OverDrive 2.6 9+

Started off well, was glad to to see an app to make this work since the official ones were removed from the store. However a frustrating hour later and it simply doesn’t work. First off, only the basic vehicles and tracks are supported. It doesn’t work with the fast and furious cars or track. So, skull, ground shock and guardian are the only cars I could use. After building numerous tracks with varying complexity the cars go on an infinite ‘scanning track’ mode. Never actually finishing. Eventually I built a small loop using only the starter pack track & the same thing happened. Such a shame, I thought I’d get new life out of some old toys, but ended up asking for a refund and boxing the track up to take to the top

I was a bit apprehensive about buying the starter kit for my boy’s birthday in light of the failure of Anki/change in ownership and some of the negative reviews here. But the starter kit was selling for so little and some digging in Reddit indicated many happy continuing users, so I thought I would take a punt. I’m very glad I did. I had to change the batteries in the cars as they had died in storage - no big deal as I was expecting that and it is a relatively straightforward process. The app works fine with the Overdrive hardware on all our devices (iPads of various ages) and is well worth the money. Only paid once and was able to download to multiple devices via Family Sharing. I think it is a very reasonable price to pay for continued support of this excellent game. Much better than the hardware becoming obsolete. My kids love using it and I will now buy more track. Thanks to DDL for making this possible.

Ps, in two player mode, when trying to join a game, the ‘guest’ device says “not connected , check WiFi” (or words to that effect) when WiFi is on and working. But, on the host device the guest is discoverable and CAN be added to the game for two player fun!

Brief explanation why this app exists.
Anki went bust several years ago the rights have been brought by Digital Dream Labs who resurrected the Anki user forums. Many Anki owners myself included preferred version 2.6 to the current latest release by Anki they removed functionality just before they went the way of the dodo leaving customers unhappy with no recourse. Digital Dream Labs have listened to us as customers and brought back version 2.6 which they have updated assets etc to work on newer phones. It’s a work in progress but a massive step in the right direction. The reason it’s a paid for app is because they didn’t sell the hardware to us they aren’t Anki but a new owner and developers cost money, they are just covering the costs of modifying the app. They have listened to our feedback and responded well. Development takes time we have been patient only a couple of months and here we have what we asked for they will be continuing to develop and evolve the app and they have plans and most importantly they are listening to customers and what we want a rare thing with most company’s and one to be grateful for.