Map My Walk by Under Armour Reviews

I’ve been using MapMyWalk for about 2 weeks now and didn’t run into any issues until a couple days ago. I signed up for the paid MVP program because I was enjoying MapMyWalk thinking maybe that would solve the issue but no. When I start my walk from my phone, the GPS tracker is not keeping accurate distance at all. I’ll have walked 2 miles but it’s only showing I’ve done a mile or less and shows me cutting through yards and even houses, not even close to the roads that I took. When I start my walk through my apple watch, it seems to keep my distance okay but it STILL shows me cutting through yards and houses around the streets I actually took. I’d love to continue to use MapMyWalk if it worked properly but it sounds like I’ll be canceling my subscription and going to a different app. I’ve sent in two messages to the support team regarding this. I’ve tried restarting both my phone and my watch, deleting MapMyWalk and re-downloading, and even checked Google Maps to make sure my GPS was showing me in the correct direction and in the actual location I am in. (Which it did) The “GPS” signal bar on Map my Walk is always green showing I have perfect signal, so why am I running into these issues? I hate having to find a new app but this is ridiculous.

Update #2 Jan 6 - the GPS and timer function have gone crazy one more time. Says I am walking a 7 minute mile and I know I walk fast but.....also the distance is not correct because I do the same route and it did not register the mile until I had gone at least 1.2 miles. This is SO FRUSTRATING because I rely on his app as an accurate tracker. If this keeps happening I am going to ditch it for something that really works all the time, not sporadically.

UPDATE - since the very latest update on Nov 2 it seems to be better. Today it properly tracked time and distance. Hopefully the problem is fixed. Upgraded from two to four stars based on historical use and the new improvements. Like the larger screen display too so thanks for that! Stay tuned!
********************************************I have an iPhone and have been using MapMyWalk for at least two years no issues. Since the last update it is not properly tracking time OR distance and therefore not tracking calories or anything else correctly. I know this because I take the exact same walk almost every day so have it in my history. I walk fast but I can’t do 1.2 miles in 8 minutes!! Please fix ASAP.

I walked the longest and furthest yet today (last time I looked while on my walk had been 6 + miles) and I was livid when my watch lost the progress in the map my walk app and thus it never synced up with MapMyWalk on my iPhone. I lost a lot of progress toward my weekly walking goal and I don’t know how to get it back and from what I can tell, MapMyWalk on both devices are in fact on the same page as far as losing the miles. I closed fitness rings on the Apple Watch which thankfully the watch itself has logged it but the map my walk app has failed me when I needed it most. I don’t know if it’s just a big or a glitch but it doesn’t change that my progress is lost.

Update: it took a bit of work but eventually I was able to successfully sync the workout after restarting both my watch and my iPhone. It wasn’t entirely pleasant to do and MapMyWalk on Apple Watch still lags, freezes, and crashes when I try to use MapMyWalk or do anything within MapMyWalk such as finish a workout and such. Other than that, I don’t have many further issues with it.

MapMyWalk has it’s glitches but I like it most of the time. There are a lot of catagories such as kayaking and dog walking beyond just running and walking. I like how it breaks down my workouts in a variety of ways and keeps track long term. I’ve been using it for over 5 years.
I do not think that it accurately measures mileage - it contradicts another app I use, telling me I’ve gone further than the other one and it will measure different distances for my same route from day to day. Then there are glitches, such as showing my route swimming across a lake and back or walking over houses up to a third of a mile off of my actual route! No way am I walking the dog at a 10 min mile! And a normal route for my morning walk 4 years ago used to be 3.25 miles then it crept up to 3.5-3.6 miles. Same exact route.
So, I still use MapMyWalk but if I ever aimed for some serious training for a marathon, I’d switch to something more accurate.

Since the latest version of MapMyWalk the distance measurements have become very inconsistent. For example, I walk a route yesterday and at a certain point MapMyWalk records one mile. I walk the exact same route the next day and I need to go 100 yards further before it records one mile. I’ve had instances on a longer walk (say 4-6 miles) where from one day to the next its off by 1/4 mile for the same route. I come from a GPS background and can understand some inconsistency, but 100 yards 1/4 mile is way out of the range of acceptability.

In addition, MapMyWalk seems to hang sometimes. I’m watching MapMyWalk and seeing about a number of strides for every .01 mile. Then MapMyWalk hangs for several steps, and then jumps .03 - .04 miles, and the steps I’ve taken exceed what it captures.

If you’re looking for an app that provides you a motivator to get out there and exercise, its fine. If you’re looking for one that provides consistent distance measurements, this is not it.

