Skate Hype vs SkateApp +
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Skate Hype
This platform is dedicated to skateboarding, featuring a weekly trick challenge and user profiles with a ranking system. Users can share their skateboarding videos, including tricks, lines, and full parts.
- Permanent Trick of the Week
- THPS rank style profiles
- Post tricks, lines, and video parts
- Skateboarding video platform
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Skate Hype is the video platform built exclusively for skateboarders. POST tricks, lines, video parts and full lengths. Compete in the weekly Trick of the Week (TOTW). Fill the 25 stars THPS-style trick stats. Ramped-Slow-Motion video built in — no editing app needed. Skater of the Year (SOTY) — the community decides. Earn rewards for your posts, comments and Hype Picks. No cookies. No algorithms pushing ads or worse. No selling your data. A platform owned by skaters, built since 2004.
SkateApp +
Discover unique skate spots worldwide with this community-driven app. Connect with skaters, build your profile, and explore an interactive map featuring over 50,000 locations. Share spots and find new places to skate.
- Find global skate spots
- Interactive map exploration
- User profiles and favorites
- Spot sharing via social media
- Filter and discover new spots
- View nearby locations
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SkateApp is the ultimate skate spot finder, helping you to find unique and unknown spots around the world! We are a community of Skaters and Digital Creators who share a passion for skating through content creation. Our goal is to connect skaters from all over the world, and help them find new spots to skate. SkateApp helps you find new spots across the world with our custom features! You can bookmark spots, explore the interactive map, and start building your profile. We are working on new features to allow Adding new spots, editing spots, posting personal photos and videos, and playing SKATE with your friends online. We are excited to see how SkateApp will grow in the future, and we would love to have you join us on our journey! SkateApp Features: - Explore over 50,000+ skate spots around the world! - Build your profile, and create a list of your favorite spots - Discover new skate spots using our filters, or explore all the available spots on the map - Share spots with friends via external social media - View nearby spots in your area We are so excited to share SkateApp with the world, and we hope you love it as much as we do! If you have any questions, please email us at support@skateapp.net
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: SkateApp + at 4.2 against Skate Hype's 3.3. SkateApp + also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 67%) and ratings volume (9 vs 3). Skate Hype's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
SkateApp + holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 3.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 9 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of Skate Hype's written reviews are positive against 100% of SkateApp +'s.
Skate Hype ships an update every 4 weeks, SkateApp + fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Skate Hype | SkateApp + |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (3 ratings) | 4.2 (9 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 9 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 81 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Miguel Angel Urbina Pons | SuperApps LLC |
Customer experience
Skate Hype
SkateApp +
In-app purchases
Skate Hype
No in-app purchases
SkateApp +
No in-app purchases
