Comparison

Loon Mountain Resort vs Cranmore

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

Head to head
About

Loon Mountain Resort

Your official guide to a mountain resort, providing real-time updates on lift and trail status, grooming, and terrain parks. Plan your visit with weather forecasts, track your runs, and access deals for lift tickets and lodging.

Highlights
  • Real-time lift and trail status
  • Grooming and terrain park info
  • Weather forecasts
  • Run tracking (daily and seasonal)
  • Lift ticket purchase
  • Deals and lodging information
  • Push notifications for alerts
Features
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The Loon app is your guide to everything happening around the resort. Stay connected with the most up to date information. See lift and trail status, grooming and terrain park information. Take a look at the weather to see what will be happening during your trip. Use the tracking feature to see what runs you’ve taken today and throughout the season. Purchase lift tickets, find our current deals, and check out area lodging directly through the app. Enable notifications for snow alerts, limited time offers and events. Download and connect with Loon Mountain Resort.

About

Cranmore

Your official guide to Cranmore Mountain Resort, offering real-time trail status, location sharing with friends, and run tracking. Access snow conditions, weather, lift status, and resort amenities. Log your runs, compare with others, and replay your adventures.

Highlights
  • Real-time trail status (groomed/closed)
  • Interactive trail map with location
  • Share location with friends
  • Record runs, vertical feet, and distance
  • Log runs as Apple Watch workouts
  • Snow conditions, weather, and webcam access
  • Up-to-the-minute lift status
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

Loon Mountain Resort4 screens
Cranmore4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Cranmore at fortnightly against Loon Mountain Resort's every 4 months. Cranmore also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and review sentiment (50% vs 27%). Loon Mountain Resort's advantage is ratings volume (1.4K vs 21). 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 Loon Mountain Resort against 4.7 for Cranmore. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Loon Mountain Resort has 1.4K ratings behind it against 21, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 27% of Loon Mountain Resort's written reviews are positive against 50% of Cranmore's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Loon Mountain Resort ships an update every 4 months, Cranmore fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Loon Mountain Resort versus Cranmore: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLoon Mountain ResortCranmore
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (1.4K ratings) — better4.7 (21 ratings)
Positive reviews27.3% of reviews50.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1.4K — better21
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size150 MB88 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperBoyne ResortsResorts Tapped LLC

Customer experience

Loon Mountain Resort

All ratings1,365 ratings
Positive96.2%
Neutral2.6%
Negative1.2%
Written reviews11 reviews
Positive27.3%
Neutral9.1%
Negative63.6%

Cranmore

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

In-app purchases

None

Loon Mountain Resort

No in-app purchases

None

Cranmore

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Loon Mountain Resort free?
Loon Mountain Resort 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, Loon Mountain Resort or Cranmore?
Loon Mountain Resort is rated higher. Loon Mountain Resort averages 4.8 out of 5 from 1.4K ratings, while Cranmore averages 4.7 from 21 ratings.
Do Loon Mountain Resort or Cranmore have ads?
Neither Loon Mountain Resort nor Cranmore shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Loon Mountain Resort or Cranmore?
Loon Mountain Resort ships an update every 4 months, and Cranmore fortnightly. Most recently, Loon Mountain Resort was updated on October 22, 2026 and Cranmore on October 24, 2026.

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