viRACE - Virtual Running
irtual running and other challenges. Timekeeping and tracking in the app
App info
App description
Android App Analysis and Review: viRACE - Virtual Running, Developed by Quevita AG. Listed in Sports Category. Current Version Is 3.9.12, Updated On 28/11/2024 . According to users reviews on Google Play: viRACE - Virtual Running. Achieved Over 77 thousand Installs. viRACE - Virtual Running Currently Has 2 thousand Reviews, Average Rating 4.0 Stars
Join the viRACE community of over 200,000 athletes from 162 countries and participate in virtual races and challenges. Live updates about the intermediate results of you and your marked favorites and friends are delivered directly to your ears via headphones.
viRACE offers you:
- Participation in various virtual runs and challenges (timing and tracking via app): virtual runs, virtual cross-country skiing events and other sports.
- Live information on intermediate results and additional motivation provided by the organizers is delivered straight to your ears via headphones. All participants of a virtual run or challenge are listed on the details page of the different events and can be selected as favorites. This allows participants to keep up on progress of thier friends. You can also compare yourself directly with your personal best time.
- Different challenges: with free choice of routes or with predefined routes
- Automatic sending of start number and diploma (for selected events)
- Regular raffle of prizes at different virtual runs and challenges
This is how it works:
Immediately after registering, you will be taken to the international event feed. From here you can register for virtual runs or challenges in just a few steps. These are either started at a predefined start time by all participants at the same time or the start time can be freely selected within a certain time window. Live updates via headphones keep you informed about the race (countdown to the start, remaining distance, intermediate positions, results of the marked favourites, ...) and motivate you to achieve your best performance. Timing, distance measurement, start and finish - everything is handled directly by the app.
For organizers:
We offer event organizers the ability to plan and run virtual events themselves. There are also numerous options for running charity events. Don't hesitate to contact us if you are interested.
What's New
- New design for races
- Live races now more prominent
- Prize winners now displayed
- Fixed bugs in profile
Recent Comments
Andy Key
The app constantly crashes when trying to start a race. I'd like to support my selected charity, but can't with this app. Unfortunately, the app does not appear to work properly on Android 12 and higher based on the information in the crash report I generated. (Edit: the developer's response that I can just use a different app and upload is a bad joke. This means that they don't bother testing on newer versions at all. Avoid this app if possible!) (Second edit: they're spammers!)
Ankit Grover
I am changing from 1 to 2 stars to acknowledge the update from viRACE team. #### Original Review ##### I installed viRACE to take part in Virtual Great North Run. The search didn't work in the sense that it was showing me the race but now allowing me to select the same. On race day, the app downloaded modules and then kept showing Loading... and repeating the message that GPS signal is not there. This is the place where I use other GPS Apps regularly with no issues. Finally, I had to switch on Runkeeper and get on with running. It was very frustrating to be lined up to run Half Marathon and not being able to live experience due to App issues. I am on Android 9.
Stacy Mooreorless
Ran the great North run this morning, the app struggled to maintain GPS, kept interrupting my music, and ended up one kilometer out of sync with the actual distance I had covered. I ended up running an extra kilometer but the app never said that I had finished, it probably still thinks I'm still running. Would not recommend and will not be using again.
Not Needed
Really poor. Crashed before the start, crashed before the end, switched off my other audio stream, gobbled the battery. I'm apparently now 40k into a half marathon, and still haven't finished. An app like this is supposed to enhance the experience, not be the worst part of the run. If it can't do the basics of tracking the run, all voice clips, and other fripperies are wasted.
Gordon Halton
Has potential but not there yet. Used for Virtual Great North Run and it started great with the warm-up, commentary, crowd noises and even red arrows buzzing past! But after about 3 or 4km... Nothing. Didn't record time or GPS accurately (I get GPS sometimes but not for 15 odd km and no excuse for time! Was around 10mins out from my garmin) and had no further commentary or noises throughout. Such a shame as could have been a fantastic experience! Obviously a lot of bugs to fix!
Nuno Valente
I use the app in a Samsung A40 for Migros Run's. Without apparent reason I can't start the activity: 1- sometimes the "start warm-up" button doesn't appear, 2- when I get through this step, I lose the GPS signal (I can still start the race, but I'm not moving). I give all kind of permissions to the app, and tried to restart the app many times, and even the mobile, I tried too. I could use it in the past but last week it wasn't possible at all
Brian Parker
viRACE app worked OK in that the distance agreed with Runkeeper which I had running on my phone simultaneously which giving me distance and pace alerts. What was really annoying was as soon as viRACE made any announcement it stopped my music (Spotify) or podcast (Pocketcasts). The only way I could restart was to physically press the play button on the phone screen as the button on my headphones also didn't work. I don't have these issues using Runkeeper on its own.
Iain Mabbott
Used this for the first time today to do the Virtual Great North Run. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be any way to test it prior to racing which led me to discover a couple of issues during the event. The main issue was that it kept telling me that it had a poor GPS connection. I was using a running armband and the phone reported a full lock. I had to run an additional 300m over my Garmin's reported distance. It also doesn't play nicely with YouTube Music so I couldn't listen to that.