Ascend
Good idea, medium execution
Great idea, glitchy
Response from developer
We've fixed the issue you were seeing putting in grades! We recently added Mixed and Water Ice grades and it caused a bug that we've now squashed. Check out our latest release and feel free to contact me at jeremiah@avalancheapps.com if you have any issues.
Give me too much credit
First time I used it though I manually entered a session with 7 climbs. Then it started saying my total number of climbs was 47... WAT
Cool Visualizations But...
The graphs are interesting. what would be nice is if I could place universal date markers for the graphs that are some kind of metric over time. this way if I start a new cycle of training or new exercise, I can actually see dips and falls as time goes on.
overall - Im using this app as a cloud repository of all my climbing and training data, with useful visualizations of that data. so a 5-star rating from me is based on that.
So a justification of my rating/opinion:
- 1 star off because the social aspect is practically useless for me, and I wish that I could start up the app with ONLY my sessions in the journal view. The heart of the issue here is that logging and viewing MY data is not first-and-forthmost in the UI. It's too many taps and I'm either at the gym or crag. It's cumbersome and there's room for features that can streamline this experience. For example, adding a feature where force-pressing the app icon to log a session, and any workflows stemming from it, would help with this IMO.
- another star off due to useless UI elements and misc flaws. notes UI is trash as mentioned above, the only graph that's useful (for me at least) for tracking progress is avg difficulty (which doesn't need a subscription), other graphs are quite useless relative to that. milestones feel useless or artificial but I would have to think about this more to articulate why I find it useless too.
I appreciate that there's an app like this. Unfortunately the UI/UX, while functional and bug-free and pretty...is seemingly more centered around this cobbling-together of stats. And it holds the app back sooooo much from what it potentially could be.
Response from developer
Thanks for the in depth review! We've adjusted the UI in the journal view to make it easier to switch between the your sessions and public sessions and it now default to the last one you've picked. That way if you only want to see your climbs it's the first thing you see in the app. We'll also be releasing a fix for the notes in the next few days so you'll be able to see all of them. Send me an email at jeremiah@avalancheapps.com and let us know suggestions for other graphs you'd like to see. Having a custom date range is a good idea that we'll work on adding as well.
