UPDATE: This app has been removed from the App Store due to a complaint by Sony. More information on the circumstances are available here.
GTPlanet community member Calcifer has just launched an interesting new mobile application for iOS devices that should come in handy for any Gran Turismo 5 player or GT Academy 2012 participant on the go.
Available for free in the iOS App Store, the app lets you easily view the top 250 ranked times for each GT5 Seasonal Event and for each GT Academy 2012 time trial. Even better, you can sign in to your PSN account to see your friend’s times, and even view your own time for the event, including the next 10 faster and 5 slower drivers around you – a feature that’s not even available on Polyphony Digital’s own website!
To download the free app, click here, or just search “rankings for gran turismo” in the App Store on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch.
Thanks to Calcifer to for creating and sharing this app with the community! To get in touch with him or share feedback or bug reports, visit his forum topic here.
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Does anyone know if the app is still available? I can’t find it and the link sends you to an unavailable page. I’m on an iPhone 4
Unfortunately, it’s no longer available. See the link I’ve added to the post above for more information.
Can’t retrieve my/friends times anymore. Can’t find settings or sign out option. So do I have to delete the app everytime I have been signed out in order to sign in again? Done that twice, pita.
Also, mine never shows pictures like the example found here.
Using pictures is not allowed by Sony nor Apple, so they’re not in the official version.
What’s with the login? Do you have problems with the official site as well? If this happens, can you try to clear the cookies in Settings > Safari > Clear Cookies and Data?
Sucks about pictures
Tried suggestions for cookies, no luck. Deleting app again and redownloading.
Regular site(s) work fine. Using IPhone 4S.
Oops, shouldn’t done that. Now I can’t find app in store. Link on this article is broken too. Oh well, I’ll check back later. App worked great for a while.
Is this coming to Android soon
Great app. Use it all the time :)
Props for being the first outlet with news for this weeks three new events! You beat the official GT site by three minutes and GTPLANET by five minutes.
mmmmmmm….cool but..its a trusted app? Cause you need to give your PSN password to retrieve the results, I mean its not an official app from PD rigth?
Great job on the App Calcifer. :tup:
It’s a clever little app, nicely executed.
Entering your PSN username and password is a questionable thing though. (of course it couldn’t fetch your results without it) It could even be against PSN Terms&Conditions (you’re giving your login-data to someone else).
I don’t think it’s against the rules that you’re giving your details to a third party, that’s just something they really really advise you against.
It’s more possible that the way it then retrieves your results and data that could be against the rules. If even that, because you can access this all from the Gran Turismo anyway.
Great app !! Only too bad I can’t use it since it demands ios 4.0, wich is not available for my iPhone 2G :-(
I guess we’re two of a kind!
Calcifer did good work on this app, something PD don’t even have for their own website.
APP is free so can’t get paid from a doughnut. Calcifer has been a longtime GTPLANET supporter and did his part for the community with this app,
When you consider most of us complain, this app is very positive resourcing for those of us who appreciate this game.
Add in the opinion that this app should at the least result in Calcifer getting a job application from PD makes your rhetoric even more unjustifiable.
Oh! GTPlanet is advertising iPhone apps which give you frankly useless information about a virtual race (as if it means anything) in exchange for your personal details which they database and sell on to companies who build up a profile of you and manipulate you through marketing and advertising as well as swaying your opinion in other issues such as in the political arena. Then GTPlanet goes and sugar-coats it all and present it all in such a neat way on their very own website. Awesome work, GTPlanet, you really are not interested in making money, you have the good of society as your number one priority!
Geez dude …grab a coke and a smile. Sheesh!
Have you checked out the relevant forum thread on this? I’m pretty sure passwords will be encrypted.
Get your facts straight before you go shouting your mouth off.
Bet 20 quid your a believer of conspiracy theories.
You just seem to have that ranty paranoid delusional mentality.
Why don’t you and your tinfoil hat just go else where if you are going to be miserable.
This is a 3rd party app, created for anybody interested in gran turismo. GTP publicises it due to it being GT related.
I don’t see where GTP benefits from any of that/
Er… GTPlanet has nothing to do with the app, other than its developer being a member of the site here.
lucky its not a PD app/program,…or you would be waiting for a fit-it update
er…fix-it update to fix my f(*coughs)-up fit-it post…yeh,well done pig :)
You must have very little gaming experience, if you think that GT5 was ever a really bugged game…
^ I wouldn’t call it “bugged”, but it has some SERIOUS issues and lack of content compared to the standards of the old games.
This is sweet, I know a guy who does android apps so I’ll suggest this to him for his next project, I have previously asked him to do an app where you can enter bspec bobs in remote races but nothing has come of that yet so don’t go thinking this can or will happen over night.
Is there really any need of this???
doesnt work on iPhone?!?
