TCS Sydney Marathon vs Active Experience
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TCS Sydney Marathon
Enhance your marathon experience with live participant tracking and interactive course maps. Share your journey through social media integration and capture memories with selfie features. Access all essential event information in one place.
- Live participant tracking
- Interactive course maps
- Social media integration
- Selfie features
- Event information
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The TCS Sydney Marathon App is your all-in-one information and engagement app for the race! Featuring our Official Smart Map, PAM, which will help runners and spectators throughout race week, we have updated real-time Live Tracking of all participants, interactive marathon course maps, spectator wayfinding and much more Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Active Experience
Follow live event progress, view real-time leaderboards, and get participant alerts. Discover event landmarks, share photos, and stay updated on races like marathons and triathlons. Integrates with HealthKit for heart rate and workout data.
- Real-time leaderboards
- Participant GPS tracking
- Course map with landmarks
- Progress alerts and updates
- Event photo sharing
- HealthKit integration
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One app for all of your events. Track participants on an events course map, view real-time leaderboards, receive participant progress alerts and important updates from events. • View & share results and rankings. • Find event landmarks with the course map. • Track participants via GPS. • Accept or decline tracking notifications. • Receive push notifications for followed participants. • Take and share event photos with all other spectators and participants using the app. • Easily follow and stay up-to-date with Marathons, 5Ks, 10Ks and Triathlons near you. In the Watch app, Apple’s HealthKit is used to collect heart rate and exercise data, and at the end of a run, the workout is saved to Healthkit. Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: TCS Sydney Marathon at 2.3 against Active Experience's 1.5. TCS Sydney Marathon also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 6 weeks). Active Experience's advantage is monetization model (free vs ad-supported) and ratings volume (150 vs 23). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
TCS Sydney Marathon holds the better App Store score, 2.3 against 1.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Active Experience has 150 ratings behind it against 23, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 10% of TCS Sydney Marathon's written reviews are positive against 6% of Active Experience's.
TCS Sydney Marathon ships an update fortnightly, Active Experience every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | TCS Sydney Marathon | Active Experience |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.3 (23 ratings) — better | 1.5 (150 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 10.0% of reviews — better | 6.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 23 | 150 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 14 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 145 MB | 41 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | PONT3 PTY LTD | Active Network, LLC |
Customer experience
TCS Sydney Marathon
Active Experience
Bugs and requests
TCS Sydney Marathon
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Active Experience
Reported bugs
3 issues- Cannot enter date of birth to create account
- Tracking stops working mid-race
- Inconsistent and inaccurate runner locations
Requested features
3 requests- Improve runner tracking accuracy and reliability
- Provide course maps and mile markers
- Allow easy spectator tracking without complex setup
In-app purchases
TCS Sydney Marathon
No in-app purchases
Active Experience
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is TCS Sydney Marathon free?
Is Active Experience free?
Which has better reviews, TCS Sydney Marathon or Active Experience?
Do TCS Sydney Marathon or Active Experience have ads?
Which is updated more often, TCS Sydney Marathon or Active Experience?
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