Rolling Beast vs PR Japan Guide
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Rolling Beast
Track your skiing and snowboarding in 3D, analyze performance data, and share your runs with friends. Features include AI-powered slip analysis, interactive slope maps of Japanese resorts, and group leaderboards.
- 3D tracking playback and sharing
- Detailed ski performance data
- Group creation and private leaderboards
- AI slip analysis
- Interactive 3D slope maps
- Ski resort information and snow forecasts
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3D tracking playback and sharing: Share 3D ski tracking with your friends on Line, WhatsApp, or other social media tools. Rich tracking data: It tracks skis and provides data such as distance, maximum speed, average speed, total descent distance, and run distance. Team up: Create a group and let your friends join, automatically share group member tracking, and create a private leaderboard. AI slip away analysis: Rolling Beast can use machine learning to improve gliding accuracy with live tracking and detect uphill and downhill gliding data. AI Voice Recap: A complete tracking overview is provided when the gliding chase is complete. Sliding Tracking Replay: While riding the gondola, you can play 3D sliding tracking video and enjoy the live tracking screen without stopping. 3D interactive slope map: It shows 14 ski resorts in Japan as custom-designed 3D models and is a map with interactive trails and lifts. You can zoom, pan and rotate to explore. List of ski resorts and snow forecast: Visit the ski resort page to see resort leaderboards, lift wait times, snow forecast for each ski resort, and more. We currently operate at the following ski resorts in Japan: Niseko Able Hakuba Goryu Ski Resort and Hakuba 47 Hakuba Happo-one Ski Resort Ishiuchi-Maruyama Ski Resort Karuizawa Ski Resort Yawatabira Shimokura Ski Resort Lotte Arai Resort Madarao Kogen Ski Resort Naeba Ski Resort Appi Kogen Ski Resort Ryuo Ski Park Hoshino Resorts Tomamu Nozawa Onsen Ski Resort Kamitachi Snow Resort
PR Japan Guide
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PR Japan Guide helps foreign residents forecast Japan permanent-residence approval timing, check application readiness, and manage documents and progress. Application data stays on your device and no account is required. FREE APPROVAL TIME FORECAST Choose your immigration office and filing date to see elapsed days and an estimated approval window informed by average review times published by Japan's Immigration Services Agency. This is not internal case progress, approval probability, or a guarantee. PREPARATION Review residence, tax, pension, health insurance, status period, and document gaps. Track a basic document checklist and notes. PROGRESS Save the application date, office, current stage, and additional-document events. If your current residence period expires during PR review, a separate extension application is still required. ONE-TIME PR PREPARATION PACK Optional one-time purchase with route-specific priorities, risk review, and pre-application and waiting-period action timelines. No subscription or auto-renewal. Previous paid-app customers are automatically unlocked. Available in Simplified Chinese, Japanese, English, Vietnamese, Korean, Nepali, and Indonesian. This app provides general information only and is not legal advice, immigration representation, or an application guarantee.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Rolling Beast at every 5 days against PR Japan Guide's fortnightly. Rolling Beast also leads on iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Rolling Beast sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and PR Japan Guide sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Rolling Beast ships an update every 5 days, PR Japan Guide fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Rolling Beast | PR Japan Guide |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 65 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Rolling Beast | shuo zhou |
In-app purchases
Rolling Beast
- 1 day pass$5.99
- 7 days pass$23.99
- Lifetime pass$59.99
PR Japan Guide
- PR Preparation Pack$5.99









