# Ascend Climbing Tracker — user reviews > 14 indexed App Store user reviews of Ascend Climbing Tracker by Avalanche Apps, rated 4.30/5 from 71 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ascend-climbing-tracker/id1227139085/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ascend-climbing-tracker/id1227139085.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 45 · 4★ 11 · 3★ 9 · 2★ 1 · 1★ 5 ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Worthless *2018-08-01* 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 **Developer response:** 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! ### 1/5 — App crashes *2018-02-19* App is has crashed multiple times **Developer response:** 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. ### 2/5 — Good idea, medium execution *2020-01-10, version 6.2.0* 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. ### 2/5 — Can't log a climb *2018-07-09* 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... ### 3/5 — Great idea, glitchy *2019-08-11* 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. **Developer response:** 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. ### 3/5 — Give me too much credit *2019-07-26* 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 ### 3/5 — Cool Visualizations But... *2019-04-06* ...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. **Developer response:** 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. ### 3/5 — Okay *2017-11-29* 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. **Developer response:** 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! ### 4/5 — Great app needs watch support *2018-10-27* Like how it tracks progress and compares over time. Would gladly pay for premium version that has apple watch aupport ### 4/5 — Seems really useful, but would like a watch app *2018-08-19* 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. ## Most praised reviews (4 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Ascend *2023-02-01* Great app and it actually works. Thanks. ### 5/5 — Seriously a good app for route tracking! *2017-12-18* I was looking for a way to mark routes and rate my progress. This app does everything I was looking to do and more! ### 5/5 — Only way I'm able to keep track! *2017-09-17* 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! ### 4/5 — No Apple watch to input climbs? *2018-07-10* 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. **Developer response:** 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! --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-06-10.*