Comparison

Flowstate vs Carving Mates

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

Head to head
About

Flowstate

Transform your iPhone into an action sports camera to capture and analyze your performance. Automatically detect key moments in surfing, snowboarding, and skiing, then track your progress with AI-powered insights. Share highlights and connect with a global community of athletes.

Highlights
  • Action sports camera functionality
  • AI-powered move detection
  • Session performance analysis
  • Progress tracking dashboard
  • Competition management
  • Clip sharing
Features
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Turn your iPhone into a surf camera. Capture your sessions, analyse your performance with AI, and keep every wave in one place — at the surf park or in the ocean. Flowstate helps surfers capture every wave, review their sessions, and improve faster. Film Yourself Surf, While You Surf: Set up your phone and let Flowstate do the work. Turn your iPhone into a powerful surf camera Capture your entire session from the beach. Automatically detect and clip your waves and moves — snap, barrel, and more Never miss your best wave again Fast-Track Your Progression: See what's working and where to improve. AI-powered move detection Verified stats — turns, snaps, combos and more Compare sessions side-by-side Progress faster with real data from every session Keep Every Wave In One Place: Your personal surf library. Review every session inside your Zone Build a library of your best clips and photos Track goals and improvements over time Share highlights with friends and coaches Connect With A Coach: Elite feedback, after every session. Move-by-move coaching notes Personalised feedback on your technique Know exactly what to work on next Built For Surfing: Flowstate works wherever you surf. Surf parks & wave pools Ocean sessions Your Surf Zone: Capture your session Track your progression Download Flowstate to get in the Zone. Terms of Use: This app uses Apple's standard End User License Agreement (EULA): This can be found at https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Carving Mates

Features
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Carving Mates is Action Media for sport, travel and real-life plans. Instead of posting and waiting, you can discover what is happening around you, join people who are ready to move, and create sessions that turn online intent into real action. Open the map to find live sport sessions nearby. Publish a surf, snow, ski, run, swim, yoga, gym, kite, tennis or hiking plan. Share reels from trips and places. Build groups, chat with mates and keep every session, trip and conversation in one place. What you can do with Carving Mates: • Explore an action map full of sport sessions • Create sessions with sport, place, time, level, format and capacity • Publish reels, destinations and trips people can join • Find mates by sport, location, level and spoken language • Chat in direct messages, session chats, trip chats and groups • Join surf, snow, ski, running, swimming, yoga, gym, hiking, kitesurf, windsurf, tennis and more • Use multilingual support, including English, Spanish, Italian, German, French, Portuguese, Arabic, Hebrew, Greek and Chinese Carving Mates is for travelers, locals, athletes and beginners who want more than passive social media. It is made for people who want to surf today, ski this weekend, run tonight, join a swim, create a yoga plan, find a gym partner or turn a reel into a real session. This is Action Media: content, map, chat and real plans connected in one active experience. Find your next mate. Join the session. Carve the world.

Screenshots

Flowstate4 screens
Carving Mates4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Carving Mates at none against Flowstate's 2. Carving Mates also leads on device support (4 vs 2). Flowstate's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 3 months). On price, ads and iOS requirement 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. Flowstate sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per month. Carving Mates asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Flowstate ships an update fortnightly, Carving Mates every 3 months. Both last shipped on October 8, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Flowstate versus Carving Mates: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFlowstateCarving Mates
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.7 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews83.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS16.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size157 MB57 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperFlowstate ZoneJairo Emanuel Lemos Musi

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Flowstate

Subscriptions2
  • Flowstate Pro monthly subscription$14.991 Month
  • Flowstate Pro Annual Subscription$109.001 Year
None

Carving Mates

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Flowstate free?
Flowstate is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Carving Mates free?
Carving Mates is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Flowstate or Carving Mates have ads?
Neither Flowstate nor Carving Mates shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Flowstate or Carving Mates?
Flowstate ships an update fortnightly, and Carving Mates every 3 months. Most recently, Flowstate was updated on October 8, 2026 and Carving Mates on October 8, 2026.

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