Slopes vs SurfCheck
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.
SurfCheck
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SurfCheck is a mobile surf application that helps solve the problem of inaccurate surf report data in Bali Indonesia. SurfCheck puts the power in the hands of the surf community, by giving them the ability to upload videos of the surf. This gives surfers in Bali Indonesia the opportunity to have the most accurate representation of the actual surf. With this interactive live surf forecast app the Bali surf community can check the surf any single minute during the day. Surfing in Bali will get easier from now on! Bali surf forecast websites do not match the real Bali surfing conditions and surf webcams mostly don’t work or have bad quality footage. Also, many surfing spots in Bali don’t even have any webcams. SurfCheck will let the Bali surf community to constantly check live surf reports from all of the common Bali surf spots and beaches. Posting a Surf Report: Bali Surfing users can post reports at the surf spots live in this App, simply pressing the record button for a few seconds. This collaboration provides other users to check and see these surf reports and get the live surf forecast about Bali Surf conditions anytime and from anywhere almost live. SurfCheck will provide the users with credits for their collaboration. Posting a surf report provides the user with credits. With these credits Bali surfers will be able to watch surf reports from the other users. No more wasting time driving to the surf spots without precise information about the surf conditions. Bali surfing spots favourite filter menu: SurfCheck will let you post a surf report of the spot you are at right now. Opening the Bali surfing spot menu, Bali surfers are able to choose their favourite spots they usually surf at. The “favourite surf spots” filters the surf reports and will show you the surf reports of your favourite surf spots automatically. Other surf reports from other surfing spots will not be shown and will be filtered out. This way you can check the surf of only the spots you love. SurfCheck ratings: Bali Surfers can evaluate the surf conditions of the surf spots by adding audio to their recording and can add text to describe the surf. This will result in accurate Bali surf conditions that are clear and easy to understand. Rating the surf conditions live will help the users to get essential information right at the moment. SurfCheck vision: Because SurfCheck is still a young surf start-up there will be room for lots of improvements in the near future. Think of community video rating, offline recording, community surf spot suggestions, location awareness to automatically detect the spot where the user is, maps integration, online surf date to cross reference with the reports, AI machine learning to recognize surf spots based on video footage, report quality and much more. Stay tuned and let’s get surfing!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: SurfCheck at none against Slopes's 4. SurfCheck also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). Slopes's advantage is update cadence (every 9 days vs every 5 weeks) and chart position (#121 vs unranked). 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
Both are free to download. Slopes sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $34.99 per year. SurfCheck asks for nothing beyond the download.
Slopes ships an update every 9 days, SurfCheck every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Slopes | SurfCheck |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (88K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 84.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 88K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Best chart rank | #121 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 174 MB | 38 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Breakpoint Studio LLC | Code-Remote B.V. |
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
SurfCheck
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
SurfCheck
No in-app purchases









