Comparison

SilkyMitts vs HELIOS App

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

Head to head
About

SilkyMitts

Enhance your hockey training with this companion app for the Silkymitts Hockey Ball and Stick Sensor. Track your progress, complete challenges, and compete on leaderboards. Connect with friends and teammates to foster a collaborative training environment.

Highlights
  • Connects to Silkymitts Hockey Ball and Stick Sensor
  • Complete challenges and drills
  • View leaderboards
  • Follow friends and team
  • Enhance training experience
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Companion app for the Silkymitts Hockey Ball and Stick Sensor. The app allows you to connect to your Silkymitts Hockey Ball and Stick Sensor and enhance the hockey training experience. The Silkymitts app allows you to complete challenges & drills, view leaderboards, follow your friends and team. For terms and conditions visit: https://silkymittsball.com/termsandconditions.html For privacy policy: https://silkymittsball.com/privacypolicy.html

About

HELIOS App

This sports app pairs with a specialized sensor to track and analyze hockey player performance. It provides insights into skating speed, agility, and explosiveness, offering gamified development and team-based leaderboards. Players can monitor their progress and compete with others.

Highlights
  • Track skating speed, agility, and explosiveness
  • Instant video highlights
  • Actionable performance insights
  • Rankings by birth year and progress over time
  • Gamified development with points and rewards
  • Team and organization leaderboards
Features
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This app requires a HELIOS® Core performance sensor. When paired with a HELIOS® Core, the HELIOS® App provides performance data, analysis, instant video highlights and actionable insights that help hockey players and teams Get Better, Faster. Track Performance: Mount the HELIOS® Core performance sensor onto your existing shoulder pads and immediately track your key skating metrics including Skating Speed, Agility, Explosiveness, and Balance. The HELIOS® Core seamlessly blends in with your gear using our innovative Twist Mount clip or Strap Mount. Benchmarks and Insights: Track your evolution with constantly updated Rankings by Birth Year and Progress Over Time. The HELIOS® App highlights your strengths and weaknesses to help you Get Better, Faster. Performance data from every practice and game is aggregated in the cloud to provide a powerful data experience to hockey players, coaches, trainers across the Helios platform. Gamified Development: Earn points for every practice and game you play. Get rewarded when you do the work and earn extra points when you perform above your personal baseline. Compete with other players near and far on the HELIOS® platform. Teams/Orgs: When hockey teams or orgs integrate HELIOS® into player and team development, coaches can see the skating performance results for their entire team in real-time or post-session. Players gain access to additional team and org-based leaderboards to raise the bar on competition and performance.

Screenshots

SilkyMitts4 screens
HELIOS App4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: HELIOS App at 52 against SilkyMitts's 4. HELIOS App also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.5 vs 18.0). SilkyMitts's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 2 weeks) and review sentiment (50% vs 40%). On price, rating, 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

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.8 for SilkyMitts against 3.9 for HELIOS App. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: HELIOS App has 52 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 50% of SilkyMitts's written reviews are positive against 40% of HELIOS App's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SilkyMitts ships an update weekly, HELIOS App every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
SilkyMitts versus HELIOS App: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSilkyMittsHELIOS App
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.8 (4 ratings)3.9 (52 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews — better40.0% of reviews
Number of ratings452 — better
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.015.5 — better
Further details — not scored
Size54 MB119 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDML llcHelios Sports, Inc.

Customer experience

SilkyMitts

All ratings4 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

HELIOS App

All ratings50 ratings
Positive70.0%
Neutral6.0%
Negative24.0%
Written reviews15 reviews
Positive40.0%
Neutral6.7%
Negative53.3%

In-app purchases

None

SilkyMitts

No in-app purchases

None

HELIOS App

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SilkyMitts free?
SilkyMitts is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is HELIOS App free?
HELIOS App is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, SilkyMitts or HELIOS App?
HELIOS App is rated higher. SilkyMitts averages 3.8 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while HELIOS App averages 3.9 from 52 ratings.
Do SilkyMitts or HELIOS App have ads?
Neither SilkyMitts nor HELIOS App shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SilkyMitts or HELIOS App?
SilkyMitts ships an update weekly, and HELIOS App every 2 weeks. Most recently, SilkyMitts was updated on October 24, 2026 and HELIOS App on October 24, 2026.

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