Comparison

White Risk vs Swiss Golf

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
Read full description

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

Swiss Golf

Features
Read full description

Download the Swiss Golf App and start your unique Swiss golf experience. For All Without being logged in to an account, access the following features. News: Stay up to date with the latest news from Swiss golf. Tournaments: Find all useful information about different tournaments that Swiss clubs offer to their members and/or visitors. In a few clicks, register for your next golf tournament. Where to play: Discover the Swiss golf courses. Find all useful information and book tee times. For the Swiss Golf Card’s holders Thanks to your Swiss Golf Card, log in to your account and enjoy all the features of the Swiss Golf App. Swiss Golf Card: Access your digital Swiss Golf Card with one click. General Play: This feature allows you to record handicap scores for golf rounds played outside of tournaments. Take advantage of keeping your handicap index up to date! HCP Record Sheet: Keep an eye on your statistics and analyse your golfing progress.

Screenshots

White Risk4 screens
Swiss Golf4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Swiss Golf at none against White Risk's 2. Swiss Golf also leads on iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.4). White Risk's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 6 weeks). On price, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. White Risk sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Swiss Golf asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

White Risk ships an update fortnightly, Swiss Golf every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 5 level
White Risk versus Swiss Golf: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWhite RiskSwiss Golf
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews70.8% of reviews—
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.414.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size174 MB31 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperWSL-Institut für Schnee- und Lawinenforschung SLFPC CADDIE://online GmbH & Co. KG

In-app purchases

2 purchases

White Risk

One-time2
  • Standard Plan$34.99
  • Pro Plan$59.99
None

Swiss Golf

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is White Risk free?
White Risk is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Swiss Golf free?
Swiss Golf is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do White Risk or Swiss Golf have ads?
Neither White Risk nor Swiss Golf shows ads.
Which is updated more often, White Risk or Swiss Golf?
White Risk ships an update fortnightly, and Swiss Golf every 6 weeks. Most recently, White Risk was updated on October 27, 2026 and Swiss Golf on October 26, 2026.

Other comparisons