Last updated on January 15th, 2026 at 10:57 pm
SmoothTrack: Head Tracker – Action Game Review
SmoothTrack: Head Tracker is a Action/Simulation/Developer Tools game from John Goering, first launched in 23rd August 2020.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 243+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes SmoothTrack: Head Tracker Stand Out
SmoothTrack 2.0 uses the head and eye tracking AR capabilities of your phone to provide the simplest and best head tracker for 6 degrees-of-freedom head movements in your sim games.
"The best new controller on the market." – Charlie Hall, Polygon
Customer reviews:
"SmoothTrack just works. Less than 5 minutes to install, setup and fly. Love not being tethered to my desk! 5 stars!!"
"This worked perfectly and way better than expected! Totally enhanced my experience with MFS 2020!"
It's a near magical experience to seamlessly slightly move your head and have your game perspective immediately play along (the movements in the game are exaggerated so that you only have to make slight movements of your head to control the camera). Additionally, since version 2, your eyes are also optionally tracked and will nudge the camera based on where you're glancing on screen!
- Simply lean forward to get a closer look at your Flight Simulator cockpit!
- Look a bit up to see the overhead panel of your A320!
- Simply shift your head a bit to the right to see the direction of the space station you're approaching in Elite: Dangerous!
- Look a bit left before a hard left turn in Euro Truck Simulator 2!
No headset or extra equipment of any kind is required! Simply set up your device so that it can see your face. Using simple camera gestures, you can shift your perspective in-game. Also, if you want, you can store views (say, a copilot angle, or a cockpit closeup) as Quick Views for easy access later.
Your head movements are slightly exaggerated which enables you to look out of a cockpit side window with just a slight movement of your head to the left.
Any game that supports the FreeTrack or TrackIR protocol will work with this, including:
- Microsoft Flight Simulator
- Microsoft FSX
- DCS World
- Elite: Dangerous
- IL2: Sturmovik
- Euro Truck Simulator 2
- Kerbal Space Program
- …and many, many others!
Email and Discord support is provided if there are any issues (or if you have any ideas for new features!).
This Action game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, SmoothTrack: Head Tracker is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 25th October 2025
Recent improvements include:
2.01
- New App Clip for trying out a simplified version of SmoothTrack with yaw axis tracking!
- Fixed QuickViews not persisting between app launches
- Fixed eye tracking settings not persisting between app launches
- Fixed AirPods Pro mode to work whether or not tracking was set to on. Added a button to show the AirPods Pro mode capability.
2.0 was a HUGE update of SmoothTrack:
- Brand new and improved UI, rewritten from the ground up to be 93% less ugly!
- Added eye tracking capabilities for nudging the view when glancing around! Activate eye tracking by tapping the eye button, and set up eye tracking sensitivity in the settings.
- You can now easily create camera offsets with camera control gestures: panning with one, two, or three fingers on the screen.
- Easily save, choose, and delete offset quick views right on the main screen.
I really hope you enjoy SmoothTrack! If you do, you can support it by leaving an App Store review and by spreading the word to your sim communities!
Join us on Discord https://discord.gg/smkbp6p and let me know if you have any feedback or run into any issues. Thanks!
Download & Availability
SmoothTrack: Head Tracker is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get SmoothTrack: Head Tracker on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Great for flight sims, we use it in arma, dcs, and war thunder to great effect. Cheap, effective, greatly enhanced abilities.
It took us about 2 hours to finally get it to work but only because we were partially ignore to the instructions. If you follow the instructions very carefully it works perfectly. If anyone is wondering it does work with American Truck simulator and Farming simulator automatically once tracking is setup. 10/10.
Thanks for keeping SmoothTrack light as a feather.
Highly recommend this to any simulator user. Recent updates – more like an overhaul – are excellent! Our iPhone is held by an arm that we bought on Amazon; the arm is not touching our sim rig at all in order to avoid interference by shaking. This app allows us to look around any cockpit – plane or race car- just like the real thing.
We were thinking of getting the trackingir from Amazon but after watching a few YouTube videos we stumbled upon Smooth tracking and it works so well. We saved ourselves $130 dollars and its worth it in our honest opinion.
