Comparison

NRTH vs SkiEr

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

Head to head
About

NRTH

Features
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NRTH is adaptive training for hybrid athletes, built around a community that keeps you accountable. Your plan responds to every session you log, and the people you train with are right there to push you on. Your training lives in Blocks: Endurance, Strength, Weight Optimisation, Skill and Mobility. Choose the ones you want and NRTH builds your week around them, then adapts as you go. Lifts progress, core holds build, and your runs anchor to paces from your real race times. Whether you're laying down your first base or chasing a Hyrox podium, the plan scales to where you are and gets harder as you do. Every athlete gets a unique @handle, your identity across the app and a shareable link to your profile, with your training, challenges and milestones all in one place. The supporter feed brings your people's training together too: their workouts, milestones and 15-second challenge clips, all in NRTH's card style. Respect and comment on what they do, get a notification when someone supports you back, and keep each other going. You stay in control of what you share. Weight and life-context are private by default, and everything else is your call, kept to yourself or shown off to the NRTH community. Start training for free, and with NRTH Pro when you want more. Privacy policy: https://www.nrth.co.uk/Privacy Terms of use: https://www.nrth.co.uk/Terms

About

SkiEr

Features
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Your SkiErg, reimagined as a 3D Nordic ski race. SkiEr connects to your SkiErg over Bluetooth and turns every pull into movement on snow. Your skier double-poles in time with your real stroke, harder pulls look harder, and the trail rolls on through forests, frozen lakes, glaciers and mountain passes. FREE TO DOWNLOAD • Just Ski: open-ended sessions with live pace, watts, stroke rate, distance and heart rate • Ski together on the open trail: other skiers, live • Workout history, streaks, 27 achievements and Game Center leaderboards • Saves to Apple Health 8 LIVING 3D ROUTES (SKIER PRO) • Silver Birch — 500 m lakeside sprint • Alpine Sprint — 5K through pine forest • Glacier Trail — 5K past blue ice under a deep alpine sky • Twilight Ridge — 5K under the northern lights • Nordic Valley — 10K classic cross-country • Frozen Lake Loop — 10K across the ice on a frosty morning • Sunset Peaks — 10K in golden-hour light • Mountain Pass — a half-marathon at altitude Each route has its own hills, live elevation profile, race arches every kilometre and bronze, silver and gold medal targets. SKI TOGETHER Switch on Ski together and everyone on your trail appears on screen, live, with the gap to each skier. Join a friend on the open trail and you start right beside them. When nobody else is out, a fast and a steady pace partner keep you company. You appear under a made-up skier name, and nothing is stored. FIND YOUR FTP (SKIER PRO) A 20-minute all-out test finds your functional threshold power. Your effort zones then scale to you, so "tempo" means your tempo. RACE YOUR PERSONAL BEST A ghost skier replays your best time on the route, so you can see exactly where you're ahead and where to push. A SKIER THAT MOVES WITH YOU A modern race double pole that follows your real stroke. On a Concept2 PM5 it uses the monitor's own stroke timing, and with an Apple Watch it follows your arms on any machine. The pole plant lands as you pull, and the crunch deepens as your watts rise. LIVE HEART RATE FROM APPLE WATCH Wear your watch and SkiEr opens on it when you start, streaming live heart rate to the workout screen and your heart-rate zones. A chest strap paired to your SkiErg's monitor works too. TRAIN WITH PURPOSE (SKIER PRO) • Distance, time and interval workouts, and the FTP test • 6 structured plans: Beginner 4-Week, 5-Week 2K Improver, HIIT Sprint Series, 6-Week Endurance Builder, Hyrox 1K Specialist and Biathlon Conditioning • Workout finder, training analytics and trends • Customise your skier: race suits, boots, gloves and more SKIER PRO Try it free for 1 week, then Ā£4.99/month or Ā£29.99/year. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at the end of the free trial. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel any time in your Apple Account settings. Already bought SkiEr before version 1.3? Everything stays unlocked, for life. Works with the Concept2 SkiErg (PM5 monitor) and Bluetooth FTMS ski machines such as the Rogue Echo Skier. No SkiErg to hand? Try Demo Mode. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://skier.fit/privacy

Screenshots

NRTH3 screens
SkiEr4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: SkiEr at none against NRTH's 3. NRTH's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. NRTH sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. SkiEr asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

NRTH ships an update weekly, SkiEr every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences Ā· 3 level
NRTH versus SkiEr: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNRTHSkiEr
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size98 MB400 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTwenty Third C Technology LimitedHoward Ayris

In-app purchases

3 purchases

NRTH

Subscriptions3
  • Premium$3.991 Month
  • UK$9.991 Month
  • Premium committed$39.991 Year
None

SkiEr

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is NRTH free?
NRTH is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is SkiEr free?
SkiEr is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do NRTH or SkiEr have ads?
Neither NRTH nor SkiEr shows ads.
Which is updated more often, NRTH or SkiEr?
NRTH ships an update weekly, and SkiEr every 3 weeks. Most recently, NRTH was updated on November 8, 2026 and SkiEr on October 31, 2026.

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