Skatrix vs Skater Mobile
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Skatrix
This app lets you virtually skate in real-world environments by scanning your surroundings. Build custom skateparks, perform tricks, challenge friends, and customize your skater and board. Film and share your best lines.
- Scan and skate real-world spots
- Build custom skateparks
- Perform various skateboarding tricks
- Challenge friends locally or remotely
- Customize skater and board appearance
- Film and share trick replays
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Project your creativity onto the world around you and join Skatrix—a new virtual skateboarding community brought to you by Rodney Mullen. SKATE your surroundings! Scan and skate real-world spots with your virtual skater. Grind ledges, jump downs stairs, and clear obstacles—the possibilities are endless. BUILD skateparks! Select a rail, ledge, or ramp, and place it. Stack objects or choose a more complex prefab object to create the ultimate skatepark. CREATE your style! Do kickflips, heelflips, treflips, and many more. CHALLENGE your Friends! Play with your friends and share a common skate scene locally or remotely. Play a game of skate, build a skatepark, or just skate around. CUSTOMIZE your skater! Customize the appearance of your board and skater. Make your skater look like you, or anything you desire. FILM & SHARE your tricks! Once you landed an awesome trick or completed a line, click the camera icon to watch the replay on repeat, allowing you to view it from any angle. Hit record if you would like to film your replay and share it with the world.
Skater Mobile
Experience realistic skateboarding with intuitive controls and a first-person perspective. Perform endless trick combinations and combos in authentic street spots and skateparks. Master flips, spins, grinds, and slides in a game designed by a long-time skater.
- Physics-based gameplay
- Endless trick combinations
- Realistic skateboard animations
- POV First Person Skateboarding mode
- 16 unique skateboarding levels
- Handcrafted skate spots
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Do realistic skate tricks and put together skateboard lines in this easy to play, hard to master skateboarding game set in realistic & stylized environments, offering realistic trick animations and a POV mode for feeling like a real skater by skating using a first person perspective. SKATE YOUR WAY You are fully in control of your skateboard and what tricks you want to do. REALISTIC SKATE SPOTS Skate street spots and skateparks that have been designed to feel authentic. LOTS OF TRICKS Do a variety of tricks on your skateboard. Do flips, spins, grinds and slides. Combine tricks and do tricks in combos such as a kickflip nosegrind nollie heelflip out. FOR SKATERS, MADE BY A SKATER This game is made by a developer that has been skateboarding for 20 years. SKATE IN FIRST PERSON Look through the eyes of a skater with the POV perspective. Feel like a real pro skater by looking down at your skateboard while doing tricks. Features: - Physics based gameplay - Endless trick combinations and combos - Realistic skateboard animations - 16 different skateboarding levels in unique locations - Handcrafted skate spots - POV First Person Skateboarding mode
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Skater Mobile at 4.8 against Skatrix's 4.1. Skater Mobile also leads on review sentiment (88% vs 50%) and update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 months). Skatrix's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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. Skatrix sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Skater Mobile sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Skater Mobile holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Skater Mobile has 464 ratings behind it against 45, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Skatrix's written reviews are positive against 88% of Skater Mobile's.
Skatrix ships an update every 2 months, Skater Mobile every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Skatrix | Skater Mobile |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (45 ratings) | 4.8 (464 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 88.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 45 | 464 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 928 MB | 194 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Reality Crisis Oy | Oliver Eriksson |
Customer experience
Skatrix
Skater Mobile
User reviews
Skatrix
From 45 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 💡 Creative and fun idea
- ✨ Unique AR skateboarding experience
- 🤩 Amazing graphics for AR
- 💯 Innovative concept
- 🎮 Good potential
Room to improve
- 🎮 Wonky and hard-to-get-used-to controls
- 😵 Controlling direction by looking is annoying
- 🤔 Confusing to sign in or register
- 💥 Game crashes with Lightship AR
- 🚫 Can't play without an invite/waitlist
Skater Mobile
From 464 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Satisfying gameplay and controls
- 🚀 Smooth and responsive physics
- 💎 Realistic and fun skateboarding experience
- 🎨 Visually appealing and clean design
Room to improve
- 🔍 Maps/levels are too short
- 📢 Excessive advertisements
- 🐛 Occasional bugs and glitches
- 🔁 Lack of ability to continue/loop levels
Bugs and requests
Skatrix
Reported bugs
9 issues- Game crashes when using Lightship AR
- Cannot sign in or register due to symbol restrictions
- Phone crashes upon trying to launch the game
- Skater not showing up after scanning
- Clicking 'skate' does nothing
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- Cannot enter email address during registration (field too small)
- Login with Facebook results in an endless loop
- AR not working, tracking issues
- Cannot download the game after deleting it
Requested features
8 requests- Add joystick for better character control
- Change camera angles
- Add trick button with joystick
- Add custom clothes for character
- Add more tricks (nollie, varial heel, inward heel, etc.)
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- Option for different control settings (e.g., onscreen joystick, Bluetooth controller)
- Remove invite system/waitlist
- Allow connection with other devices for local multiplayer
Skater Mobile
Reported bugs
3 issues- Getting stuck in certain states (manual, air)
- Inconsistent flip trick animations
- Crash when trying to rate the game
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to flip out of grinds
- More maps/levels with increased variety
- Character customization options
- Alternative camera views (e.g., third-person)
- Trick progression system or challenges
In-app purchases
Skatrix
- Park Builder$1.991 Month
- Pro Tricks$0.99
- A few$0.99
- A bunch$2.99
Skater Mobile
- No Ads + Carlsbad$4.99
Questions
Is Skatrix free?
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