Almost perfect!
Great app that combines all the best features of sotl.as, plus a few more tools like the Summit Tracker, into a useful offline app format. Easy to use and well designed. There are a few things that would make it even better for my use. First, I would like to see the same filters currently available for Spots come to the Alerts page. You can currently filter spots by things like band, mode, and distance (excellent), but cannot filter alerts by anything except a text search. I would also love to see a distance filter come to notifications. You can currently trigger notifications by band, mode, association, and callsign, but not by distance. As a currently HT-only op, I would love to have a “less than 60 miles away” notification trigger. I currently use HamAlert to accomplish this, but it requires summit references to be manually entered in a big list, which is cumbersome. If SOTA Goat can add the same distance filter from the spots page to notification settings, it would be perfect. Adding a distance in miles to the notification text would also be great!
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I LOVE SOTAGOAT
I have it running at home everyday and always on the trail and in the vehicle while searching for summit access. The filters and alerts are awesome! I wish I could load it on my iphone 17.
New filtering is not an improvement
I was perfectly happy with the app before the recent change. I prefer to filter by prefix, but it seems that this is gone now
Bitte um Update der Summit-Datenbank
Gute App für Alerts und Spots, aber leider veraltete Gipfellisten.
SOTA Goat funktioniert zuverlässig für die Live-Ansicht von Alerts und Spots und die Push-Benachrichtigungen sind sehr hilfreich.
Leider sind die Gipfellisten (Summit Codes) seit der großen SOTA-Umstrukturierung Ende 2024 nicht mehr aktuell. Einige Berge zeigen falsche oder ungültige Codes, und beim Suchen erscheinen teilweise ganz andere Gipfel.
Es wäre schön, wenn die Summit-Datenbank wieder aktualisiert oder regelmäßig synchronisiert würde, damit die App auch für die Planung und das Nachschlagen der richtigen Gipfelcodes voll nutzbar ist.
Ansonsten: sehr nützliche App — bitte weiter pflegen!
SOTA Goat funktioniert zuverlässig für die Live-Ansicht von Alerts und Spots und die Push-Benachrichtigungen sind sehr hilfreich.
Leider sind die Gipfellisten (Summit Codes) seit der großen SOTA-Umstrukturierung Ende 2024 nicht mehr aktuell. Einige Berge zeigen falsche oder ungültige Codes, und beim Suchen erscheinen teilweise ganz andere Gipfel.
Es wäre schön, wenn die Summit-Datenbank wieder aktualisiert oder regelmäßig synchronisiert würde, damit die App auch für die Planung und das Nachschlagen der richtigen Gipfelcodes voll nutzbar ist.
Ansonsten: sehr nützliche App — bitte weiter pflegen!
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Nothing over free apps
This is a good looking app that seems to work well but does not have logging and adds no value over and above other free apps. Nice but unnecessary.
Super!
Diese App ist wirklich super zur Planung von SOTA-Aktivierungen!
Sad news:
Spots have stopped appearing on my Lock Screen.
Response from developer
You can now submit and edit spots and alerts. Push notifications are coming soon!
Can’t use!
I download updated data and almost all of my country’s mountain data was gone.
This is useless. I am really disappointed.
This is useless. I am really disappointed.
awesome, must-buy for SOTA ops
Very nice, thank you! Only thing I wish for as a potential improvement would be the ability to filter Spots to show just certain region, mode, or maybe even distance too (e.g. normally I am only hoping to hunt nearby summits on 2m simplex FM with my yagi). Otherwise, amazing piece of software!! also, thank you for supporting older iOS as my device is quite old.
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Crash crashy
The last update appears to be over 2 years ago so I’m assuming this is abandon-ware.
