Comparison

whitewater.guide vs CutStyle

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

Head to head
About

whitewater.guide

Discover and explore river sections with detailed information for kayakers. Filter by difficulty, water level, and style, view photos and videos, and navigate to access points easily. All essential whitewater information in one place.

Highlights
  • River section discovery
  • Map and list view
  • Filter by difficulty and water level
  • Photos and videos
  • Navigation to access points
  • Detailed river descriptions
Features
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Аll-in-one mobile app for kayakers and all White Water enthusiasts. In the app you can find river sections both in the list or on the map. You can filter them by difficulty, current water level, rating or whitewater style. For each section you can read a description, check out photos and videos, water levels if provided and navigate to the put-in/take-out using any navigation app with one tap.

About

CutStyle

Features
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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.

Screenshots

whitewater.guide4 screens
CutStyle4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: CutStyle at none against whitewater.guide's 8. whitewater.guide's advantage is iOS requirement (12.4 vs 16.4). On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. whitewater.guide sells 8 one-off in-app purchases. CutStyle asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

whitewater.guide ships an update every 3 weeks, CutStyle every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on August 1, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
whitewater.guide versus CutStyle: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameterwhitewater.guideCutStyle
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.4 (5 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews70.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS12.4 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size74 MB125 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperWhitewater Guide App IncTakamori NISHIKAWA

In-app purchases

8 purchases

whitewater.guide

One-time8
  • Pyrenees$4.99
  • Uganda$7.99
  • Georgia (country)$8.99
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  • Altai$9.99
  • Scotland$9.99
  • Kyrgyzstan$12.99
  • Québec$13.99
  • Norway$13.99
None

CutStyle

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is whitewater.guide free?
whitewater.guide is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is CutStyle free?
CutStyle is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do whitewater.guide or CutStyle have ads?
Neither whitewater.guide nor CutStyle shows ads.
Which is updated more often, whitewater.guide or CutStyle?
whitewater.guide ships an update every 3 weeks, and CutStyle every 2 weeks. Most recently, whitewater.guide was updated on August 1, 2026 and CutStyle on September 22, 2026.

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