Best Ski Touring Apps in Austria: bergfex and Rivals

The Austrian default. Its database spans over 500,000 tours across Europe with ski touring as a filter, and topographic maps cover the entire Alpine region. Pro adds the slope-steepness layer, offline maps and deeper zoom, and both stores list a 7-day Pro trial. Tracks sync with Garmin Connect, Apple Health, Polar Flow and GPX import. Weak point: the route planner follows trail networks, so open-slope lines need a GPX import.

Best for: Best all-round app for Austria

The joint tour portal of the three Alpine clubs DAV, ÖAV and AVS, running on Outdooractive technology. It carries ski tour descriptions, hut information, current condition reports, plus weather and avalanche information in one place, with a planner for custom routes. Club membership includes the Pro version, so Austrian Alpine Club members get offline maps without a second subscription. Editorial quality on classic Austrian ski tours is the strongest here.

Best for: Best for club-curated route descriptions

Not a map app but a risk filter. It merges the daily avalanche bulletin with topographic terrain data and rates catalogued ski routes, around 10,000 a day in its core area, into traffic-light risk classes. Swiss coverage came first, with Austria and neighbouring regions added later. The Swiss Alpine Club app displays its ratings next to SLF data. Use it to shortlist routes at danger level 3, then verify terrain in a mapping app.

Best for: Best for algorithmic route risk ratings

The platform underneath both alpenvereinaktiv and the Naturfreunde Tourenportal, so the same content engine with a wider international catalogue. Winter use means ski touring and freeride routes, gradient shading, hut data and offline maps on the paid tiers. Vector maps show trails, protected areas and via ferratas, which helps with wildlife closure zones in Austrian touring valleys. Choose it if you also tour outside the Alps and want one account for summer and winter.

Best for: Best cross-border platform

Built by the SLF avalanche research institute in Davos, so the avalanche education and terrain-judgement content is the deepest of any app here. PowderGuide rates its paid tour planner and maps as usable for Switzerland, France and Austria. The trade-off for Austrian tourers: the bulletin core is Swiss, and Austrian route databases are thinner than in bergfex or alpenvereinaktiv. Best as a second app for planning and avalanche training.

Best for: Best for avalanche training content

The sister app, focused on resorts rather than tours: winter map with pistes and lifts, high-resolution piste maps, snow reports, ticket prices and lift status across Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, France and Slovenia. Pro brings 6-hour snow forecast maps, 7-day snow analysis, an avalanche map with slope-steepness layer, over 200 weather stations and GeoSphere Austria plus DWD reports. Use it for the snow call, not for navigation on the skin track.

Best for: Best for snow forecasts and resort-access tours