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F1 25 telemetry & setup apps compared

Checked against each tool's own website on 11 October 2026.

"Setup app" means three different things in the F1 games. Some tools hand you a setup someone else built. Some show you your own telemetry and leave the conclusions to you. A few read your laps and suggest what to change. Here is what each of the tools that came up most in our October 2026 searches for F1 25 and its 2026 Season Pack actually does, so you can pick the one that fits how you drive.

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Three kinds of tool

Setup libraries give you a ready-made setup for a track and condition, built by esports drivers or shared by the community. Fastest way to get a sensible car on track today. They do not see how you drive.
Telemetry viewers record your laps and show you speed, throttle, brake, tyres and more, often with lap comparison and overlays. They show you what happened; working out which setup value to change is up to you.
Setup coaches read your own telemetry and suggest setup changes from it. The tools in this group work in different ways, so it is worth looking at exactly what each one returns.

Several tools span more than one category, and the table shows where.

At a glance

Tool	What it mainly is	F1 games (per its site)	Runs on	Suits a driver who wants
F1Laps	Lap and session history with telemetry, plus a large community setup library	F1 23, F1 24, F1 25, F1 26	Telemetry app for Windows (Microsoft Store); connection guide covers PC, PS5 and Xbox	Every lap logged automatically, community setups, leaderboards and AI difficulty in one place
SimRacingSetup.com	Setup library: esports-driver setups plus community uploads, with an F1 telemetry and overlay app	F1 25, F1 26 and earlier F1 games	Website, plus its own Auto-Install and Telemetry apps	A fast, ready-made setup per track and condition
GO Setups	Setup library across several sims, with the GO Fast companion app	F1 25 and the 2026 Season Pack	Website plus GO Fast app	Esports-built setups, especially if you also race other sims
Sim Racing Setup Garage	Community setup app: search, create and share setups	F1 games 2016 to 2025 (Play Store listing)	Android	Browsing and saving setups on your phone
Sim Racing Telemetry (SRT)	Telemetry viewer: charts, track map, lap comparison, statistics, CSV export	F1 26 (F1 25 + 2026 Season Pack), F1 25 and older F1 games, plus other sims	PC, Mac, iOS, Android; capture from PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Mac	Deep, hands-on data analysis across several racing games
Pits n' Giggles	Open-source (MIT) telemetry companion: in-game overlays and browser dashboards	F1 23, F1 24, F1 25, F1 25 (2026 Season Pack)	Windows (macOS from source)	Live overlays, streaming, race and strategy dashboards, remote viewing
RaceIQ (SpeedHQ)	Open-source (AGPL-3.0) telemetry dashboard, lap analysis and setup catalogue, with optional AI coaching using your own API key	F1 2025, plus Forza, ACC, AC Evo and LMU	Windows	A local, multi-sim telemetry tool they can tinker with
Pacedex	Overlay, voice race engineer and corner-by-corner analysis, with a setup advisor	F1 24, F1 25, F1 26	Windows; Android app for PlayStation or Xbox	An in-game overlay and voice engineer, plus league tools
Driver Dojo	Setup coach: reads your laps, asks how the car felt, returns exact setup values	F1 26 (2026 Season Pack for F1 25), F1 25, F1 24	Web browser; game on PC, Xbox or PS5	To know which setup values to change for their own driving, and why

"F1 26" in this table means the 2026 Season Pack for F1 25, which is how these tools use the name. Platforms are what each tool's own site says.

What each one is best at

F1Laps

An all-rounder made specifically for the F1 games. Its telemetry app records every lap and session automatically, with racing-line and lap analysis, and the site adds a large community setup library (it counts more than 177,000 setups), wet and consensus setups, lap-time leaderboards, an AI difficulty calculator and career and season tracking. Pick it if you want a complete history of your F1 driving and a big pool of shared setups.

SimRacingSetup.com

A setup library first. It publishes setups for every track, tagged by condition and session type, made by esports drivers, and lets the community upload, rate and comment on their own. It also offers an F1 telemetry app that tracks your sessions and compares your laps with fast drivers' laps, plus live overlays. Pick it if you want a quick, proven setup and to see how a fast lap differs from yours.

GO Setups

Esports-built setups across iRacing, Le Mans Ultimate, ACC, Automobilista 2, Assetto Corsa and F1, with dedicated setups for F1 25 and the 2026 Season Pack. Its GO Fast companion app covers telemetry and setup tools, and GO Setups says these support F1. Pick it if you race several sims and want one source of setups.

Sim Racing Setup Garage

A community app on Android for searching, creating and sharing setups, filtered by track, weather, team and game version. Its Play Store listing names the F1 games from 2016 to 2025. Pick it if you want a setup notebook and community library in your pocket.

Sim Racing Telemetry (SRT)

A dedicated telemetry viewer for many racing games. It records your timed laps and lets you study them as numbers, interactive charts or on a reconstructed track, compare two laps with a time-difference chart, compute per-lap and per-session statistics, share data and export to CSV. It runs on PC, Mac, iOS and Android. Pick it if you enjoy reading the data yourself and want one tool for several games.

