Garmin Alpha

The new update is terrible. The tracks won’t clear now. So when you track your dog at home or a place you frequent regularly you just get a map filled in with black lines. Garmin makes great hardware, but they’ve always been trash in the software department. I’m actively looking to move to a different hardware company that provides useable software for their products. I can only recommend Garmin if you don’t need software support for your device.

I really enjoy the improvements made to this app lately. A few things I wish could be corrected is in your inventory tab. It would be nice to be able to share that or print it. It would also be awesome if you could use this app with Apple CarPlay, or even an Apple Watch.

The Garmin Explorer apps lets you display tracks which helps to show unmarked trails or other map functions. The explore app also USED to let you track your dogs from the compatible Alpha tracking box. Why this app was ever created in the first place I’ll never know. A great app (the old explore app) lost part of its functionally to make the Garmin Alpha app. Now you have two apps both with partial functionality when the original explore app used to do everything the alpha app does and more. If I could give this Zero stars I would as it has no purpose. Now that the new version of explore was released my alpha box will pair with either the alpha app - or all of Garmin’s other apps (Tread, Explore, Messenger). The only one however that you can track on - is the Alpha app. Horrible update and app from Garmin’s app development team and as always they like to drop a new version mid hunting season that doesn’t work