IRONMAN Tracker Software

The highlight of this app is the ability to track one or more participants from start to finish, even in the dark! The maps are provided in 2D and 3D modes. Expand the maps and you can see street names as the participant makes turn-by-turn. In a noisy spectator environment, the Audible notifications as the participant gets through timed check points, is a great plus! This way, one is able to view participant race stats at every stage. The only downside is that when Internet signal is used by so many spectators at the race venue, tracking can be slow to update. However, if you are familiar enough with the app, you must estimate that your participant is a little further ahead than tracking shows. This enables you to be at a certain vantage place to see and cheer your favorite participants as they pass by. Overall though, a much appreciated App!

This app is the single best tool to use for planning the day-of spectation of a friend or loved one competing in an Ironman event. You can track multiple athletes both on time-in-event splits and time-of-day splits. These splits and the projected future splits take all of the error and much of the guesswork out of when to position yourself at certain locations, and the app even offers direction to those locations. The only suggestion I could make to improve this app would be for it to take into account the posted Ironman road closures in generating the directions to locations to view each athlete, which could cut out some time consuming navigational cross-referencing. But this app is invaluable and will be my first move in spectating any Ironman henceforth.

My first app review because this thing was THE BOMB! So many cool, easy to use features. Absolutely love how it aggregates athlete's data in an easy to read format and how easily athletes can be searched for/added to the roster. A bonus was the visual map of the course with (near) real-time updates of their position on the map. Of course, it has to estimate positions between timing stations but I was amazed at how well it did this. Also the notifications at the timing stations was such a cool feature! Made tracking my friends a thrill rather than a frustrating experience trying to navigate the worthless IRONMAN site. I would actually pay a good amount of money for this app....can't believe it's free. Thank you to the designers!