DashWare alternative: data overlays for your video in 2026
By Bart, who makes Telemetry Studio · Facts last checked
DashWare is no longer developed: its last version, 1.9.1, came out in 2017, it only ever ran on Windows, and the official download has returned an error since early 2024. Copies on mirror sites still work on some PCs, but nothing will be fixed.
For cycling, running and GoPro footage, Telemetry Studio replaces it on Mac and Windows and lines up the data automatically ($79 once, 14-day free trial). If you depend on DashWare's CSV profiles for an unusual motorsport logger, Telemetry Overlay reads more formats.
What happened to DashWare
DashWare was a popular free Windows app for putting gauges from data loggers on video. GoPro owned it: its license names "GoPro, Inc. d/b/a DashWare". Version 1.9.1 in 2017 was the last release. The download page worked until early 2023 and has returned an error since 2024, and the dashware.net site is now blank.
DashWare vs Telemetry Studio
| DashWare | Telemetry Studio | |
|---|---|---|
| Last update | Version 1.9.1, 2017 | Several releases a month |
| Official download | Gone since early 2024 | telemetrystudio.com |
| Price | Was free | $79 once, 14-day free trial |
| Platforms | Windows only | macOS and Windows |
| Data | CSV data profiles for many loggers, GPX; FIT unreliable | FIT, GPX, Strava, RaceBox, VBO, DJI SRT |
| GoPro's own GPS | Yes (Hero 5 Black, added in 1.9.0) | Yes, Hero 5 Black and later |
| Lining up data and video | Mostly by hand | Automatic, or by a landmark on the map |
| 360 video | No | Insta360 .insv, opened directly |
| Gauges | 100+ and a gauge editor | About 70 overlay types in themes, no gauge editor |
| Data analysis graphs | Yes | No |
| Transparent overlay export | PNG frames | ProRes 4444 or PNG frames |
Where DashWare was better: it was free, it had a gauge editor with over 100 gauges, its data profiles let users add almost any CSV logger, and it had a data-analysis view. Telemetry Studio has none of those, and if they matter most to you it isn't the right replacement.
Switching from DashWare
- Riding or running: use the FIT file from your Garmin, Wahoo or Coros, or connect Strava. No CSV profiles to set up.
- GoPro with GPS on: open the video and your speed is already there. Add a FIT file for power, heart rate and cadence.
- Track days: RaceBox CSV and VBO files work, with lap and sector times, G-force, lean angle and a track map.
- Editing in Premiere or Resolve: export the overlay alone with a transparent background, like DashWare's PNG export.
Step by step: how to add Garmin data to GoPro video.
Other DashWare alternatives
- Telemetry Overlay: $199, Mac, Windows and Linux, about 60 data formats including AiM, MoTeC and OBD-II, custom gauges. The closest match for DashWare's logger support. Compared with Telemetry Studio.
- gopro-dashboard-overlay: free, open source, command line.
- Garmin VIRB Edit: free, but also unmaintained since 2018. More on VIRB Edit.
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