EVER HEARD OF ANDROID?>
Ever heard of FREE LABOUR?? I mean seriously, I have a Windows Phone and even I am smart enough to appreciate the amount of effort that has gone into this. Write your own Android App and deal with the fragmentation. When you publish it, I will be the first to post “EVER HEARD OF WINDOWS PHONE?”. Lets see how you like that …
ANDROID
Smart & nice little app, it looks cool also :)
IOS only huh? …. I usually don’t associate gamers with Apple,…. we’re usually …”smarter” than the average consumer. But I digress, I will be getting this on my lady’s phone
Nah. Real gamers use a PS Vita and real drivers use an iPhone. At least that’s what I see F1 drivers using :)
Haha, that is not such a smart remark from a smart man like yourself.
Apple aInt average, that’s for sure.
Really? The minimum requirements are 4.0 and several people have it working on a 2nd gen touch. Maybe the first gen is deemed too different by Apple?
Well I have a 2nd Gen Touch with 4.2.1 and it is not possible to download your app. I tought you would be interested to know. Really!
@Monaco – Way to use quotation marks there.
I have a iPad that got 5.1.1 update and it possible to download it
Try downloading via iTunes and then install it?
I hope to see a android version of this app. I’ll never own another I phone again.
Agreed
+1
me too!
Android for what I know is a completely fragmented OS. It’s fine if you have more than one person doing it because you end spending time trying to make sure the version you release on regular Android would work on HTC Sense or Samsung Touchwiz. Then there’s all the different resolution screens.
It should work if you update your iPod. The 2nd gen Touch can be upgraded to iOS 4.2.1 which is sufficient for this app (make sure you update iTunes as well otherwise it won’t mention that an update is available!)
i have 4.2.1 and it says the app is not compatible with IPOD Touch when I try to download it
Really? The minimum requirements are 4.0 and several people have it working on a 2nd gen touch. Maybe the first gen is deemed too different by Apple?
Downloaded, it’s nice to be able to keep up with the friends leader board on the go. A little slow, and I’m on a 4S wi-fi. Worth the price!
I’ve had this on my iPhone 4S since last week. It works as promised as it’s basically what’s found on GT official page. The only problem I find is in the Record Details (when you click on the driver in the ranking): the word “braking” in ABS is misspelt as “breaking”. Calcifer should just use the simple acronym ABS for that.
Also it would be nice if the icon for the app is better designed. I’m not saying the steering wheel isn’t nice but it could be much nicer.
Thanks for noticing the typo! I clearly need glasses.
As for the icon: You’re right that app icons is very important. I used to have a real nice one but that one was rejected by Apple, so I needed a new one on short notice. If you are talented maybe you can draw a better one so I can use that one?
Breaking vs Braking is a common error. I will try and design a simple and effective logo. Give me before the end of the week.
Hey Jordan, don’t you know everybody has a blackberry hahaha
This app does not work for my Itouch :-(
No Android love? Meh.
Incompatible with my 2nd gen Ipod Touch :(
It should work if you update your iPod. The 2nd gen Touch can be upgraded to iOS 4.2.1 which is sufficient for this app (make sure you update iTunes as well otherwise it won’t mention that an update is available!)
(That’s not to say the app’s not cool, it is. I love the idea and hope it works well … but I clicked on Around Me and asked for my PSN password, and that’s not cool.)
Well, your password will be required if the app is going to access your PSN account, to retrieve your username, ranking position, and friends list. There’s no way around that.
First, there should be a way around it. I shouldn’t have to put in a password to look up a user’s rankings. Not saying it’s the author’s fault, of course, he can only use what the web site provides, and if it doesn’t provide it, so be it.
Second, if he is going to ask for it — and this he does control — he should make clear somewhere in the app that he is not storing or looking at the username/password in any way, and that it hits the GT server directly and doesn’t go to his server. He doesn’t say any such thing in the app: just asks for the PSN id and password.
You don’t have to put in your username + password to look for a user’s ranking- only if you want to look up yours but apparently if you’re not in the top 250, you’re not on the page.
Password usage is optional, you only see the top 250’s. I agree with you on the fact that just a PSN ID should be enough and it would allow us to search for a name, but alas, that’s the way PD has chosen to use.
Passwords are encrypted and stored securely in iOS using keychain. It cannot be found by any external tool or any other app on the phone. Furthermore, data is exchanged securly with playstation.com only via https which is enforced by Sony.
Calciferol: thanks for the reassurance. It’d still be good to say that explicitly in the app, maybe the first time you ask for the password. And just to confirm: the password never goes to any other site except playstation.com? Thanks!
I am not at all keen about putting my PSN password into this app.
Big thumbs up for the effort, Calcifer.
Ima have to download this on my IPOD… but hopefully you can make it for my android :|
Just downloaded it !
Android would be better me thinks…
Now for the Majority, Android users…
Yep.
Seems like a good app. If you ever release it on Android I’ll be sure to get it.
Got this already, very handy! Thanks Calcifer!
Mighty clever. Well done, I’ll check it out soon and rate it.
Nice idea!!
Nice!