SkydiveX vs GCS Manifest
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SkydiveX
This app enhances the skydiving experience with event calendars, live webcams, and real-time jump information. It provides essential wind and weather updates for safe and thrilling jumps.
- Event calendar
- Live webcams
- Wind and weather updates
- Real-time jump manifest
- Skydive Utah information
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SkydiveX brings the jump-day information skydivers use most into one focused experience. Choose from 146 drop zones in a catalog organized into eight global regions. Review current conditions, forecasts, winds aloft, local time, and drop zone details without jumping between multiple tools. Built for jump-day awareness - Current weather and multi-level winds aloft - Easy switching between drop zones and regions - Embedded public Burble manifests where available - Drop zone and nearby airport camera sources where available - Aviation-inspired 3D airport views using published runway data - Reviewed landing-area overlays for supported locations - Surface-wind visualization with a responsive windsock - Imperial and metric unit options Manifest, camera, weather, and aviation information can change or become temporarily unavailable. SkydiveX provides supplemental planning information only and is not a substitute for official aviation weather, current drop zone briefings, training, regulations, or professional judgment. Always verify conditions and operational decisions with your drop zone, instructors, pilots, and official sources before jumping or flying.
GCS Manifest
This application provides a mobile-friendly interface to the GCS (Ground Control Skydiving) manifest website. It serves as a wrapper for easy access to skydiving manifest information.
- Mobile-friendly interface
- Access to GCS manifest website
- Easy information retrieval
- Wrapper for website functionality
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This app is a simple mobile-friendly wrapper around the GCS (Ground Control Skydiving) manifest website. DISCLAIMER: This app is absolutely not an official GCS app and is provided on an "as is" basis with no guarantees of completeness, accuracy, or usefulness. The official GCS website will always be the source of truth!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: GCS Manifest at 100% against SkydiveX's 0%. GCS Manifest also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.5) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 3 months). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
GCS Manifest holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 5 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of SkydiveX's written reviews are positive against 100% of GCS Manifest's.
SkydiveX ships an update every 3 months, GCS Manifest fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SkydiveX | GCS Manifest |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Robert Yeritsyan | Nicolas Faralli |
Customer experience
SkydiveX
GCS Manifest
In-app purchases
SkydiveX
No in-app purchases
GCS Manifest
No in-app purchases
