Ski Banff vs Cypress Mountain
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ski Banff
Navigate a ski resort with real-time trail maps, friend tracking, and run logging. Get up-to-date mountain conditions, lift status, and resort information. Discover lessons, amenities, and events.
- Interactive trail map with location tracking
- Friend location sharing
- Run recording and logging (vertical, distance)
- Real-time snow conditions and weather
- Lift status updates
- Resort directory and events calendar
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Are you looking for an unforgettable experience in Sunshine Village? Use our official App to make the most of your trip. The App offers a range of features designed to optimize your experience before, during and after your trip. It’s very simple, plan your getaway and get real time updates on slope conditions. Set up your profile and track your activities on the slopes to get detailed stats about all your activities. And that’s not all, take part in challenges competing with the whole community, to be in with a chance of winning incredible prizes. Practical, isn’t it? And you'll be pleased to hear that we offer all this and much more for free. REAL-TIME RESORT INFORMATION: Get all the resort information including: interactive maps, snow reports, slope conditions and lift status, as well as webcams, and much more! YOUR PASS STORED: Store your ski pass in the app wallet for smoother access through the gates. TRACK, COMPETE AND WIN: Set up your profile to track your activities using the GPS tracker. BOOK YOUR TRIP: Purchase and recharge your ski pass with no need to queue. What's more, book your trip and/or activities in just a few clicks. Live an unforgettable experience with the official app of Sunshine Village! Remember that the App can access your location and GPS information to: send you notifications, process your tracking stats and determine your position in the App rankings, post geo-located photos. Continued use of these features may reduce the duration of your battery.
Cypress Mountain
Stay informed about mountain conditions and operations. Access offline trail maps, track your runs, and receive timely alerts for powder days and lift openings.
- Current conditions and operations updates
- Offline trail maps
- Daily run tracking
- Powder day alerts
- Lift opening notifications
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Download the Cypress Mountain App to stay up to date with current conditions and operations. View trail maps offline, track your daily runs and more-all from the device in your pocket. Enable notifications to receive alerts on powder days and when lifts open for the season.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Ski Banff at every 3 weeks against Cypress Mountain's every 4 months. Ski Banff also leads on review sentiment (57% vs 40%) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Ski Banff against 4.7 for Cypress Mountain. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 60 and 33 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 57% of Ski Banff's written reviews are positive against 40% of Cypress Mountain's.
Ski Banff ships an update every 3 weeks, Cypress Mountain every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ski Banff | Cypress Mountain |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (60 ratings) — better | 4.7 (33 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 56.6% of reviews — better | 40.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 60 — better | 33 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 119 MB | 154 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sunshine Village | Boyne Resorts |
Customer experience
Ski Banff
Cypress Mountain
Bugs and requests
Ski Banff
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Cypress Mountain
Reported bugs
16 issues- App consistently times out
- Bug-ridden, poor quality app
- Slow, full of request errors
- App crashes on opening screen
- App hangs and won't open
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- App doesn't open after upgrade
- New update won't allow app to open
- App dies after upgrade
- New update is bad
- Webcams crash the app
- Ski tracker data not accessible
- Loading external link message
- Cams not always working
- Downhill report doesn't load
- Downhill conditions link stopped working
- App doesn't work on iPhone 8
Requested features
10 requests- Daily updates on runs open
- Video return at Hollyburn lodge for snow visibility
- Add a tracking system
- Add weather forecast
- Add top speed and ski trails tracking back to Ski Tracker
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- Improve snow report details (overnight snowfall, expected snowfall, freezing level)
- Add temperature, wind, precipitation, snow depth, and open runs information
- Make 'My Profile' interactive
- Fix the downhill conditions link
- Fix the 'Loading external link' message
In-app purchases
Ski Banff
No in-app purchases
Cypress Mountain
No in-app purchases
Questions
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