LiveTrail vs Marcate
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
LiveTrail
Track your favorite athletes in real-time or push your own limits with this comprehensive app. Follow live action, access race information, and share your progress with loved ones.
- Real-time athlete tracking
- Live camera feeds at checkpoints
- Race maps and schedules
- Personalized pace charts
- Live GPS position sharing
- Social media sharing of achievements
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A brand-new LiveTrail, rebuilt from the ground up. Follow your runners live, with a notification every time they cross a checkpoint. Live rankings, passage times, course map and elevation profile in 2D and 3D. Running yourself? Your bib opens a space of your own: GPS beacon, SOS alert, cut-offs, and a finisher poster to share. New: the Ghost table — your race plan, checkpoint by checkpoint. Works offline, dark mode, km or miles.
Marcate
Access information for running events, including race details, updates, registration, and results. Track participants live on race day and view course maps.
- Race information
- Timely updates
- Registration
- Results
- Course maps
- Live participant tracking
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Marcate is the #1 electronic timing company in Mexico producing more than 700 timed running events. The Marcate app is your mobile destination to access running events including year round for race information, timely updates, registration, results, course maps and participant live tracking on race day. Welcome to the Official Mobile App of Marcate! Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: LiveTrail at 3.3 against Marcate's 2.3. LiveTrail also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2) and update cadence (weekly vs monthly). On price, ratings volume, ads and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Marcate sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per year. LiveTrail asks for nothing beyond the download.
LiveTrail holds the better App Store score, 3.3 against 2.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 3 respectively.
LiveTrail ships an update weekly, Marcate monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | LiveTrail | Marcate |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (4 ratings) — better | 2.3 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 26.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 85 MB | 116 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | LiveTrail SARL | Speed Time, S.A. de C.V. |
Customer experience
LiveTrail
Marcate
In-app purchases
LiveTrail
No in-app purchases
Marcate
- PLUS Unlimited$5.991 Year
- PLUS Single Event$3.99
