SkiAllDay: Ski Navigation and Run Tracking for iPhone

The mountain as a network

Lifts go up, pistes come down, and every one carries a grade and a state. SkiAllDay routes across that network from where you are to where you are going: never harder than you asked for, and around whatever is shut this morning.

A planned route from Zermatt with the difficulty limit set to black: 16 km of downhill, six lifts, and a time for you and for the community. — **Max black**16 km, six lifts

Turn-by-turn guidance on the map: 492 m to the Mattunbahn, step 1 of 26, with the route drawn across the pistes. — **Step 1 of 26**Mattunbahn in 492 m

The same guidance on the 3D map: 456 m to the Vallugalift, the route climbing the face beside it. — **In 3D**Vallugalift in 456 m

Limit: black

Down the fall line: one black pitch, then two reds. Three runs to the valley.

Limit: blue

The same village without leaving a blue, by a longer way round the mountain.

Limit: black, one run shut

The direct run is closed today. Same limit and the same village, one junction further round.

Easy
Intermediate
Difficult

The same eleven runs and the same two ends in all three. Only the constraint changes: the grade you will ski, then what the mountain has open.

Your level Black

Held to the grade you ski

Pick the hardest thing you will ski. Every junction is held to it, and changing it re-plans the route at once.

Max blue Easy runs only. A longer way round and an extra lift before a red.
Max red Blues and reds. The black pitch stays off the route.
Max black Every marked piste on the mountain.
Max ski route Marked but unprepared ski routes as well.
All Everything mapped, touring lines included.

The difficulty menu open on a planned route: max blue, max red, max black, max ski route and all, with max ski route ticked. — **Max ski route**Re-planned at once

Tracking Red

A day that comes back run by run

Recording is automatic. Every lift and run is matched to the map, so the day comes back as named runs, each with its speed, its vertical and the minutes you stood in the queue.

A run replayed on the map: red 170 below the Madlochspitze, 3.7 km at up to 91 km/h with 941 m of vertical. — **91 km/h**Red 170, Madloch

A lift ride in the replay: the Zürsersee chairlift, 10 min 32 s riding after a wait of 2 min 44 s. — **2 min 44 s**Queue, Zürsersee

The session summary: 18.9 km, five runs, seven lift rides, 91 km/h top speed, with time skiing and time on lifts split apart. — **2,412 m**Vertical, one day

Unlock Blue

Every run you ski, unlocked

The mountain starts locked. Every run and lift you ride becomes yours, and each day ends with what was new, replayed as a story you can share.

History by ski area, each with the share explored so far: 62% of Malbun, 45% of Pizol, 22% of Ski Arlberg, 16% of Silvretta Montafon. — **45%**of Pizol explored

This page keeps the same count: a section you actually read unlocks its sign on the line.

Terrain Red

The whole mountain, in 3D

Every area in 2D or 3D, searchable for pistes, lifts and huts, with the touring lines beyond the pistes kept out of a route until you let them in.

Snowmass on the 3D map, its lifts and runs laid over the terrain below Willoughby Mountain and Maroon Peak. — **Snowmass**Every lift in 3D

Touring lines drawn in yellow above Zürs, beside the marked runs and the Trittkopfbahn. — **Touring lines**Beyond the pistes

Watch & iPad Black

On the wrist, and on the big screen

The next lift, the live session, and tracking started or stopped from the wrist. On iPad, the same maps and replays at the size of a trail map.

A run replayed on iPad: the trace drawn over the pistes it followed, with the speed at each point and the run’s distance, time and vertical in the panel.

Where it works Blue

Where it works

1,311 ski areas in 48 countries, from the big linked Alpine networks down to hills with a single drag lift.

Country	Ski areas	Piste km	Lifts	Highest lift
United States	238	8,709	2,235	3,910m
Austria	158	5,738	2,329	3,424m
Italy	143	4,988	2,183	3,872m
France	140	7,596	3,172	3,511m
Switzerland	122	4,247	1,663	3,872m
Canada	96	2,928	558	2,686m
Japan	96	1,419	755	2,300m
Norway	42	820	381	1,441m
Sweden	32	784	453	1,274m
Germany	30	556	407	2,676m
Spain	26	910	366	3,301m
China	22	526	186	3,381m

The twelve countries with the most areas in the app. A ski area on a border is counted in each country it touches, so these rows add up to more than the corpus holds. Linked countries have written guides; the rest are in the app without one.

This site also publishes measured guides to individual ski areas, led by figures from each resort’s own lift and piste network rather than its brochure. The largest in each country:

Browse all 93 guides

In the app Red

What is in the app

Resort maps
Network routing
Difficulty limits
Live lift and piste status
Alternative routes
Ski routes and backcountry
Automatic session recording
Run matching
Session statistics
Map playback
Unlocking the mountain
Unlock stories
Apple Watch
iPad

Questions Blue

Questions

What does the routing actually do?

It treats the ski area as a network of lifts, pistes and ski routes and finds a way through it under the constraints that apply. Cap the routing at blue and it will take a longer chain of easy runs and an extra lift rather than put you on a red. Open it up to ski routes and it will use them. The point is that the grade of every pitch on the way is part of the calculation, not something you discover at the top.

Does it know what is open?

Lift and piste status feeds the same network the router solves, so a closed lift or a roped run is an edge it will not use. You get a way round rather than a line that stops at the rope, and where the mountain allows more than one way round you get more than one to choose between.

How is this different from a GPS tracking app?

Two things. It plans as well as records, and what it records is matched to the mountain. A GPS app gives you a breadcrumb line and a total. SkiAllDay resolves that line into the runs and lifts you actually took, so a day comes back as a list of named runs with a distance, a vertical drop and a top speed against each one.

What does unlocking the mountain mean?

Every run and lift you ride in a ski area is marked as yours. The summary at the end of a day counts the ones that were new and shows how much of the area you have now covered, and a short story replays the new runs in the order you skied them, ready to share. Each ski area keeps its own count over the season.

Which ski areas does it cover?

1,311 ski areas across 48 countries are mapped in the app, from the large linked Alpine areas down to single-lift hills. A growing number of them also have a written guide on this site, measured from the resort’s own lift and piste network.

Does it work on Apple Watch and iPad?

Yes. The watch shows the next lift on your route and how far away it is, runs the session live, and starts or stops tracking while the phone stays in a pocket. On iPad the maps, routes and session replays are the same as on the phone, on a bigger screen.

Does it work for snowboarding?

Yes. Routing and tracking work the same either way, and the grade constraints are about the pitch rather than the equipment.

Can I see the mountain in 3D?

Yes. The map renders in 2D or 3D, and you can search it for pistes, lifts, restaurants, huts and other points of interest.

What does a recorded session give me?

Distance, duration, top speed, vertical drop, lift rides and time spent on lifts, plus segment-level detail including speed and the periods you spent waiting. Any run in the summary opens back at the place on the map where it happened, and days can be compared across resorts and across a season.

Route the mountain. Then ski all of it.