Utah Avalanche Center (UAC) vs Cloudbase Project
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Utah Avalanche Center (UAC)
This free app provides essential avalanche, weather, and road information for backcountry planning in Utah. It offers daily forecasts, field observations, road cameras, and critical mountain weather data to aid safe decision-making. Features include an inclinometer and the ability to share slope photos with embedded location data.
- Daily avalanche forecasts for 7 Utah regions
- Field observations and avalanche reports
- Road cameras and travel restriction updates
- Mountain weather forecasts and data
- Inclinometer with GPS and slope data
- Photo sharing with GPS watermarks
- Observation submission forms
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This free app from the Utah Avalanche Center provides access to all the information you need to plan your day in the backcountry. The app consolidates the avalanche, weather, road, and slope information you need for critical decision-making to help ensure you come home safely. App features include: - Daily avalanche forecasts for 7 regions across Utah plus access to information for 2 additional regions - Daily field observations and avalanches - Road cameras showing road conditions - Coming soon road closures and road travel restrictions - Critical mountain weather information, including current conditions, weather station links, weather forecasts, satellite loops, radar, and mountain weather cameras - Emergency contacts and your GPS location for a fast rescue response. - An inclinometer using your camera containing your GPS location, steepness, aspect, elevation, time, and date - Ability to photograph a slope watermarked with GPS location, steepness, aspect, elevation, time, and date and share that photo - Forms to quickly share observations and avalanches with the Utah Avalanche Center - A list of contacts for more information
Cloudbase Project
Provides detailed weather forecasts, live readings, and tracking specifically for paragliding pilots. Offers insights into wind conditions, thermal strength, and flying potential, along with radar and satellite imagery.
- Current wind readings with favorites
- Daily and hourly site forecasts
- Flying Potential forecast summary
- Big picture weather analysis
- Weather station map with history
- Live pilot tracking map
- Live weather cameras
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Weather forecast, readings, and live tracking for paragliding pilots. Features include: - Current wind readings (with "Favorites" for quick reference) - Site daily weather and hourly forecasts including winds aloft, thermal strength, and top of lift forecasts by hour - Site "Flying Potential" forecast summary and details - "Big picture" weather including TFRs, weather alerts, soaring forecast, weather forecast discussion, Skew-T, winds aloft forecast - Map of weather station readings (select for history and forecast) - Map layers for storms (radar) and clouds (satellite infrared) - Map of live pilot tracking (select track node to get additional flight track details) - Live weather cameras - Links to paragliding resources
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Cloudbase Project at 5.0 against Utah Avalanche Center (UAC)'s 4.3. Cloudbase Project also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs weekly). Utah Avalanche Center (UAC)'s advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and ratings volume (6 vs 2). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Cloudbase Project holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 2 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Utah Avalanche Center (UAC) ships an update weekly, Cloudbase Project every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on June 4, 2026 and September 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Utah Avalanche Center (UAC) | Cloudbase Project |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (6 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 94 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Utah Avalanche Center | Michael Del , Brown |
Customer experience
Utah Avalanche Center (UAC)
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In-app purchases
Utah Avalanche Center (UAC)
No in-app purchases
Cloudbase Project
No in-app purchases
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