovery with web sockets.
- Smaller translations
- many small bug fixes
1.0.5 02/17/2021
Backend:
New server backend infrastructure for the app.
Community:
- Communities can now contain more than 100 users
Chat:
- Problem with scrolling fixed
- Swipe to the left shows the times next to the bubbles.
- Image from clipboard can be easily pasted into the text field.
Settings:
- Cars are saved and updated offline
- Cars are sorted by priority
- Cars are reloaded when opening the settings (online and offline)
Cars:
- VMax now stores the last 3 per car including track.
- VMax are now also displayed in non-metric systems (e.g. mph)
- can now also be loaded and displayed offline (some data is missing then)
- Only data is deleted from the car if it is actively removed or edited by the user.
Performance:
- All tracks / drags are stored in compressed form, thus saving even more data volume.
- VMAX now the 3 fastest tracks are stored
- Auto is updated when the view is opened
- Data from the car is accessed more sensitively and it is first checked whether data is available.
- Vmax is stored via a central function including track (in 3 versions)
- The selection of the speed via GPS or OBD is stored.
- 10 Hz, 5Hz & 2Hz tracks and drags are better recognized and stored
- is now always in dark mode
- the menu on the right has no more buttons for Tracks & Drags.
RaceTrack:
- Better calculation of the calculated lap times
- completely new processing of the race track data in the container
- Data are all processed (most accurate positions are used)
- Update the already collected data, if they are better.
- References improved
- calculated rounds are calculated completely separately
- first position starts new section
- negative values are ignored
- Display of times improved
- Reference times improved (please delete the old ones once)
Badge:
- reverse order
- Details are now optionally displayed weekly or monthly.
- Sorting adapted
Tracks:
- Your tracks are loaded live from the web when you select "Yours" in the search above.
- VMax can be saved / overwritten in the details for each car.
Maps:
- Permissions for maps are only required if necessary.
Bug fixes
- Various bugfixes for possible crashes when no data can be loaded from the server.
- Div. updates about databases and communication with the backend.
- Saving of div. objects sometimes did not have the appropriate community rights, for example for badges.
- Distance for new tracks was wrong if the position between the last and the first position was lower than 10km.
- the app was able to support the fast change of push settings and poor data reception at the same time
- race tracks: last 10 tracks are now really the last 10 (if the lap time was too high, it was not displayed)
- Problems with time zones fixed.
- automatic selection of the car crashed the app
- Selection of the race track led to the crash.
- at high temperatures several animations are switched off ... Saving about 30% power / waste heat (problems above 30° at the windshield despite air conditioning)
- Improved creation of containers (Structs) for race track data.
- without internet / login could crash the view of cars
- Devices without a camera could cause a crash on race tracks.
- non-zero or infinite values at the expected time for race tracks could cause a crash.
Augmented Reality:
- points on the map are reduced to 5000 -> better performance
- The line color is now adjusted to the speed, as in the details.
- All cards have a heading
Other things:
- fixed many minor bugs and warnings.
1.0.4 12/04/2020
Augmented reality:
- 3D Name of the current route
- Textures for the sides
- Adjusted lighting
- Sections are labeled automatically
Local chat:
- Push message will only be sent if message was saved successfully.
- Info if the token has expired and you have to log in again.
Bug fixes:
- Chat wrong order when first opening a new chat
- Chat pictures are not shown (had also something to do with the order)
- Siri shortcuts were not displayed correctly.
- Video recording stops automatically when saving the track
- Info if the token has expired and you have to log in again.
1.0.3 07/23/2020
AR Augmented Reality for tracks
Video-Overlay:
- auto video Recording for racetracks
- editor for overlay obd and gps data to the video
HUD-Mode for Performance
Miscellaneus:
- many new details are displayed
- many bugfixes
- map in details: tap on route to see current speed
1.0.2 06/19/2020
stability improvements
1.0.1 05/19/2020
NEW
• Universal Links (Build 48): Share event/community/track as https://carperformancetracker.de/… — opens the app; without the app → App Store
• Racetracks — length validation (Build 48): cloud expected length, soft-delete with Keep, checks/badges; optional sector order
• Communities — join requests (Build 48): push to all admins/mods in each recipient’s language; warning badges on list and tab bar
• Events — join requests (Build 48): push to creator and co-authors; accent badges on event list and tab bar
• Chat — pin (Build 48): personal pins (groups & private); admins/mods can pin chats for everyone (sticky)
• Group drive (Build 48): resume mid-route (“from here”); Performance restarts after pause/crash without asking when it was on
IMPROVED
• Route planner (Build 47): refine start/stop/destination on a hybrid map; “End Navigation” after arrival dismisses phone turn-by-turn again
• Hub — Cars (Build 47): racetrack times (best lap / theoretical best) restored on car detail; “Top 3 VMax” section
• Racetrack push (Build 48): copy in each recipient’s language
• Weather history (Build 48): clear in-app note when history is unavailable
FIXED
• Performance — racetrack detail crash during section analysis (Build 47)
• Chat — last word in text bubbles no longer clipped (Build 48)
• Stability/sync fixes around join badges, mid-route, and cloud hooks (Build 48)
more Version 2.1.3 Aug 12
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