Jérôme Pirotte · October 15, 2026
You get home from a race with a paper map and a GPS recording. You know you lost time on one leg, but was it the route choice, the climb, or those two minutes spent looking for the control?
Putting your GPS track on the actual race map helps answer that. Choosing a tool is less straightforward: some are built around events, some work with your own files, and others help you keep an archive of past races.
I'm Jérôme Pirotte, an orienteer and the developer of Dibber. So this isn't an independent review. I've included Dibber alongside the other options, with its limitations, to help you decide what fits the way you analyse a race. Details below reflect October 2026; prices and subscription features can change.
If you're new to route analysis, a leg is the section between two controls. Most of these tools let you see where you ran; the differences are in how you prepare the map, compare legs and revisit the analysis later.
| Tool | Main use | Can you use your own map and track without an organiser? | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Livelox | Event replays, runner comparisons and live tracking | The usual event workflow needs a published map and course | Free basic access; Premium or federation-funded access for more features |
| RouteGadget / RG2 | Drawing, uploading and comparing routes at club events | Normally needs an event set up by the club | Free |
| RG3 | Route viewing, including local-file and 3D terrain viewers | Yes, through its local-file viewers | Free |
| QuickRoute | Detailed track-on-map analysis on Windows | Yes | Free |
| DOMA | Publishing a personal map archive | Yes, with hosting and maps prepared elsewhere | Free software; hosting needed |
| Control | Phone-based analysis with watch connections | Yes | Free tier and Total Control subscription |
| Quick Race Analyzer | A map and track overlay processed on your device | Yes | Check the site for current terms |
| Routster Analyse | Event-based analysis with split-time comparison and an AI coach | Partly: a run belongs to an event, which you or an organiser can create | Free tier; Premium 199 kr/year, Club 1,999 kr/year (checked 20 October 2026) |
| Dibber | Browser-based leg analysis, saved projects and print exports | Yes | Free tier; Plus €5/month or €45/year |
These aren't all direct substitutes. If your club publishes an event on RouteGadget, that's where you'll find your clubmates' routes. A separate tool can still be useful for an unpublished training session or your own notes.
Livelox brings together the map, course and runners' tracks. Once the organiser has published the event, you can review your route and, depending on access, compare it with other runners. It also supports live tracking.
That shared event setup is its main advantage. You don't have to photograph and align your own map, and comparisons use the same course. For a well-attended race, seeing how several people tackled the same leg can tell you much more than studying your own line alone.
Livelox grew out of O-Ringen GPS tracking, with a team led by Mats Troeng. Its About page gives the background; the practical question for most runners is whether their event is published there.
Basic use is free. Premium is listed at €52.90/year, while federation agreements cover additional features for events in some countries. Check the current plans and country coverage: access depends on where the event takes place, not simply where you live.
For a training session that nobody plans to publish, you'll need a different workflow. That doesn't make Livelox less useful at the events it serves.
RouteGadget is a familiar part of the post-race routine: open the event, draw or upload your route, then replay it alongside other runners. Drawing a route from memory also makes it useful if you don't wear a GPS watch.
Jarkko Ryyppö created the original RouteGadget. Paul Frost maintains RG2, the open-source browser version used by many clubs. It includes route comparison, replay and speed analysis. These are substantial tools maintained on volunteer time.
For the usual club setup, someone needs to add the event first. If it isn't listed, you can't simply upload a map to that event page yourself.
There's an important distinction here: Ryyppö's RG3 viewers can open local map and track files without waiting for an organiser. RG3 also offers 3D views using LiDAR terrain data where available. So “use your own files tonight” is not a new idea, nor something unique to Dibber.
Start with your club's RouteGadget for shared race analysis. Look at RG3 separately if local-file viewing or terrain visualisation is what you need.
QuickRoute puts a GPS track on a map image and colours the route by measures such as pace or heart rate. You adjust the fit yourself, inspect sections of the run and can publish the result to DOMA.
Built by Mats Troeng and Jörgen Ohlin, it's free Windows software. The last stable release, version 2.4, dates to December 2011 and supports Garmin FIT files as well as other inputs.
An old release date doesn't mean an existing workflow has stopped being useful. If QuickRoute runs on your computer and does what you need, there's no reason to switch just for the sake of it.
If you're looking for a QuickRoute alternative because you use a Mac, a phone or a shared computer, the browser tools below are worth trying. The trade-off isn't just age: consider whether you want files kept locally, projects available across devices, or both.
DOMA stands for Digital Orienteering Map Archive. It's software for publishing maps with routes and comments, rather than a tool for doing the initial GPS analysis. QuickRoute can prepare maps for it.
Mats Troeng and Michal Besta built DOMA around an idea that still makes sense: being able to look back through your races, not just examine the latest one. It also supports hiding maps until a chosen time.
The main commitment is hosting. You'll need a compatible web server and someone willing to maintain it. That gives you control over your archive, but it's more setup than creating an account in a hosted app.
DOMA makes sense if you want your own map archive and are comfortable managing the website behind it.
