Updates
What's new in Skibuddy.
Follow Skibuddy as it grows: what ships in the app, and what each change means on the trail.
September 2026
- Launch
Skibuddy keeps a wax room for your skis
Skibuddy records the skis, glide wax and kick wax of every session, counts the kilometers on each pair and ranks your setups by glide against your own average for each snow condition.
The wax room → - Launch
Coaches plan sessions and follow the roster's week
A coach plans a session for one athlete or several, the athlete starts it from the plan, and a week view shows every athlete's planned and completed sessions side by side.
- Launch
Skibuddy puts the session on your Apple Watch
The watch app opens when a session starts and shows the timer, the lap, your last lap against your average, heart rate and distance, with a tap on the wrist at every lap.
Live session → - Launch
Skibuddy speaks up when your balance drifts on a climb
With technique cues on, Skibuddy tells you out loud when your left/right balance leaves 45 to 55% on a climb. Spoken laps and cues each have their own switch.
Technique → - Improvement
The Smart Coach suggests the snow and stays with the session
The Smart Coach now suggests a snow condition for you to apply instead of changing it, its note stays on the session for you and your coach, and you can correct the snow after saving.
Snow and Smart Coach → - Improvement
Athletes decide what each coach can do
Coach by coach, an athlete chooses whether that coach can plan sessions and see the health profile.
- Improvement
Skibuddy names routes and climbs in your language
Skibuddy names auto-created routes and climbs in your language and units, and speaks your units everywhere, including the live distance tile.
Loops and laps → - Improvement
Skibuddy resumes an interrupted session where it stopped
After an interruption, Skibuddy restores the time, distance, laps and lap gate, and never uploads anything from a session you discard.
- Improvement
Skiers can report a post and block an account
Report any session, comment or profile, and Skibuddy hides a blocked skier from your feed, your comments and people search.
- Launch
Skibuddy speaks Norwegian, Swedish and Finnish
Skibuddy now speaks English, Norwegian, Swedish and Finnish across the app, the spoken lap times, the Live Activity and the permission prompts. You choose kilometers or miles in the settings.
Live session → - Launch
Skibuddy notifies you of likes, comments and roster requests
Skibuddy sends push notifications and keeps an inbox for likes, comments, club requests and coach connections, each with its own switch. The feed updates live while you read it.
August 2026
- Improvement
Skibuddy asks whether you ski, coach or both
New skiers choose athlete, coach or both, find their club and connect with their coach before the first session.
- Launch
Skibuddy builds a history for every route and climb
Skibuddy turns every session of a kilometer or more into a route and every sustained hill into a climb, adds later sessions to their history and lines up hill repeats rep by rep.
Loops and laps → - Launch
Skibuddy saves sessions to Apple Health
Skibuddy saves each session as a cross-country skiing workout with its route, heart rate and distance.
The debrief → - Improvement
Skibuddy tests multi-loop sessions on replayed traces
Skibuddy's replay suite runs synthetic loops of 3.63, 5.42 and 7.43 km with modeled GPS noise through the lap engine, and every loop has to close as its own lap.
Loops and laps → - Launch
Clubmates like and comment on sessions
Clubmates like and comment on any shared session in the feed, and Skibuddy updates the counts for everyone.
March 2026
- Improvement
Skibuddy finds climbs within each lap
Skibuddy looks for climbs lap by lap, so you see the hill on lap three apart from the same hill on lap four.
Climbs and checkpoints → - Improvement
Skibuddy accounts for the pocket the phone rides in
Choose chest, jacket, pants or belt placement. In a pants pocket Skibuddy keeps stride rate and switches balance off.
Technique → - Launch
Skibuddy measures left/right balance and finds your climbs
Skibuddy measures how evenly you push left and right, finds the climbs in every session and draws the session on a map colored by the metric you choose.
Technique → - Launch
Skibuddy names your technique as you ski
The first version of technique recognition reads classic and skate techniques from the phone's motion sensors, alongside stride rate.
Technique → - Launch
Skibuddy speaks your laps out loud and puts them on the Lock Screen
Skibuddy keeps the session on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, and reads out every lap.
Live session →
February 2026
- Launch
Skibuddy laps at the gate and sorts heart rate into zones
Skibuddy closes laps live at the start gate, splits at checkpoints you place on a finished session and sorts every session and lap into five heart-rate zones.
Loops and laps → - Launch
The first Skibuddy build records a ski
Skibuddy records GPS sessions with a Bluetooth heart-rate strap, shows trails and segments and holds uploads until you have a connection.