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Participant app

  • Get ready for your first event

    The participant app brings together an organizer’s events, your linked tickets and the event information they provide. Route guidance, recording and other optional areas depend…

  • Add or change organizer

    An organizer is the team providing the events you see. Adding one to the phone is separate from signing in or buying a ticket.

  • Sign in and recover access

    Use your account login email to restore your account. Use the participant email stored on a ticket to connect that participant. They can be different addresses.

  • Connect a ticket and show the right QR code

    You need access to the email address stored with the participant. Connecting a participant gives the receiving account access to their current and future tickets with that…

  • Buy a ticket and return to the app

    Select the organizer and event, then choose Attend or Buy a new ticket .

  • Understand purchase status and recover

    The app checks the booking when you return from checkout. Choose Refresh for another check; the browser closing by itself does not confirm payment.

  • Review event details and your current state

    From Home , open the event card or View event .

  • Use Home before, during and after the event

    Before the event Use Your next event , View event and Ticket to review preparation and admission.

  • Read a route and prepare its map

    Open the event’s Route when provided. The route panel shows distance, ascent, estimated duration and elevation. Drag its handle to show more or less of the map. Pan or pinch to…

  • Use and manage an offline map

    Prepare the event route while signed in to the correct organizer and connected to the internet. Keep enough storage for the displayed estimate.

  • Start and stop route guidance

    You need an eligible linked participant, a route-enabled event and location permission. Route preview alone does not grant navigation access.

  • Record, pause and save an activity

    For an event that offers recording, choose whether to keep the recording on this phone or sync it online before starting. Private synchronization uploads track points; photos…

  • Replay a recording and export its route

    Open Activities → My recordings and select a saved activity.

  • Take or add photos and videos

    Media stays on this phone; track synchronization does not upload photos or videos. Open the current recording’s media controls or a saved activity’s Photos & videos .

  • Share a current or live location

    During an activity, open Share location and choose Current location for one position or Live location for updates. A sharing link is accessible to anyone who holds it; send it…

  • Request help, check acknowledgment and read replies

    Open SOS from your event for its contacts and help form. Opening this screen does not alert anyone. Event help requires sign-in, an eligible participant and an event in…

  • Read a nearby rescue point

    In SOS , a nearby rescue point may appear when route data and your position are available. It is a meeting point for emergency responders, not a staffed help station.

  • Delete a saved recording

    Export anything you want to retain first. Deleting an activity removes its recording, app-owned media copies and associated app-generated artifacts; photo-library originals…

  • Manage account details and device access

    Open the account avatar, then Account & settings .

  • Create and export a reel

    Turn a saved activity and its photos into a short video. Have the activity’s media available on this phone.

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