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. This app enables easy setup for personal or event-wide live tracking, allowing friends and family to follow races in real-time. Replay competitions after they conclude.
- Live event broadcasting
- Real-time GPS tracking
- Smartphone tracking for multiple athletes
- Race replay functionality
- Social media integration
- 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 runners live during races, receiving checkpoint notifications and viewing live rankings. For runners, it offers GPS tracking, SOS alerts, and a finisher poster. The app also includes race planning tools and works offline.
- Live runner tracking
- Checkpoint notifications
- Live rankings
- Course map and elevation profile
- GPS beacon for runners
- SOS alert
- Offline mode
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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 update cadence: LiveTrail at every 4 days against Racemap's monthly. Racemap's advantage is rating (4.0 vs 3.6) and review sentiment (53% vs 28%). 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.
Racemap holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 5 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 53% of Racemap's written reviews are positive against 28% of LiveTrail's.
Racemap ships an update monthly, LiveTrail every 4 days. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.
| Parameter | Racemap | LiveTrail |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (6 ratings) — better | 3.6 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 53.3% of reviews — better | 28.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 75 MB | 86 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
