OpenDash beside Lovely and Daniel Newman Racing
Both have shipped longer and cover more sims than OpenDash. This is what you would gain and lose by switching.
- Free, included or compatible
- With a condition
- Paid
- Coming soon, with the issue
- Not built, with the reason
- No
- Not checked: their pages do not say
| Feature | OpenDashversion 0.3.0-rc.6 | Lovely Sim Racingchecked 22 September 2026 | Daniel Newman Racingchecked 22 September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sims | iRacing iRacing, tested. Other sims may work and are not claimed. | Compatible 12 sims natively, and any sim SimHub reads. | Compatible 7 sims with measured car data, and any sim SimHub reads. |
| Price | Free OpenDash is free and always will be. No licence, no account, nothing to unlock. | Paid Free tier limited to 3 modules per side and no pit wall. Starter €1 a month, Pro €3, Gold €9. | Paid Dashboards free as shipped. Changing anything starts at Pit Crew, £3 a month. Team Driver £6, Team Principal £9, all before VAT. |
| Licence | MIT MIT. Use it, change it, redistribute it. | Restricted A licence key, on at most 2 PCs. No refunds. Source published, reuse of the design forbidden. | Restricted 1 PC per plan, 2 on Team Principal. |
| Activation and accounts | None | Licence key A licence key for the paid tiers. | Membership A membership for anything beyond the shipped dashboards. |
| Screen sizes | Included 10 faces: 1920 × 480, 1280 × 480, 1280 × 400, 1280 × 720, 850 × 480, 800 × 480, 800 × 286, 600 × 686, 800 round, 480 round. | Included Standard, curved, square, round, nano 800 × 286, 1280 × 400, 1280 × 480, 1920 × 480, 800 round, and the Heusinkveld DisplayDash. | Included 7 dashboards for VoCore, DDUs, wheels, phones, tablets and monitors. Sizes not listed. |
| Works without the plugin | Yes Yes. Every dashboard carries its own defaults. | No The dashboards cannot run without the Lovely Plugin, in their own words. | No The plugin is part of the install; running without it is not described. |
| Second screen | Included A companion at 850 × 480 and 480 × 850, 21 pages. | Included A companion, landscape and portrait. | Included Co-Pilot. |
| Pit wall | Included 1920 × 1080 with 3 pages, and 1080 × 1920. | Paid Lovely Pit Wall, on Pro at €3 a month. | Included Race Control. |
| LED profiles and per-car shift lights | Free 62 strip shapes. The car’s own lights from the open Lovely Car Data table, fetched by the plugin. | Not checked | Paid Every LED profile needs a membership. Shift points measured for over 600 cars. |
| Flag box, 8 × 8 matrix | Free 69 glyphs, generated. Flags, pit states, warnings, the gear and the spotter. | Not checked | Paid Matrix profiles on Team Driver, £6 a month. |
| Idle screen | Coming soon | Included An animated screen, in the free tier. | Included DNR, driver, car or your own picture. |
| Alerts and pop-ups | Included 15 flags on the band, pit alerts over the gear, pop-ups for lap times and setting changes. | Not checked | Included Car state, incidents, setting changes and the full flag stack. |
| Pit page on the face | Not checked | Not checked | |
| Dashboard manager and first run | Included A dashboard manager in the plugin. | Included Through the plugin. | |
| Night mode | Included True Dark Mode. | Paid Dark mode with day and night switching, from Pit Crew. | |
| Themes and colours | Not checked | Paid Colours and customisation from Pit Crew. | |
| Licence and rating on driver rows | Coming soon | Not checked | Not checked |
| Flags screen for a second display | Coming soon | Included Flags variants: standard, round and square. | Not checked |
| Stream overlay | Not built Not built. Nobody has asked for it. docs/scope.md: the stream overlay is neither built nor refused; nobody has asked for it. | Included Lovely Overlay and Lovely Tower. | Paid Overlays on Team Driver, £6 a month. |
| Invisible dash | Not built Not built. A see-through dash over the game is an overlay, and nobody has asked for one. | Not checked | Included Invisible, a see-through overlay. |
| Teammate telemetry | Not built Not built. Nothing about you leaves your machine. docs/scope.md: telemetry about the user: nothing about the user leaves their machine. | Included TeamLINQ. | Paid DNR RELAY, from Pit Crew. |
| Vendor wheel integrations | Not built Not built. A strip is a shape, not a brand: any sides and centre are covered. | Included Editions for several wheel makers. | Not checked |
| Buildable from source | Yes Yes. TypeScript and design tokens, 1 command. | No Source published, reuse forbidden. | No Closed. |
| What leaves your machine | Nothing An optional daily update check to GitHub. Nothing else. | Not checked | Not checked |
| Community | GitHub GitHub issues. No Discord. | Discord A Discord of about 18,000. | Discord A Discord of about 7,800. |
Competitor facts were read from their public sites on 22 September 2026. Tell us on GitHub if one is wrong.
No competitor screenshots appear on this site. Lovely’s licence forbids using its interface in marketing, and the same rule is applied to both.
What is coming
Each is an open issue, read from the table above so the two cannot disagree.
- Idle screen#113
- Pit page on the facePit view is a page today. A pit page that opens on entering the lane is coming.#383
- Dashboard manager and first runThe plugin installs all 14 and updates itself. Browsing, removing and a first-run guide are coming.#84, #85
- Night modeBrightness and night brightness for the lights today. Screens coming.#128
- Themes and colours#127, #99
- Licence and rating on driver rows#149
- Flags screen for a second display#116