What Is TachoDash? A Forza Telemetry Dashboard for Your Phone

TachoDash is a Forza telemetry dashboard that runs on the phone or tablet you already own. Your console and your phone share the same Wi-Fi network, the app reads the game's data output, and the gauges move in real time — no PC, no capture card, no second monitor on your desk.

What TachoDash actually is

It is a dashboard app, not a tuning tool and not a racing coach. Its job is to put the instrument cluster of your car on a screen you can place anywhere: a phone on a mount, a tablet beside the wheel, an old handset on the shelf.

The app connects straight to the game over your local network. There is no companion server, no browser tab left open on a laptop, and nothing to install on the console itself. You turn on the game's data output once, the app picks it up, and the dashboard goes live.

What separates it from a plain data readout is the look. TachoDash ships a growing library of themes — finely crafted, professional-grade dashboards with their own typography, needles, colours and layout logic. Some are close to a modern digital cluster, some are analog and vintage, some are deliberately quiet. The point is that the screen in front of you is worth looking at, not just worth reading.

What you need

• A phone or tablet running iOS or Android.
• Forza Horizon 5, Forza Horizon 6, Forza Motorsport 7 or Forza Motorsport (2023).
• Both devices on the same Wi-Fi network.
• The game's telemetry output switched on — a one-time setting, covered below.

No PC is involved at any point. That is the whole reason the app exists in this shape.

Set it up in three steps

Forza Horizon 5 and Forza Horizon 6

1. In game, open Settings → HUD and Gameplay → Telemetry.
2. Set Data Out to ON, then enter your phone or tablet's IP address and any port that is not in the 5200–5300 range.
3. Open TachoDash, pick a theme, and the dashboard starts moving.

Forza Motorsport 7 and Forza Motorsport (2023)

The same three steps, with one extra detail that catches most people: the output format must be set to Dash — not Sled. If the app connects but nothing moves, that setting is almost always the reason.

Which Forza games are supported

• Forza Horizon 6
• Forza Motorsport (2023) — also known as FM8
• Forza Horizon 5
• Forza Motorsport 7

Forza Horizon 4 is not supported: on the Xbox side the game does not expose the telemetry data the app needs. This is a platform limitation, not a setting you can fix.

Themes: a growing library, free and premium

Every install starts with a set of free themes, and the library keeps growing — new looks are added over time.

Beyond the free set, premium themes are sold as Theme T1 through Theme T10, each one unlocked permanently on its own. There are also passes — Monthly, Quarterly and Yearly — which unlock the premium themes for as long as the pass is active. The two work independently: a pass is a rental of access, a single theme purchase is ownership of that theme.

Whichever way you go, you are picking a look you want on your dashboard, not unlocking basic functionality. The free themes are real themes, not demos.

Making it yours

• Units are set independently: mph or km/h, psi or bar.
• Theme parameters can be adjusted, so colours can be tuned without leaving the app.
• Custom layout support is built in, though the current themes ship without layout presets — so expect to customise how a theme looks before you customise where things sit.
• The interface is available in 10 languages, while the store listing and this site are English only for now.

Why a phone instead of a monitor

A monitor is fixed to a desk. A phone goes where you drive from, and a tablet gives you a bigger cluster without a cable run across the room. Because the connection is wireless and the app does the rendering, the same setup works on a TV stand, a rig, or a couch — anywhere your Wi-Fi reaches, which is also where your console already is.

A note on what this project is

TachoDash is an informal fan project built by people who play Forza and wanted a better-looking dashboard. It is not a studio product and not a competitive tool — treat it the way you'd treat a nice watch for your rig. Game names are used here only to say which titles the app works with.

Get TachoDash

TachoDash is available on the App Store and on Google Play. If you want to see the dashboards first, browse the theme library; the download page has both store links side by side.