ControlFreak Run

Run an orienteering course with virtual controls. The GPS in your phone or watch tells when you reach a control, and a signal confirms the punch.

The runner only needs the map, the course's QR code and a phone or Garmin watch. Coverage is only needed when the QR code is read – after that everything works in the forest, with no account and no server.

Run with your phone

The phone punches, beeps and reads out the code number – it can stay in your pocket. At the finish: result, split times and GPX.

Scan the course's QR code with the Camera app.
Tap Start and run. The screen can be dark; the sound tells you when you have punched.

Run with a Garmin watch

The watch punches, beeps and saves the run in Garmin Connect.

Install ControlFreak Run on the watch from the Connect IQ store.
Choose Fetch course on the watch and scan the course's QR code with your phone. The course loads.
Press Start on the watch and run.

Create QR codes for your courses

For the course setter: Drop your course file here to get one QR code per course. Print them as a PDF, or save them as images and put them on the map. Everything happens in the browser – nothing is uploaded.

Drop the files here

IOF XML 3.0, ControlFreak (.cfpack or .cfproj; use these for Hittaut courses) or Purple Pen (.ppen together with the map file, .ocd or .omap).

Note: the course must be correctly georeferenced.