Hiking and Skiing vs StringPing
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hiking and Skiing
Navigate mountains with advanced peak identification, 3D maps, and GPS tracking. Plan routes, explore trails, and get detailed information on over a million mountains worldwide. Ideal for hiking, skiing, and climbing.
- Augmented Reality Peak Identification
- 3D Topographic Maps
- Worldwide Hiking Trail Planning
- Ski Resort & Backcountry Skiing Info
- GPS Outdoor Adventure Tracking
- Animated Route Flyovers
- Peak Bagging Challenges
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PeakVisor will make you a champion of mountain navigation, putting state-of-the-art Peak Identification, 3D Maps, Trails, and outdoor GPS tracking into the palm of your hand. Our app is a one-stop shop for all your mountain adventures: hiking, skiing, climbing, mountain biking, and more. But PeakVisor is more than just another outdoors app; it’s an immersion into a carefully crafted 3D world that will give you an unprecedented understanding of the nuances of a mountain’s terrain. “PeakVisor uses your iPhone’s camera and augmented reality (AR) technology to display names and elevations of nearby peaks. The information will appear on your phone like magic.” - App Store, Take the Trail Less Traveled Here’s a brief orientation on the tools we offer to get oriented in the mountains: ● 3D Maps As human athletic achievement progresses in the mountains, so does the technology to assist your adventures. With PeakVisor, you unlock the topo maps of the future; our cutting-edge technology with high-precision terrain modeling offers deep insight into the mountain landscape of your choice. With one glance, you be blessed with years of knowledge about an area’s terrain. ● Identify Peaks Identify more than a million mountains, hills, buttes, spires, and more from all over the world, with a detailed profile for each of them! Our app shows you altitude, topographic prominence, mountain range, national parks or reserves, as well as photos and additional Wikipedia articles. ● Plan Hiking Routes A vast network of worldwide hiking trails and walking pathways included in PeakVisor’s 3D Maps will help you compose a hiking route which includes evaluating the distance you can expect to hike as well as a route’s elevation profile and estimated time for completion. ● Skiing In winter mountain sports, PeakVisor’s topographic 3D Maps allow a visual understanding of the terrain and provide detailed information about mountain lifts, ski resort trails, and backcountry ski touring routes. The app also offers features such as winter mode and a slope steepness overlay to identify avalanche terrain on your route. ● Cable Cars and Mountain Huts are inlaid onto our 3D Maps, complete with schedules. This is especially useful in Europe, where many objectives involve a cable car ride to gain some altitude, lest you want to do some genuinely punishing climbs. And you haven’t experienced the old-world mountain culture until you’ve had a memorable meal and night at a rustic mountain hut in the high country. ● Peak Bagging The app offers monthly climbing challenges and Peak Bagging competitions to keep the motivation where it needs to be…UP. ● Animated Flyover Videos You can even initiate a ‘Flyover,’ our visually stunning animations that give you a token video of your route to show family and friends or inspire some memories down the road. ● GPS Tracking Track any outdoor adventures, whether hiking, skiing, mountain biking, etc. Post-adventure, you can visualize your route in the miniature 3D world, check out stats like distance and elevation gain, and export a GPX file of your new route. ● Lock-Screen Navigation ● All Features Work Offline PeakVisor is the Swiss army knife for outdoor adventure, one that you will soon find indispensable while in the mountains. With so many features at your fingertips, you’ll find value from the app whenever you're on the trail. PeakVisor PRO is a premium subscription that allows you to use the app without any limitations. By subscribing to PeakVisor PRO you make it possible for us to focus on the continued development of the app. PeakVisor PRO is available as a monthly or annual subscription. We have no advertising on the app; all revenue comes from our user subscriptions. We constantly modify the app and offer an update each week, always with new features and fewer bugs. You may find more details in our Terms and Privacy Policy by the link → https://peakvisor.com/en/terms.html
StringPing
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StringPing turns the sound of your strings into a tension reading. Tap the center of your string bed with the heel of your palm and StringPing listens to the "ping," measures its pitch, and estimates your string tension in seconds — no gauge, no trip to the stringer. Strings lose tension the moment they're installed and keep dropping with every hit. StringPing helps you feel it before your game tells you: track each racquet over time and watch the tension-loss curve so you know exactly when it's time to restring. HOW IT WORKS • Pick your racquet, string, and pattern (or scan with sensible defaults) • Tap the string bed a few times • StringPing captures each tap, filters out noise and outliers, and averages the readings for a confident result • Save it to build a history for that racquet TRACK EVERY RACQUET Keep a library of your frames with their string setup and last-measured date • See a tension-over-time chart for each racquet • Review a full scan log with the drop between each reading • Know how many weeks a string bed has been in play BUILT FOR THE COURT Fast, on-device analysis — your audio never leaves your phone • Works across common racquet head sizes and string patterns • Clear confidence indicator so you know when a reading is solid • Pounds or kilograms A NOTE ON ACCURACY StringPing is an acoustic estimate, not a stringing machine. It shines at tracking relative change over time on the same racquet and string — the best way to catch a string bed going dead.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: StringPing at daily against Hiking and Skiing's every 5 days. Hiking and Skiing's advantage is device support (4 vs 1) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.5). On price, 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. Hiking and Skiing sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and StringPing sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Hiking and Skiing ships an update every 5 days, StringPing daily. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Hiking and Skiing | StringPing |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (13K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 59.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 13K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 26.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 187 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Routes Software SRL | Korhan Pekun |
Bugs and requests
Hiking and Skiing
Reported bugs
3 issues- Frequent crashes and app instability
- Inaccurate peak identification and labeling
- Issues with downloading and using offline data
Requested features
4 requests- Offline mode without subscription
- Landscape mode support
- Ability to manually add/edit peak information
- Integration with other hiking/mapping apps
StringPing
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Hiking and Skiing
- One Month of Hiking & Skiing7 Days trial$9.991 Month
- One Year of Hiking & Skiing7 Days trial$39.991 Year
- 3D Maps & AR Peak Finder$159.00
StringPing
- Overgrip$1.99
- Can of Tennis Balls$4.99
- Set of Strings$9.99
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- Reel of String$19.99
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