Comparison

Damper vs Bracket Buddy

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

Bracket Buddy

Features
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Suspension tuning is one of the most powerful ways to improve your ride — and one of the most confusing. Bracket Buddy changes that. Think of it as having a pro suspension tuner standing in the pits with you. Describe how your bike is feeling, share your current settings, and get specific, actionable coaching on what to adjust and why. HOW IT WORKS Bracket Buddy uses a method called bracketing — a systematic approach to tuning where you test opposite extremes and narrow down to your ideal setup. No more guessing. No more random clicks. - Tell your AI coach what you're riding, where you're riding, and how you want it to feel - Get specific recommendations on air pressure, sag, compression, and rebound - Make a change, go ride, come back and describe what you felt - Your coach helps you interpret the difference and guides the next adjustment - Repeat until your suspension is dialed for you BUILT FOR REAL RIDERS Whether you're chasing lap times, sessioning bike park laps, or sending all-day trail rides — your ideal setup is personal. Bracket Buddy helps you find it faster than trial and error ever could. - Works with any modern mountain bike — trail, enduro, DH, or XC - Covers fork and rear shock setup including air pressure, HSC, LSC, HSR, and LSR - Remembers your bike and settings so every session builds on the last - AI coaching powered by Claude, one of the most advanced AI models available Stop guessing. Start dialing.

Screenshots

Damper4 screens
Bracket Buddy4 screens

Verdict

The call

Damper and Bracket Buddy are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Damper ships an update every 2 weeks, Bracket Buddy fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Damper versus Bracket Buddy: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDamperBracket Buddy
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (8 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings8 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.517.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size39 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBlake StoddardSteven Parisi

In-app purchases

None

Damper

No in-app purchases

None

Bracket Buddy

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Damper free?
Damper is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Bracket Buddy free?
Bracket Buddy is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Damper or Bracket Buddy have ads?
Neither Damper nor Bracket Buddy shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Damper or Bracket Buddy?
Damper ships an update every 2 weeks, and Bracket Buddy fortnightly. Most recently, Damper was updated on September 28, 2026 and Bracket Buddy on October 10, 2026.

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