parkrun Virtual Volunteer

Love this app for volunteering! Barcode scanner reads all different formats (paper, screens, cards, wristbands), and it does it quickly. Timekeeping is easy to tap, plus the volume-down button option for rainy or cold days. As a volunteer, I appreciate how easy this is to use and all the work that made it that way. Great job, and thank you for a great app!!

This app, some volunteers, high-vis vests, and a few signs and you’ve got yourself a parkrun! And it’s free, forever!

The app really needs button feedback of some kind. When timing people in rapid succession in the cold it’s often hard to tell if the time was recorded. A small sound or vibration would help immensely.

If you start the app and then change the volume before starting the timer, tapping the screen to start the time will add additional times. If you then use the volume buttons to log times it will occasional add or no times; Up -> 1 time logged Up -> 0 times logged Down -> 2 times logged Down -> 1 time logged Down -> 2 times logged This can mess up results horribly!

I’ve timekept a lot of parkruns. The older watches were more tactile and less prone to multiple or accidental clicks than phones. Given this, I’d ask that a feature is added to allow timekeepers to slide over an accidental entry and remove it. I know the results processor can sort this out in post, but keeping in sync with the tokens and fellow timekeepers is important. Note that I had emailed parkrun HQ a while back about this and had no response.

This app is pretty perfect…very simple interface that is appropriate as thousands of people will use it without much training or explanation. For scanning, it basically doesn’t let you make a mistake of which item to scan first, thereby avoiding errors. Haptic feedback is perfect, and the scanner works very well across different materials…wrinkled paper, screens, rubber wrist bands, etc. Very well suited to its function

I used this for the first time a couple of weeks ago for barcode scanning and had zero problems. Faultless!

Only used it once so far for barcode scanning at a junior event but it worked perfectly.

I have an iPhone 11 pro and use the volunteer app without a problem. When timekeeping I start the run and then close the iPhone to prevent mistakes. As the runners finish I open the iPhone and open the app and I use the volume button to record the individual times. I have now updated to IOS 15 and today I was unable to use the app in the usual way. The volume button couldn’t be used to record the times, I was only able to use the touchscreen to input the time. Has anyone else experienced the same issue?

Great app to make volunteering easier and quicker