I’ve somewhat successfully used MapMyWalk but it’s super glitchy. I like that it tells you your pace. I do the same walk several times per week. There are mile markers on my walk so I know when I’ve reached each mile. MapMyWalk is inconsistent, as it usually says I’ve gone a mile before I actually have. Because of this the more miles you travel the more inaccurate it gets. There have been several times when I look down at MapMyWalk and it hasn’t even been working. Now the last couple times I’ve tried to use it’s been freezing so it’s completely unusable. I walked two miles and it says I’ve walked .67. It’s really discouraging to my exercise routine as tracking my miles, time, and calories burned is super motivating. Each time I realize it hasn’t been working it makes me feel a little less motivated. That’s probably a personal problem, but regardless it’s frustrating. Anyway I’ve deleted and reinstalled it a couple times but it’s still giving me issues. So I’ve just deleted it for the last time. I’ll go back to my Fitbit.

MapMyWalk counts my miles and time and maps it. The maps seems to be accurate. I haven’t tried it wont put cellular so if it doesn’t work without cellular that would be an improvement suggested. There are several hiking apps that do this now. What I find missing is 1) a shortcut to pandora. I am pretty sure previous version when I started MapMyWalk recording it started Pandora as an option. It doesn’t do that anymore. 2) I don’t like having to hold down the button to stop the workout. I just want to tap it to stop and tap it again to save it. Too long holding button and then goes to another screen to save it. Too many steps. Otherwise it is a good product and I use it a lot but I don’t have to do much more than he basics and I think it could do them more friendly for the user.

If you’re just using your phone by itself to track workouts, you’ll probably be fine. But if you want to use it with the Apple Watch, you’ll want to find something else, because there is so much dysfunction with that whole ecosystem, it just isn’t worth the frustration. Syncing is very unreliable, and involves a lot of forcing closing both apps on the watch and phone, toggling Bluetooth on and off, etc. The Watch app also becomes unstable as time goes on and will hang and crash in the middle of workouts, which means you have to stop and mess with it to get it working again. It also appears to not play well with Apple’s own Activity app where it messes up the Move ring, and will crash itself if notifications from the Activity app go off. To keep this watch app stable literally means you will be reinstalling it several times a week. What’s very troubling is UA’s dev team has no problem giving you Rube Goldberg type workarounds to fix the problem, but can’t make any of this stuff work. If Strava and Nike can figure out how to make sync reliable, why can’t UA?

I’ve used Map My Walk since 2014 & was very happy with it until a few months ago when it became difficult to start MapMyWalk . It would take several attempts, rebooting, re-installing, etc. Very annoying when all you want to do is start your workout. Next I noticed problems with the GPS tracking; it began to stop tracking me, then would jump straight to my current location in a straight line. This would result in negating the whole workout if you’re trying to track your progress over time. Recently I noticed it has shortchanged my distance tracking, so it calls out my first mile results when I’ve only walked .6 of a mile, even tho the map showing my track was accurate. FYI I have a new iPhone 8 with the latest versions MapMyWalk & iOS. All of this has been very frustrating so I did some research online and found these problems began shortly after Map My Walk was bought by UnderArmor. Other reviewers have reported the same problems. Please get it together! I don’t like the other apps as much as the old pre-UnderArmor Map My Walk app!

At first I loved MapMyWalk and it had me Motivated to walk and start exercising. I loved seeing how many calories I burned in a walk. Recently the more I’ve gotten into health the more I know something about MapMyWalk isn’t right. While walking at a some what fast pace does burn calories I know MapMyWalk is grossly exaggerating the numbers. To prove it one day I turned MapMyWalk on and left it on the table, not touching it at all. The calories were increasing by one point every 30 seconds…I was in shocked. So now every workout where I recorded my calories is extremely off. I am extremely disappointed in MapMyWalk for that because people really rely on it as a guide during their health journey. If you use MapMyWalk and record the results for your progress please do not it is not accurate at all. I will be deleting MapMyWalk. I hoped this helped someone who was working out using MapMyWalk only to get discouraged because their results didn’t match what MapMyWalk was saying. Also if you don’t believe please try it for yourself and see. Thank you

MapMyWalk ALWAYS adds a minimum of 6 seconds to the actual time I reach a mile marker. By the time I have walked 4 miles, the cumulative effect is at least 24 seconds more to my time. Supports suggestion to me: edit the workout.
Well, OK, but I can not see any way to edit the time for each mile, only the final time. So, this means I either have to settle for that, OR I must record and edit each mile as a separate walk. Why would I pay to upgrade an app that does not work?! This may seem petty to some, but I am a 69 yr old woman who had an aortic heart valve replacement in 2008, and will have to have it replaced again in the not-too-distant future as it is now moderately to severely stenosed again. Therefore, I would like accurate stats for myself and my doctors.

I love MapMyWalk for tracking all my workout activities. I use it with my Apple Watch and prefer the activity details and how they are displayed in MapMyWalk over the native application for Apple. I’m doing the 2020 challenge this year which is keeping me motivated!

