IRONMAN Tracker Reviews

by Magrusch

Inconsistencies when showing top results. Often limits to only top 10 results in category and no way to page through past 10 results. For the longest time, the Pro women results were capped at 10 while showed all men. That was fixed for a while but seems to have returned for both categories now.

Annoying to have to select “are you a participant?” each time you view a race and if you accidentally do, you’re screwed because you get annoying non-relevant push notifications. There’s no way to track someone without receiving all of their push notifications - clearly designed for someone who is only following a single athlete versus someone who wants to “virtually spectate” a race.

As a dev myself, I’d be embarrassed to ship something with this many inconsistencies and poor UI.

by Watchinghubbytri

I found the sound notifications very helpful. I had a trouble telling if the person I was watching was in the second leg of the bike or if he had completed it. I saw the clock continuing, so I assumed he was still biking. But I couldn’t tell if the clock was an overall time or just the bike time. I had the same problem with the run. Maybe if I understood IRONMANTracker better before the race started, that would have been better. Maybe the larger screen would have helped. It was great to have the transitions labeled because that got me back on track.

by Queensuzie

IRONMANTracker is great and makes spectating at these Ironman events so much fun! You can plan and track your athlete(s) and see who stopped and where they stopped and how long and the alerts are great too. Really, without IRONMANTracker, spectating would not be as fun at all! That being said, it DRAINS your battery on your phone. I was with five people and we started watching it at 7am and all six of us by 1pm had zero battery and dead phones and missed the finish picture opps! Maybe we should have turned off alerts and that would have helped. But IRONMANTracker is so fun to watch and the alerts are super helpful. So it needs a little improvement but it is really great.

by Maryland Barbie

I’ve used this tracker to follow my husband at 4 IronMan 70.3 events. Easy to download, easy to use. So easy to use that I have looked up times for strangers who were curious about the time and location of their athlete.

My only complaint is the minute or two lag time between when an athlete passes the tracker station and the notice appears on my phone. I missed quite a few pictures, because I was not expecting my husband to reach my location as quickly as he did, until I began to subtract 2 or 3 minutes from the tracker’s report of my husband’s location.

by Fstev153

The highlight of IRONMANTracker 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 IRONMANTracker , 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!

by Inspired By Ironman

As someone who can rarely make it down to the race itself, I love being able to watch my athlete finish each leg of the race, complete with split times and paces. Each year IRONMANTracker improves and is more and more reliable for accurate location information. If I were viewing the race in person IRONMANTracker would be indispensable for timely placement to cheer my athlete on. Highly recommend for the support crew of all racers!!

by Jessij4km

This has been the most accurate athlete tracker from various types of races I’ve used. It stalled out just a few times, for a very short duration, but that wasn’t unexpected for the size of the race. Overall, the tracker was very accurate, and provided up to date data on the athletes we were tracking. The live map tracking is so helpful in trying to bounce between cheering locations.

by IronZL123455

IRONMANTracker 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 IRONMANTracker even offers direction to those locations. The only suggestion I could make to improve IRONMANTracker 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 IRONMANTracker is invaluable and will be my first move in spectating any Ironman henceforth.

by Me5280

IRONMANTracker gets you close to you athlete and their pace/finish so you can cheer them on. Of course IRONMANTracker can’t give exact locations since we don’t have a chip inside of our athletes. As the race progresses the accuracy goes down because the algorithm used on the map cannot know the conditions or the athletes condition. With several major races at the same time the server gets bogged down and slow to respond.

by Sherpa Husband

Finally figured out how to be in the right place at the right time to cheer for my fast little wife. All you guys out there, wanting to be there for your girl on her big day, you need IRONMANTracker! It puts all the info where you need it, and it’s with you constantly on race day. Never mind the squabbling kids - you’ve the stats you need! There is a soggy delay in the upload compared to real-time, ground truth data, but that’s to be expected. Get IRONMANTracker and earn brownie points!

by Cdalcais

As a spouse of a triathlete whose been following the sport for 12 yrs the apps and athlete trackers over the years have been a huge disappointment. Fast forward to today, when I tracked athletes all day for the Mont-Tremblant Iron Man. What an amazing app!!! Great details, easy to use, on time push notifications - just a wonderful user experience. Please share this review with your app development team. I work in that field of IT and know the effort and skill it takes to implement something of this caliber. From a professional triathlete supporter, THANK YOU!!!

