Comparison

White Risk vs Skiline

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

Skiline

Track your ski performance by scanning your ski pass. See vertical meters, downhill distance, and lift rides. Share your skiing experiences and connect with friends on the slopes.

Highlights
  • Vertical meters tracking
  • Downhill distance calculation
  • Lift ride history
  • Action videos and speed photos
  • Souvenir photos
  • Friends Feed
  • Family Feature
Features
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With Skiline you can easily see and share what you have been up to on the slopes. Simply scan your ski pass with your smartphone to find out how far you skied, the vertical meters that you covered and what lifts you’ve taken. Treasure your skiing experiences forever. App Functions: • Vertical meters • Downhill distance • Lift rides • Action videos and speed photos • Photopoint souvenir photos • Friends Feed • Family Feature • Adventures • Battery-saving – doesn’t require GPS • Enter ticket with NFC Getting started is easy: 1. Install the app 2. Create a Skiline account or log in through Facebook 3. Scan your ski pass number 4. Done! Join a community of 6 million likeminded winter sports enthusiast +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Use the Skiline app in over 350 ski resorts worldwide

Screenshots

White Risk4 screens
Skiline3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Skiline at none against White Risk's 2. Skiline also leads on review sentiment (86% vs 71%) and update cadence (weekly vs fortnightly). On price, ads, 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. Skiline asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

White Risk ships an update fortnightly, Skiline weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 9, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
White Risk versus Skiline: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWhite RiskSkiline
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.7 (98 ratings) — better
Positive reviews70.8% of reviews86.2% of reviews — better
Number of ratings—98 — better
Update frequencyFortnightlyWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree — betterAd-supported
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS16.415.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size174 MB227 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperWSL-Institut für Schnee- und Lawinenforschung SLFAlturos Destinations GmbH

Customer experience

White Risk

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

Skiline

All ratings98 ratings
Positive93.9%
Neutral2.0%
Negative4.1%
Written reviews123 reviews
Positive86.2%
Neutral4.1%
Negative9.8%

Bugs and requests

White Risk

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Skiline

Reported bugs

29 issues
  • Bugs not fixed since December update
  • Top 100 not updated
  • Missing ski days
  • App cannot add up days correctly
  • Wrong ski resort selected on scoreboard
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  • Adding a ski pass often doesn't work
  • Submitting an error report doesn't work
  • New error reports get automatically cancelled
  • App misses too many days skiing
  • App recorded a wrong guy and missed user
  • App is doubling up daily information
  • Lift rides are missing
  • App will not let you register
  • App support team unresponsive to registration issues
  • Cannot get past profile registration
  • App appears not to be working this year
  • Attempt to raise a ticket for support was rejected
  • Pass integration in Zermatt cannot recognize runs on the Italian side for 2 years
  • Addition of missed gates via web interface doesn't add them to the timeline
  • Cannot add missed gates on phone app
  • App cannot tell the difference if gondola taken up and back down
  • App got some lifts in the wrong order
  • Web interface has great animation for some resorts but not others
  • App double loads ski days
  • App sometimes doesn't load ski days at all
  • Smaller lifts don't register on Skiline
  • App illustration shows finite number of digits and spaces to register a ski pass
  • App fails to launch after update
  • Email addresses are already taken during registration

Requested features

11 requests
  • Ability to select slopes taken
  • Option to leave slopes blank
  • Measure daily top speed
  • Manual entry for resorts not available
  • Slopes integration for unsupported resorts
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  • Add more resorts in other countries (Italy, Slovenia)
  • Add a map of the resorts
  • Option to remove days
  • Calculate last run
  • See minutes of fun on the app (not just website)
  • Add speed as a stat

In-app purchases

2 purchases

White Risk

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

Skiline

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is White Risk free?
White Risk is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Skiline free?
Skiline is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do White Risk or Skiline have ads?
Neither White Risk nor Skiline shows ads.
Which is updated more often, White Risk or Skiline?
White Risk ships an update fortnightly, and Skiline weekly. Most recently, White Risk was updated on September 9, 2026 and Skiline on September 23, 2026.

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