Pits n' Giggles

An open-source (MIT) telemetry companion for Windows. Its main feature is always-on-top in-game overlays that need no mouse; behind them is a browser-based dashboard with a live race table, tyre wear and fuel modelling, stint and compound strategy analysis, OBS-ready stream overlays and remote viewing so an engineer can watch from anywhere. Pick it if you stream, race leagues, or want to see the whole race at a glance.

RaceIQ

An open-source (AGPL-3.0) Windows app from SpeedHQ covering several sims, including F1 2025. It keeps every lap in a local database, compares laps side by side, and has a tune and setup catalogue with community setting ranges. Optional AI coaching on technique and setups runs through your own API key or a local model. Pick it if you want a local, multi-sim tool you can extend.

Pacedex

A Windows app (with an Android app for PlayStation or Xbox) for F1 24, F1 25 and F1 26. It combines a live overlay, a voice race engineer you can ask questions, and corner-by-corner analysis against your best lap and a rival. Its setup advisor reads your telemetry, names a handling symptom and points to the setup change that tends to fix it. It also has league tools: a broadcast overlay, a commentary booth and a steward mode. Pick it if you want everything on top of the game while you drive.

Where Driver Dojo fits

Driver Dojo is a setup coach that runs in your browser. Point the game's UDP telemetry at it, drive a stint, and it does three things:

It reads your own laps, corner by corner. It flags oversteer on exit, understeer on entry, lockups, overheating tyres, uneven wear and kerb abuse, and shows the time you lose at each corner.
It asks how the car felt. A few quick questions after the stint, combined with what it already detected in your telemetry.
It gives exact setup values, a number for each setting rather than a direction like "more wing", each with a confidence level and the corners it helps. Changes are grouped the way the game's setup screen is, and you can aim them at pace, balance or tyre life.

It also tells you whether a slow corner is technique limited or setup limited, so you do not chase a setup change that cannot help. Around that sit a live dashboard, lap comparison across more than twenty channels, race strategy from a tyre model fitted to your own laps, and a read-only link so a friend can follow your session live as your race engineer. It supports F1 26 (the 2026 Season Pack for F1 25), F1 25 and F1 24, with nothing to install. The game can run on PC, Xbox or PS5. Every feature is listed on the features page.

It suits new drivers who don't yet know which slider to touch, and experienced drivers who want the reasoning and the numbers behind a change.

When another tool is the better pick

You want a setup loaded in the next two minutes without driving a stint first: start from a setup library (F1Laps, SimRacingSetup.com, GO Setups or Sim Racing Setup Garage). Driver Dojo can then tune it to your driving.
You want in-game overlays or stream graphics: Pits n' Giggles or Pacedex.
You race several different sims and want one telemetry tool for all of them: SRT or RaceIQ.
You want leaderboards, AI difficulty and a full career history: F1Laps.

Common questions

What is the best F1 25 setup app?

It depends on what you want from it. For a ready-made setup, use a setup library such as F1Laps, SimRacingSetup.com, GO Setups or Sim Racing Setup Garage. For setup changes worked out from your own laps, use a setup coach such as Driver Dojo, or the setup advisor in Pacedex. Many drivers use both: a library setup to start from, then a coach to tune it.

What is the difference between a setup library, a telemetry viewer and a setup coach?

A setup library gives you a setup someone else built for a track. A telemetry viewer records your laps and shows you the data, and you decide what to change. A setup coach reads your telemetry and suggests which setup values to change.

Which of these tools work on PS5 and Xbox?

The F1 games send telemetry from consoles too, but each tool receives it differently. F1Laps' connection guide covers PC, PS5 and Xbox. SRT captures from PC, PlayStation and Xbox. Pacedex uses its Android app for PlayStation or Xbox. Driver Dojo runs in a browser and receives telemetry over the internet, so the console and the app do not need to be on the same network. Check each tool's own setup guide before you buy hardware or change network settings.

Do these tools work with F1 26?

"F1 26" is the name most tools use for the 2026 Season Pack for F1 25, released on 3 June 2026. It is an expansion of F1 25, not a separate game. F1Laps, SRT, Pits n' Giggles, Pacedex and Driver Dojo all list support for it, and SimRacingSetup.com and GO Setups publish setups for it.

Can I use more than one of these tools?

Yes. A common combination is a setup library for a starting point and a telemetry tool or setup coach to refine it. If you want two tools to receive live telemetry at the same time, check each one's connection guide first.

How do I turn on telemetry in F1 25?

Every tool on this page uses the game's built-in UDP telemetry, which you switch on in the game's telemetry settings. Our telemetry setup guide walks through it for PC, PlayStation and Xbox.

Is Driver Dojo affiliated with EA, Codemasters or Formula 1?

No. Driver Dojo is an unofficial companion tool for the F1 games and is not affiliated with Formula One Management, Codemasters or EA Sports. None of the other tools on this page are affiliated with Driver Dojo.