Skiline vs Ferrata Guide
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Vertical meters tracking
- Downhill distance calculation
- Lift ride history
- Action videos and speed photos
- Souvenir photos
- Friends Feed
- Family Feature
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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
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.
- Extensive via ferrata database
- Interactive map with advanced filtering
- Detailed route descriptions and topos
- User ratings and photos
- Personal climbing profiles
- Community communication 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/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Skiline at 87% against Ferrata Guide's 47%. Skiline also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). On price, update cadence, monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Ferrata Guide sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $17.99 per year. Skiline asks for nothing beyond the download.
Skiline holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 98 and 23 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 87% of Skiline's written reviews are positive against 47% of Ferrata Guide's.
Skiline ships an update every 2 weeks, Ferrata Guide every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Skiline | Ferrata Guide |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (98 ratings) — better | 4.3 (23 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 87.4% of reviews — better | 46.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 98 — better | 23 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 243 MB | 73 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alturos Destinations GmbH | HARMANEC s.r.o |
Customer experience
Skiline
Ferrata Guide
Bugs and 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
Ferrata Guide
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Skiline
No in-app purchases
Ferrata Guide
- Yearly subscription$17.991 Year
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