by Noodlenose8

This was a great comfort to me watching my sister complete her first Iron Man so far away. When the notifications came it would've been helpful if there was some exclamations of what the numbers meant. I think I figured it out over time but it would've been helpful to know right from the beginning. Plus the map was a little confusing I couldn't tell what was what but these are not complaintsthat would reduce my five star review! Keep up the good work!!

by Dinger Falcon

I downloaded IRONMANTracker to help myself and my teammates track our first Ironman 70.3. IRONMANTracker was amazing! It helped us keep track of each other’s performance and be prepared for our transitions. It also allowed my wife to watch us from home and follow our race in a way that she enjoyed it more than any other race I’ve been in. I will recommend it to more friends to track us in our future races!

by Hitman1212

I love using IRONMANTracker to track my wife when I am spectating at a race, it also work great for following friends when you are not at the race. My wife is the one who introduced me to IRONMANTracker and it is great for estimating when your athlete will cross a certain point.

The check points are determined by each race, and some races have fewer points. Some may also list them in kilometers instead of miles. The push notifications are awesome and make it fun to follow someone.

Definitely worth downloading and using at each race.

by Glowstick Ninja

I have tracked athletes before through the Ironman website and the race site, but this made it easier to get into that system. Had 8-10 athletes being tracked at the same time and all information for each athlete was easily and readily displayed. No huge lag time problems. Loved the experience. I wasn’t sure it would track while they were in the water and was extremely pleased with the tracking capabilities then as well.

by Spin Acres

It tracked my wife flawlessly, except when she reached 1:10 into the race(the swim cutoff time) IRONMANTracker said she was disqualified for not making the cutoff even though she was already 20 minutes into the bike. After a minute it reset itself and continued tracking. It did the same thing on a friend that we were also tracking in the same race. That was a such a minor nuisance I almost feel bad for mentioning it. On race day our family was spread across 4 states and one son in Asia. All could track her progress. What a wonderful app!

by Spurber

A friend’s spouse sent IRONMANTracker around to support our Ironman. We were like “oh no, another clunky app full of ads and registrations”. - Not the case at all. Downloaded IRONMANTracker , searched the name of our guy, got a map, dynamic data, AND estimated times to finish.

It was marvelous and seamless and in a world where we are generally only inspired to review something that irritates us, I am happy to say this free app delivers above and beyond for the those who want to track their athletes both while at the scene and remotely.

by Tap Dance Kid

I followed the Iron Man/Muncie event on my app from 5:30 in the morning California time until my friend crossed the finish line at 7:19 Muncie time… And it was thrilling to feel like I was almost there! Her family kept sending me pictures but IRONMANTracker ’s stats were so helpful in making me feel like I WAS “there.“ I’m not a runner or a cyclist and used to be a swimmer so it was all contributing to my understanding of everything involved in such an incredible athletic achievement and left me feeling that I had not missed out. Bravo!

by Kleenex Mom

IRONMANTracker was great!! I bet the people who wrote the software and the people keeping the website going will be glad to see the races using it, all end successfully. What a responsibility to put out such an excellent program for so many people and have it run so smoothly. Awesome to provide to people watching the race and being where they need to be at the right time.
My only confusion with it was not knowing for sure which course would be used for my relative’s particular race. Otherwise, I’d rate it an 11–it answered all my other questions and was easy to navigate. Thanks.

by 89falcon89

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 IRONMANTracker....can't believe it's free. Thank you to the designers!

by Trigurl71

While there are always some issues with tracking in real time for your athlete(s) IRONMANTracker has come a long way in the past few years! Better updates and more accurate. Love being able to track my friend’s and favorite Pros during different IM races. Wish it were a bit more dead on with the location, etc. but that’s tech and it’s better than nothing and being left on the course clueless as to where or when you’ll see your athlete go by!!

by Mbbochel

App was great idea. Downside was it often froze due to lack of cell service. Bring in some towers! Also, assuming it’s not already there, I couldn’t find MY position wrt my sons tracker. Unfamiliar with the course. if it was there I could have used the map function more efficiently. You could sell power station access for recharging power sticks, phones, etc. IRONMANTracker ate up phone battery!!overall, it made my experience far better to have this info!! Thanks!

by Gifted In Atlanta

Alerts at the beginning of the run are pretty frequent and kind of irritating when you’re used to only every 5k or 10k. But at least you know if your athlete is on pace or running out of steam or whatever. Love how easy it is to find your athlete and then just track in IRONMANTracker . One marathon tracker had me giving them my life story before they would agree to text me updates. Eww. This was much easier!