More than an iPhone dash cam
Can You Use Your iPhone as a Track Day Dash Cam?
Yes — and at a circuit you’ll want more from it than a dash cam gives you. A dash cam app points one camera at the road and keeps rolling. PinIt Cam is built for track days: it films the circuit and you at the same time, times your laps, records GPS speed and G-force, and finds the best moments for you.
The lap is only half the story.
Why a dash cam app falls short on track
A dash cam is designed for the road: an always-on, forward-facing recording you hope you never need to watch. At a track day the opposite is true — you want to watch it. You want to see the line you took into the braking zone, how fast you were at the end of the straight, and the look on your face when it went sideways at the hairpin.
That’s the gap PinIt Cam fills. Your iPhone already has two cameras, GPS and motion sensors. PinIt Cam uses all of them at once, and knows 107 circuits well enough to time your laps and name the corners on your footage.
Dash cam app vs PinIt Cam
| Typical road dash cam app | PinIt Cam | |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Everyday road driving | Track days and circuit driving |
| Cameras | Usually one, facing forward | Both at once — the circuit ahead and the driver, synced |
| Recording | Continuous, overwriting old footage | Sessions you start and stop, kept until you delete them |
| Lap timing | No | Automatic at 107 supported circuits |
| Track map & corners | No | Live track map; named corners at 74 circuits |
| Telemetry | Often speed and location | GPS speed, G-force, distance and session time, burned into the video |
| Finding the good bits | You scrub through it | Nine detectors flag late braking, big saves, committed corners and more |
| Output | Raw video files | Split screen, picture-in-picture, track only or driver only — 9:16 or 16:9 |
What PinIt Cam isn’t
PinIt Cam is not a road dash cam, and it doesn’t try to be. There’s no loop recording, no parking mode and no recording in the background — you start a session, drive, and stop it. It isn’t designed to capture evidence of road incidents. If you want an always-on camera for your daily drive, a dedicated dash cam is the right tool.
Where PinIt Cam belongs is the circuit: track days and other events on closed circuits, where you’re there to drive and want to relive it afterwards.
What you get from a track day
- Track and driver in one recording. The rear camera films the circuit, the front camera films you. Pick the layout afterwards — split screen, picture-in-picture, track only or driver only.
- Lap times without a lap timer. At each of the 107 supported circuits PinIt Cam recognises where you are from GPS and times you from the circuit’s own timing line. No beacon, no transponder.
- Corner names on your clips. On 74 circuits your highlights read Paddock Hill or Eau Rouge, not a timestamp.
- A highlight reel built for you. PinIt Cam reads the GPS, motion and audio data and pulls out the moments worth keeping.
- Your whole group in one video. Paddock Mode shares sessions phone-to-phone at the circuit and finds the battles between you.
- Works with no signal. GPS comes from satellites, so recording, timing and export all work offline.
Using your iPhone as a track day camera
- Check the rules. Ask your track day organiser what they allow for in-car cameras and mounts before you arrive.
- Mount it solidly. Portrait or landscape both work — PinIt Cam detects which way up the phone is when you start recording. Anything that rattles will show in the footage.
- Keep it cool. Airplane mode, out of direct sun, case off, and a few minutes to cool down between sessions make the biggest difference on a hot day.
- Start recording before you leave the pit lane. At a supported circuit PinIt Cam recognises the track and starts timing laps from the line.
- Export when you’re home. Choose a layout and orientation, trim the clip, and share it.
You’ll need an iPhone XS or later, which can run both cameras at once. Everything stays on your phone — no account, no cloud, no analytics. How PinIt Cam handles your data.
Turn your iPhone into a track day camera.
Free on the App Store. Every feature is in the free app; Pro is a one-time purchase that lifts the monthly export limit.
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