We were hesitant for a little while how well this would work for DCS/MSFS but after buying it we can say Im utterly impressed. It is a professional and well crafted product and was practically effortless to setup. Only about 1-2 hours to perfect our curves without any prior experience and getting it working perfectly how we want it. Nothing more to say than if you have any interest in this just buy it! Its nothing short of spectacular.
We use SmoothTrack along with opentrack for head tracking in flight sims. This app works flawlessly, even in a dimly lit room and we dont need to attach anything to our head.
Highly recommend this app, its features are top notch we cannot game without it anymore. For the price there is no match and the setup takes less than 2 min especially if you watch a guide on youtube. We use it for American truck sim and msfs 2020 and have been recently learning in another mod/game called falcon bms and it makes using the cockpit 10x easier. For the price you literally cannot beat it. 10/10.
Recently we have been looking for a way to enable our ability to look around while playing Elite Dangerous. We have a HOSAS setup but really wanted the ability to increase our visibility especially when in combat. We looked at a VR headset but didnt really want the stress on our neck. We ran across this app referenced on Reddit and thought we would give it a try. Im really happy with the results! Love that we can look around our cockpit while flying. Added immersion for only $12! The app was pretty easy to configure and just worked once we were in game. We do occasionally have to recalibrate but that is probably due to us slightly adjusting y chair as we play. This works by connecting your phone to your computer via USB or WiFi. Im using WiFi and have found it to have great performance. The app will work with your phone from multiple angles. We sit our phone on a charging cradle on our desk for tracking which not only helps keep our phone charged but keeps the phone at a good consistent angle for viewing our head movements.
Worth reviewing which we never do, but this app is amazing. Was researching head tracking products we have all heard of before and somehow through the rabbit hole heard of this working with an open source program. After about 10 minutes we were already using it for American truck simulator. Cant wait to try it on flight sims now. For the cost of this app we have a head tracking program and dont need to wear anything! Well done! Worth every penny.
Ive been using head tracker with star citizen for two years now and can say, its the best. It kills the tracking in-game and Ive used tobii and no offense, $280 for what? This does the same thing. Eye tracking head tracking direct connection wireless connection with low latency cost effective Everything has been wonderful and the cost is so low youll find a use for it someone how if you are a gamer.
This is awesome. No equipment on your head.
Work perfectly with MSFS 2020 and BeamNG.drive.
This software is so perfect, and the facial tracking effect is very good. It's just that we want to use an Android phone exclusively. Can we transfer the purchase to the Android market.
Using face recognition as head tracker is a fantastic idea! And it is amazing that you made this! Though from our experience that it always drifts when using with open track, not sure where we should adjust.
As somebody who has tried VR, but found the graphics to be lacking, being able to track our head with our iPhone is amazing. Also the newest version is so much better than the old version. Keep up the good work.
This is our first ever app review. We had to write one for this one. This app costs $13 and provides a level of accuracy close to Tobii and TrackIR. Although actual dedicated hardware will perform better, this comes extremely close and is pennies compared to the cost of some head tracking devices. We love using it in American Truck Simulator and we look forward to using it in MSFS2024 as well. Great app.
This is an excellent app and does exactly what it says it will do. The setup is minimally complicated as long as you follow the instructions. Im using it with an iphone 14 plus and it tracks way better and with a larger range than our trackIR ever did. It doesnt lose tracking even when Ive turned our head away from the screen. Im using the USB mode, we havent tried the network mode yet. It works great with our gaming laptop so we can use head tracking on the go. It works so well, it inspired us to model and 3d print a holder for our phone to hang on the back of the laptop screen. Entirely worth the purchase! If you play flight sims, having a head tracking solution is amazing. Its like the difference between using a joystick+pedals vs keyboard and mouse.
The tracking is phenomenal, especially with our IPhones high frame rates, at 120 FPS, its amazing, but the software they use to interface with OpenTrack crashes every time we launch, or is stopped by firewall, we let it bypass the firewall, launch it, and it still crashes. We hope we can get it working.
Did the job well, no need for trackIR and a hat.
We just bought this app to help with integrating opentrack into the helicopter sim-lite game we developed, MH-Zombie. It works flawlessly and we got opentrack integrated within a couple hours. This is probably the best value Ive gotten out of $10 throughout the development process.
