YB Races User Reviews

YB Races
YB Races
Ground Control Technologies UK Ltd

Customer Experience

Positive experience18.3% of reviews
Neutral9.2% of reviews
Negative experience72.5% of reviews

~ Based on 120 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is YB Races Safe?

YB Races has mixed safety signals based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for YB Races is 61/100.

This assessment is based on 75 user ratings, with an App Store average of 2.9/5.

Safety Analysis

45.3% of ratings point to a safe experience
8.0% of ratings suggest some concerns
46.7% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 75 App Store ratings for YB Races.

Is YB Races Legit?

YB Races appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for YB Races is 90/100.

Based on 90 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Next to useless

As others have noted, this app is next to useless. The controls on the “new” viewer are horrible, and the legacy was barely passable to begin with. Nothing scales properly, and trying to rotate your screen to get some improvement somehow works even worse. If you can, try to use the website which is at least “ok.”
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Trash

The app version will not let you read notes about boats that have retired, but when you go to the web version on an iOS device to try to read the notes there, it won’t let you as you need to use the app.
They’ve now tried to fix this with their new race viewer, but after looking at 3 boats in the Fastnet Race Tracker, it crashes.
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They ruined it.

New update is unusable, cannot click on a boat to save your life and glitches out when you try to use it. No one asked for a 3D viewer!!

Destroyed

This may be the single worst update to an app since apps began. Unfortunately a good product ruined.

Trash

The app version will not let you read notes about boats that have retired, but when you go to the web version on an iOS device to try to read the notes there, it won’t let you as you need to use the app.

Good… but could be better!

Not the best UI… maps would really benefit from the provision of some sort of scale so you can get a feel for the gap between boats and start/finish points.

Crash sur crash

L’app ne fait que crash, c’est insupportable. Dommage, impossible de suivre une course du coup.

No choice in weather anymore

Why could we change weather on the golden globe race and not here

Non functional and poorly designed UI

Badly thought out and does not work most of the time. Could be great but poorly executed.

Annoyingly bad

Frustrating, slow, keeps crashing my phone and you can’t track a boat or class, none of the buttons work. Stupid app

Downloaded to follow a race - does nothing

Downloaded to see where Rolex race was, search tool finds the race - map doesn’t appear. Useless

Weak app

App locks/freezes after zooming in or switching between functions. Example, look up team, stats, go to map and locks up. Not user friendly. Needs work.

Won’t stop crashing

You can’t zoom in without it crashing. Trash app

Made me lose interest in following the race.

Thought this was a refined product from my recollection of past races, but apparently no longer. This makes it not worth following.
Glad I am not a sponsor of this race, as it would be a waste of my dollars.

Very unstable app

This app is gradually getting less stable. Lack of development and updates is showing with various usability issues being encountered. For example (using the RORC Myth of Malham race) the app has frozen 3 times during zoom. It now only loads with a blank page or displays the map but is locked.
Yellow Brick you need to do more work on this as it won’t cope with the Fastnet 2023.
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Poor

Trying to look at the Golden Globe race positions, but what’s the point of mixing sailors of the current edition with some of previous ones? This makes the map unreadable. Totally ridiculous.

Terrible app

One of the most prestigious races in the world, and an app that does not keep up. There is a reason this clunky crap is free.

Super buggy

This app would be great if it didn’t crash. It’s almost totally unusable for all of the races that I did this year since it crashes almost immediately. Last year it worked pretty well.

Zoom keeps resetting

I am trying to zoom in and follow one team, why does the zoom keep resetting?

Freeze

Frequent freeze on iPad Pro M1. All Ok on iphone 12 pro.
Please fix this to get 5*