Skate Plan vs IJSEdge
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Skate Plan
Design, score, and visualize figure skating routines with official IJS scoring and visual path drawing. Sync elements to music and preview your choreography with animated routines. Ideal for skaters, coaches, and choreographers preparing for competition.
- Official IJS scoring with element validation
- Visual path drawing on a rink canvas
- Music synchronization with timeline view
- Animated routine preview
- Smart routine management
- Export and sharing of routines
- Comprehensive element library
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Skate Plan – Design, Score, Share, and Coach Figure Skating Routines Skate Plan is a complete program‑building tool for figure skaters, coaches, and choreographers. Create competition‑ready routines with official IJS elements, check that your program is well‑balanced, project your score, and share it with your coach or students — all on iPhone and iPad. Build IJS‑Based Routines Skate Plan includes 120+ official ISU elements across Singles and Ice Dance. Add jumps from singles through quads, spins (Levels 1–4), step sequences, twizzles, dance lifts, pattern dance, and choreographic elements. A real‑time predicted base score shows how your routine is shaping up, with a full category breakdown. The smart jump‑combination builder validates rules automatically so your layout stays legal. Program Check Choose your governing body (U.S. Figure Skating or ISU), level, and program type. Skate Plan checks your routine against well‑balanced‑program requirements — element counts, jump repetition limits, required spin types, and duration — and flags anything that needs attention. Score projection shows a low, expected, and high Technical Element Score, including second‑half jump bonuses. Personalized Score Ratings Set your own realistic value for each element to project your score based on how you actually land jumps and execute elements. Switch back to standard IJS base values anytime. Visual Path Drawing Draw your skating path on a realistic rink and place elements exactly where they occur on the ice. The workflow is simple: pick elements, draw the path, refine timing. Music & Timing Import music from Files, Your music library or Apple Music. Automatic beat and tempo detection creates a rhythm timeline, and you can drag elements along the timeline to sync choreography precisely to the music. Audio Tools Cut, Trim, Fade and edit music to get the sound you need. Additionally you can merge multiple audio clips together to create a single audio file as needed. Animated Preview Watch your routine skate itself along your drawn path, fully synchronized to your music — ideal for coaches and choreographers reviewing choreography. Share & Export Share routines as editable Skate Plan files that open directly in the app, or export a PDF with an official‑style Planned Program Content sheet listing elements and base values. Perfect for skaters, parents, and training partners. Coach Mode Create profiles for multiple skaters, assign routines to each, and filter your list with a single tap. All your students’ programs stay organized in one place. Manage Your Routines See IJS scores on every routine card. Duplicate routines to build variations. Sort by duration, element summary, or last edited. Who It’s For Competitive skaters, coaches, choreographers, skating parents, and test‑level skaters — from a first Axel to a quad combination. Built with SwiftUI for iPhone and iPad, featuring intuitive gestures, smooth animations, and full offline use. Your routines stay on your device, and no account is required. Program Check requirements and score projections are planning aids — always confirm against current USFS/ISU rules and your officials. Download Skate Plan and design your next program with confidence. By using this app, you agree to Apple’s standard End User License Agreement (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
IJSEdge
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Figure skating is one of the most data-rich sports in the world — and the most unreadable. Every IJS protocol publishes every element's base value, GOE, deductions, and per-judge breakdown. But the way it's published, you'd need a spreadsheet, a stopwatch, and an hour to figure out what the numbers actually say about your skater. IJSEdge fixes that. We ingest every IJS protocol from every U.S. Figure Skating competition — qualifying track and Excel pathway alike — and turn each skater's results into honest, plain-English arithmetic. For parents and skaters: See exactly where the points are slipping. Hidden Gains tiles tell you how many points your skater is leaving on the ice every event and which element is costing the most. Per-judge GOE breakdowns show you whether the calls are consistent across the panel. Move-Up Readiness is a composite signal — across percentile, Clean Skate Index, and consistency — for the conversation with your coach about whether it's time for the next level. For coaches: Free. No card, no plan to pick. Claim each skater you coach, share your IJSEdge referral link with their parents, and the moment a parent subscribes you see their full analytics — element by element, judge by judge, season over season. Same data as the paying parent, no watered-down coach edition. What's in the box: • Every U.S. Figure Skating competition indexed, updated weekly. • Element-by-element analytics on every skater with public protocol data. • Hidden Gains, Element ROI, Move-Up Readiness, Personal Best tracking. • Per-judge GOE breakdown for every event with judge detail. • Live competition updates during scoring. • Achievements: 132 badges across jumps, spins, footwork, program quality, consistency. • Two-party verification for coach + parent claims — privacy by design. Pricing: Free to browse — anyone can look up any skater. Paid analytics for parents and skaters: Skater $4.99/mo (one skater), Family $8.99/mo (up to 4 skaters in one household). Coaches are always free. Built by a skating dad whose daughter has competed on both the qualifying track and the Excel pathway. We're not VC-backed. We're not trying to disrupt the sport. We're just trying to make the protocols you already paid for actually mean something. --- Subscriptions IJSEdge offers two auto-renewing subscription plans: • Skater — $4.99/month or $39/year • Family — $8.99/month or $79/year Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at the confirmation of purchase. Your subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period, at the plan price listed above. You can manage your subscription and turn off auto-renewal in Settings → [your name] → Subscriptions on your iOS device. Privacy Policy: https://ijsedge.com/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://ijsedge.com/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: IJSEdge at daily against Skate Plan's fortnightly. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Skate Plan sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days and IJSEdge sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Skate Plan ships an update fortnightly, IJSEdge daily. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Skate Plan | IJSEdge |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Aaron Mcdonald | Josh Wright |
In-app purchases
Skate Plan
- Premium Access to Skate Plan3 Days trial$0.997 Days
- Premium Access to Skate Plan3 Days trial$9.991 Year
IJSEdge
- Skater Monthly$4.991 Month
- Family Monthly$9.991 Month
- Skater Annual$44.991 Year
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- Family Annual$89.991 Year






