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Live timing, team radio, telemetry, widgets and fantasy, across the apps F1 fans actually use in 2026. What each one costs, which platforms it runs on, and what it genuinely does. We make one of them, and we say so.
Nobody follows a Grand Prix in one app. Most fans end up with two or three, and the useful question is which combination fits how you watch.
Declaring the obvious first: we make one of the apps below. Formula Dream is ours. We have described it the same way we describe the others, said plainly what it does not do, and left the rest of the list intact even where a rival does something better than we do. If that is not good enough for you, the Google Play and App Store
Twenty-five Japanese Grands Prix have been held since 2000, all at Suzuka except two at Fuji. Pole won seventeen, Max Verstappen won four in a row from 2022, and Kimi Raikkonen won from seventeenth in 2005 with a last-lap pass. Every winner, grid slot and safety car, measured.
Prices, tiers and regional availability change constantly, so confirm the current details for your country before paying for anything.
If team radio is the reason you are reading this, you do not need any app to start: our F1 team radio archive holds 39,309 broadcast messages from 2018 to 2026 in the browser, free, with audio and transcripts.
| App | Platforms | Cost | Live timing | Team radio |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Official F1 app | iOS, Android | Free, optional subscription | Basic free, full paid | Paid tiers |
| F1 TV | iOS, Android, web, TV | Paid, tiers vary by country | Yes | Yes |
| Formula Dream (ours) | iOS, Android | Free, no subscription | Yes, beta | Yes, live with transcript |
| F101 | iOS only | Free | Yes | Yes, transcribed |
| Formula Live Pulse | iOS | Free | Yes | Yes |
| MultiViewer | Desktop only | Free app, needs paid F1 TV | Yes | Yes |
| BoxBox | iOS, Android | Freemium | Widgets | No |
| Race Control | iOS only | Free, optional PRO | Widgets, Live Activities | No |
| f1-dash / Nitrous | Web, desktop | Free, open source | Yes | No |
| GP Tempo | Web | Free | After the session | No |
You want the official everything. The official F1 app covers schedule, news, results, standings and a basic live leaderboard for free, with telemetry, the driver tracker and team radio behind a subscription whose name and price vary by region. F1 TV is the only legal route to live video in most countries, sold in tiers, and in some markets including the UK only the cheapest tier exists because a local broadcaster holds the rights.
You want a second screen during the session. This is the busiest category. F101 (iOS) gives live timing, telemetry traces and transcribed team radio for free. Formula Live Pulse (iOS) covers similar ground with strategy context. Ours runs on both iOS and Android, plays driver radio live as it is broadcast with the transcript beside it, and collects every FIA document of the weekend as the stewards publish it, which is the part most fans never see. Our live timing dashboard is labelled beta and still being built, so if live timing is your single priority, F101 or f1-dash will serve you better today.
You want everything on one screen. MultiViewer is the enthusiast's answer: a desktop app playing synchronised F1 TV feeds with onboards, timing and telemetry together. It is free and fan-made, but the video comes from F1 TV, so you need an active subscription and a desktop.
You want glanceable updates. BoxBox does widgets across iOS and Android covering F1, F2, F3 and F1 Academy. Race Control is iOS only with widgets, Live Activities and an Apple Watch app. Purple Sector and PitWall occupy the same space.
You want the numbers. f1-dash is an open-source live timing dashboard, free and self-hostable, now moving to a successor called Nitrous as access to F1's data tightens. GP Tempo graphs lap times and telemetry after a session, built on the FastF1 project, for study rather than live viewing.
You want to play. F1 Fantasy is the official free game. Fantasy GP is the long-running independent alternative, free with an optional PRO tier, and deeper on statistics.
There is no single best F1 app, and anyone who tells you otherwise is selling one.
If you want a realistic 2026 setup: the official app for the schedule and news, F1 TV if your country sells a useful tier, and one free companion for the session itself. Which companion depends on your phone and what you care about, and if you are on Android the field narrows quickly, because several of the best ones are iOS only.
What we would say for ours specifically: take it for the radio and the FIA documents, not for live timing, which is still in beta.
For following a session in detail, F101 on iOS and Formula Dream on iOS and Android are both free with no subscription. The official F1 app is free for schedule, news, results and standings, with the richer features behind a paid tier.
F1 TV, the official app's paid tiers, F101, Formula Live Pulse and Formula Dream all carry team radio. Every route to it, including what the broadcast gives you free, is compared in how to listen to F1 driver radio. Formula Dream and F101 both transcribe it; ours plays it live during the session with the transcript alongside.
Only for live video. Timing, radio, telemetry and standings are all available free somewhere in the list above. MultiViewer needs F1 TV because it plays F1 TV's own streams.
The field is smaller: the official app, Formula Dream, BoxBox and the web tools f1-dash and GP Tempo. F101, Race Control and Formula Live Pulse are iOS only.
Formula Dream collects every FIA document of a race weekend as it is published, including stewards' decisions. Most apps do not carry them at all.
Formula Dream plays live driver radio as it is broadcast with a colour-coded transcript beside the audio, collects every FIA document of the weekend as the stewards publish it, and carries standings, results, the calendar and fantasy leagues. The live timing dashboard is in beta.
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Nineteen Chinese Grands Prix have been held in Shanghai since 2004. Lewis Hamilton won six, pole won twelve, and in 2026 Kimi Antonelli took the first win of his career there, at 19, with Hamilton on the podium for Ferrari for the first time. Every winner, grid slot and safety car, measured.
