[Announce] MeeRun - Sport Tracking application for Nokia N9, Symbian and BB10
 

Looking for a new Sports Tracker for your N9? MeeRun is now available on the app store! It is optimized for the N9 and has the following functionalities:

- Real-time distance, time, lap, speed, pace monitoring (in miles or kilometers)
- Jogging, biking, hiking, skating, ...
- Live map (optional)
- Lock screen (with run info and swipe-to-unlock)
- Statistics and diagrams
- Interactive offline replay
- Minimal resource usage (optimized for the N9 display)
- Torch icon (for night runs)
- GPX file format (export filtered and/or raw data)
- Intuitive UI

A few screenshots:
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It tries to get the most out of the internal GPS of the N9 and combines several strategies to improve the signal:
- Kalman filter
- Remove irrelevant moves (small moves below the accuracy level)
- Removal of unlikely positions
- And more :)

About the map:
The live map requires an internet connection (that's the way the nokia plug-in works...) but if you don't want to connect, it will not bother you the whole time ;) An offline map (based on openstreetmaps) is being finalized and will be added to a next release.

I hope you will like it because we have many plans for the next releases :)

And just for fun, some more screenshots:
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Update (2013.05.17):

Symbian version is now available! And the download issue for the N9 has finally been solved :)

App Store Item:
http://store.ovi.com/content/363791

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Update (2013.06.18):

Blackberry 10 version (CascaRun) is now available!

BlackBerry World item:
http://appworld.blackberry.com/webst...tent/29342891/

Re: [Announce] MeeRun - Sport Tracking application for Nokia N9
 

Hah.. I swear I was thinking I just might need this app! :D Thanks!
Edit: I think I'll wait for a free version until I get a credit card :p

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It's only 3 euro AMD, peanuts :p

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Give me the credit card, or any way of payment :p

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This is what I've waited for a long time. Orginal sport tracker is heavy and always freeze, pedometre is inaccurate. Thank you so much for this, so grateful and happy to see people still developing for harmattan.

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Why not pay via telephone bill? I never paid anything in store with credit card... or is this country-specific?

Anyway, i paid via telephone bill, but downloading fails.

Edit: rebooted device, did not help... maybe i will try again tomorrow.
Something wrong with the package or a problem with store once again?

Edit2: I removed the atachment, it looks so negative. The app on the other hand looks amazing, pretty much, what i was waiting for, for a long time... hope nokia gets their store fixed, so that i can test it :)

... i wonder how it will work together with Billboard?

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I'm happy with 'sport tracker' to be honest but I must say this application looks really good.
I really like the lock screen with run info :)
Might buy later on,
Thank you

Re: [Announce] MeeRun - Sport Tracking application for Nokia N9
 

It seems that Nokia needs some time to synchronize all its servers. I sometimes experience the same when downloading new apps, it will eventually work for you in a few hours.

Re: [Announce] MeeRun - Sport Tracking application for Nokia N9
 

store billing isn't available ( and never will ) .

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I like the idea of this app, but as a fan and long time user of Sports Tracker, I wonder what makes this different.

There doesn't seem to be an accompanying web service. I wonder what the efforts could go to that's not something self developed, like an overall health tracker.

I don't see the music scrobbling, not the markets for pics taken while in a workout. I'd there something from that end planned? Perhaps using any of the user's accounts for pic services to track and upload automatically there?

Wonder if I could make an action to export each workout into Evernote when I'm done, then tweet results?

Nice work. Will most likely take a poke into this

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The differences are listed in the first post:

- Lock screen (with run info and swipe-to-unlock)
- Interactive offline replay
- Torch icon (for night runs)
- GPX file format (export filtered and/or raw data)
- Kalman filter
- Remove irrelevant moves (small moves below the accuracy level)
- Removal of unlikely positions
-The live map requires an internet connection but if you don't want to connect, it will not bother you the whole time

In fact, these differences seem like an exact Buglist of Sportstracker :)

Re: [Announce] MeeRun - Sport Tracking application for Nokia N9
 

Doh...
Seeing that off not yet put ST on my N9, I didn't see those as unique but more or less points. Thanks for the poke back.

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I encountered "download error" in the store... any idea where the problem is?

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Yes, some people have problems to download the app, it seems that Nokia has some server problems... My guess is that they are not able to synchronize new apps on all servers, I already contacted support and it will hopefully work very soon!

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lol~ looks like meetrainer has a new competitor

btw is there a pedometer, and bluetooth hrm support?

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I'm also experiencing download problems, but this app looks very promising! I'm a frequent user of Sportstracker and the N9-version of it is not developed anymore and lacks a lot of features and have a few irritating issues/bugs.

I would love to see features like "Beat yourself", "Time Goal", "Interval Training" and "Audio Coach"....these are Endomondo features described here (http://www.endomondo.com/features).
These are very useful and inspiring features when running.

