About and method
This directory lists software people run alongside racing and flight simulators: overlays and dashboards, telemetry analysis, coaching, race engineers, cockpit hardware, flight planning, ATC and more.
How entries are researched
Entries are built from public sources: project repositories and their documentation, publisher pages and announcements, and independent community discussions and tutorials. Each tool's page links the sources behind it and the date it was last checked.
Tools are not tested hands-on. A listed simulator means the project or its community documents support for it, not that every feature works with every version. Experimental, beta and historical support is marked as such, and notes record known limits such as required add-ons or archived repositories. A simulator missing from a list does not prove a tool cannot work with it.
Simulator lists
Simulators are listed in approximate order of relevance to the tool. Version families are grouped on simulator pages (all F1 editions under F1 series, for example), while each tool keeps its exact versions. General utilities that work with any title appear on every simulator page in their directory.
- ACC
- Assetto Corsa Competizione
- AC, AC EVO, AC Rally
- Assetto Corsa, Assetto Corsa EVO and Assetto Corsa Rally, three separate titles
- LMU
- Le Mans Ultimate
- AMS2
- Automobilista 2
- MSFS
- Microsoft Flight Simulator
- F1 25 (2026 Season Pack)
- 2026 content for F1 25, rather than a separate game
Categories
Each tool has one main category, for what it is mainly used for, and up to two secondary ones for other main uses. Filtering by a category shows both, and listings mark secondary uses with “Also”.
Popularity estimates
Popularity is an editorial 1–5 estimate of public visibility: how much attention a tool gets in public repositories, discussions and tutorials. It is not a rating of quality, and not a measure of downloads, traffic or active users. A difference of one point does not mean a fixed number of users.
For tools with a public GitHub repository, the starting tier comes from its stars:
| GitHub stars | Starting tier |
|---|---|
| Fewer than 10 | 1 |
| 10–99 | 2 |
| 100–499 | 3 |
| 500–1,999 | 4 |
| 2,000 or more | 5 |
Community visibility sets or adjusts the estimate, especially for closed-source tools that have no repository:
| Community visibility | About |
|---|---|
| Very little public discussion | 1 |
| Occasional niche discussion or launch coverage | 2 |
| Recurring niche recommendations or tutorials over time | 3 |
| Frequent comparisons, recommendations or tutorial coverage | 4 |
| Repeatedly recommended as a default or essential tool | 5 |
This is judgment, not a formula. Independent discussion counts for more than a developer's own posts, and older fame is not taken as evidence of current use. Shared repositories are not double-counted: a project that shares a repository with a sibling does not inherit its stars.
Confidence describes the evidence, not the tool: low for sparse or indirect evidence, medium for several consistent signals, high for repeated independent recommendations.
Project links
The main link on each entry points to the project's own page, repository or listing. It identifies the right project; it does not certify that downloads are available or safe. A “possible match” is a related page whose connection is not confirmed.
Data
The lists are available as CSV files for personal reference:
See rights and use for what the files may be used for.