iTrail at App Store analyse

Did a 10mi run with it this morning so I have a few observations and a couple of suggestions. According to the instructions you must keep the iPhone on never lock (not sure about other Apps but Pandora will continue in lock mode). I was also using as an iPod so was a little concerned about battery life but it made through. Well over all iTrail works. Would like to see a timer (it seems to only show the time the Trail name was created and not when you actually start). For some reason the map shows from my house (as the crow flies) to where I stared running even though it wasnt running. I did create the trail at my house. At the start the altitude and speed had a couple of of spikes. Also I’m not sure if it could be done but an auto pause would be nice. When you stop moving for so many seconds (5 ,maybe) to pause and then auto resume when you start moving agin. I had to stop for 6 red lights and a restroom break and would like to have that time netted out with an auto pause feature. It could use a little polish and a few options features but for the first version and for only $3 it’s a must buy for any runner, hiker, biker and walker. It actually should be rated 4 1/2 stars.

I used this application to track myself on a run. It worked quite well--was very accurate and matched other assessments I use to track my distance and speed. Since its been out for only a day, its difficult to assess its long-time usefulness. There are plenty of features missing, but we can expect the app to grow as new features are added. This was obviously written by an experienced developer. Its quite well put together. (In fact, I believe this is the written by the same "Justin Davis" who wrote British Airways App and the copious use of British English in the documentation, such as "whilst", seems to further point to that likelihood.) The Google Maps feature is great--it showed an accurate map of where Ive run, sans a few zig-zags I made across the road. Also nice is that your map info is not uploaded to a "cloud" which I know Run Keeper, another App set to come out soon, will do. Uploading to a server isnt necessarily a bad thing, but this additional complexity adds developer time (and therefore cost) to the application. I have only a couple of complaints: Using iPod functionality is a little bit difficult (i.e., skipping to the next track). But the nice thing is that if you accidently close the app, you can continue tracking yourself by quickly switching back and starting again. Also, adding a new trail is just a little unintuitive at first. Itd be nice if the MyTrails and New Trails tabs could be combined somehow (perhaps by using the "+" in the upper right hand corner as other apps do).

This is a great little app. It offers you the most important information and seems to be very accurate. I took it cycling about 18 miles and it was surprisingly accurate, it only cut of a couple of corners on the whole route. It is nice to be able to look at the locations on the given trail afterwards and see, how I slowed on a climb or how fast i was going on a particular decent, although it was hard to nail down a given location. It might be nice to be able to click on a location and have it jump to the map view indicating that location. I would like to export this to the cloud because I would like to do more with it like add a trail to bikely for example. I would like to see extreme outligers excluded from the graph (perhaps show them but drop them from the line, for example I had several instances where I got a reading of altitude 0 when I am at about 4500 feet. And finally, although I am a geek at heart with my Iphone mounted on my handlebars, I dont really care about the longitde and latitued of a given point, possibly allowing a customized display with something like average speed( since you have distance and time) or data from an external source (like a plugin for my polar HR monitor) would be really cool.

Blech. I want a refund. There should be a zero star option.

Walking out the front door netted me 0.4 miles. Then 6 blocks added another 2 miles. The altimeter showed a steadily decreasing elevation as I walked up a steep hill. Wildly inaccurate is an understatement.

So I have been waiting for this application for some time, and reading others reviews I was sceptical. But in the end, this app does great. Here are the pluses and minues: Pluses: - easy/clean interface - map does track well and accurate, only sometimes cutting corners. - shows distance vs. speed and speed vs. altitude. Minuses: - cannot compare the same train when running it more than once. - cannot pause your run/bike when stopping. - must keep iphone app running. (apples fault) - sometimes you must reset at the start of your run to make the distance start at 0.0miles. - sometimes the mph readings are buggy. -needs to say how long your run/bike was at the end in a simple way. Now it may seem like a lot of bugs but this app actually does do what it intends well and is worth buying. With udates and bug fixes this could be a GREAT application. A great 3$ buy for any runner, biker, swimmer, ect.

I really wanted this app to work. I was so hopeful that bought it right away. Please come out with updates soon. What I would like to see is constant gps tracking instead of every ten seconds. The automatic default iTrail option does not work very well. No one really cares about the background picture either. It seems like a few minor tweaks could make this an excellent application.