The SPOT App User Reviews

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VERY Basic

As far as I can tell the app won’t even draw/plot lines between points recorded. I look at all the recorded points and I can’t tell if I was coming or going. Not too difficult if you’re traveling in a straight line but if you aren’t you have to click on each point and look at the time then hunt around for the next point and look at the time/date. For the the cost of the device AND the monthly fee I would except something WAY better.
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It saved my dad

my father fell while he was paramotoring, which saved him since it was night and he was injured in the arm, which meant he couldn't pick up his phone! THANKS!

May 29, 2024 app no longer works.

Mine worked fine as of yesterday. Today it shuts down a split second after opening. Tried updating my IPhone 13, deleting the app, powering down my phone then reinstalling the app many times, in many different sequences.

My only option now is to use the web based page, which is pretty crappy. I’m online now looking for a different company for my needs.
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Good but couple improvements

I wish you could assign different colours to different devices so when you have several trace units tracking you can tell them apart on the map view and don’t have to change the filters to see what’s happening with a specific device.

Terrible product

Basically worthless

Cannot change colors of assets

This would be great if it actually functioned as it should we have multiple assets and the app does not allow for different colors of the assets except on the desk top version. This makes the functionality of the actual tracking nearly impossible to follow as all the assets are the same color.

Terrible

From the moment I downloaded it never worked.

Not reliable

The batteries that came with my device died in about 10 minutes. App said firmware needed to update but when I plugged the device in it was up to date. Device doesn’t show nor does the history on the app but the location shows on the website. I have yet to figure out how to set text alerts or notifications aside from email. There isn’t an option on the app or the website that I can find and the app doesn’t show up in downloaded apps to turn on notifications.
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This app is useless!

I would hope the app would let me setup and configure my spot, change check-in messages, etc while I am on the go. It does none of that. It is simply a viewer - so I can see the messages I already know I sent? What’s the point? Am I missing something here? Looks like instead of an app I have to go to the website and work from there.
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Good but needs colour pins!!

We use a set of 8 Spot Gen trackers with the app, tracking DofE expedition teams in the uplands and mountains of the UK while they journey on foot.

The app is good in many ways. However, a couple of things that would really make my life easier when managing 7-8 team out at once

1. Ability to colour code AND number the pin for each device so that I can look at multiple devices at once and determine between them (currently all orange so impossibly).

2. The ability to select ‘show only most recent pin’. Meaning I could just have 8 different coloured pins on screen at once, not hundreds of irrelevant crisscrossed orange ones!!

Please??!!
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