Best Marathon Health Apps

Room to ImproveCommon complaints summarized from real App Store user reviews

• 🐛 Map tracker not spectator-geared
• 🐛 Mile markers inconsistent
• 🐛 Map shows water stations for runners
• 🐛 Units displayed incorrectly (miles vs km)
• 🐛 App doesn't update times
• 🐛 Links in map don't work
• 🐛 Won't connect to server
• 🐛 X-axis incorrect units (miles vs km)
• 🐛 Y-axis decreasing (unhelpful visualization)
• 🐛 Race day timer shows race is a day away
• 🐛 Cannot track racer, times out
• 🐛 Outdated app design
• 🐛 Tracking feature not trustworthy
• 🐛 No way to switch to miles
• 🐛 Incredibly glitchy
• 🐛 No mile markers this year
• 🐛 Embarrassing app quality
• 🐛 Pace graph based on 100 seconds
• 🐛 Needs to track distance by miles
• 🐛 Default to kilometers
• 🐛 No way to convert to miles
• 🐛 Live tracking not very functional
• 🐛 No way for trackers to share messages
• 🐛 No easy way for runners to access messages
• 🐛 Not released until 3 days before race
• 🐛 Deeply unhelpful on race day
• 🐛 Corporate sponsor logos and other crap
• 🐛 Freezing app
• 🐛 Cannot track anyone
• 🐛 No option to swap between miles and km
• 🐛 Name of event not in app name
• 🐛 Cannot find cheer cards
• 🐛 No customer support
• 🐛 Lacks exact mile markers
• 🐛 Requires constant refreshing
• 🐛 No automatic updates
• 🐛 Only shows 2021 map
• 🐛 Cannot follow selected runner
• 🐛 Map not updated on race day
• 🐛 Worthless app
• 🐛 No buttons work
• 🐛 Cannot enter bib number
• 🐛 Live data shows server error
• 🐛 No way for runners to claim profile
• 🐛 Mixes up miles and kilometers
• 🐛 Pace graph based on minutes/100 seconds
• 🐛 Default to kilometers with no option to change
• 🐛 Pace should be min/mile or option to change
• 🐛 App defaults in metrics
• 🐛 No ability to change pace to min/mile
• 🐛 Leaderboard defaults to male runners
• 🐛 App stalled, tracking didn't work
• 🐛 Tracking search bar doesn't work
• 🐛 Missed runner at start and 15k
• 🐛 Reported time over an hour slower
• 🐛 Splits not available in miles or kilometers
• 🐛 No spectator viewing route feature
• 🐛 Tracking isn't real-time, only check-in points
• 🐛 Check-in points are metric
• 🐛 App insists on zooming back to user location
• 🐛 Tracking experience disappointing
• 🐛 Cannot connect to server
• 🐛 Rubbish app
• 🐛 Worst site for tracking a runner
• 🐛 App could never connect to server
• 🐛 Difficult to track multiple friends due to lack of splits
• 🐛 App splits calculated in kilometers
• 🐛 Doing calculations for miles/kilometers is not a good experience
• 🐛 Can't track runners on map
• 🐛 Useless app
• 🐛 Only gives times at 10k, 20k, 30k and finish
• 🐛 Impossible to track individual runner
• 🐛 Missed our runner
• 🐛 Doesn't work
• 🐛 App missed me at starting line and 15k mark
• 🐛 App reported time over an hour slower
• 🐛 Time still wrong on app after 2 days
• 🐛 Basic functionality is good, but weird quirks