Comparison

Sunday River vs Cranmore

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

Head to head
About

Sunday River

Plan your mountain getaway with real-time resort information. Access weather, conditions, and webcams from home. On-site, discover deals, track activities, and stay updated on lift and trail status.

Highlights
  • Weather and conditions reports
  • Vacation planning tools
  • Lift ticket and lodging booking
  • GPS ski run tracking
  • Real-time lift and trail status
  • Online food ordering
  • On-resort deals
Features
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Find your Happy Place in the mountains of Western Maine with the Sunday River mobile app. From home, you can use the app to check-in on Sunday River with weather updates, conditions reports, and several web cams. You can also plan your vacation with booking tools for lodging, lift tickets, tee times, and various activities. While at the resort, you can use the app to score special deals, track your ski runs via GPS, get real-time updates on lift and trail status, check restaurant and shopping availability, order food online, and much more. Optional push notifications include snowfall alerts, lift status updates, and on-resort deals.

About

Cranmore

Navigate a mountain resort with real-time trail status, grooming information, and a user-friendly trail map. Share your location with friends, track your runs, and access resort amenities, events, and news.

Highlights
  • Real-time trail status and grooming info
  • Interactive trail map with location tracking
  • Share location with friends
  • Record runs, vertical feet, and distance
  • Integrates with Apple Watch workouts
  • Snow conditions, weather, and webcam access
  • Lift status and resort directory
Features
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This is your official guide to Cranmore Mountain Resort, all at your fingertips. • See which runs are groomed and which closed. Locate yourself on the trail map — not a hard-to-read GPS map.† • Share your location on the mountain with friends, and see your friends' locations on the trail map.† • Record your runs and log vertical feet and distance. If you have an Apple Watch, record your runs as a workout and see your workout in the Health app. Display your tracks and replay your runs on the trail map. Email images to friends, post them to social media, or view them in Google Earth. Store your logs on iCloud and view them on all your devices. Send your logs to a leaderboard and compare vertical and distance with others at the resort.† • Find up-to-date information about the mountain, including snow conditions, weather, and webcam images. • Get up-to-the-minute lift status information. • Quickly find information about lessons and other programs and amenities. • Easily locate and contact key places at the resort with the built in directory. • Learn about events from the events calendar. • Get the latest news via social media posts. † Location and Logging services require a GPS-equipped device. Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.

Screenshots

Sunday River4 screens
Cranmore4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Cranmore at fortnightly against Sunday River's every 3 months. Cranmore also leads on monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Sunday River's advantage is ratings volume (2.3K vs 21) and review sentiment (63% vs 50%). 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 — 4.8 for Sunday River against 4.7 for Cranmore. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sunday River has 2.3K ratings behind it against 21, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 63% of Sunday River's written reviews are positive against 50% of Cranmore's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sunday River ships an update every 3 months, Cranmore fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Sunday River versus Cranmore: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSunday RiverCranmore
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (2.3K ratings) — better4.7 (21 ratings)
Positive reviews63.0% of reviews — better50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings2.3K — better21
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supportedFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size150 MB89 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperBoyne ResortsResorts Tapped LLC

Customer experience

Sunday River

All ratings2,284 ratings
Positive97.0%
Neutral2.3%
Negative0.7%
Written reviews27 reviews
Positive63.0%
Neutral3.7%
Negative33.3%

Cranmore

All ratings21 ratings
Positive90.5%
Neutral4.8%
Negative4.8%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative25.0%

Bugs and requests

Sunday River

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • App crashing on launch
  • Tracking feature not working
  • Orientation issues on iPad

Requested features

4 requests
  • Terrain park status updates
  • Interactive trail map
  • Lift wait time information
  • Ability to purchase items easily

Cranmore

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Sunday River

No in-app purchases

None

Cranmore

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Sunday River free?
Sunday River is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Cranmore free?
Cranmore is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Sunday River or Cranmore?
Sunday River is rated higher. Sunday River averages 4.8 out of 5 from 2.3K ratings, while Cranmore averages 4.7 from 21 ratings.
Do Sunday River or Cranmore have ads?
Neither Sunday River nor Cranmore shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Sunday River or Cranmore?
Sunday River ships an update every 3 months, and Cranmore fortnightly. Most recently, Sunday River was updated on November 11, 2026 and Cranmore on November 7, 2026.

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