Looked into head tracking options. Thought Id try this first since it was cheap. Setup wasnt too bad, instantly worked when we launched DCS Works really well in DCS. Immersion went up so much. 10/10 highly recommended getting this if your getting into flight sims and want to get a head tracker.
We recently bought this app in July of the 25th and for some odd reason this app alone while it works amazingly great is causing a verification required loop when we have purchased this app. It then says that Im unable to refund to be able to cancel the verification required loop because we wanna redownload some of our apps we deleted in the past. This is very annoying.
So Ive been researching ad nauseam VR vs head tracking. Im still intrigued with VR but this is scratching our itch in the mean time as we decide. This is phenomenal, works flawlessly in FS2020 and DCS. As others have said, the easiest $9 and 5 stars! Keep up the good work.
This $11 eye tracker is at par if mot better that the $200 eye trackers. Is much less of a hassle to setup and configure. No need to wear any caps or stixking sensors etc. The iphone camera works amazing with it, even in low light conditions! Our setup doesnt have much ambient light around and it still tracks flawlessly! Once you set up your curves and gains it works beautifully! All you have to do is just turn the app on and open opentrack on your computer! Im thoroughly impressed.
Works right out of the box and exactly as intended. Great head tracking solution for anyone who doesnt want to spend $2-300 on TrackIR. We highly recommend.
For just 10 bucks you get a head tracking solution that drastically improves your experience in games like MS Flight Simulator. If you dont already have dedicated head tracking hardware this is a no brainer. Tip: gradually increase the sensitivity as you get accustomed to the motion so you can look all the way to the side without twisting your neck and eyeballs too much.
This is a great app, works flawlessly for flight sims. We would like however the optio to use backside camera instead of the front camera.
As a former rw pilot of 22 years and avid flight summer in the past after a 10 year hiatus we broke down and got a new computer and msfs 2020. When setting up with latest hardware and some ancient the sim still didnt feel real. As a past user of tracker ir we thought we would give this app a try. After a challenging setup mostly due to windows 11 idiot proofing thanks to the great help files included with the app got it up and running. We are not exaggerating that the realism of the sim went up about 80%! As a former user of tracker ir this does it all with no wires and no headset. With an iPhone stand we have our phone charging on a great almost unseen place to the left of our velocity yoke and this thing just works-perfectly. One of the best most useful add ins for flight simulator! Extremely happy.
App works as advertised, but doesnt appear to be able to stay connected in the background (so wont work if you also want to run an instrument panel or flight planning app simultaneously on the same device).
For someone without a dedicated set up and on a budget this app is a life saver. Never had a single issue and is so easy to use. Recommend to everyone getting into the sim world. Thanks Dev.
Works with ATS and Euro truck! Worth the purchase.
Great face tracking tool and responsive dev.
We use this with MSFS and it adds so much. VR isnt great as we need access to our notepad when talking to ATC and throttle controls. This adds that VR realism. The new update to account for camera angle helps so much.
A fantastic head tracker for 10 bucks. A game changer. Setup was pretty quick, we use it every day.
So far the app is definitely not bad but seems a bit buggy. We are using an IPhone 8 so that may be the issue but Im not sure. Basically the problem we have is that the app freezes when we try to interact with the axis sensitivity and/or the start/pause button. When this happens the tracking stops working and we have to restart the app to fix it. Its not a massive issue because we can use opentrack to edit sensitivity but it is pretty annoying still. We also find that when turning our head (yaw axis) the app will think we are also pitching our head down (causing us to look to the side and down in game). This same thing happens with the roll axis (when we yaw our head the app thinks we are rolling also. Anyways most of these issues are manageable with the right settings in opentrack, but any feedback from the developers would be greatly appreciated.
Im using this for DCS and it is great! The tracking is smooth and it automatically connects to DCS as soon as we open the game. Our only grievance is that connecting it to the pc can be a little annoying at times but it is well worth it.
Im using this in USB mode with DCS and the A10C module. It works incredibly well. Follow the instructions on the support website to a T and it will work. We were previously using AI track and a PS2 eye, which worked ok – this is better, much better. Well worth the price. Im so glad we tried this before shelling out the money for trackir.
