Map My Walk by Outside

I love this app for tracking all my workout activities. I use it with my Apple Watch and prefer the activity details and how they are displayed in this app over the native application for Apple. I’m doing the 2020 challenge this year which is keeping me motivated! Syncing workouts from the Apple Watch to the app isn’t always fast, it’s taken several days with some workouts. I’ve also had to delete the app and re-download due to workouts being placed out of order, which can just be frustrating when trying to look over improvements made for specific period of time. This can be inconvenient. Still 4 stars because I have downloaded several other apps to track my activity, paid for the premier memberships for these other apps, and I have deleted those same apps. It is just easier to use this app than the others I’ve tried.

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Update #2 Jan 6 - the GPS and timer function have gone crazy one more time. Says I am walking a 7 minute mile and I know I walk fast but.....also the distance is not correct because I do the same route and it did not register the mile until I had gone at least 1.2 miles. This is SO FRUSTRATING because I rely on his app as an accurate tracker. If this keeps happening I am going to ditch it for something that really works all the time, not sporadically. UPDATE - since the very latest update on Nov 2 it seems to be better. Today it properly tracked time and distance. Hopefully the problem is fixed. Upgraded from two to four stars based on historical use and the new improvements. Like the larger screen display too so thanks for that! Stay tuned! ********************************************I have an iPhone and have been using this app for at least two years no issues. Since the last update it is not properly tracking time OR distance and therefore not tracking calories or anything else correctly. I know this because I take the exact same walk almost every day so have it in my history. I walk fast but I can’t do 1.2 miles in 8 minutes!! Please fix ASAP.

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If you’re just using your phone by itself to track workouts, you’ll probably be fine. But if you want to use it with the Apple Watch, you’ll want to find something else, because there is so much dysfunction with that whole ecosystem, it just isn’t worth the frustration. Syncing is very unreliable, and involves a lot of forcing closing both apps on the watch and phone, toggling Bluetooth on and off, etc. The Watch app also becomes unstable as time goes on and will hang and crash in the middle of workouts, which means you have to stop and mess with it to get it working again. It also appears to not play well with Apple’s own Activity app where it messes up the Move ring, and will crash itself if notifications from the Activity app go off. To keep this watch app stable literally means you will be reinstalling it several times a week. What’s very troubling is UA’s dev team has no problem giving you Rube Goldberg type workarounds to fix the problem, but can’t make any of this stuff work. If Strava and Nike can figure out how to make sync reliable, why can’t UA?

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I’ve somewhat successfully used this app but it’s super glitchy. I like that it tells you your pace. I do the same walk several times per week. There are mile markers on my walk so I know when I’ve reached each mile. The app is inconsistent, as it usually says I’ve gone a mile before I actually have. Because of this the more miles you travel the more inaccurate it gets. There have been several times when I look down at the app and it hasn’t even been working. Now the last couple times I’ve tried to use it’s been freezing so it’s completely unusable. I walked two miles and it says I’ve walked .67. It’s really discouraging to my exercise routine as tracking my miles, time, and calories burned is super motivating. Each time I realize it hasn’t been working it makes me feel a little less motivated. That’s probably a personal problem, but regardless it’s frustrating. Anyway I’ve deleted and reinstalled it a couple times but it’s still giving me issues. So I’ve just deleted it for the last time. I’ll go back to my Fitbit.

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I’ve used Map My Walk since 2014 & was very happy with it until a few months ago when it became difficult to start the app. It would take several attempts, rebooting, re-installing, etc. Very annoying when all you want to do is start your workout. Next I noticed problems with the GPS tracking; it began to stop tracking me, then would jump straight to my current location in a straight line. This would result in negating the whole workout if you’re trying to track your progress over time. Recently I noticed it has shortchanged my distance tracking, so it calls out my first mile results when I’ve only walked .6 of a mile, even tho the map showing my track was accurate. FYI I have a new iPhone 8 with the latest versions this app & iOS. All of this has been very frustrating so I did some research online and found these problems began shortly after Map My Walk was bought by UnderArmor. Other reviewers have reported the same problems. Please get it together! I don’t like the other apps as much as the old pre-UnderArmor Map My Walk app!