Garmin Alpha

Terrible design

Glitchy and not an intuitive interface. And that it doesn’t support Apple Watch is just silly. Pair with Apple Watch!

May 21, 2026

New update needs tweaking

Sadly the new update brought upon some adverse changes as per usual with any Garmin update. They can’t seem to get software figured out. Now when tracking a dog you don’t get to see distance, heading, or name on the map you just follow the tip of a line around.

May 18, 2026

New update is garbage

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.

May 9, 2026

Cannot overlay saved tracks

App needs the option to view a saved track on the live map like the explore app does. Please add this feature in future updates.

May 7, 2026

Poorly thought out UI with clutter and noice removing focus from what is important, no way to filter views on map-markers, no way to create (as i can find) hunting ground boundaries. Please focus on creating awesome products and api's and 3rd party possibility and let others build the bespoke hunting apps.

Apr 9, 2026

Installed easily enough, and I was able to configure it and have it connect to my Alpha 200i. However, after the first sync, I was surprised to see that no tracks or anything else had been (...) Updated the app, and wasted another hour fumbling around. Garmin still can't manage to write working software.

Apr 2, 2026

excelent

Mar 31, 2026

I'm seeing others are having problems with android syncing properly, and you above being to update the LTE Collar. That's what I can't seem to do. The app isn't pairing with the collar, so how am I supposed to update the collar?

Feb 17, 2026

Unit setting options

Need to be able to change distance units to yards instead of feet to match the handheld.

Jan 17, 2026

App has satellite imagery again. Now it can actually be useful in tracking our dogs. When the satellite imagery was not available, it was useless. I am glad Garmin got that solved. There is room for improvement, but so far, except for the satellite imagery glitch, the app has been stable.

Jan 13, 2026