Syncing workouts from the Apple Watch to MapMyWalk isn’t always fast, it’s taken several days with some workouts. I’ve also had to delete MapMyWalk and re-download due to workouts being placed out of order, which can just be frustrating when trying to look over improvements made for specific period of time. This can be inconvenient.

Still 4 stars because I have downloaded several other apps to track my activity, paid for the premier memberships for these other apps, and I have deleted those same apps. It is just easier to use MapMyWalk than the others I’ve tried.

This is overall a fantastic app and would definitely be 5 stars except for one annoying glitch. MapMyWalk cannot differentiate between walking and riding in a car. So if you’ve been walking then get in your car and forget to press the “end workout” button (or don’t hold it long enough), then it keeps calculating your time/distance. Very frustrating if you’re trying to track progress and frequently have to discard workout due to it not being accurate. Also the “end workout” button is not at all sensitive, you have to press hard and hold for several seconds. There have been many times I’ve pressed it and thought it registered only to realize later it’s still adding time and distance! Really hope MapMyWalk developers can fix this, it’s otherwise a great app!

I love MapMyWalk I’m using it for my stress reduction course. it keeps track of your walks and runs. you can use screenshots to display photos of you exercising. It saves your workouts so you can go back and look at them latter on. There’s an audio voice that tells you about your stats while your working out and you can pause and resume your workouts. My only minor complaint is the sharing to social media doesn’t go directly to MapMyWalk you want for instance I tried sharing it on Facebook and nothing happened. The settings took a while to get used to but overall great app highly recommend and I’m definitely going to use it outside my stress reduction class.

Since downloading it worked fine for two days then when I upgraded to iPhone X had to redownload and it’s been terrible first the music wouldn’t play support said to erase and download again fine then my iwatch wouldn’t sync with the workout done on my phone until two days later now it doesn’t sync at all. The watch doesn’t open MapMyWalk at all just keeps saying loading and nothing happens. Now workouts I’ve done and saw on the phone won’t sync with my lose it app and it isn’t showing on the map it app either but it shows on the iPhone health app (don’t tel me to make sure it has permissions it does). Can’t see myself paying for this as a matter of fact tried to upgrade to see if that would make a difference IT DOESNT EVEN LET ME DO THAT! Keeps saying try again later and later never comes. Please work out these issues for now I will take it off and see if there is something better out there that is not buggy.

I’ve found the free version really motivating especially during the pandemic (which means no group fitness activities). I like being able to send a friend my map and stats each day; we keep each other accountable and encouraged even though we’re not walking together. My one gripe is that I wish I could just glance at the home screen during a walk to see how far I’d traveled! As far as I know, the only way to do this is to hit pause, scroll to view stats, then hit pause again to start walking again. I never do this because it’s a pain of an interruption. I finally just set the alerts to tell me every 0.25 miles, which I can hear while walking—at least that gives me a ballpark idea of the distance.

I give MapMyWalk 4 stars because the directions for how to unsubscribe are unclear and it was super annoying to try and figure how to unsubscribe.
for iPhones: Simply go to your settings, click your Apple i.d, go to subscriptions & unsubscribe.

The instructions I found kept directing me to go to iTunes to do so. Maybe it’s just me but I find that very unclear.

Otherwise, If you Would like to map your walk this is an amazing app to do so. I enjoyed it a lot when I used it and was able to link it to my fitness pal app to track calories consumed and burned.

It tells your you elevation and rate you were walking which I liked a lot.

I liked it because I felt safer leaving it on during my walks in case I went missing or fell in a hole somewhere and was able to share the log in with someone for IF that happened. A little extra, but it’s facts, people are crazy.

I’m in the gym regularly now and don’t go out for walks worthy of tracking anymore. If you walk a lot for fitness or leisure, MapMyWalk is for you. I didn’t experience any glitches. It does drain your battery rather quick so make sure your phone is charged before you head out.

I have been using Map my Run and May my Walk since 2010. They have a lot of functionality on their free app. I especially like that they are constantly updating the software. They recently fixed my biggest beef with MapMyWalk . In the past the mile marker updates of speed, distance and pace would run over the podcast I was trying to hear. Inevitably the update would occur during a key part of the presentation and then I would have to rewind and deal with the hassle. A recent update changed all that to pause whatever is on during the update, then resume it without missing a word. Small change but huge affect. Thank you very much.

I was doing my walk and MapMyWalk timed and tracked the first mile - it gives an audio reading of your pace when you complete each mile. I continued to walk and didn’t get the audio reading for the second mile like I’m used to at the relevant location of my walk. So I stopped to look at MapMyWalk at which point the piece of sh** refreshed and my first mile was gone, it suddenly decided that I had finished one mile, and MapMyWalk calculated that I had just walked a 16+ minute mile when it literally had told me I was going 14:03 minutes a mile as my audio reading for my for real first mile. MapMyWalk is not worth getting free or otherwise. Pick some other app to use unless you don’t actually care about tracking your workouts or having some kind of accuracy. I gave it one star because apparently zero is not an option. Good way to keep your app ratings up, tho.

