Map My Tracks: walking tracker

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1. ★★★★★signup hangs and sessions or data get lost

   Signing up. I tried registering an account twice but it was never successful. It would say it was registering but then completely disappear followed by taking me back to the signup page again. I take this as a sign of how well the app would even work.

2. ★★★★★signup hangs and sessions or data get lost

   Will not work. Unable to even make an account. It just does nothing. Do not bother to download. Deleted

3. ★★★★★simple and accurate for everyday walks and hikes

   Great. Love it

4. ★★★★★other

   No privacy. Not user friendly. Random people following me. I can’t figure out how to make my profile private or how to block/report spammers

5. ★★★★★signup hangs and sessions or data get lost

   Does not work. Didn’t work!

6. ★★★★★other

   Limited functionality. I wanna see my route for today. Not when I just opened the app. If my phone knows how much I walked then it knows where I was. Trashy app

7. ★★★★★inaccurate gps throws off distance and route

   Nope. Sometimes when I use this app It shows that I’ve walked way further than I actually have, is tracking way off distance, shows that I walked places that I haven’t. Today I know I only walked 3/10 mile at most and app had me at 1.5 miles. Bye bye!

8. ★★★★★inaccurate gps throws off distance and route

   Not Accurate. It's so off. Time was right, but I did NOT walk 3 miles like it says. This is the second app that has been off.

9. ★★★★★signup hangs and sessions or data get lost

   Slow unresponsive. Thought it was a great app at first but then of course the dreaded update has screwed it up. Once finishing a walk the "stop" button is unresponsive when pushed thus not allowing the user to stop calculating the distance walked.

10. ★★★★★other

    Strangers can follow you. I don’t like the idea that complete strangers can follow you. If you go to the Map my Tracks website on a desktop (but not on a mobile) you can remove them individually but they can opt to follow you again. PLEASE INCLUDE AN OPTION TO BLOCK NON-FRIENDS FROM FOLLOWING

11. ★★★★★signup hangs and sessions or data get lost

    Rubbish. Won't even open

12. ★★★★★inaccurate gps throws off distance and route

    App. App said I walked 2.88 miles yesterday. Today I walked the same route and added in almost a mile extra and app said I'd walked 2.89 miles !! Does not work properly for me

13. ★★★★★signup hangs and sessions or data get lost

    This app sucks!. It maps the first 5 minutes of my walk then stops tracking... what’s the point!!!! So disappointed

14. ★★★★★other

    Pricing Too Ambiguous !!. I cannot see anywhere on your website or here what the £2.99 purchase actually gets you? Is it a subscription or a one off purchase with all functionality? The subs are explained just not the £2.99 buy!! Also the 'all-time' counters don't work.. I've put over 55 walks into the paid version of this app (about 400km in all), it tells me I've only walked 2.1 km! (A test drive I did!). There is no direct email support or feedback link so have no choice but to put the issues here! Very poor, I would not recommend.

15. ★★★★★other

    Live tracking is NOT part of free version. The website clearly implies that Live Tracking is part of the free version, yet as soon as you try to enable it in the app you are informed it’s in the paid for version only

16. ★★★★★other

    Seriously irritating app if you try using it while listening to music/ podcasts/ audiobooks.. The tracking functionality is great. But it gets only 3 stars since I am thiiiis close to choosing a different tracker because MMT makes it impossible to track a trip without fooling with one's phone CONstantly, if you want to listen to an audiobook or podcast or music at the same time. Here’s why: I use MMT while walking my dog, and I like to play something to listen to at the same time. If the dog stops for a sniff or a pee, or if we happen to be going too slowly for the gps to track our progress, MMT beeps in notification and temporarily stops tracking. Fine, fair enough. The problem is that every single time this happens, the notifying beep ALSO shuts off whatever music or audiobook I have going, and this doesn't start up again when tracking does, I have to manually restart it. Every.single.time. I have to dig out my phone, unlock it, open the audiobook or music app, restart the book or music, put the phone away again. This is every few minutes when you're walking a dog who likes to sniff. It's seriously ridiculous, I'm sure there are plenty of MMT users who listen to music or podcasts while on their run or walk or bike trip and would really love to just hit 'start' and 'play' and go. PLEASE make a setting to turn MMT tracking-has-stopped notifications OFF so they they don't interrupt the audio on the phone and result in a truly maddening user experience!

