Best Ski Apps in Austria: bergfex and 5 Rivals

By Best:in Editorial Team · Updated September 2026

As of September 2026 the bergfex app is the default ski app for Austria: one download gives snow reports, lift status, piste maps, and webcams for resorts across the country, with a PRO tier around EUR 24 per year for offline and slope-steepness layers. Resort apps such as Ski amade add routing inside one region, while alpenvereinaktiv and avalanche.report cover ski touring and avalanche bulletins.

Best Ski Apps in Austria: bergfex and 5 Rivals, ranked

1.

bergfex

bergfex is the widest net: winter maps, high-resolution piste maps, snow reports, lift status, ticket prices, and panorama webcams for resorts across Austria and the Alps, in one free download. Automatic descent recording logs speed, distance, and vertical metres into a ski diary. The PRO tier, reported at EUR 24 per year with a 7-day trial, adds snow forecast maps, recent snow history, avalanche maps, and slope-steepness shading.

Best for: All-round Austrian snow reports

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2.

Ski amadé App

The Ski amade app is the strongest resort-side tool in Austria: photorealistic 2D slope maps, a 3D ski area model, topographic and interactive views, A-to-B routing between lifts, hut and lift status, plus a friend tracker for groups that split up. A piste tracker and GPS tracking write the day into a diary, and Skiline vertical-metre data feeds back in. Free to download, but useful only inside Ski amade.

Best for: Navigation inside one ski alliance

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3.

alpenvereinaktiv

Run by the alpine clubs on the Outdooractive platform, alpenvereinaktiv is the planning app for skiers who leave the piste. The free tier allows unlimited route planning; Pro at EUR 29.99 per year adds outdoor map material and avalanche bulletins, and Pro+ at EUR 59.99 (EUR 49.99 for club members) unlocks the Alpenverein map for non-members. One subscription also logs you into Outdooractive.

Best for: Ski touring and avalanche planning

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4.

Avalanche.report

Not a ski app in the consumer sense, but the source the others quote. The Euregio bulletin is issued jointly by the avalanche warning services of Tyrol, South Tyrol, and Trentino at lawinen.report, avalanche.report, and valanghe.report, free of charge and in seven language versions. Forecasts draw on field observers and mountain guides filing standardised reports. Coverage is limited to those three regions, so other provinces need their own service.

Best for: Official avalanche bulletin for Tyrol

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5.

Skiline

Skiline logs your day from ski pass scans at the turnstiles instead of GPS, so tracking costs no battery and works with the phone switched off. It returns lift rides, vertical metres, kilometres of piste, Photopoint souvenir photos, and Skimovie race videos, with friends feeds and competitions on top. The Play listing cites over 370 resorts worldwide and 5.5 million users, plus in-app ski pass sales at selected areas.

Best for: Battery-free ski day tracking

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6.

iSKI Austria

iSKI Austria, from intermaps.Software GmbH, bundles digital ski maps, weather, multi-day snow forecasts, livecams, avalanche and safety notices, valley and mountain temperatures, parking and traffic data for some areas, a GPS tracker, and the iSKI Trophy, with an Apple Watch companion. The weakness is execution: 2.6 stars from roughly 1,360 Play Store reviews on 15 September 2026, against 100,000-plus downloads.

Best for: Snow forecast browsing across resorts

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What does the bergfex app actually do?

bergfex splits its service into two apps. The skiing app carries winter maps, high-resolution piste maps, snow reports, lift status, ticket prices, and panorama webcams, plus automatic recording of every descent with speed, distance, and vertical metres in a ski diary. The hiking app covers the summer side and syncs with Apple Health, Garmin Connect, and Polar Flow. Both sit on the same bergfex account, so a PRO subscription unlocks features in each.

The ski app is not new. bergfex GmbH was founded in 1999 and launched its first ski app in 2007, passed one million app users in 2016, and rebuilt the ski app in 2023. The wider platform reports up to 200 million page views per month, which is why its snow tables are widely quoted in Austrian media.

What do these ski apps cost in 2026?

