Racemap vs LiveTrail
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Racemap
Broadcast live sports events to the internet, smartphones, and social media. Easily set up live tracking for yourself, friends, or entire events. Relive your races with post-event replays.
- Live event broadcasting
- Real-time GPS tracking
- Smartphone tracking
- Social media integration
- Race replays
- Event organizer tools
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Racemap broadcasts your sports event live to the Internet, smartphones and social media. For athletes, spectators and organizers. You can easily set up your own live tracking for you, your friends or for your sports event. GPS-Tracking for sports events with many athletes just with a smartphone - family, friends and fans from everywhere keep track to your race. After the sports event you can replay the competition. Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.
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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Racemap at 4.0 against LiveTrail's 1.0. Racemap also leads on review sentiment (55% vs 26%) and ratings volume (6 vs 1). LiveTrail's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 6 weeks) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, ads, 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.
Racemap holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Racemap has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 55% of Racemap's written reviews are positive against 26% of LiveTrail's.
Racemap ships an update every 6 weeks, LiveTrail weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 20, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Racemap | LiveTrail |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (6 ratings) — better | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 55.2% of reviews — better | 26.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 71 MB | 88 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | +4 |
| Developer | Racemap GmbH | LiveTrail SARL |
Customer experience
Racemap
LiveTrail
In-app purchases
Racemap
No in-app purchases
LiveTrail
No in-app purchases
