Comparison

White Risk vs Ferrata Guide

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

Ferrata Guide

Discover and navigate via ferratas worldwide with a comprehensive database featuring detailed descriptions, topos, ratings, and photos. Plan your adventures, track your climbs, and connect with a community of fellow climbers.

Highlights
  • Extensive via ferrata database
  • Interactive map with advanced filtering
  • Detailed route descriptions and topos
  • User ratings and photos
  • Personal climbing profiles
  • Community communication features
Features
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Ferrata Guide - The biggest Via Ferrata database containing ferratas from Austria, Italy, France and more than 20 other countries. Everything is shown on a map with advanced filtering. Detailed description, topos, ratings and photos from other climbers. You can create a profile where you can mark ferratas that you have climbed or save ferratas that you want to climb in the future. You can communicate with other climbers and many more cool features! Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

White Risk4 screens
Ferrata Guide4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: White Risk at none against Ferrata Guide's shown. White Risk also leads on review sentiment (71% vs 47%) 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. White Risk sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Ferrata Guide sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $17.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

White Risk ships an update fortnightly, Ferrata Guide every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on September 27, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
White Risk versus Ferrata Guide: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWhite RiskFerrata Guide
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.3 (23 ratings) — better
Positive reviews70.8% of reviews — better46.8% of reviews
Number of ratings—23 — better
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 9 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree — betterAd-supported
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.4 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size174 MB73 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperWSL-Institut für Schnee- und Lawinenforschung SLFHARMANEC s.r.o

Customer experience

White Risk

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

Ferrata Guide

All ratings23 ratings
Positive78.3%
Neutral13.0%
Negative8.7%
Written reviews62 reviews
Positive46.8%
Neutral16.1%
Negative37.1%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

White Risk

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

Ferrata Guide

Subscriptions1
  • Yearly subscription$17.991 Year

Questions

Is White Risk free?
White Risk is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Ferrata Guide free?
Ferrata Guide is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do White Risk or Ferrata Guide have ads?
Ferrata Guide shows ads; White Risk does not.
Which is updated more often, White Risk or Ferrata Guide?
White Risk ships an update fortnightly, and Ferrata Guide every 9 days. Most recently, White Risk was updated on September 27, 2026 and Ferrata Guide on October 18, 2026.

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