Comparison

Ski Banff vs AlbertaRELM

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

AlbertaRELM

Manage your official hunting and fishing licenses from the Government of Alberta. Store, present, and verify your licenses conveniently on your mobile device. Future updates will include harvest and effort reporting.

Highlights
  • Manage hunting and fishing licenses digitally
  • Present licenses for field verification
  • Store all your licenses in one place
  • Future harvest and effort reporting integration
  • Official Government of Alberta app
Features
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AlbertaRELM is the official hunting and fishing licence management App for the Government of Alberta. Store all your AlbertaRELM hunting and fishing licences here for convenient licence management. Features: ● Manage and carry all your hunting and fishing licences on your mobile device ● Present your licence details to law enforcement for verification in the field ● Plus, more new features are on the way! Such as integration of harvest and effort reporting directly in the App. Important information: ● The only acceptable form of electronic licence is through the AlbertaRELM App and hunters must be able to produce the electronic app or paper licence when requested by an Officer during field compliance checks. ● For licences that require tags please remember that the associated tag forms part of the licence and must be physically produced when requested. ● Alberta’s Hunting and Sportfishing Regulations prohibit the carrying of someone else’s licence.

Screenshots

Ski Banff4 screens
AlbertaRELM4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Ski Banff at 4.7 against AlbertaRELM's 4.0. Ski Banff also leads on ratings volume (60 vs 4) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 6 weeks). AlbertaRELM's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, review sentiment, 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

Ski Banff holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Ski Banff has 60 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 57% of Ski Banff's written reviews are positive against 59% of AlbertaRELM's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Ski Banff ships an update every 3 weeks, AlbertaRELM every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Ski Banff versus AlbertaRELM: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSki BanffAlbertaRELM
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (60 ratings) — better4.0 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews56.6% of reviews59.4% of reviews — better
Number of ratings60 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size119 MB36 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSunshine VillageRA Outdoors, LLC, d/b/a Aspira

Customer experience

Ski Banff

All ratings60 ratings
Positive93.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative6.7%
Written reviews99 reviews
Positive56.6%
Neutral11.1%
Negative32.3%

AlbertaRELM

All ratings4 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews64 reviews
Positive59.4%
Neutral9.4%
Negative31.3%

Bugs and requests

Ski Banff

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

AlbertaRELM

Reported bugs

19 issues
  • Won't let me complete any purchases
  • Haven't been able to purchase a single thing since update
  • Keeps telling me it's encountered an error
  • Keeps saying there is no network connection and I can't sign in
  • Says there is an update but when you install the app, it will not start
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  • Can't update app
  • App says to update and takes you to the App Store but no way to update
  • Says update to latest version and forwards you to App Store yet it's already updated
  • Stuck in sign in page saying no network but there is full network
  • App will not go to the purchase page, keeps cycling through to the login page
  • Weight category is unnecessarily confusing and every combination was rejected
  • App still does Captcha verification after login
  • Design flaw doesn't trigger phone credit card notification
  • Harvest reports don't work
  • Cannot finish harvest report when replying no to 'did you hunt' questions
  • Harvest report requires entering WMU and days hunted even when not hunted
  • Scrolling through licenses feels outdated
  • Dashboard views are scrambled and not all information is readable
  • Cannot even get past the first step of selecting an identifier type

Requested features

7 requests
  • Allow in-app license purchases
  • Filter harvest reports by draw points
  • Include harvest reports, hunter success/effort tables
  • Scan tags via barcode
  • Show acronym definitions before use
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  • More history on draw applications
  • Information on past draw applications for the province

In-app purchases

None

Ski Banff

No in-app purchases

None

AlbertaRELM

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Ski Banff free?
Ski Banff is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is AlbertaRELM free?
AlbertaRELM is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Ski Banff or AlbertaRELM?
Ski Banff is rated higher. Ski Banff averages 4.7 out of 5 from 60 ratings, while AlbertaRELM averages 4.0 from 4 ratings.
Do Ski Banff or AlbertaRELM have ads?
Neither Ski Banff nor AlbertaRELM shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Ski Banff or AlbertaRELM?
Ski Banff ships an update every 3 weeks, and AlbertaRELM every 6 weeks. Most recently, Ski Banff was updated on November 11, 2026 and AlbertaRELM on November 10, 2026.

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