Comparison

White Risk vs pick

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

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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

pick

Features
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pick-l takes the guesswork out of running a pickleball session. Enter how many players you have, how many courts, and how long each round should run — it generates fair, varied matchups every round and times them for you. FAIR MATCHUPS, AUTOMATICALLY No two players partner together twice, and no two players face each other twice — until every possible combination has been used, at which point the rotation starts a fresh cycle. Players sitting out (when there aren't enough courts for everyone) rotate evenly so nobody sits more than their fair share. SINGLES OR DOUBLES Switch between 1v1 and 2v2 matchups depending on the day — the same fairness rules apply to both. BUILT-IN COURT TIMER Start, stop, and skip rounds with a big, easy-to-read timer. An optional bell rings one minute before time's up, and a buzzer signals when a round ends — with the next round's matchups already generated and ready to go. CHOOSE YOUR SOUNDS Pick from several chime and buzzer sounds for round start and round end, with an instant preview so you know exactly what you're choosing. NO ACCOUNTS. NO ADS. NO DATA COLLECTED. pick-l works entirely offline — there's no login, no network connection, no tracking, and nothing about your session ever leaves your device. Your last-used settings are remembered locally so you don't have to re-enter them every time. Whether you're organizing a weekly rec league, a club night, or a backyard tournament, pick-l keeps every round fair and on schedule.

Screenshots

White Risk4 screens
pick2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: pick at none against White Risk's 2. White Risk's advantage is iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.0). 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. pick asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 6 level
White Risk versus pick: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWhite Riskpick
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews70.8% of reviews—
Update frequencyFortnightly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.4 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size174 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperWSL-Institut für Schnee- und Lawinenforschung SLFMatthias Frey

In-app purchases

2 purchases

White Risk

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

pick

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is White Risk free?
White Risk is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is pick free?
pick is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do White Risk or pick have ads?
Neither White Risk nor pick shows ads.

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