Alpy — free ski app

Personal records for skiing: every named run is a segment

Running has parkrun PBs. Cycling has KOMs. Skiing mostly has vague memories of “I think I was quicker down National last year.” The data to do better has been sitting in ski trackers for a decade — what was missing was treating each named run as a thing you have history on.

From GPS lines to a record book

Alpy matches every descent you track against OpenStreetMap’s named pistes. Each match becomes an attempt on that run: date, time, top speed, vertical. Ski the run again — next week or next season — and every new descent gets a verdict against your history:

• First descent — the time to beat is set.
• PR −0:17 — you beat your best by 17 seconds.
• +0:32 vs best — the record survives.
• Partial — you cut in late or bailed early, so the time doesn’t compete. The rule: an attempt must cover at least 80% of the segment’s deepest recorded drop to race. Without this rule, the fastest “descent” of every run would be someone’s last 200 metres.

Your logbook grows a records board — best time per run, attempt counts — and tapping any record opens a race chart that overlays an attempt against your fastest, metre by metre, so you can see exactly where the time went: the flat traverse you carried speed through, or the pitch where you parked.

No strangers, no uploads

There is deliberately no leaderboard against other people. Partly philosophy — racing strangers turns pistes into liability problems — and partly architecture: Alpy has no server, so your records exist only on your phone. The competition is the best version of you, which is harder to beat than most strangers anyway.

Segments, PRs and race charts are free in Alpy. How it compares to Slopes.