Competitive Timing vs SVE Live!
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Competitive Timing
Follow live race tracking for many events and receive updates on your competition. Access past and current year results, along with general event information.
- Live race tracking
- Event updates
- General event information
- Past and current results
- Official EventApp
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Live tracking and event results for events timed by Competitive Timing
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 rating: SVE Live! at 5.0 against Competitive Timing's 4.0. SVE Live! also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (96% vs 67%). Competitive Timing's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 43 months). On price, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
SVE Live! holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SVE Live! has 180 ratings behind it against 21, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of Competitive Timing's written reviews are positive against 96% of SVE Live!'s.
Competitive Timing ships an update every 3 weeks, SVE Live! every 43 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Competitive Timing | SVE Live! |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (21 ratings) | 5.0 (180 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 96.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 21 | 180 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 43 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 67 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Competitive Timing LLC | Dilltree Inc |
Customer experience
Competitive Timing
SVE Live!
Bugs and requests
Competitive Timing
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
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
Competitive Timing
No in-app purchases
SVE Live!
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Competitive Timing free?
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