Has potential but falls short.
The overall structure of the app is great but the UI is slow and outdated. The bookshelf is buggy, I paid for a book and I am still yet to be able to open it even after the dev team told me I should be able to. I really wish this app was better.
Plenty of crashes
It has promise, and some features are pretty cool. However, it crashes often. Not worth it over a physical book at all.
Some small issues but 2.5 stars?
Have only really used the app for Grayson Highlands Bouldering so I can’t say anything about the app as a whole. There are a few missing problems that are present in the hard copy (which I don’t own personally but a friend does) but overall a good chunk of the information made it over, not to mention seeing a map of all the problems Mountain Project style accompanied by more detailed problem descriptions directly from the guidebook really is an awesome experience. If they fine tuned the guidebook features themselves, like including page pdf’s instead of difficult to navigate and cluttered menus, I would proudly recommend this to all of my friends.
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Fantastic Surprise
Incredibly helpful tool that blew my expectations away. I was in CA and decided at the last minute to go to Joshua Tree. It was the night before the trip and I didn’t have any kind of guidebook. I did some panicked googling and found this app. It had bad reviews, so I had reservations, but it was my only hope. It ended up being AMAZING. The guide had so many climbs and the GPS feature worked even though I had no service and my phone was on airplane mode! It saved the trip and I downloaded the guides for my home climbing areas (Great Falls and Carderock). The guides in the app had routes that weren’t in any of the books I owned. Very very satisfied with the purchase. Thank you!
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Cool but constantly freezes
I use this app for the Silverton Backcountry skiing guidebook. It has a lot of solid features and it’s great having GPS to keep you on the skin track. However the app consistently freezes up when I’m using it and I have to exit and restart it. Can you guys do something about that?
Too frustrating to actually use
This functionality of this app is enticing, but it just simply does not work. I can’t actually select backcountry skiing routes that I want to look at; it auto selects something else and zooms in to that, and then freezes 100% of the time when I try to move back to what I actually want to look at. I have tried everything I can think of to make it work. Uninstalling.
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it seems to work great for me…
I saw the low rating, so I wasn’t going to Get this app until a friend I was rock climbing with had it and bought the Carderock climbing book. It was fantastic To see the lines and description of the climbs. So I bought the app and the carderock climbing book as well and love it.
Crashes when opening route
Crashes when opening any ‘book’ on updated iphone 12.
Good info bad app
The quality of the information here is going to depend on which guide you’re looking at. Often it’s quite good for the crags I’ve bought, so I use the app regularly.
My complaints are with the app itself. Navigation is weird, with sliders in all directions to move you between the text, the beta pictures, the route list, and the maps. Or to minimize or maximize the size of each. It’s not intuitive and even after many days of use I’m always hitting the wrong slider.
The app also sometimes acts weird in that the triangular toggles that you use to collapse/expand the list of routes within the bigger list of crags stop working. The triangle pivots, but the list does not expand. Have to stop and restart the app.
Also on the map, when crags are closed together it is hard to navigate. Often several crags might be close and you simply cannot choose one from the map even when zoomed in as far as possible. You have to search by name.
I love the idea of the app and I will continue to use it, but it needs a rethink.
My complaints are with the app itself. Navigation is weird, with sliders in all directions to move you between the text, the beta pictures, the route list, and the maps. Or to minimize or maximize the size of each. It’s not intuitive and even after many days of use I’m always hitting the wrong slider.
The app also sometimes acts weird in that the triangular toggles that you use to collapse/expand the list of routes within the bigger list of crags stop working. The triangle pivots, but the list does not expand. Have to stop and restart the app.
Also on the map, when crags are closed together it is hard to navigate. Often several crags might be close and you simply cannot choose one from the map even when zoomed in as far as possible. You have to search by name.
I love the idea of the app and I will continue to use it, but it needs a rethink.
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Terrible UX Design
Has the potential to be really useful, but the interface of this app is truly awful and not at all intuitive. Important buttons are so small they can be easily missed, climb lists are impossible difficult to view, and the app forces you to keep location services active even when not using the app which drains battery. Seems to be overly focused on navigating you to your crag instead of focusing on navigating the app itself. The app designers need to hire a good UX designer and totally revamp before this app will be worth the purchase price of even one climbing guide. I have no doubt this will eventually replace physical guidebooks one day, but it's not even close in its current state.
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