The best ski and snowboard apps for 2026/27.

Choose ski, snowboard, monoski, sitski, telemark or another activity, and Slopes detects lifts, runs and the resort in the background. The free version is ad-free, with unlimited tracking, key stats, season summaries, snow conditions and live location for your friends. Premium adds 2D and 3D resort maps for 2,000+ resorts, live lift and trail status at 50+ North American resorts, per-run analytics and 3D replays. Pair it with Broski: add your Slopes link to your Broski profile and it shows as an “Add me on Slopes” button.

A long-running GPS tracker: speed, distance, altitude and vertical, your routes on a map, season comparisons, photos linked to your day and live stats on an Apple Watch. Just the numbers, without the social extras.

15-day snow forecasts, a powder quality forecast, snow and radar maps and offline trail maps, plus a daily write-up from local forecasters in winter for regions in the US, Canada, Europe, Japan, Australia and New Zealand. Avalanche forecasts, webcams and slope angle maps are free.

Forecasts for the bottom, middle and top of each resort across 3,300+ mountain destinations, with webcams, snow depths, weather maps and free snow alerts. SnowPro extends forecasts from 6 to 16 days, hourly and ad-free. A good pick if you ride in Europe or the UK as well as North America.

Snow reports for 2,000+ ski areas, hour-by-hour forecasts, webcams, first-hand reports from riders and interactive trail maps. Set powder alerts for your favourite resorts, and browse resorts by pass (Ikon, Epic, Indy, Mountain Collective) to decide where to use your days.

Vail Resorts’ app: your pass or lift ticket scans hands-free at the lift, with trail maps, real-time and predicted lift wait times, grooming and terrain status, stats, payments on the mountain and a direct line to ski patrol with your GPS location.

Days remaining and blackout dates, stat tracking (including Apple Watch), maps for dining and rentals, in-app food and drink payments, real-time parking and friend groups. For 2025/26 it replaced the resorts’ own apps at destinations including Palisades Tahoe, Mammoth, Steamboat and Winter Park.

An Austrian all-in-one that’s strongest in the Alps and the rest of Europe: piste maps, snow reports, lift status, ticket prices, forecasts, panorama webcams, and tracking with a ski diary. PRO adds detailed snow maps, an avalanche map and offline ski and snowboard training videos.

Clip Carv’s sensors onto your boots and it analyses every run, gives a performance score and a technique breakdown, and coaches you from the chairlift or in real time, adjusting for groomers, powder or moguls. For skiers only, and no replacement for a good instructor, but a structured way to keep improving.

From the Northwest Avalanche Center, a nonprofit forecast centre: every US avalanche forecast centre, with danger by elevation band, the day’s avalanche problems, mountain weather and field observations on one screen, offline once loaded.

Also official: Avalanche Forecasts from the Sierra Avalanche Center (20+ North American centres; 4.6 on the App Store, 400+ ratings), the Utah Avalanche Center app, and White Risk from Switzerland’s SLF. In Canada, use Avalanche Canada’s forecasts at avalanche.ca (its app hasn’t been updated since 2024).

For touring and splitboarding: 3D offline maps, 4,000+ backcountry ski lines, slope angle and aspect, Avalanche Terrain Exposure Scale (ATES) maps, recent snow imagery and wind forecasts. A planning tool, not a substitute for a course, a forecast, a beacon, shovel and probe, and partners who know how to use them.