We knew about this app for a while before getting it but we were pretty skeptical at first. But we finally decided to try it out and we're very happy with the results. We used to run AITrack and OpenTrack in DCS, Elite Dangerous, and War thunder, but that felt glitchy and spastic at times. Plus if we looked over our shoulder in a game and looked forward again, we felt like we were fighting AITrack to look where we wanted. But with this app paired with OpenTrack, we didn't feel like we were fighting the tracker at all. It was very smooth and fun to use and contrary to some of those critical reviews here, it's not that hard to set up. 10/10 would definitely recommend.
For $10, this app is a must buy for anyone who plays Microsoft Flight Simulator. Being able too look around while flying not only increases the realism, but it makes flying in the simulator so much easierparticularly when flying patterns. We have been using this for months now and it works great. It isnt perfect and it does require a bit of research to understand how the mappings work in OpenTrack (search YouTube), but the value for price is exceedingly high. Other solutions like TrackIR are orders of magnitude more expensive and while we havent tried them, we have trouble believing that they are orders of magnitude better. The amount of enjoyment that SmoothTrack adds to flight simming cannot be overstated. Anyone who doesnt already have a head tracking solution should buy this app.
This app literally saved us $190 because we almost bought a trackIR to play DCS and MFS2020. We have an Oculus, but it gets annoying sometimes we have an iPhone 13 pro max, works flawlessly. 10/10 recommend.
This ten dollar app is better than expensive peripherals like Tobii or Track IR. Up and running in less than ten minutes, works flawlessly. Saved us 200 bucks since we no longer need extra hardware! Support this dude he deserves it.
1 hour in Elite Dangerous with SmoothTrack head tracking and Im already going to give this 5 stars. We were unsure at first when walking around in a station but as soon as we got out into a resource extraction zone and could more easily see asteroids and keep track of combat targets it felt completely natural. Even before head tracking we were already moving our head instinctually in the direction of what we wanted to see better, this just gives you the in-game feedback that your brain expects. Its so natural feeling. Setup was dead simple if youve ever used a computer before and the app does exactly what it claims to. Could not be happier.
We have been a pilot, both fixed-wing and rotary-wing, in an Arma 3 unit for a while now and our biggest gripe with flying was the lack of visual information without using a head tracker. We use a joystick and to free look without this app, you need to take your hands off the stick to go to the keyboard and free look. This is extremely dangerous as you lose all of your fine controls just to take a look at where you need to land. Ive looked into getting TrackIr but those options seemed too pricey to get in our opinion. This app is at the perfect value however. $10 is such a good price for what you get. While still rough around the edges, (not of the fault of the devs but from limitations of the system being from a phone) we think it does the job well. The customization both in the app and in Opentrack helps alleviate some of those issues. Overall we think any pilot should give this option a shot if they are interested with a head tracking system and dont already own TrackIr or other alternatives.
We tried TrackIR at$169 and didn't think it was worth it. We also tried AITrack which is free and we wasn't impressed by the tracking. This app is perfect and a bargain at $10. We use it in MS FS2020 and it works smoothly and consistently. We highly recommend this to anyone who, like us, doesn't want to do VR. We were so impressed that we offered the vendor more money and he refused it.
This is truly amazing for the money we love it! We used it on American Truck Simulator, X-Plane 11 and Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 it all worked flawlessly its nice how you can also edit the sensitivity and everything keep up the great work it was definitely worth the money.
Works very well and the guides are very helpful.
This app is truly one of the most immersive – yet simplest to set up and operate – ever. Truly ahead of its time. Im not sure Ive ever received more value from ANY app – gaming or otherwise than this one. Its not too good to be true – it just works – really, really well.
No new equipment Inexpensive Works Easy to set up and use our only complaint is that its a bit clunky in what you need to have opened on your computer in order for it to work (lots of windows), so for us alt+tabbing through windows while gaming, it can be cumbersome. But its a small complaint for a $10 item that does everything else we want.
Fantastic. Very little fine tuning (basically just adjusting sensitivity on app screen thats fairly obviously displayed) required to get the right amount of movement.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2.01
- Size: 9.97 MB
- iOS: 16.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: John Goering
Last updated: 25th October 2025 | Genre: Action, Simulation | Developer: John Goering