Topo Guru vs CutStyle
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Topo Guru
This app digitizes climbing guidebooks, offering detailed crag information, GPS navigation, and a climbing log. It helps locate climbing spots, provides route details, and includes a grade converter. Most content requires a subscription.
- Digital climbing guidebooks
- GPS navigation and compass
- Detailed crag information
- Climbing route log
- Climbing grade converter
- Map and country list browsing
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Do you remember the familiar feeling when you have been trying in vain to find a block or a multi-pitch start for 20 minutes? This is the thing of the past! Carrying heavy guide books is the thing of past, now you have all of those in your pocket. Navigation is no longer a challenge, Topo Guru helps you to find your destination with its integrated compass and distance functions. Topos At Topo Guru we make sure to have the best quality full coverage crags in our database from our local partners. Our database contains excellent quality photos of boulders and walls, all photos have their own GPS coordinates. Approaching climbing places has never been as trouble-free before! You can browse through available crags either from by map view or from a comprehensive country list. Navigation Finding your climbing rocks from your wish list is also easy with Topo Guru. Our partners and crag-masters save the GPS coordinates for each photo and we can show you detailed information. Use our in-app compass to find your way through blocks and to see the distance from your destination. Topo Guru provides “How to get there” information and helps you find the best parking spots by GPS. Crag Info The crag database contains useful particulars such as: rock and climbing type, season, how to get there, recommended accommodation for climbers, food and rest day activities, etc. Climbing log You can easily save your climbing log after you finished the route and retrieve it any time. Climbing grade converter You never know which scale they use at your next climbing trip. Try our grade converter and switch scales back and forth, any time you want. Subscriptions Besides free features, most of the climbing topos are available only with paid subscription. You can unlock all content (including all topos) with an auto-renewable subscription. Monthly, quarterly and yearly subscriptions are available. The payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at the confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless it is canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage and cancel your subscriptions by going to your account settings on the App Store after purchase. For more information please check our In-App purchase products and the Terms and Conditions. Privacy Policy: https://www.topoguru.com/en/privacy/
CutStyle
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CutStyle is the ultimate offline video analysis and auto-segmentation tool built specifically for canoe freestyle paddlers, coaches, and videographers. Say goodbye to hours of manually scrubbing through long training session videos just to find and cut individual rides. CutStyle uses state-of-the-art local AI to automatically detect, slice, and group your wave and hole runs directly on your iPhone. Key Features: 1. AI-Powered Ride Auto-Detection & Lossless Slicing • Automatically scans long video files and identifies the exact start and end times of every freestyle ride with millisecond precision. • Slices the detected runs instantly using hardware-accelerated lossless extraction, saving each clip in milliseconds without any quality loss. 2. Standalone On-Device Local AI (No Cloud Required) • Utilizes Apple’s CoreML and Vision frameworks to run a high-performance YOLO11 object detection model entirely offline on your device’s Neural Engine. • Tracks and isolates the main paddler closest to the center of the screen, ignoring background spectators and eddy queues. 3. Vibrant Gear Color Extraction & Smart Grouping • Automatically crops three target zones for color matching: Helmet (HM), Life Jacket (LJ), and Boat Hull. • Employs advanced HSV-based water/foam filters to capture true gear colors even during water submersions. • Clusters rides by paddler using CIEDE2000 ΔE color difference algorithms, isolating distinct boat hull colors (green, white, blue, etc.) with a strict constraint gate. 4. Interactive Manual Organizer & Sensitivity Control • Features a real-time Clustering Sensitivity slider to dynamically adjust groups from strict (split) to loose (merge). • Drag-and-drop ride thumbnails between paddler cards to quickly refine groupings. • Double-tap paddler names to customize output folder names. • Drag failed runs or empty waves to the "Trash Box" card to exclude them from the final export. Your Trash Box choices are fully preserved even if you adjust the sensitivity slider. 5. Premium Gallery & Document Export • Excludes the Trash Box and lets you select exactly which paddlers to export. • Creates structured directories for each paddler inside your device's Documents or Photo Library. • Copies the trimmed ride video (.mp4) and its corresponding thumbnail image (.jpg) side-by-side for instant visual cataloging. 6. Built-in Loop Player • Tap any ride thumbnail to open the preview modal. Check your clips instantly with looping video playback. 7. 100% Offline & Private • Your videos never leave your device. All machine learning, frame decoding, and video cutting are executed entirely locally in a secure sandbox. No internet connection or account registration is required to analyze your videos. Designed for the Freestyle Community: Whether you are a competitive athlete tracking your progress, a coach managing a team of paddlers with different gear colors, or a videographer looking to distribute clips to athletes quickly, CutStyle simplifies your workflow. Turn long, tedious video files into a neatly organized library of clips in seconds.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: CutStyle at none against Topo Guru's 3. CutStyle also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs monthly). Topo Guru's advantage is iOS requirement (13.6 vs 16.4). On price, ads and device support 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. Topo Guru sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. CutStyle asks for nothing beyond the download.
Topo Guru ships an update monthly, CutStyle every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Topo Guru | CutStyle |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 30.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 13.6 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 87 MB | 125 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Topo Guru Beteti Tarsasag | Takamori NISHIKAWA |
In-app purchases
Topo Guru
- Monthly subscription$6.991 Month
- 3 Months subscription$10.993 Months
- Yearly subscription$17.991 Year
CutStyle
No in-app purchases