Four of the six apps ranked here cost nothing to download: Ski amade, Skiline, iSKI Austria, and the avalanche bulletin app for the Euregio region. Money only appears when you want offline maps and extra data layers.

bergfex sells a single PRO tier, billed as an auto-renewing annual subscription through the App Store or Google Play, with a 7-day free trial; a German test report put the price at EUR 24 per year. alpenvereinaktiv runs three tiers: free, Pro at EUR 29.99 per year, and Pro+ at EUR 59.99 per year, reduced to EUR 49.99 for alpine club members. Non-members need Pro+ to use the Alpenverein map. That Pro subscription also signs you in to Outdooractive, so one payment covers two apps.

Which app should you use for avalanche risk and ski touring?

For off-piste days in Tyrol the primary source is the Euregio avalanche bulletin, published at lawinen.report, avalanche.report, and valanghe.report by the avalanche warning services of Tyrol, South Tyrol, and Trentino. Its coverage stops at those three regions, so tours in Salzburg, Styria, Vorarlberg, or Carinthia need the relevant provincial service. The bulletin is free, multilingual, and its website code is published openly on GitHub.

alpenvereinaktiv is the planning layer on top of that. The Pro tier, introduced with the December 2018 app relaunch, bundles avalanche bulletins with topographic outdoor map material for winter users. bergfex PRO adds avalanche maps, snow analysis for recent days, and slope-steepness shading, which is useful for scouting but is not a substitute for a bulletin, a beacon, and training.

Do you still need the resort's own app?

Often yes, for two reasons: routing and logging. The Ski amade app, published by Ski amade GmbH, offers photorealistic 2D slope maps, a 3D view of the ski area, topographic and interactive map views, A-to-B navigation between lifts, hut and lift information, and a friend tracker. It records the ski day in a diary through a piste tracker and GPS tracking.

Skiline works differently. It reads your ski pass number rather than GPS, so it drains almost no battery, and returns lift rides, vertical metres, and kilometres of piste, plus Photopoint souvenir photos and Skimovie race videos. The Play Store listing cites use in over 370 ski resorts worldwide and a community of 5.5 million winter sports users, and ski passes can now be bought in the app for selected resorts.

How do you set up your phone for an Austrian ski week?

  1. Install one portal app and one resort app

    Start with bergfex for cross-resort snow reports, lift status, and webcams, then add the app of the area you actually booked, for example the Ski amade app for the Salzburg and Styria alliance. Two apps cover the two jobs: choosing where to ski and navigating once you are there. If you plan to tour, add alpenvereinaktiv as the third.

  2. Decide on a paid tier before you travel

    Offline maps matter in valleys with weak reception. bergfex PRO runs as an annual auto-renewing subscription with a 7-day trial, reported at EUR 24 per year, while alpenvereinaktiv Pro is EUR 29.99 per year and Pro+ EUR 59.99, or EUR 49.99 for alpine club members. Buy the trial at home so the download of map tiles happens on your own WiFi.

  3. Link your ski pass

    Skiline needs three steps: install the app, create an account or log in, then scan your ski pass number. It also supports NFC ticket entry. Because it tracks from lift turnstiles rather than GPS, it keeps working when your phone is in an inside pocket at minus 10 degrees. Ski amade users get the same Skiline vertical-metre data inside the resort app.

  4. Bookmark the avalanche bulletin

    Save lawinen.report or avalanche.report on your home screen for Tyrol, South Tyrol, and Trentino days. The bulletin is compiled from field observers plus mountain guides reporting through a separate professional app, and it is published in German, Italian, English, French, Catalan, Spanish, and Occitan. Check it the evening before and again at breakfast, since ratings are reissued daily.

What mistakes do skiers make with ski apps?

The first is trusting one number. A resort app shows its own reported snow depth, while a portal such as bergfex shows snow forecast maps and the last few days of snow history, so comparing both catches stale data. The second is assuming national coverage for avalanche warnings: the Euregio bulletin covers Tyrol, South Tyrol, and Trentino only.

The third is ratings blindness. iSKI Austria, developed by intermaps.Software GmbH, sits at 2.6 stars from about 1,360 Play Store reviews on 15 September 2026 despite 100,000-plus downloads, which is a reminder to test an app on a home hill first. The fourth is battery: GPS tracking all day in cold weather drains phones, which is exactly the gap ski-pass-based tracking fills.

How is this ranking computed?

  • Austria-wide resort coverage: 25%
  • Snow and weather data depth: 20%
  • Piste maps and offline navigation: 15%
  • Tracking and ski diary: 15%
  • Avalanche and safety information: 15%
  • Cost and free tier: 10%

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