Comparison

Skategrounds vs Skating Tracker

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

Skating Tracker

Features
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SkateTracker helps competitive skaters stay on top of their season - every event, every trip, every result. Track competitions and practice camps, plan the travel and stays around them, log race outcomes, and monitor your spending. All in one place. All on your device. - Plan and remember the whole trip - pin venues on a map, save flights and trains, log hotels with tap-to-call, attach boarding passes and bookings as PDFs or images. - Add competitions and practice camps with dates, cities, and notes. - Record multiple race results per event (500m, 1000m, relay, etc.). - Track expenses by category - travel, entry fees, gear, food, and more. - See stats at a glance - podium rate, medals, best finishes, and monthly spending charts. - Share your season - a Year in Review card celebrates your medals, events, and best finish, with spending kept private by default. - Customize the look - 5 accent themes, 4 alternate app icons, and a currency override (Indian lakhs and crores supported, plus 8 other currencies). - Search across events, venues, hotels, flights, and booking references. - Export all your data as CSV for spreadsheets. - Works offline - no account, no cloud, no tracking. Your data stays on your device. - Dark mode designed interface.

Screenshots

Skategrounds4 screens
Skating Tracker3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Skating Tracker at none against Skategrounds's 1. Skategrounds's advantage is update cadence (every 8 days vs every 2 weeks) and device support (4 vs 2). On price and ads 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. Skating Tracker asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Skategrounds ships an update every 8 days, Skating Tracker every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Skategrounds versus Skating Tracker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSkategroundsSkating Tracker
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (37 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings37 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 8 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size332 MB6 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperSkategroundsJaswanth Reddy

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Skategrounds

Subscriptions1
  • Gold14 Days trial$19.001 Year
None

Skating Tracker

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Skategrounds free?
Skategrounds is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Skating Tracker free?
Skating Tracker is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Skategrounds or Skating Tracker have ads?
Neither Skategrounds nor Skating Tracker shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Skategrounds or Skating Tracker?
Skategrounds ships an update every 8 days, and Skating Tracker every 2 weeks. Most recently, Skategrounds was updated on October 27, 2026 and Skating Tracker on October 28, 2026.

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