Active Experience vs SVE Live!
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
SVE Live!
Follow athletic events in real-time with live tracking for participants and spectators. View times, paces, and placings, and use interactive maps to follow progress. Receive push notifications and access event information, leaderboards, and social sharing features.
- Real-time participant times, paces, and placings
- Interactive course and live map tracking
- Track multiple participants simultaneously
- Push notifications for event progress
- Event information and messaging
- Live leaderboards
- Social sharing
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SVE Live! provides Real-Time Tracking for athletic events. Participants and spectators of listed events, this app is for you! Highlights: •Participant times, paces, estimates, and placings in real-time. •Interactive course map and live map tracking. •Easy tracking of multiple participants at the same time. •Push notifications as the event progresses. •Event info and messaging. •Live leaderboards. •Social sharing. PLEASE NOTE: Not all SVE Timing events are available for live tracking or listed in the SVE Tracking APP. Please see our SVE Timing APP for other events. Please contact us or your event coordinator for availability.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: SVE Live! at 96% against Active Experience's 6%. SVE Live! also leads on rating (4.9 vs 1.5). Active Experience's advantage is update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 43 months). On price, ratings volume, 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.
SVE Live! holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 1.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 148 and 178 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 6% of Active Experience's written reviews are positive against 96% of SVE Live!'s.
Active Experience ships an update every 6 weeks, SVE Live! every 43 months. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Active Experience | SVE Live! |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.5 (148 ratings) | 4.9 (178 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 6.0% of reviews | 96.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 148 | 178 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 43 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 41 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Active Network, LLC | Dilltree Inc |
Customer experience
Active Experience
SVE Live!
User reviews
Active Experience
From 148 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- ⭐ Easy to use
- 📷 Good for photos and social sharing
Room to improve
- 🐛 Buggy and unreliable
- 🚫 Fails at core functionality of tracking runners
- 🔍 Difficult to set up and navigate
- ⏱️ Slow and unresponsive
- 🔋 Drains battery quickly
SVE Live!
From 178 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to use
- 🚀 Accurate tracking
- 👍 User friendly
- 🗺️ Detailed map view
- ⏱️ Timely updates
Room to improve
- ❓ Difficult map usage
- 📶 Internet challenges
- 📍 Hard to locate group
- 🐛 Tracker stopped mid-race
- ❓ Nickname selection difficult
Bugs and 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
SVE Live!
Reported bugs
2 issues- Map difficult to use during run
- Tracker stopped tracking until almost the finish
Requested features
1 request- Easier nickname selection
In-app purchases
Active Experience
No in-app purchases
SVE Live!
No in-app purchases
Questions
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