Comparison

Damper vs Outrider

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

Head to head
About

Damper

Easily track and manage your mountain bike's suspension settings. Record changes, add notes, and even include locations for each adjustment. Designed for quick updates with gloves on.

Highlights
  • Track any bike and component
  • Full suspension and hardtail support
  • Record compression, rebound, tokens, and air pressure
  • Support for dual air chamber components
  • Add location and notes to settings
  • Favorite and share settings
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Struggling with where to store the settings for the suspension components on your mountain bike? Tired of taking your gloves off mid-ride to type into a note on your phone with sweaty hands and a tiny keyboard on your screen? Want to be able to track your changes with location, notes, and more? Damper is the thing for you. Damper allows you to add all of your bikes and their individual components, and track the current settings of them individually. Each saved setting adds to a growing history list that shows you what changed (ie: added 3 clicks of compression) and where it happened at. Best of all, all of the controls are big enough that you can change values with your gloves on. Features: - Any bike, any component. - Full suspension and hardtail support. - Track high-speed compression, low-speed compression, high-speed rebound, low-speed rebound, token count, air pressure, and coil weight. - Support for dual air chamber components. - Optionally add a location to a group of saved settings. - Favorite a group of settings to easily find it again. - Add notes that remind you of extra details from a run. - Easily share the settings of a component with a shop or mechanic in photo form.

About

Outrider

This app allows cyclists to easily set up and monitor their tubeless tire pressure sensors. Save custom settings for each bike and view real-time pressure readings during rides for a seamless experience.

Highlights
  • Setup tubeless tire pressure sensors
  • Save preferred settings per bike
  • Real-time pressure readings
  • Hassle-free setup process
Features
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The Outrider mobile app provides a convenient interface to set up and use your Outrider tubeless tire pressure sensors for bikes. Save your preferred settings for each of your bikes to make for a hassle-free setup process and get real-time pressure readings while you ride.

Screenshots

Damper4 screens
Outrider2 screens

Verdict

The call

Damper and Outrider are too close to call on the numbers: across 10 compared parameters — price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Damper against 5.0 for Outrider. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 4 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Damper ships an update every 2 weeks, Outrider fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on June 7, 2026 and June 11, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Damper versus Outrider: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDamperOutrider
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (8 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings8 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.516.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size39 MB21 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBlake StoddardOutrider Components LLC

Customer experience

Damper

All ratings8 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Outrider

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Damper

No in-app purchases

None

Outrider

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Damper free?
Damper is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Outrider free?
Outrider is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Damper or Outrider?
Damper and Outrider are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 8 and 4 ratings respectively.
Do Damper or Outrider have ads?
Neither Damper nor Outrider shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Damper or Outrider?
Damper ships an update every 2 weeks, and Outrider fortnightly. Most recently, Damper was updated on June 7, 2026 and Outrider on June 11, 2026.

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