Comparison

White Risk vs Ski Portillo

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

Head to head
About

White Risk

This app provides avalanche bulletins, snow data, and a trip planning tool for winter mountain activities. It offers e-learning modules to build avalanche knowledge and analyze terrain for safer travel outside secured slopes.

Highlights
  • Avalanche bulletin and snow data
  • Trip planning tool for ski touring and freeride
  • Route drawing and terrain analysis
  • Offline map access
  • E-learning modules for avalanche knowledge
  • Synchronization across platforms
Features
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White Risk is the Swiss platform for avalanche prevention and was awarded Best Swiss App in 2025. It is designed and developed at the WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF and is aimed at everyone who travels in winter mountain terrain outside secured ski slopes. In addition to the avalanche bulletin and current snow and measurement data, White Risk includes a trip planning tool specialized for ski touring, snowshoe routes and freeride. Draw your own routes, analyze the terrain using avalanche terrain maps and automatic cruxes, and plan alternatives. Through e learning, White Risk conveys avalanche knowledge and deepens it with interactive lessons and exercises. Tour planning: Draw routes along paths or ski routes or freely across the terrain and store all relevant information about your tour in one place. Automatic cruxes: White Risk analyzes your route, automatically marks potentially critical cruxes and complements them with relevant avalanche and terrain information. Use maps offline: Download map material with topographic maps as well as layers such as slope angle and avalanche terrain for planning and navigation on the go. Synchronization across all platforms: All planned tours are stored in the personal account and can be accessed and edited at any time via app and web. Avalanche bulletin: The avalanche bulletin provides information on the current avalanche situation. It offers a regional forecast of avalanche danger and is an important basis for trip planning. Snow maps, measurements and observations: Display of current and forecast new snow amounts as well as snow depths for Switzerland, complemented by measurements from stations and current observations such as avalanches and snow profiles. E learning: White Risk conveys avalanche knowledge using graphics, videos and animations and deepens it in interactive lessons with exercises and knowledge tests.

About

Ski Portillo

Enhance your ski resort experience with real-time updates on slopes, lift status, and snow reports. Track your activities, compete in challenges for prizes, and book your trip and ski passes seamlessly. This app is your all-year-round companion for winter and summer adventures.

Highlights
  • Real-time resort information
  • Interactive maps and snow reports
  • GPS activity tracking
  • Community challenges and prizes
  • Ski pass booking and recharge
  • All-year-round activity information
Features
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Are you looking for an unforgettable experience in Ski Portillo? Use our official App to make the most of your trip in both winter and summer. The App offers a range of features designed to optimize your experience before, during and after your trip. It’s very simple, plan your getaway and get real time updates on slope conditions. Set up your profile and track your activities on the slopes to get detailed stats about all your activities. And that’s not all, take part in challenges competing with the whole community, to be in with a chance of winning incredible prizes. Practical, isn’t it? And you'll be pleased to hear that we offer all this and much more for free. - REAL-TIME RESORT INFORMATION Get all the resort information including: interactive maps, snow reports, slope conditions and lift status, as well as webcams, and much more! - TRACK, COMPETE AND WIN Set up your profile to track your activities using the GPS tracker. Find out where you are in the season's rankings and try to complete the challenges to be in with a chance of winning great prizes. - BOOK YOUR TRIP Purchase and recharge your ski pass with no need to queue. What's more, book your trip and/or activities in just a few clicks. - YOUR PERFECT ALL-YEAR-ROUND COMPANION Configure the App according to the season, and get access to specific information about all our summer activities. Live an unforgettable experience with the official app of Ski Portillo! Remember that the App can access your location and GPS information to: send you notifications, process your tracking stats and determine your position in the App rankings, post geo-located photos. Continued use of these features may reduce the duration of your battery.

Screenshots

White Risk4 screens
Ski Portillo4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: White Risk at none against Ski Portillo's shown. White Risk also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 4 months) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). Ski Portillo's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 71%). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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. White Risk sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Ski Portillo sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

White Risk ships an update fortnightly, Ski Portillo every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
White Risk versus Ski Portillo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWhite RiskSki Portillo
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (9 ratings) — better
Positive reviews70.8% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings—9 — better
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 4 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS16.4 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size174 MB156 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperWSL-Institut für Schnee- und Lawinenforschung SLFSki Portillo S A

Customer experience

White Risk

Written reviews24 reviews
Positive70.8%
Neutral12.5%
Negative16.7%

Ski Portillo

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

White Risk

One-time2
  • Standard Plan$34.99
  • Pro Plan$59.99
2 purchases

Ski Portillo

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly premium7 Days trial$5.991 Month
  • Annual premium7 Days trial$28.991 Year

Questions

Is White Risk free?
White Risk is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Ski Portillo free?
Ski Portillo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do White Risk or Ski Portillo have ads?
Ski Portillo shows ads; White Risk does not.
Which is updated more often, White Risk or Ski Portillo?
White Risk ships an update fortnightly, and Ski Portillo every 4 months. Most recently, White Risk was updated on October 27, 2026 and Ski Portillo on October 24, 2026.

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