Comparison

Skategrounds vs Tickmarks

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

Head to head
About

Skategrounds

Transform your skateboard into a game controller with a special sensor. Perform real-life tricks to level up, unlock new gear, and compete on global leaderboards. Track your progress and master hundreds of tricks.

Highlights
  • Real-life trick detection
  • Gamified progression
  • World leaderboards
  • Online games of SKATE
  • 3D trick replays
  • Extensive trick book
  • Unlockable customization
Features
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Skategrounds turns skateboarding into a game. Put your phone in your pocket and skate. Skategrounds detects when you're riding and logs your session stats. Earn XP for every ride, trick, and challenge you complete. Unlock items to customize your in-game board. New in v2! Play free with just your phone: - Ride detection accurately logs top speed, ride time and distance - Complete daily or weekly ride challenges - Personal goals lets you create your own challenges Add a Skate Sensor to get the full experience: Mount a Skate Sensor on the baseplate of your truck to turn your board into a controller. No modification required. Do flip tricks in real life to level up. Skategrounds uses machine learning trained on real data to tell what trick you did and if you landed. Features: - World leaderboards - Daily and weekly challenges - Personal goals - Online games of SKATE - Replay tricks in 3D - 564+ tricks in the Trick Book - Stance detection - Ride detection: distance, top speed, time skated, continuous ride time - Career stats - Earn XP for every session, convert to Stokens to unlock items - Unlockable decks, grips, stickers, trucks, wheels, bearings, and hardware. - Leaderboards at 23,000+ Skategrounds Push yourself! Read more about the Skate Sensor here: https://skategrounds.tech Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://app.skategrounds.ai/privacy-policy.html

About

Tickmarks

Features
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Climb with intent. Climbing is not about collecting ticks. It's about returning. Trying again. Solving something that once felt impossible. Tickmarks is a focused climbing logbook and boulder tracker built for climbers who care about real progress — not social feeds. No likes. No ads. No noise. Just your climbing. A structured climbing logbook Log sessions in seconds. Track attempts, grades and outcomes. Capture the route. Mark the effort. Move on. Use Tickmarks as your personal climbing tracker: • Bouldering log • Route log • Session tracker with live lock screen widget • Project tracking with failure analysis • Coaching tools - style tags, hold types, RPE • Weakness profile & personal records • Performance insights Minimal enough for the gym. Structured enough for long-term progress. Projects are built, not sent Real improvement happens across sessions. Track: • Attempts per climb • Project history • Days invested • Send progression • What stopped you - finger strength, beta, fear, footwork Turn frustration into data. Turn effort into clarity. Train with data Your ascent pyramid shows progression and focus. Your flash rate shows control. Your weakness profile shows what to train next. Your personal records show how far you've come. Your sessions show consistency. Every session earns a training label, and a weekly review turns the past week into one clear takeaway. Share your sends as branded climb cards - photos and videos. Export session data for your trainer. Tickmarks helps you understand your climbing - not just record it. Built for serious climbers Designed for those who: • Train deliberately • Repeat problems for mastery • Care about movement • Want a clean climbing app without distraction Tickmarks is a climbing logbook. And it stays that way.

Screenshots

Skategrounds4 screens
Tickmarks4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Skategrounds at every 8 days against Tickmarks's every 3 weeks. Skategrounds also leads on device support (4 vs 2). On price, ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Skategrounds sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $19.00 per year and Tickmarks sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Skategrounds ships an update every 8 days, Tickmarks every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Skategrounds versus Tickmarks: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSkategroundsTickmarks
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (36 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings36 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 8 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size332 MB45 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperSkategroundsStephan Hoelscher

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Skategrounds

Subscriptions1
  • Gold14 Days trial$19.001 Year
1 purchases

Tickmarks

One-time1
  • Tickmarks Pro$3.99

Questions

Is Skategrounds free?
Skategrounds is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Tickmarks free?
Tickmarks is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Skategrounds or Tickmarks have ads?
Neither Skategrounds nor Tickmarks shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Skategrounds or Tickmarks?
Skategrounds ships an update every 8 days, and Tickmarks every 3 weeks. Most recently, Skategrounds was updated on October 24, 2026 and Tickmarks on September 23, 2026.

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