Sports Tracker is Waking Up

In the 2000s I was using a Nokia N95 8gb with Sports tracker to track my walks every day. Eventually, when I started scuba diving I switched to Suunto to track dives, and eventually wore one for hikes, and then I upgraded to the Suunto Ambit 2, 3, Spartan Wrist HR Baro and then the Peak 5.

At the same time as I was jumping from one watch to another Sports Tracker was growing, and then Suunto bought it, and it became Movescount and this app was truly fantastic. I really loved the web app. It then became the Suunto App. Sports Tracker and the Suunto App are iterations of the same app. The Sports tracker app plays nicely with the Apple Watch, among other apps, whereas the Suunto app plays nicely with Suunto and Xiaomi devices.

I felt, for a long time, that Suunto wasn’t taking advantage of how great the Movescount app was but in recent weeks I have noticed more social media posts for the Sports tracker app.

This morning, or last night I noticed the emergence of the “My Badges” tab. It has running, hiking, cycling, weight lifting, paddle sports, diving, snow adventure, stamina building and power striker.

It also rewards distance achievements and adventure milestones. The milestones seem to be forward looking. If they were retroactive then I would already have all of these badges, with ease, after three decades of using Sports Tracker, Movescount and the Suunto app.

On the Suunto app I have 486 activities logged, in part because I slid to Garmin to track certain sports and that’s where the badges are present. On the Sports tracker app I have 4125 activities tracked, with 33,000 kilometres travelled over 2805 days and four thousand eight hundred and twelve hours of tracked activities.

On Strava I only have three thousand nine hundred plus activities. This is after years, and years of tracking sports.

And Finally

I would welcome a European company becoming more dominant in this space once again. It would be nice not to have to rely on Strava, Garmin and other apps. I was sad to see Movescount decline, and for years I felt that Sports Tracker and the Suunto apps would be abandonned. If they gain momentum I will be happy.