Ikon Pass 4+

I love the app! There are a few things that can be worked on though. Adding a buddy to the tracking system so we can track each other didn’t seem to work for us. The last thing that would be helpful is the fact that a lot of mountains require us to make reservations, it would be nice if we could reserve days at certain mountains on the app instead of having to go to the website. Maybe both of these things can be completed with ease and we just messed it up. Anyways the app is amazing and so is the Ikon Pass! Worth every penny for a skier or boarder.

In theory, this app is incredible. To be able to track your progress, see your speed, altitude, which runs you went on, their degree of difficulty, and how many calories you burned is a lot of fun. The problem is that this service rarely works. We ski’d for 6 days and it worked twice. When I sent an e-mail to customer service, 24 hours later they said log out, delete it and then re-install it. I tried that twice and it didn’t help. Fix the bugs so we can rate it 5 stars! Without this service, all this app is is one big advertisement for Ikon Pass which is absurd because I have to assume that anyone that would download this app is already a pass holder. If you want to make reservations or change something you need to go to the Ikon website. You cannot do it from the app.

The app is a great idea and has some great features. The issue is that half the time the tracking does not want to start and will require a dance of killing the app and toggling airplane mode to get tracking to start. When tracking does run, it is not accurate. I run ski tracks at the same time on the same phone and the results very widely; however, when doing the math on vertical feet ski tracks is always more accurate. Furthermore the ikon tracking (vert ft) will vary wildly between friends that are running the app and skiing the exact same runs as me. Finally the app has randomly stopped tracking, leaving my totals much lower than they should be.

Additional suggestion. Allow us to have ikon friends so we don’t have to send out invites to join a tracking group EVERY DAY!