ShockWiz vs Damper
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Suspension tuning assistant
- Personalized recommendations
- Supports various riding styles
- Detects suspension issues
- Calculates air time
- Intuitive app interface
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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
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.
- 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.
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
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.
ShockWiz ships an update monthly, Damper every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ShockWiz | Damper |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (19 ratings) | 4.9 (9 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 39.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 19 — better | 9 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 17.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 46 MB | 39 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | SRAM LLC | Blake Stoddard |
Customer experience
ShockWiz
Damper
In-app purchases
ShockWiz
No in-app purchases
Damper
No in-app purchases






