Comparison

SkyTrackPro vs CompBuddy

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

Head to head
About

SkyTrackPro

Features
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SkyTrackPro is a complete flight companion for pilots, whether you fly big XC lines, FAI competitions, hike and fly, or a Sunday thermal with your friends. We care about the basics that make a flight go well: accurate tracking, a cockpit you can read in the air, honest navigation and tools that help you learn from every flight. Everything else has to earn its place. What SkyTrackPro helps you do Precise flight tracking • Reliable GPS recording from launch to landing • Barometric and GNSS altitude recorded as two independent references • IGC export and detailed replay • Offline capable, built to save battery on long days A cockpit built for you • Freeform flight layouts with movable buttons and resizable tiles • Ten ready to fly built in screens, including portrait radars • Flight Radar, Task Radar, Next Airspace, Side View and many more tiles • Refreshed Cockpit design with flat tile cards, uppercase labels and values that lead • Customizable flight puck, glide line and a wing and pilot marker designer Live tracking and sharing • Public live tracking, or private with a personal link • Live photos and short clips sent to the live map as you fly • PureTrack mirroring in parallel • Flight presence outside the app, with a live view on your lock screen Competition pilots • Load tasks via QR code, file or shared link • On final glide banner with wind corrected arrival margin • FAI Section 7 compliant goal line and elevated goal • Competition messenger with race direction chat, push notifications and an urgent alert siren • Retrieve in the chat with driver cards and send my location • XC Guide with routes, challenges, leagues, records and a live feed Hike and fly • A single recording for a whole day of walking and flying • Hike and Fly race day with land and sign turnpoints and GAP style competitions Soaring • Wagga mode for a dedicated touch and go session on a fixed screen Airspace and weather • Airspace v1.5 with NOTAM activation windows and section based colours • Progressive vertical airspace warning that scales with your climb rate • Weather with live wind stations in Switzerland, Austria, Spain and Slovenia Maps • Topo, Terrain, Satellite and Dark map styles • Offline Maps v2 with freeform 1 degree cell selection • Thermal maps overlay and obstacle warnings Hardware integrations • ActiveLook smart glasses from Engo Eyewear • Vector Vario and Calypso Ultrasonic over BLE • FLARM and FANET traffic shown on the flight map Thirteen languages English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese for Portugal and Brazil, Czech, Polish, Japanese, Korean, Turkish and Slovenian. The complete Pilot Manual is included in each language. For every kind of pilot • Competition pilots • XC explorers • Hike and fly pilots • Soaring pilots • Club and school pilots • Recreational flyers • Anyone learning and improving If you want precise tracking, a cockpit you can trust and tools that keep up with how you fly, SkyTrackPro fits right in.

About

CompBuddy

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CompBuddy by airtribune is a free mobile app for pilots and staff participating in paragliding competitions hosted on airtribune.com. It can handle registration, event information, retrieve coordination, real-time messaging to pilots and the safety team, and competition notifications — all from your phone.

Screenshots

SkyTrackPro4 screens
CompBuddy4 screens

Verdict

The call

SkyTrackPro and CompBuddy are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SkyTrackPro ships an update every 6 days, CompBuddy every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
SkyTrackPro versus CompBuddy: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSkyTrackProCompBuddy
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 6 daysEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.6 — better16.6
Further details — not scored
Size63 MB37 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJerome KaegiRainer Dieterle

In-app purchases

None

SkyTrackPro

No in-app purchases

None

CompBuddy

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SkyTrackPro free?
SkyTrackPro is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is CompBuddy free?
CompBuddy is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do SkyTrackPro or CompBuddy have ads?
Neither SkyTrackPro nor CompBuddy shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SkyTrackPro or CompBuddy?
SkyTrackPro ships an update every 6 days, and CompBuddy every 4 days. Most recently, SkyTrackPro was updated on November 5, 2026 and CompBuddy on October 28, 2026.

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