Comparison

ShockWiz vs Damper

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

ShockWiz

This app works with sensor hardware to analyze and optimize your mountain bike's air suspension. It provides personalized tuning recommendations for various riding styles and terrains, helping you achieve the best possible ride performance. Compatible with most air-sprung forks and shocks from different manufacturers.

Highlights
  • Suspension tuning assistant
  • Personalized recommendations
  • Supports various riding styles
  • Detects suspension issues
  • Calculates air time
  • Intuitive app interface
Features
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ShockWiz is a tuning assistant for air-sprung mountain bike forks and rear shocks. It combines sensor hardware and this app to improve suspension set-up for all terrain and riding styles. ShockWiz is compatible with most air-sprung suspension forks and rear shocks, from many different manufacturers. Why ShockWiz? Many mountain bike riders don't understand what their suspension adjustments do, or how to tune their suspension for best performance. ShockWiz's finely-tuned algorithms automatically determine what settings should give you the best ride possible. ShockWiz is designed for all mountain bike riders, regardless of your riding style or how much suspension travel your bike has. It works on hardtails and dual suspension bikes. Features - Finely tuned algorithms deliver easy to use recommendations - Tune for your riding style: Cross-country, Trail, All Mountain or Downhill - Detect undesirable characteristics such as pogo, pack-down and bob - Assess shock health — how well your suspension is set up for you - Calculate air time - Recommendations are displayed on the intuitive app

About

Damper

Easily track and manage your mountain bike's suspension settings. Record changes, add notes, and even include locations for each adjustment. Designed for quick updates with gloves on.

Highlights
  • Track any bike and component
  • Full suspension and hardtail support
  • Record compression, rebound, tokens, and air pressure
  • Support for dual air chamber components
  • Add location and notes to settings
  • Favorite and share settings
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Struggling with where to store the settings for the suspension components on your mountain bike? Tired of taking your gloves off mid-ride to type into a note on your phone with sweaty hands and a tiny keyboard on your screen? Want to be able to track your changes with location, notes, and more? Damper is the thing for you. Damper allows you to add all of your bikes and their individual components, and track the current settings of them individually. Each saved setting adds to a growing history list that shows you what changed (ie: added 3 clicks of compression) and where it happened at. Best of all, all of the controls are big enough that you can change values with your gloves on. Features: - Any bike, any component. - Full suspension and hardtail support. - Track high-speed compression, low-speed compression, high-speed rebound, low-speed rebound, token count, air pressure, and coil weight. - Support for dual air chamber components. - Optionally add a location to a group of saved settings. - Favorite a group of settings to easily find it again. - Add notes that remind you of extra details from a run. - Easily share the settings of a component with a shop or mechanic in photo form.

Screenshots

ShockWiz4 screens
Damper4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Damper at 100% against ShockWiz's 39%. Damper also leads on rating (4.9 vs 3.5) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). ShockWiz's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 17.5). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Damper holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 3.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 19 and 9 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 39% of ShockWiz's written reviews are positive against 100% of Damper's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ShockWiz ships an update monthly, Damper every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
ShockWiz versus Damper: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShockWizDamper
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.5 (19 ratings)4.9 (9 ratings) — better
Positive reviews39.1% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings19 — better9
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS11.0 — better17.5
Further details — not scored
Size46 MB39 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSRAM LLCBlake Stoddard

Customer experience

ShockWiz

All ratings19 ratings
Positive57.9%
Neutral5.3%
Negative36.8%
Written reviews23 reviews
Positive39.1%
Neutral4.3%
Negative56.5%

Damper

All ratings8 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

ShockWiz

No in-app purchases

None

Damper

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ShockWiz free?
ShockWiz is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Damper free?
Damper is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, ShockWiz or Damper?
Damper is rated higher. ShockWiz averages 3.5 out of 5 from 19 ratings, while Damper averages 4.9 from 9 ratings.
Do ShockWiz or Damper have ads?
Neither ShockWiz nor Damper shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ShockWiz or Damper?
ShockWiz ships an update monthly, and Damper every 2 weeks. Most recently, ShockWiz was updated on October 23, 2026 and Damper on October 24, 2026.

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