I chose map my walk because I was going on a walk that day and I wanted to know how it would work. I really liked that it can give you ideas for different routes to take by tracking your area and desired distance, but it can also track the distance of a walk that you map out yourself. However, I didn’t really like that it was only specific to walks. It would be a cool thing to have an app that was able to track walks as well as create other types of workouts for you. I think that it is important for people to know that MapMyWalk can also track the distance of a walk you choose yourself and that you don’t only have the option of doing the walks that they choose for you.

MapMyWalk is now less reliable reporting distance on same walks I take several times per week. An update seemed to fix it, but now it is back. Today it showed me looping around in a circle, which I did not do. I understand it can be tough because GPS is not perfect. So here is a suggestion to help those of us using My Fitness Pal. Make the map of the route we took editable, so we can eliminate loops or change paths if they are wrong. Right now all you can do is edit distance to make it the right distance, which I have done. It’s awesome that it changes the calories. Bravo on that. But then let us resync it to my fitness pal so our calorie total doesn’t trick us into thinking we did better than we did. Right now it seems you have to delete the exercise and then add it manually.

MapMyWalk started turning itself on at random times. Since my Apple Music was attached, my iPhone would start playing music even in the middle of the night when it was charging. I had to contact Apple support to trouble shoot the problem. After several technicians and a supervisor, we discovered MapMyWalk was turning itself on. I had to go to privacy settings and turn off access to music on all of my Under Armour apps in an attempt to isolate the problem.
MapMyWalk usually works wells for tracking minutes and miles. Occasionally, it glitches (stops, jumps or fails to upload).

MapMyWalk has worked very well for me for about a year and a half now. It enables me to keep track of all my walks, the distances that I walk, and all pertinent to statistics, particularly variances in pace, and elevation changes. I have used Google maps distance measuring to verify distances and this app is quite accurate.

Also, recovery from a battery power drain is robust.

I would whole heartedly recommend this product, especially for someone committing to daily walks for improving cardiovascular and overall health. It is a real motivator to review my progress.

The problem I have with MapMyWalk is that it interferes with my hearing aids in a major way. When I activate MapMyWalk it causes my hearing aid app to go into Audio Streaming mode which means I can’t adjust my hearing aids. Sometimes it causes my hearing aids to completely cut off. If I cut off the Bluetooth connection that doesn’t happen, but no Bluetooth means I can’t adjust my hearing aids. This is a major problem for me. I hope the developer will correct whatever the problem is. (I’ve raised this issue with the hearing aid app developer and the Apple Accessibility Team, all to no avail. I’ve had no success in reaching the Under Armor app developers to discuss this issue.). I’d love to give a 5 star rating, but because of this technical issue, I can only give it a 3.

Although MyFitnessPal says this is an automatically syncing app, it’s not. I installed MapMyWalk and went through the steps to link the accounts, as prompted. Then I did a 2-mile walk. All seemed to be functioning well. Mileage seemed slightly hyped as I already knew the mileage of the trail I was on. I took a picture in-app and that was fine. I reviewed all of my stats and all of that was fine, too. When I checked MyFitnessPal however, no calories had transferred into my diary. I thought this was supposed to automatically do that - but maybe I’m wrong? Within MyFitnessPal, the disconnect feature doesn’t work. MapMyWalk’s workouts do not show up in the unsynced workouts list - so there’s no way to prompt them to do so. Independently, both apps seem to work fine - but they refuse to talk to each other. I have an iPhone X.

I really like my this app app on my phone so I was thrilled when I recently got the notification MapMyWalk now worked on my watch. There were some kinks...at first it wasn’t syncing with the phone so it appeared I’d done two workouts. The data wasn’t the same between the two platforms. But it was workable. All of a sudden MapMyWalk on the watch is cutting out during my walk. I look at my watch and it’s back to the watch face. If I hit the icon it wants to start over and that’s IF it will even open. Most times it does nothing. Really disappointing as it’s so much more convenient to look at my wrist than dig my phone out of the pouch to check time or distance.

This is the bad second review I’ve done of MapMyWalk. First, it drops out making me lose hundreds of steps and at times miles, if I don’t check it constantly to make sure it’s still working. I almost always have to reboot it mid- workout to get credit for the rest of it. Second, due to glitches I have received inaccurate date losing credit for steps and calories burned. I can’t even describe how anomalous these glitches are but they happen often. Third, with this new up date routes that used to be counted as 3 miles are now counted as a mile less! I only continue to use MapMyWalk because it feeds directly into My Fitness app which tracks my calories. I wish I could give this app a lower rating or that the developers would fix the constant problems so I give it a higher rating.