Slopes vs SwimPulse
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Slopes
Track your skiing and snowboarding performance with detailed stats, find friends on the mountain, and replay your winter adventures. Offers interactive resort maps and trip planning features.
- Smart activity recording (ski, snowboard, etc.)
- Automatic run and lift detection
- Live friend location sharing
- Interactive 2D/3D resort maps
- Trip planning and conditions
- Detailed performance statistics
- Apple Watch integration
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Take your snow days to the next level! Uncover detailed stats (and bragging rights) about your days skiing and snowboarding, ride with friends, log your memories, and replay your winter adventures together. Get the best ski tracking experience on iPhone and Apple Watch! SMART RECORDING Select your activity, and Slopes will figure out everything in the background (even what resort you're at, assuming you have cell reception). You can choose from ski, snowboard, monoski, sitski, telemark, and more. Slopes will automatically detect uphill, lifts, and runs for you all day long. FIND YOUR FRIENDS ON THE MOUNTAIN With live location on the recording screen, you can easily find each other! Location sharing is privacy-focused; you can always turn it on and off. INTERACTIVE RESORT MAPS (Premium)—Available for 2000+ resorts in the US, Canada, the European Alps, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan. Navigate resorts with ease in 2D or 3D. See which run you or your friends are on and where to go next. Find any trail, lift, the bathroom, and more. On many North American resorts, we now show on-mountain facilities such as bathrooms, food, and, most importantly, ski patrol locations, even in free mode. TRIP PLANNING & CONDITIONS Plan upcoming trips and invite your friends to them to share in the hype. Trips let you keep tabs on resort conditions, who's coming or not, and who else was invited, all in one central place. Before you head up the mountain, check what other riders say about a resort's snow quality. While on the mountain, location sharing will automatically work with everyone on the trip - even the participants not on your friend list in Slopes. DETAILED STATISTICS Uncover a wealth of information about your performance, speed, vertical, run times, and more. Find out how good you are and how you're getting even better, season-over-season. FITNESS + APPLE WATCH See how you're pushing yourself with live heart-rate data, close your activity rings in Apple Health, and with Slopes Premium, you can check vitals and fitness insights for every twist and turn. PRIVACY-FOCUSED Slopes never sells your data, and features are designed with privacy and safety in mind. Accounts are optional, and you can Sign-in with Apple. Questions? Feedback? Use the "Help & Support" section in-app or visit help.getslopes.com. ======================== Slopes free version is ad-free and truly free. You won't waste battery, data, or time on ads. And you get all the core features you expect & love: find your friends, unlimited tracking, key stats & summaries, snow conditions, season & lifetime overviews, and more. Slopes Premium unlocks powerful features and insights into your performance: • Interactive Resort Maps in 2D & 3D. • Live Lift & Trail Status for +50 resorts in North America. • Performance Analytics with real-time stats for every run. • Find out where you hit top speeds and which was your best run. • Fitness Analytics - get insights into your endurance. • Bring the mountains to life with interactive replays in 3D & AR. If you purchase an Annual or Family Pass, payment will be charged to your iTunes account. Your account will automatically be charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of the current subscription period unless you turn off auto-renew. After purchase, you can turn off auto-renewal anytime by going to your Account Settings on the App Store. Privacy Policy: https://getslopes.com/privacy.html Terms of Service: https://getslopes.com/terms.html ======================== Note: GPS is required, so Slopes will not work indoors. iPads and iPods will not be able to record with Slopes. Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life. Factors like temperature, battery health, and other apps running in the background will affect battery performance.
SwimPulse
Track your swimming progress with a workout calendar and detailed analysis. Visualize your frequency, analyze pace, and export data for further insights. Includes an Apple Watch app for stroke tempo training and HealthKit integration.
- Workout calendar with SWOLF metric tracking
- Detailed swim session analysis
- Data export to CSV
- Apple Watch stroke tempo trainer
- HealthKit integration
- Insights for optimized training
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Improve Your Swimming Performance with this powerful app. Key Features: 1. WORKOUT CALENDAR: Visualize your swimming frequency with a glance at this week or month. Track your progress using the SWOLF metric, a popular swimming efficiency indicator, directly in the calendar. 2. DETAILED WORKOUT ANALYSIS: Tap a calendar date for an in-depth view of your swim session, including pace per 100m, stroke distance, sweet spot analysis and loop-by-loop stroke per minute metric. 3. DATA EXPORT: Easily export workout data to CSV format for advanced analysis in Numbers on your laptop. 4. Apple Watch App that can be used as a Stroke Tempo Trainer - it vibrates every given period of time (0.5-3 sec, or 20-120 SPM) so you can use it to make strokes for each hand or only for the left hand with watch to keep the required strokes tempo. Insights for Optimized Training: - Discover patterns in your swimming habits. For example, realizing a lack of activity on Mondays could lead to scheduling morning swims, boosting efficiency and combating procrastination. - Correct your stroke rate to be in the sweet spot (white zone in the chart of pace to stroke rate dependency). - Download CSV file with your workout and ask AI assistant to provide you a feedback or a piece of advice regarding the data in that file - the data is enough for it to evaluate your workout and provide a meaningful feedback. Cost: Free. Regular updates promised. Coming Soon: Better charts. HealthKit Integration: SwimPulse safely syncs with HealthKit for activity and workout data, crucial for accurate SWOLF and other metrics. SWOLF Explained: A key metric combining 100m swim time and stroke count per 100m. Lower SWOLF indicates higher efficiency. Requirements: - Apple Watch (3rd edition) for full metric tracking. - iOS 13.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: SwimPulse at none against Slopes's 4. SwimPulse also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). Slopes's advantage is ratings volume (88K vs 1) and review sentiment (84% vs 71%). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. Slopes sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $34.99 per year. SwimPulse asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Slopes against 5.0 for SwimPulse. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Slopes has 88K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 84% of Slopes's written reviews are positive against 71% of SwimPulse's.
Slopes ships an update every 9 days, SwimPulse every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Slopes | SwimPulse |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (88K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 84.3% of reviews — better | 71.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 88K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #151 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 174 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Breakpoint Studio LLC | Artem Goncharov |
Customer experience
Slopes
SwimPulse
Bugs and requests
Slopes
Reported bugs
3 issues- App crashes after iOS updates
- Inconsistent GPS tracking
- Issues syncing data between devices
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to manually edit runs and lifts
- Trail difficulty/grade information
- Automatic pause/resume based on location
- Leaderboards and social features
- Integration with other fitness apps
SwimPulse
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Slopes
- Slopes Premium Unlimited7 Days trial$34.991 Year
- Slopes Premium Family Plan$59.991 Year
- Slopes Single Pass$3.99
- 7 Pass Bundle$11.99
SwimPulse
No in-app purchases









