White Risk vs burnair Map
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
burnair Map
Plan your paragliding flights with detailed maps of launch and landing sites, thermal hotspots, and lee areas. Discover suggested cross-country routes and learn how to overcome key flight challenges. Utilize thermal forecasts to find the ideal flying conditions.
- Paragliding launch and landing site maps
- Thermal hotspot and lee area indicators
- Cross-country route suggestions
- Key flight challenge explanations
- Thermal forecast for optimal flying days
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burnair Map hilft dir deinen Gleitschirmflug zu planen. Gleitschirm Startplätze und Landeplätze, Thermikhotspots und Leegebiete sind eingezeichnet. Weiter findest du Vorschläge für Streckenflüge und Erklärungen wie du Schlüsselstellen überwindest. Die burnair Map Thermikprognosen helfen, den perfekten Tag zu finden.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: White Risk at free against burnair Map's free with in-app purchases. burnair Map's advantage is review sentiment (80% vs 71%). On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. White Risk sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and burnair Map sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
White Risk ships an update fortnightly, burnair Map every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 27, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | White Risk | burnair Map |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 70.8% of reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 174 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | WSL-Institut für Schnee- und Lawinenforschung SLF | burnair GmbH |
Customer experience
White Risk
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In-app purchases
White Risk
- Standard Plan$34.99
- Pro Plan$59.99
burnair Map
- burnair Map Basic$79.99
- burnair Map Premium$179.99









