Ascend Climbing Tracker User Reviews

Name: Ascend Climbing Tracker
Rating: 4.3 (71 reviews)

Ascend Climbing Tracker

Avalanche Apps

💪 Health & Fitness

⚽ Sports

Customer Experience

Positive experience42.9% of reviews

Neutral28.6% of reviews

Negative experience28.6% of reviews

~ Based on 14 written reviews from the US App Store.

Is Ascend Climbing Tracker Safe?

Ascend Climbing Tracker appears mostly safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Ascend Climbing Tracker is 82/100.

This assessment is based on 71 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.3/5.

Safety Analysis

78.9% of ratings point to a safe experience

12.7% of ratings suggest some concerns

8.5% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 71 App Store ratings for Ascend Climbing Tracker.

Is Ascend Climbing Tracker Legit?

Ascend Climbing Tracker is no longer available in the App Store. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Ascend Climbing Tracker is 35/100.

Based on 35 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Score capped because this app is no longer listed.

Top reviews

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Ascend

Great app and it actually works. Thanks.

FlavCore

4 years ago

Good idea, medium execution

I love the idea of this app because I like to track my climbs for when I’m feeling like my efforts aren’t paying off...then I can see that I did a high volume of climbs or have been climbing harder, which boosts my spirits. But I’ve noticed that the climbs I log don’t always reflect properly in the insights section. For instance, this month I only climbed a 10a, 10b, and a 10c and somehow the average difficulty is reported as a 5.9. And sometimes at the end of a month, the climbs somehow get bumped over to the next month. For example—climbs that I did at the end of December seemed to show up on the January insights before it was even January yet! I thought all the discrepancies between the log and insights was possibly due to an older version, so i updated, but still have the same issue.

ceemoney

7 years ago

Great idea, glitchy

I love the idea and hope to get it to work, but every time I go to manually put in the grade and route, it crashes and makes me restart, never actually putting it on my profile.

laxclimber

7 years ago

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

Easy to use and a nice way to track your success on routes.

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

Redocto

7 years ago

Cool Visualizations But...

...the notes feature is extremely lacking. I use it to track diet, how the session felt, training regiment after. It's just a snippet when you view the session after saving, as opposed to something more useful, like a full-screen display of your notes.

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.

kickdakran

7 years ago

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.

Great app needs watch support

Like how it tracks progress and compares over time. Would gladly pay for premium version that has apple watch aupport

andyoyellow

8 years ago

Seems really useful, but would like a watch app

This tool seems really useful, and I will totally use it more and more. I work at a rock gym, and I can see this being a valuable tool for coaching teams and adult classes. I think it’d be ever more useful with a watch companion, as climbing with a phone in your pocket can be tricky and updating the app after each climb seems like a little much. Even a small Bluetooth companion that could connect to a chalk bag or harness could make this app even more useful.

Soonobecoastguardkevin

8 years ago

Worthless

You can track a climb’s data, but you can’t save it without an internet connection!!! What a glaringly massive oversight for an app that often is used in remote places outdoors.

I wanted to track my first outdoor climbs yesterday but I could not save anything because I couldn’t load nearby locations. Since the app forces you to add a location in order to be able to save the data, I had to give up on it. Please remove this requirement and make locations optional; or at the very least a simple text box you can write in without having to be connected to a cell network

internet person

8 years ago

Response from developer

Sorry you had an issue saving climbs. That was definitely a bad oversight. We've removed the location requirement and offline mode is now fully supported! Hope you give the app another try as we've made many more improvements as well!

No Apple watch to input climbs?

App seems cool but I don't climb with my phone for obvious reasons of weight and falling on it and flexibility limitations if it's in my pocket. Make an apple watch app that just has V blank a scroll bar and 5. Blank scroll bar. And I'm happy to keep the app. For now though I can't really use it. I'll keep it on my phone for a month or two. Hope you can update it by then!

Sorry about the harsh rating. I just can't use the app so idk 2 Star for effort?

Thanks for the reply... So I updated it to 4 stars which is the current average. I still can't use the app but yah I'll wait I guess. Overall it seems like a cool app, but I don't climbing with my phone or leave it out since they crazy expensive now. Hoepfully you can get the apple watch update out asap.

Phasaki

8 years ago

Response from developer

Thanks for the feedback even with the harsh rating. :) I'd recommend to try keeping the app on the ground so there isn't issues with it being in your pocket, but inputing the climb info once you get back down. It can still provide some great insights with quickly added manual climbs from the phone. We think that an Apple Watch app would be great though and hope to be able to offer it in the future!

Can't log a climb

The app looks good visually but I can't log climbs. After I put all the information I tap "save" and nothing happens. Tried several times with no success...

xlifes

8 years ago

App crashes

App is has crashed multiple times

Chessmasterben

8 years ago

Response from developer

Sorry the app has crashed on you. We take stability seriously and are continually fixing bugs and improving features. If you could email me at jeremiah@avalancheapps.com with more info I'd be happy to see if I can help resolve the issues.

Seriously a good app for route tracking!

I was looking for a way to mark routes and rate my progress. This app does everything I was looking to do and more!

1r0nc14d

9 years ago

Okay

I’d like a be ability to add my own locations. I climb things others don’t usually like and find my own routes. This app only lets you select already saved locations.

Rojnahal

9 years ago

Response from developer

You can add any location available from Google. If you aren't able to find the location email me at jeremiah@avalancheapps.com and I can try to add it on my end. I hope you are enjoying the app and we'll keep adding more locations!

Only way I'm able to keep track!

I know it's important to keep track of workouts for progress purposes, but who needs another piece of paper floating around you're just going to lose? Honestly, unless it's in digital form I pretty much can't keep track of anything. That's why I love this app. It makes keeping track of my climbing progress and how often I go climbing very quick and easy. Knowing that my climbs are being tracked and that I'm connected with other people also inspires me to keep hitting the gym on a regular basis. Would recommend!

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