17. ★★★★★inaccurate gps throws off distance and route

    GPS Not Accurate. To be fair, I’ve been using the free version before deciding to upgrade to paid. Firstly, there were no instructions to be found. Perhaps I missed them. Route tracking was poor and lacked the map detail to accurately track the route and distance walked. After 4 weeks of tracking trials, I move on to a much more accurate walk route tracker. One good thing about this app is no sign up was required.

18. ★★★★★simple and accurate for everyday walks and hikes

    It works. I used this app too design a trail system thru the forest. I then used the app to draw a trail map of those trails.

19. ★★★★★signup hangs and sessions or data get lost

    OK but issues.. I've been using for a while now and had no problems till today when I completed a walk and as I stopped I looked at the progress. It showed I had almost five miles. I hit the stop button and it deleted the whole event. Very disappointed. Need a way to recover data if it is still there.

20. ★★★★★simple and accurate for everyday walks and hikes

    App review. Very good I use it a lot

21. ★★★★★other

    Usability. Not intuitive! I walked for 9 km yesterday and climbed about 800ft.....I can see the summary of my walk on my iPhone but the website says I did nothing yesterday???

22. ★★★★★other

    Quite impressed. Used only three times to help prepare a map. Impressed with detail but frustrated I couldn’t transfer track to computer and no contact to ask the question.

23. ★★★★★inaccurate gps throws off distance and route

    Needs to be Improved but has a great potential. I have used this App for 5 months now. The more I used it, the more I saw that the app has trouble tracking correctly for the first 15min of my walk. If my screen goes off, the app goes to sleep & the next time the screen is switched on, the app has to be restarted & a straight line is drawn between the two points of where the screen was on, instead of the actual route taken. This then registers a reduces distance & average mph. The only way to avoid this, is to keep turning the phone on every few minutes which is tiresome or leave the screen on but this drains the battery. Leaderboard is a great idea but in its current format it is open to wide abuse just scroll down & check the records for the top 5 walkers of this week. People claiming to be walking between 20 & 100 miles in one outing with average walking speeds of between 6.7mph & 21mph. This is not physically possible for a human being. Parameters need to be set which would stop incorrect information being displayed. Sort these two issues out & you will have the best app on the market. It would be well worth paying for then but not as it is currently...

24. ★★★★★simple and accurate for everyday walks and hikes

    Good app. Using for two weeks only. Meets expectations.

25. ★★★★★simple and accurate for everyday walks and hikes

    Does the job. Does the job

26. ★★★★★simple and accurate for everyday walks and hikes

    Cool easy app. Very user friendly

27. ★★★★★simple and accurate for everyday walks and hikes

    Outstanding. Useful, haven’t read any directions and have been able to use it

28. ★★★★★simple and accurate for everyday walks and hikes

    Overall it's great!. On my hikes I'll place my phone one of my cargo pockets of my shorts after turning it on, occasionally it will not start registering. When I return from my walk nothing has recorded. A glitch or something I'm doing wrong with the app or not waiting long enough for the program to fully engage. Having said that, It's very useful when It works as intended.

29. ★★★★★simple and accurate for everyday walks and hikes

    Nice..... Great app with some nice features you can utilize that aren’t in other apps I’ve used in the past

30. ★★★★★simple and accurate for everyday walks and hikes

    Walk. I used it today for the first time I forgot to turn it on at the start of my walk. So I will start again tomorrow.