Have you tried uploading the GPX-file to the Sportstracker website to check how well it fits into their system? I'm asking because if I use MeeRun I would still want to upload my workouts there because of all the friends I have there.

Keep up the good work! :)

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@latency: GPX export and then import from the sports tracker website works without problem, you can also use it to compare the filtered and unfiltered files :)

Regarding interval training, I usually prefer to use the manual laps, it is much more flexible. For the next version, we will focus on offline maps, altitude (in a reliable way...), training import, filter configuration and offline filter. Pulse may come later. The other features, while nice to have, have a lower priority. MeeRun tries to focus on accuracy, stability and usability. Marketing usually focus on number of features, though :)

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I understand that your focus is to get the app as stable, accurate and easy to use as possible first of course. After that is done I would love to see some of the features I mentioned. I see a lot of people leaving Sportstracker because the lack of pace keeping features and such.

I agree, marketing tends to use features to promote but if two products were equal and one of them one had an extra feature that's useful, most people would go for that one ;)

Anyway, I'm looking forward to trying MeeRun once the servers are working again and the next version sounds even more impressing. Offline maps and reliable altitudes is not easy to do as far as I understand.

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I'm eager to try this app. Since yesterday, I'm also experiencing download problems.

The features I'm looking for are : efficient filtering capabilities (N9 GPS is not very sensitive), minimal ressource usage, offline map and GPX export.

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Just curious as I haven't installed the app yet, for those with download problems have you tried checking /var/cache/apt/archives/partial to see if the .deb is in there? If so, clicking it or using dpkg -i on it would allow it to be installed ;)

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Empty for me, but nice try :)

Re: [Announce] MeeRun - Sport Tracking application for Nokia N9
 

Same problem

Mine is empty too

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Any news regarding this download error? I have the feeling that nobody has been able to try this app.:(

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I hope Nokia fix the server problems soon. Today when I tried to download MeeRun again I got a warning message telling me that the "Maximum download attempts was reached" and now it seems I have to pay for it again to download. Kind of funny since I haven't been able to download it yet. I've sent a support message to Nokia now.

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I have also contacted Nokia several times, no answer so far, kind of frustrating but they will hopefully fix it in the next hours, today is a working day again :)

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Why didn't you name it MeeGo... Unbelievable ;)

Still support you, bought it. Waiting for updates...

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Payment went smooth (credit card), but download fails before it even begins.

Message sent to Nokia store support just in case there's anyone reading those anymore. :)

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Sorry that you cannot download the item, I keep trying to contact Nokia but without success. The last message I got from them was that "the application is in the app store", with a screenshot from the web site proving that it is here...

I hope that they will finally correct the issue, Nokia's behaviour is truly unprofessional. MeeRun is currently getting bad ratings because of that. Maybe some of you got a better answer from support?

Update: According to support, Nokia is now working on that issue.

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Same here...

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This situation is unacceptable, neither for the developper nor for the users.

Now, whenever I try to download this app, I send a new message to Nokia (that bunch of tired people), a message that is becoming increasingly scathing.

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I have been trying to buy Meerun for the last 5 days. It seems that Nokia do not want to sell it. Incredible.

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Yep, just payed and no luck with download.

Fingers crossed that they fix payments :)

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1420887/Meerun.png

Re: [Announce] MeeRun - Sport Tracking application for Nokia N9
 

Thanks to bwalter who sent me the deb, I was able to give a try.

I can say that this is a beautiful piece of software! :)

The UI is neat and simple and the ability to visualize the track directly on the phone is just great!

I also like the way statistics are displayed, with graphics.

Sometimes the filtering seems a little bit too strong but most of the time it works pretty well.

Congratulations!

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Bwalter,

It would be nice if you can give us a trial version so we can try it until Nokia solves the store problem.

Maybe a version that stops working in a couple of weeks?

Re: [Announce] MeeRun - Sport Tracking application for Nokia N9
 

Filter will be configurable in the next version and it will be also possible to reconfigure it offline for fine tuning.

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Had a phone-talk with nokia store support (they called me), operator promised to refund my payment.

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As of today (almost a week after release) download from the Ovi Store still fails. I wonder how many sales are lost due to it.

In many ways Harmattan is the best mobile OS, but Nokia treats it like an unwanted step child.

Many thanks to bwalter for good customer support (offering download outside of store).

Re: [Announce] MeeRun - Sport Tracking application for Nokia N9
 

I paid as well when it first came on the store. It's been a week now!
This is unacceptable from Nokia!
Please follow it up with them.

Re: [Announce] MeeRun - Sport Tracking application for Nokia N9
 

plz add satellite mode & share workout data and photos on Facebook and Twitter.
thanks.

Re: [Announce] MeeRun - Sport Tracking application for Nokia N9
 

That's a good idea... I can't wait to try this :)