It crashes after a few taps on my iPhone 14 pro running iOS 16.5
**Would not recommend until the author adds basic filtering and fixes the constant crashing.**
It crashes after a few taps on my iPhone 14 pro running iOS 16.5
**Would not recommend until the author adds basic filtering and fixes the constant crashing.**
Just a couple of minor tweaks away from being the perfect SOTA companion
Love the app and use it for every SOTA. Two complaints:
1. The band selector scroll wheel on the Spots screen is terrible on my iPhone 12. I can't see what band is selected because the lower window covers up the scroll wheel. I have to use SOTA Watch to spot as a workaround.
2. I wish I could filter alerts and spots. I'm only FM for now, so the long list of foreign and HF alerts and spots is just clutter for me.
Awesome app. Keep the updates coming! 73
1. The band selector scroll wheel on the Spots screen is terrible on my iPhone 12. I can't see what band is selected because the lower window covers up the scroll wheel. I have to use SOTA Watch to spot as a workaround.
2. I wish I could filter alerts and spots. I'm only FM for now, so the long list of foreign and HF alerts and spots is just clutter for me.
Awesome app. Keep the updates coming! 73
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Great app, really useful for SOTA
I like this app. It’s great for SOTA, whether you’re an activator or a chaser. As an activator, it helps to find and get to the correct location for activation. As a chaser, it notifies you of spots. What I would like to see, is an ability to go from the summit card directly to the map, then directly to the tracker. Other than that, it’s pretty much perfect! 5* is above changes made.
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Useful tool, almost indispensable.
Absolutely brilliant app, bring everything you need for SOTA together, in one easy to access location.
If I was to give any feedback, being able to filter spots would be useful, only SSB, or region, or band etc.
If I was to give any feedback, being able to filter spots would be useful, only SSB, or region, or band etc.
Wunderbarer Einstieg in die SOTA Welt 🌍
Die App erleichtert den Einstieg in die SOTA Welt ungemein: Gipfel im Urlaub oder unterwegs können schnell gefunden werden; über Aktivierung kann man sich bequem informieren lassen und auch einfach mal auf „gut Glück“ reinhören - mit überraschenden Erlebnissen 😃
Eine Logbuch-Funktion mit Hochladefunktion für die SOTA Datenbank wäre natürlich der Hammer.
Eine Logbuch-Funktion mit Hochladefunktion für die SOTA Datenbank wäre natürlich der Hammer.
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Good App
I’ve been using it for about 6 months and found it excellent.
Great but Lacking Filters
This app is a fantastic SOTA tool. If it had the ability to filter alerts/spots by association and/or other data points it would be 5 star perfect.
“New Alert” Function - Errors - Ver 1.6.3
I am not complaining here, just sharing.
On 9/25/2021 using version 1.6.3 on iOS 15, I tried to create a New Alert, filled in the information, and clicked save. I then got a screen full of error messages.
On 9/25/2021 using version 1.6.3 on iOS 15, I tried to create a New Alert, filled in the information, and clicked save. I then got a screen full of error messages.
A great app that could be even greater…
…with 2 small additions:
1) Adding the ability to filter the list of spots and alerts, for instance by region or band.
2) When a user clicks on a spot or alert, including a map of the summit’s location on the spot or alert detail page, instead making the user click More Information, bouncing him or her to the summit’s SOTA profile, and making them click again to choose a map source.
1) Adding the ability to filter the list of spots and alerts, for instance by region or band.
2) When a user clicks on a spot or alert, including a map of the summit’s location on the spot or alert detail page, instead making the user click More Information, bouncing him or her to the summit’s SOTA profile, and making them click again to choose a map source.
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Gefällt mir!
Die App gefällt mir gut und läuft ohne Probleme. Noch besser wäre es, wenn man über eine Log-Funktion Zugriff auf die SOTA-Datenbank hätte, um eine erfolgreiche Verbindung einzutragen. Das geht zwar nicht, aber die App-Funktionen sind trotzdem gut.👍
Works out of coverage
I use the app to determine when I'm in the Activation zone and I take a screenshot. Sometimes on a peak I forget it's designator; I consult the app. The peak compass and the remaining distance read outs help me avoid false summits. These features work when you're out of cell phone data coverage, because of the downloaded database. Well worth the price. Thank you!
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