For those who love the mountains, winter has arrived and will bring a lot of snow in the coming months to the Italian mountains or to another place in the rest of the Alps in Europe Who will go to the snow on skis or snowboard can download these winter applications for skiers and mountain lovers, very useful to know everything about the weather, the roads to do, the slopes and also to track their movements and see how well they ski, how far it can go on skis and snowboards and in how long.
In this list we see the best mountain and ski applications for Android and iPhone, useful to keep in your smartphone when you go on the snow .
1) Ski Tracker .- Ski Monitoring for Android and for iPhone is the best Italian app for ski lovers to calculate performance, calories burned, distances and everything there is to measure during a ski descent or snowboard.
2) Skiresort.info (Android and for iPhone) is a simple but essential program for ski and snowboard enthusiasts. Those who love to travel and try new snow trails to find the best route according to our preferences. Ski TrailMaps is a database of over 5000 ski resorts, with the official images of the maps of the official, scanned areas from all over the world. There are also routes to Italian locations.
3) SkiInfo Neve e Sci is an app for iPhone and Android that serves to know at all times the snow conditions of ski resorts all over the world including the top Italian Cortina d'Ampezzo, Livigno, Val Gardena, Cervinia and others . You can also write reviews and read those of others, detect the GPS position, read the official snow reports, know the prices of the systems, see the live webcams, how much snow there is in cm, maps of the areas and many other statistics. The most complete free app in Italian for skiers and snow lovers .
4) Trace Snow Ski Snowboard Track (ex AlpineReplay) is an excellent application for ski and snowboard enthusiasts for iPhone and Android
With this app on your smartphone, you can create statistics and data relating to our descents on skis or snowboards: speed, time, distance, calories burned and more. It is an app similar to RunKeeper, only for skis, which monitors the position using the phone's GPS and allows you to view all the route data.
5) Ski & Snow Report (iPhone and Android) is an alternative app to Sci Info, to get all the information about the ski areas, ski resorts and snowy weather conditions .
It is possible to indicate some tourist places as preferred to receive updates in real time.
6) Ski Tracks, costs less than 1 Euro for iPhone and Android, not free but at an affordable price especially for what it offers. It is a monitoring app to keep active all day with the cell phone kept in your pocket which, passively, records all the activities done on skis / snowboards. The best part is that it continues to follow the movements even when the mobile phone is not connected to the internet or if it has no signal. It also has a battery monitor that tries to save energy use as much as possible. Routes and tracks can be viewed on the screen in roadmap / hybrid / satellite / terrain mode.
7) The altimeter can always be useful in the mountains to know how high you are at sea level.
The altimeter, based on the GPS connection, can be installed on iPhone and Android.
8) DoveSciare is an app for Android and iPhone smartphones to monitor descents on skis and snowboards and to see statistics and activity times. The Italian app is simple, less complete than Ski Tracks, but still acceptable.
9) Sportler Ski Tracker for Android is a complete app with lots of snow information all over the world.
10) Ski Pursuit by Rossignol (Android and iPhone) is another app for skiers and snowboarders who want to measure themselves and track downhill times to know how fast they travel on skis or on the board.
11) Peak Finder serves instead to know which mountains we have around us.
It can be installed on iPhone and Android, allows you to know the names of the mountains with a 360 degree view.
13) SkiMaps, free for Android, is the application with complete maps of the ski and snowboard slopes from all over Europe with over 2, 000 areas cataloged by name and difficulty levels. You can know the altitude difference of each track, the distance and can calculate the speed of the descent in real time, with many personal statistics to consult.
This app requires the installation of the free OsmAnd navigator
Finally, I remember that on Google Maps you can walk on Italian ski slopes from your PC
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