TomTom end of life solution

I got an email from TomTom the other day saying

by the end of September 2023… The TomTom Sports mobile app, Sports website, and Sports Connect desktop application will be discontinued and permanently removed.

This largely renders their perfectly good watches useless, however I found some software that although no longer maintained lets you download GPX from the watch meaning cheapskates like me don’t have to pay for something new.

Thought it might be useful to some of you.

Its here…
https://blog.studioblueplanet.net/software/tomtomwatch

Didn’t Garmin buy TomTom?

Had no idea they were still going to be honest…

I have the tomtom navigation app on my phone, prefer it to google maps or any other alternatives I have tried.

I did buy a tomtom sports watch 5 years ago or so, it didn’t last long it was miles behind the garmin watches.

God I opened this expecting directions to dignitas

As you were

God I opened this expecting directions to dignitas

As you were

🤣

Glad it’s not just me then!

I’ve been using TomTom Go on my phone, for around seven years now, after my logistics team leader kept moaning about me not getting to arranged destinations at the same time as him. I used to use Here, Navmi and a couple of other apps, so to shut him up I installed TomTom on my phone. (He used a standalone TomTom device). Didn’t stop him moaning, he couldn’t quite get his head around the fact that we were heading to the same destination from completely different locations, on different routes!
I do pay a subscription, so I get regular updates to maps. It works really well with CarPlay in my car as well as accepting destinations directly from what3words, so no more fannying around with postcodes where a postcode might cover several dozen locations without numbers; like business parks, or industrial estates. Or a car park in the arse-end of nowhere.

kormoran +1
Need to check my TomTom watch as this suggests it may have been a pisspoor purchase.

I noticed this the other day when I dusted off my old tomtom running watch, it’s years old but is perfect as it has the built in HRM and also does music. It’s a shame they’re going end of life, the watch still works and I was never bothered about syncing activities anyway, but even with the manual workaround above you still need the tomtom app to update the quickGPS data, it’ll be interesting to see if it starts struggling to get a GPS fix without this.

I have a mate who absolutely loved his Tom Tom watch, reckoned it was better than Garmin in every single way. Ran Ultras and this trained a lot obviously.

The program will update quickGPS for you.

Set up a charity to fund a spa at the bottom of your garden?

My first GPS watch and HRM was a TomTom, bought cheap off Wiggle or suchlike years ago. Whilst the styling was a bit challenging I really liked it as basic device.

The only thing that made me get a new device was that the straps kept breaking, although replacements were cheap enough of eBay/Amazon. Also the battery life started to drop off a cliff meaning that it struggled to record activities longer than 4 hours.

As long as my 18ish year old TomTom One keeps working I don’t mind 🙂

I retired my trusty Runner 3 in June which was still great after years of abuse. Battery life had degraded a bit but was still perfectly usable with all the features you’d want from a sports watch.

Shame they’re pulling support as Strava updated via the tom tom sports app.

Thanks for this- I have one and still use it for running so this is useful. I did get the same email but only had chance to quickly scan the title but expected the worst. Shame as it works really well and I am sure when I bought it, it was really good value for a watch with music storage and breadcrumb mapping.  Or it was at the time, anyway.