iOrienteering

iOrienteering iOrienteering- Create and run events with an easy to use app. Check your results and see how others have done. Schools, clubs and organisations. Open to everyone.

We welcome your ideas and suggestions. Together we can help users have fun and be active. What is iOrienteering? At its simplest, orienteering is navigating, normally using a map, to find check points or markers. iOrienteering allows anyone with a smart phone to try the sport. All you need is the iOrienteering App, a course and a little time. You choose when you start and at the end you can upload

your results to this site to compare your times if you wish. The basic App is free, setting up an event is free, the QR barcodes used as control markers are free to download / use and uploading results is free. There may be a small charge for some of the maps, to cover the costs of the organiser for producing them. Otherwise it is up to you. Just have a go to try it yourself; compete against yourself or family/ group members

Down Load the App
Buy the map. Go to the start loaction. Scan the barcode on the map to tell the App which course you want to start. Scan the Start barcode and off you go. Visit the Controls
Scan the Finish barcode at the end
Upload your results to the Website
You can run the course as many times as you like. You can upload all or none of your results. It's up to you. Each event site can have several courses. There are 2 typical types of courses. Point to Point/ Linear courses - the aim is to run a set route as fast as you can. The controls need to be visited in a set order and if you miss one the course is incomplete. There is a sensible time limit for the course to be completed in, but this is sensible time to turn the App off in (in case you leave the course and miss the finish marker) and not a target. Score events do have a proper time limit and an array of check points. Each check point has a points value and the idea is to collect as many points as you can within the time limit. The controls can be visited in any order. You may only get to one of them, you may be able to get to them all but whatever happens don’t be late back else you’ll start to loss points.....

For the price of just three coffees, you can remove adverts from your iOrienteering event.In the past, we have asked for...
27/05/2026

For the price of just three coffees, you can remove adverts from your iOrienteering event.

In the past, we have asked for donations, but very few users actually contribute so we need to shift the funding model to make it fair to all. This small charge will help support iO as it develops, so keep sending in your ideas. With a steady income, we should be able to release more updates and improvements.

The invoice responds to your language selection and shows the currency you have paid in
26/05/2026

The invoice responds to your language selection and shows the currency you have paid in

Once you have paid you can download an invoice from this link
25/05/2026

Once you have paid you can download an invoice from this link

The Worldpay process is very easy
24/05/2026

The Worldpay process is very easy

Just click this button to go to our Worldpay payment gateway
23/05/2026

Just click this button to go to our Worldpay payment gateway

Adverts are now live on all new courses. You can remove them easily with a one-off payment of £10.
23/05/2026

Adverts are now live on all new courses. You can remove them easily with a one-off payment of £10.

16/05/2026

You can now edit the results. This will help organisers correct small errors and improve the quality of the results.

15/05/2026

This coming week, we are going to move away from donations to a new funding model.

Donations are hit and miss, and amount to less than 10% of the overheads. To try to make funding more fair, we are going to introduce adverts into the app, and organisers can pay a small fee (roughly the price of 3 coffees) to remove the adverts from their event.

This change will start to roll out for new courses this month, and for all older courses in 3 months.

The base app is still free to use. You can still create events for free, but if you want to remove the adverts, there will be a small one-off fee.

The money this generates will go to pay off the development costs, and any excess will be ploughed back into the app. This should help make it self-sustaining.

Keep suggesting ideas to improve the app.

Thank you

I have released a new video https://youtu.be/URTCsGq6Ddo to help users add a satellite image layer back to the base map
14/05/2026

I have released a new video https://youtu.be/URTCsGq6Ddo to help users add a satellite image layer back to the base map

A short video showing how to add a satellite image layer as an overlay on the base map used in iOrienteering.Once the course is added, the course can be copi...

05/05/2026

We have released a new update to allow you to zoom in more when using a small map area.

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