Control, from Orienteers Oy, is available on iOS and Android. You add a map image and can connect supported watch platforms, including Garmin, Suunto, Polar and Coros.
Its tools include pace, heart-rate and altitude charts, plus control-point analysis. The Total Control subscription adds features such as route comparison, replay, tags and “What If” analysis for alternative routes. Check the current app listing for prices and the exact free-versus-paid split.
This is worth a look if your preferred routine is to sync your watch and review the race on your phone. If you mainly work at a desk or need a particular print layout, check that part of the workflow before settling on a tool. A phone app and a browser workspace suit different habits; neither is automatically the better choice.
Quick Race Analyzer takes a straightforward approach: open a map image and a GPX, FIT or TCX track, align them with matching points, then export a PNG. Its Attackpoint launch thread describes the approach and early feedback.
Files are processed on your device. That's a meaningful difference if you don't want to upload a map or create an account. It isn't intended as a hosted race journal, so keeping the files and exported images organised is up to you.
oanalysis.com and orienteer.co are also worth checking, although I haven't assessed them closely enough to compare their features fairly here. The latter focuses more on course creation. I would rather leave that gap visible than fill in a comparison table with guesses.
Routster Analyse, from Orienteering Labs AB in Stockholm, launched publicly in October 2026. It takes the event as its starting point: someone publishes the event with its map and courses, and every runner adds their own GPS track to it. From there you get a whole-course view, a per-leg view and a replay, together with split-time comparison against the rest of the class.
Two things stand out. First, the organiser workflow is deliberately light: an IOF XML result list or a WinSplits link brings the split times in, and if you email the map and course files they will build the event for you. Second, an AI coach called Pip writes a review of the race from your GPS, the course and the split times, and answers follow-up questions about individual legs.
The free tier covers uploading runs and replaying them, the course, splits and leg tables, automatic mistake detection and the insights view. Premium (199 kr/year when I checked on 20 October 2026) adds the AI coach and every field-comparison graph; its AI reviews draw on Coach Credits, with 100 a year included. Club (1,999 kr/year) covers every member with a shared credit pool and multi-tile map uploads, and includes a revenue share that pays the arranging club half of what is spent on AI reviews at its events — an approach I haven't seen elsewhere.
One structural difference matters when choosing: analysis there lives inside an event. For a training on your own you create your own event and add your run to it, which is a different rhythm from keeping a personal archive of past races with your own notes and print layouts. As everywhere in this article, my description comes from their documentation and launch announcement rather than a hands-on test.
I built Dibber to review my own route choices in a browser and keep the analyses together. You upload a track, add your map and match recognisable points on it to the same places on OpenStreetMap. That alignment puts the map and GPS recording in the same position.
Here's what the workflow includes:
The alignment guide explains the preparation involved. A flat scan or a clear, straight-on photo is a better starting point than a crumpled map photographed at an angle.
Dibber works in a browser on phones, tablets and computers, and supported browsers let you install it to your home screen. It's still a beta built by one person. There's no live tracking, no direct Garmin auto-upload and no organiser results-publishing system. Anything still plan rather than product is marked as such on the roadmap; everything described above is what the app does today.
Guest mode lets you try the file-based workflow without signing up: one project, deleted after 24 hours unless you create an account from the session. The Free plan includes one new project per calendar month, 100 MB of storage and one introductory text recognition. Plus is €5/month or €45/year, with unlimited personal project creation within 2 GB of storage and 20 text recognitions per monthly period (your billing anniversary). The 14-day trial needs no payment details. See pricing for the full terms.
Searching for a Livelox alternative or RouteGadget alternative doesn't have to mean replacing either. You may want one tool for the shared event and another for personal training.
Not necessarily. RouteGadget, QuickRoute and DOMA are free software, although hosting an archive can cost money. Livelox offers free access with paid or federation-funded features. Control and Dibber have free tiers, and Routster Analyse's free tier covers uploads and analysis (paid plans from 199 kr/year when I checked on 20 October 2026). Try your normal workflow before deciding whether a subscription adds something you need.
Only if you have the necessary rights or permission. Having a paper copy doesn't automatically give you permission to publish it online. Check the organiser's terms or ask the club, especially before sharing an image or analysis publicly. Copyright rules also vary by country.
Follow the event's map-release and embargo rules, including restrictions covering later races. An unlisted link can still be forwarded; it isn't a safeguard against revealing a course too early.
Not always. A PDF or PNG is useful for printing and discussion, but it isn't the same as a structured export of routes, splits and notes. Check exactly what you can download, retain your original files and consider how you would move a season's work if your needs changed.
Strava is useful for a general activity log, but doesn't provide the race-map-and-controls workflow described here. For courses where your phone detects arrival at controls, look at tools such as Trond Benum's UsynligO, MapRun or gpso.se. That's a different job from reviewing a completed race on its map.
An old race is a useful test: you already know where you struggled, so you can judge whether the analysis helps explain it.
If you'd like to try Dibber, open a guest session. Bring a map you have permission to use and a track file. You can work through the analysis and export it without an account.
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