What are the best free ski speed apps?
Available on the Apple Store and Google Play, many free ski speed applications will allow you to have essential data: average speed, route memorization, challenges with other user members, relief maps, snow cover...They all have valuable information to make your experience even more enjoyable. Here are some of the applications to favor during your snow holidays!
In summary
Do you want to analyze your performance and track your speed on the slopes? Ski speed applications can transform your smartphone into a real tracking tool during your gliding days. Sport 2000 presents the best free applications to measure your speed, record your routes, track your distance covered, and compare your performance. Also discover useful applications to know the weather, snow conditions, or information about your resort. Read on to choose the ski applications suited to your needs and fully enjoy your mountain holiday.
Our selection of the best Android and iOS apps for skiing
If you don't know which application to choose for your winter sports holiday, you can rely on the number of downloads and reviews by visiting the Google or Apple Store. But to make your life easier and help you equip yourself for skiing, we have listed here the free applications to prioritize.
Ski Pursuit
Developed by the ski equipment brand Rossignol, this application records your daily performance. In addition to your maximum speed or your average speed, Ski Pursuit also includes other features, such as the indication of elevation gain or loss, or even the distance covered.
It also displays a summary of your performance throughout an entire season (per day or per hour), and lists on a 3D relief map the different routes on which you have completed your runs.
This free ski speed app includes an "Autostop" function, to stop recording if your speed is less than 1km/h.
You can also compare your statistics and performance with those of your friends, by linking Ski Pursuit with your Facebook or Twitter account, and share information about your routes.
Ski +
This application is a pack, which records your performance throughout your skiing days. You can both measure your performance, challenge your friends and record and share your videos and photos.
Finally, Ski + gives you full details about the ski area you are in, the weather conditions and snow depth in the resort and on the summits.
Ski Tracks Lite, a leading free ski speed app
This ski speed application includes a paid version, but its free version is quite complete.
Ski Tracks Lite includes several data points: speed, distance covered, number of descents completed, altitude, 3D maps, photos, and even free music.
Finally, it has the advantage of not draining your smartphone's battery too much.
Snoww
Snoww provides the essential data expected from a good ski app (distance, speed, altitude, weather, slopes descended...). It also measures the number of calories burned and includes a system for comparing your statistics with those of other Snoww users, as well as a rewards and challenges system with members of the Snoww community.
Ski Tracker
Ski Tracker is a free ski speed application that provides data such as average speed, fast descent calculation, distance covered, route taken, or marking of slopes on your maps.
Ski Tracker is therefore a comprehensive application (which also includes a paid version, free for 30 days), to download on iPhone or Android smartphone.
Unlike other free applications that include advertising in their free version, Ski Tracker is an ad-free tracker.
Only major drawback: the application is relatively power-hungry, so it's best to fully charge your smartphone before a ski session.
Useful complementary applications for winter sports
While ski speed applications provide precise information on your performance, here are also some useful complementary applications to download on your smartphone for a winter mountain trip.
Bergfex ski
In addition to French ski resorts, Bergfex ski contains a lot of information on several European ski resorts, such as those in Austria, Poland or Croatia. The application also provides precise information on real-time weather conditions and snow depth, and allows viewing of webcams on the slopes. It also offers indications on available accommodation rentals or ski equipment rental points, whether you are in large French resorts like Méribel or more family-friendly resorts, such as Chamrousse.
Ski resort mobile applications
To complement your free ski speed application, most resorts have a dedicated application. Sometimes, a single application groups several ski areas, as is the case for the resorts of the Trois Valléesski area, just like N'PY, which groups 8 ski areas of the Pyrenees. Other resorts have developed their own application, such as Tignes or Font-Romeu Pyrénées 2000 (Alti Service).
In addition to extremely detailed trail maps for each ski area, these applications provide very precise real-time information for skiers, for example the emergency services closest to your position, the opening of slopes and ski lifts (including their condition at opening), snow quality or avalanche risks.
GPS applications and watches for the mountains
In addition to your speed app, it's wise to have a GPS system if you like to venture off-piste (freeride skiing, freerando, ski touring, etc.) and head towards the summits. This is an additional guarantee of safety for you and a tool that can serve as a tracker to find you.
We have dedicated an entire article to this subject, to help you find the best GPS solutions for skiing, including boxes, watches and Android and iOS applications.
