Ski Tracks Lite & GPS Maps is a GPS-based performance tracker for skiers and snowboarders on iOS and Android.
Product velocity
Maintenance
Daily rank 🇺🇸
#99
Navigation · grossing
Sentiment
4.4
930 reviews
Nemesis
Slopes: Ski & Snowboard
The App DNA
What makes this app unique?
Users want to quantify their mountain performance without the complexity of professional-grade backcountry navigation tools.
For Skiers and snowboarders seeking performance metrics and resort navigation.
What does it look like?
Key features
Interactive maps displaying piste routes and lift locations.
Visualizes speed fluctuations across a recorded session.
Logs speed, distance, and vertical drop automatically.
How much does it cost?
Subscription model gates advanced mapping and performance analytics, which has become a primary source of user friction.
Velocity
Maintenance developmentperformanceUX improvementsShow more...
Development is currently focused on stability and bug fixes, with no new features introduced since late 2025. The app maintains a slow cadence of roughly 0.12 releases per week, consistent with a maintenance-focused lifecycle. The latest release, which shipped 82 days ago, continues the trend of minor technical patches rather than functional expansion. The development trend is stable, prioritizing performance over new content or feature iteration.
Who built it?
Fitness & Sports apps SRL
4 apps tracked · Navigation
Ski Tracks
Ace Trace - Shot Tracker
BodyState: Vitals TrackerUser Sentiment
What do users think recently?
Fresh user feedback skews mixed. Users appreciate accurate tracking of speed, altitude, and vertical feet provides valuable data for skiing enthusiasts and simple interface allows users to easily document their mountain activities without complex setup requirements, but report mandatory subscription model for previously free features alienates long-term users who already purchased the app.
How are ratings & reviews evolving?
What users say, by theme
- Accurate tracking of speed, altitude, and vertical feet provides valuable data for skiing enthusiasts
- Simple interface allows users to easily document their mountain activities without complex setup requirements
- Background tracking capability allows users to record sessions while listening to music or using other apps
- Mandatory subscription model for previously free features alienates long-term users who already purchased the app
63 of 63 recent reviews analyzed · high confidence · Mixed overall
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Competitive landscape for Ski Tracks Lite & GPS Maps
How's the Navigation market?
Ski Tracks Lite & GPS Maps holds a mixed position in the Navigation category, with a 4.62 rating on iOS but a 3.4 rating on Android. The disparity in platform ratings combined with a slow release cadence suggests that the current subscription value proposition is failing to meet user expectations on the Android segment.
Read the market outlookThe rivals identified
By Breakpoint Studio LLC
Dominates the winter sports niche with massive user scale and a high-frequency release cadence that keeps the product at the cutting edge of ski tracking.
- Maintains a high-frequency release cycle with 15 updates in six months to ensure feature parity with latest hardware.
- Offers deep integration with Apple Watch for real-time slope metrics without requiring the user to touch their phone.
- Provides comprehensive resort-specific data and social sharing features that create a strong community-driven network effect.
Unlock the head-to-head verdict: where this rival wins, and where it loses.
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Key takeaways for Ski Tracks Lite & GPS Maps
Where is it heading?
The winter sports tracking market is consolidating around high-frequency, social-integrated platforms. Ski Tracks Lite & GPS Maps remains exposed due to its slow release cadence and a pricing strategy that alienates its most loyal users, which will likely accelerate churn into the next season.
- The transition to a mandatory subscription model for legacy features drives negative sentiment, which increases churn risk among the core user base.
- The current maintenance-only release cadence fails to address the competitive pressure from high-velocity rivals, leaving the app vulnerable to feature erosion.
The SWOT
- High-precision GPS tracking metrics provide a reliable data foundation
- Implementing session-editing tools would resolve the top user request
Next best moves
Ship session-editing tools because it is the top-requested feature → increase user satisfaction
+ 1 more prioritized moveThe counter-intuitive read
The app's maintenance-mode status is a strategic liability…
Read the full takeFeature gaps
Real-time social leaderboards (available in Slopes but absent here) +1
Since the last report: Development velocity has significantly decelerated, with the time since the last update increasing from 11 days to 82 days. The product remains in a maintenance-only state, failing to resolve the primary user complaints regarding subscription-gating and missing session-editing tools.
Bottom line
The app must pivot its subscription strategy to grandfather legacy users or add significant new value to the premium tier, as the current paywall is actively eroding the user base. Addressing the session-editing gap would unlock the primary retention bottleneck for active skiers.
Unlock 2 critical frictions, 1 market threat, 1 more prioritized move and the analyst’s take.
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Is Ski Tracks Lite & GPS Maps free to use?
How does Ski Tracks Lite compare to Slopes?
Can I edit my ski runs after recording them?
What are the best alternatives for ski tracking?
Sources
- [1] App Store, source
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