Replay the drive, not just the destination.
Every recorded drive becomes a route you can play back at up to 16x, with the speed at every point, the corners marked, charts beneath the map, and a history that keeps all of them.
Watch the drive back.
Press play and a marker traces the route while the speed, elapsed time and distance count up beside it. Playback runs at 2x, 4x, 8x or 16x; the default picks 4x for a short drive and 16x for a long one so a commute replays in about two minutes.
- Scrub anywhere on the timeline. The marker and the readouts follow.
- Four color modes for the route: Speed, Road, G-Force, Elevation. Speed is the heat map; the others recolor the same line by what the sensors saw there.
- Corners are marked on the route with their rating, so a canyon road reads as a string of letters.
- A live version of the same map is available during the drive, following the car with a re-center button.
What a saved trip contains
Everything below is computed when the drive ends and stored with it on the phone.
The route
Every accepted GPS fix with its speed, so the line can be recolored later without recomputing anything. Tunnels and overpasses are marked where the signal dropped.
Charts
Speed and elevation against elapsed time, and a speed distribution in 20 km/h bands. Scrubbing the chart moves the map marker.
Scores and grades
The overall driving score with its four components, plus safety, grip usage, ride comfort, road quality and energy efficiency. The score page shows the formulas.
Corners
Each corner with its direction, angle, rating, entry, apex and exit speed, lateral G and performance score, sorted so the best corner is at the top.
Vehicle dynamics
Top speed, top corner speed, max acceleration and deceleration, peak G, and the 0-100 km/h time if the drive contained a launch. Left turns, right turns, lane changes and brake events are counted.
Trip info
Start and end city from reverse geocoding, duration, stopped time, pauses, elevation gain, and whether the recording ended cleanly or was recovered.
The history
The Recap tab opens with the three most recent trips and a View All button into the full history, grouped by date, newest first, with filters for this week and this month. Each row shows the start time, distance, duration, top speed, the number of corners and the score ring. From a trip, swiping left or right moves to the next or previous one, which is the fastest way to compare the same commute on two days.
Above the history, the Recap tab sums the record: total distance, total duration and trip count, monthly distance, average score and the score trend. The odometer page covers those totals.
Recording that survives the phone
Torq records in the background with the screen locked or another app open. Raw samples are written to disk as they arrive, so if iOS ends the app during a drive, the next launch finds the partial recording and offers to recover it, ending the trip at the last valid point, or to discard it. Nothing is lost silently.
Getting a trip out
Any trip can be shared as a GPX track, a CSV summary or the raw DPSE sensor file from its detail screen. The export page describes each format and what opens it.
Questions people ask
What does the trip replay show?
The route on a map with a marker that moves along it at 2x, 4x, 8x or 16x, the speed at the marker, elapsed time and distance, and the corners marked along the way. The route line is colored by speed, from blue at the slowest to red at the fastest, and can be switched to color by road quality, G-force or elevation.
Is every drive saved automatically?
Every drive you start and stop is saved with its route, stats and analysis, on the phone. There is no cloud copy. Delete a trip from its detail screen, or delete them all by removing the app.
What is a speed heat map?
A route line whose color at each point is the speed there. Torq uses four stops: blue for the slowest, cyan, yellow, and red for the fastest section of that drive. It makes the shape of a drive readable at a glance: a red highway stretch, a blue crawl through town, the yellow of a good back road.
Can I look at the charts for a trip?
Yes. Under the map are a speed chart and an elevation chart against elapsed time, and a speed distribution showing how much of the drive was spent in each 20 km/h band. Scrub the speed chart and the map marker moves to that moment.
How is the trip history organized?
Newest first, grouped by date, with filters for all time, this week and this month. Each row shows the start time, distance, duration, top speed, corner count and the trip's score ring. Tapping a row opens the trip detail; swiping between trips moves to the previous or next one.
What if the app was closed mid-drive?
Recording continues in the background normally. If iOS terminates the app, the next launch offers to recover the drive from the data already written to disk, ending it at the last valid point, or to discard it.
Does trip replay need a network?
The route and all the data are on the phone. The map tiles under the route are fetched from Apple Maps, so without a connection the route still draws over whatever tiles are cached.
Every drive, kept and replayable.
Start a drive, stop it, and it is on the map with its speed, its corners and its score. Come back to it whenever you like.
iPhone, iOS 17 or later. No account. First drive free.