Touch Racer (racing wheel)

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About this app

"Touch Racer" is software that turns any Android device into a racing wheel controller.

It lets you use your smartphone or tablet for steering a car when playing any Windows computer game. The phone and the computer connects each other automatically via Wi-Fi.

It supports any Windows game, which you can play with an ordinary racing wheel, because it completely emulates a real joystick.

To make it work you should also install computer software "Touch Racer" on your Windows (it's available on the website: www.touchracer.com).

*How to steer with a phone*

Your smartphone becomes a steering wheel, for turning the car you just need to turn the phone.

The phone also emulates car pedals. Accelerating and breaking are performed by thumbs. You should swipe over the screen controlling a level of accelerating with a right thumb and breaking with left one. A level of accelerating or breaking is shown on the screen by a colour bar.
This way you can easily choose any level of accelerating and breaking you want from 0% to 100%.

*Requirements for a computer*

Your computer must be on Windows and also support wi-fi or be connected to any wi-fi router by wires.

Ratings and reviews

I've tried a similar app before and never got it to work maybe the setting too complicated. I tried this app and didn't get it the first time. It's actually super simple, the games actually recognize it as a new device easy to set up after that. I am playing Dirt rally 2.0 on it. just have to play around a bit to figure out Best configuration. This is exactly what I was wishing for since I do not have enough space for a bulky steering wheel and pedals. Thank you!

The app is amazing. It is taken as steering wheel input by all the games. Connection is great too as when connected via same wi-fi, there is no delay. But I am facing a problem with calibration. When I reduce the max degrees of steering sensitivity (eg: 15°), the center shift towards the left. I have tried all sort of calibrations. Please look into it.

The app is unable to establish a connection between my phone and my computer (over WiFi), even though both devices are on the same network. I have also tried the beta version of the app, as well as various versions of vJoy, but to no avail. Ensuring that Windows Firewall rules allow communication between the two components didn't yield a solution (neither did completely disabling the firewall). On that note, debug features such as access to logs and error messages would be a great addition.

What’s new

-Title bar in game mode removed
-Fixed Bluetooth error on newer Android versions
-Link to the privacy policy added