Comparison

Session vs SkateLoop

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

Head to head
About

Session

Features
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~ Track skate sessions and your trick progress ~ Shrednotes is a minimal and simple skateboard session tracker designed for people looking to learn new tricks and improve their existing tricks. Predefined trick lists and DIY • Shrednotes comes pre-filled with common tricks which can be renamed, deleted or added to as you please, it’s designed to work how you do without ads, privacy invasive activities or clutter. • You can sync with Health to read skateboard workout health data. • Shrednotes learns about your activity securely, on-device, and recommends new tricks to you based on what you know already. Skate journal • Apart from tracking individual tricks your learning and seeing what’s next, you can also keep a record of specific (or all) skate sessions. • If you enable notifications, you’ll get a reminder 30 minutes after your workout to add a session if you’ve not opened the app since then. • Create a journal entry directly from the Photos app share sheet. • You can mark the session location on a map card too, to easily record where your session took place. Home Screen Widgets and Customisation • Customise basic settings such as whether you want to see smart recommendations, the journal, or specific trick groups. • Also launch Shrednotes from your home or lock screen with a useful widget that tracks the next recommended trick to learn, or instantly start creating a new Journal entry from the lockscreen. • Finally, use the Apple Watch companion app to quickly and easily record notes for a new Session without needing to open your phone, come back and edit it any time.

About

SkateLoop

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Somewhere between "I want to kickflip" and actually rolling away from one, most skaters lose track of the middle. SkateLoop is the trick book that holds it: what you want, what you are learning, what you have landed, and what you own on command. Start from a real library: 47 tricks across ollies, shuvits, kickflips, heelflips, grinds, slides, and transition. Every trick carries a difficulty, a short how-to worth reading at the spot, and prerequisites that map your next move. Add any trick in regular, fakie, switch, or nollie; each stance counts as its own trick with its own difficulty. The book is yours too: add custom tricks the library does not have. WHAT YOU GET - Four lanes for every trick: want it, learning, landed, consistent. Move a trick and SkateLoop stamps the first-landed date forever - Progression suggestions by family: land the prerequisites and the next tricks light up, easiest first - A session log with spots: date, minutes, tricks worked, wins, and clip notes on what got filmed - A spot notebook: skatepark, street, DIY, indoor, or mini ramp, with ground notes and photos - Streaks and goals: set your sessions-per-week goal and keep the weekly streak alive - A trick challenge generator: one tap hands you a real task matched to a trick you can actually try today - Photos where they matter: a clip frame on the trick, a photo on the session and the spot - Progress charts: new tricks landed per month, landed by family, and minutes on the board per week - A printable Trick Book PDF plus trick and session CSV exports (Lifetime) PRIVATE AND IN SYNC No account of ours and no tracking. Your book lives on your device and in your private iCloud, synced across iPhone, iPad, and Mac. A Delete All My Data control erases everything, everywhere it syncs, whenever you want. FREE VS LIFETIME Free covers 15 tricks in your book with every feature: lanes, sessions, spots, streaks, challenges, and charts. The Lifetime unlock is a one-time $9.99 USD purchase (no subscription, ever) that removes the trick limit, so the whole library and your stats build across everything you skate, and it adds the PDF and CSV exports. The list is already in your head. Give it a book.

Screenshots

Session4 screens
SkateLoop4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Session at none against SkateLoop's 1. SkateLoop's advantage is iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence, ads and device support 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. SkateLoop sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Session asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Session ships an update fortnightly, SkateLoop every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 4 level
Session versus SkateLoop: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSessionSkateLoop
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.018.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size30 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKarl KochInnovaLabWorks

In-app purchases

None

Session

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

SkateLoop

One-time1
  • SkateLoop Lifetime$49.99

Questions

Is Session free?
Session is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is SkateLoop free?
SkateLoop is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Session or SkateLoop have ads?
Neither Session nor SkateLoop shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Session or SkateLoop?
Session ships an update fortnightly, and SkateLoop every 2 weeks. Most recently, Session was updated on October 2, 2026 and SkateLoop on September 26, 2026.

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