Damper vs Bracket Buddy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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.
Bracket Buddy
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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.
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Damper ships an update every 2 weeks, Bracket Buddy fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Damper | Bracket Buddy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (8 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.5 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 39 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Blake Stoddard | Steven Parisi |
In-app purchases
Damper
No in-app purchases
Bracket Buddy
No in-app purchases









