Good as a stop watch only
I’ve attempted to use this app in over 6 races. And encounters the following errors
#1 don’t relty on the apps finish coordinates use a gps coordinates app and type it in
#2 when you get within a quarter mile the app starts gumping around like crazy. The reason I’m told is that once the app is at it doesn’t verify with gps u til close to the end point. I’m not sure this is true but expect it to act wierd towards the end
#3 just use it as a tool with your other gps devices and stop watch. Don’t rely on it
#4 get a garmin gps unit and connect it to your phone e for better gps accuracy
Doing all that for $15 you be the judge a good stop watch will cost you 10
The positives
It looks like the distance count down works ok and the timer works it’s just the up and down speed that will go nuts at the end
#1 don’t relty on the apps finish coordinates use a gps coordinates app and type it in
#2 when you get within a quarter mile the app starts gumping around like crazy. The reason I’m told is that once the app is at it doesn’t verify with gps u til close to the end point. I’m not sure this is true but expect it to act wierd towards the end
#3 just use it as a tool with your other gps devices and stop watch. Don’t rely on it
#4 get a garmin gps unit and connect it to your phone e for better gps accuracy
Doing all that for $15 you be the judge a good stop watch will cost you 10
The positives
It looks like the distance count down works ok and the timer works it’s just the up and down speed that will go nuts at the end
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1 star
1 star
Worked for me
My first race I figured it out and placed 5th out of 20 competitors. My second race I placed 3rd with a margin of .008 over 120 miles. I don’t understand the bad reviews
Use this as an assistant to your human brain
I’ve used this since 2021. Competing in 14 open road race competitions. In all three racing organizations that are still running. The rumors of why people lose are WILD. My personal experience is, get your own data like start and finish lines. Love being able to count several cars ahead and have the timer start dead on. People asking for the timer to start other than 30 seconds or top of the minute don’t understand how to use the app or understand how open road racing competitions functions. A+ and I love the haters. My favorite is their jaw drops when I tell them the app name and they already have it, adamant it doesn’t work. Racers are some of the biggest whiners out there accept your errors and put more seat time in. Sorry not sorry.
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To many bugs to be useful
As much as I want the app to work it has to many bugs and is not useful. Have tried for 3 or 4 years and has only work as advertised 1 time. If you use it be ready with a back up!🤬
Garbage execution
It has a lot of potential for race timing but it’s execution is garbage and it’s a waste of money. Just did the big bend open road race. Never got it to work successfully on 6 practice sessions and 2 race lengths. The auto start is just dumb. Setting to 30 second intervals after the hour. Just let it be like 2 minutes, or better yet use the gps coordinates of the start line to begin the timer. Then it randomly crashes with 1:47 remaining. We used an external gps. Then at the start from dead 0 would say we’re going to fast slow down with a delta of 200 seconds. Then randomly flip about halfway to speed up your 1000 seconds behind. The delta time would never go up or down when we adjusted speed. Utterly useless except as a countdown timer. Fortunately I had a navigator and we finished our 105mph class with .821 seconds of deviation. If we had followed the app instead of a stop watch we would have been off by minutes. Don’t waste your money on this.
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Glitches on every leg. Race-ruining bugs.
Competed in the Bug Bend Open Road Race intending to use this as our primary timing device with stopwatch backup. Glitches on both practice runs that stop displaying timing information almost two miles from the finish line (at approximately 57 miles down the course, the timing went haywire and started showing huge and rapidly varying numbers). After assuming it was related to not starting the app directly on the official start line during practice, we ran it in the first leg of the race. Same problem, lost all timing info miles out from the finish line. Changed settings to use total time instead of total distance for the return leg, and the time started gaining entire seconds about 1/3 of the way into the race. Had to revert to stopwatches for the remainder. Everyone else we talked to that used it had the same issues. Worthless app with the current bugs.
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Horrible is an Understatement
Not even close to be accurate or actually functional for trying to use in a real open road race. Tested a minimum of 7 trips with 3 phones in the vehicle, same start and ends points each trip - from totally nonfunctional to not even in ball park on being accurate.
50% of the time on one or more phones, the app never found the finish and continued to run!
We used numerous methods to try and make this.
P.O.S - do not use. The only valuable function is the start method, other than that it’s worthless.
50% of the time on one or more phones, the app never found the finish and continued to run!
We used numerous methods to try and make this.
P.O.S - do not use. The only valuable function is the start method, other than that it’s worthless.
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Awesome road race app
I love this app. I just wish I had the millisecond update 2 weeks ago :)
