# Climbing & Friends: Cactux — Bouldering, topos & guidebooks > Bouldering, topos & guidebooks (iPhone/iPad app by Diego Cortez.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/climbing-and-friends-cactux/id6746460618 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Diego Cortez](https://appshunter.io/developer/706675962) - Category: Sports - Price: Free - Age rating: 12+ - Requires: iOS 26.0 · 85 MB - Languages: American English, European Spanish - Released: 2025-06-02 - Data updated: 2026-10-25 ## What is Climbing & Friends? Cactux is the climbing app built in Mexico: community guidebooks, offline walking navigation to the boulder, and the partners to go climbing with. Track consistency in your logbook and check the sun's path to plan your day at the crag. YOUR CLIMBING DAY • Home — Plans, events, tickets, recent ascents, saved climbs and today's news in one place. • Profile and Compas — Your identity and climbing logbook, with a separate editor for partner photos, availability and visibility. Download a guidebook before you leave and use all of it at the crag with no signal. Walk to the block along the real approach trail, not a straight line. And if you have an Apple Watch, wear it. AT THE CRAG • Offline navigation — Follow the approach trail to a boulder or a route. Works with no data and no coverage. • Apple Watch — Send a sector to your wrist and move around the area without pulling out your phone. Mark points and record trails from the watch. • Topos — Photos of the wall with the lines drawn on them, plus grades, quality and description. • Area maps — Boulders and routes colored by grade, with parking, trails and your own saved points. • Offline mode — Download the guidebook, photos and map tiles. It all lives on your phone. GRADES THE WAY YOU READ THEM • Convert between V-scale, Font, YDS and French. Pick your system and the whole app follows it — without touching what the first ascensionist wrote. PARTNERS • Find climbers — A map of climbers near you, with their grades, goals and availability. • Sessions — Propose a quick outing, rock or gym, and get it confirmed. • Trips — Plan longer ones: invitations, join requests, shared expenses, gear lists, carpooling and the forecast for the destination. • Channels — Topic-based communities with posts, replies and notifications. • Messaging — One inbox with search, photos, voice notes, polls, contacts, documents, reactions and stickers. Agree on destinations, dates, gear and transport with Plan Together. ALSO • Logbook — Record sends and attempts, offline too. Explore your calendar, projects, achievements and reports by discipline. • Private sessions — Log duration and effort in a diary saved only on this device, with no sync between devices. • Sun — Check sunrise, sunset and the sun's position on iPhone and Apple Watch. On iPhone, explore other dates and estimated sun exposure for a wall. • Community — Photos, videos and notes from climbers who've been there, per climb, sector or whole guidebook. • Events — Festivals, comps and meet-ups from the community. • News and videos from the climbing world. • In English and Spanish. Develop routes or write guidebooks? Create and edit climbs, photos and topos from your phone, organize areas and import climbs from a spreadsheet. Publish your guidebook and share it with the community. Cactux started in Guadalcázar and keeps growing: El Salto, Cañón de San Lorenzo, Sierra del Sarnoso and more. Missing your area? Get in touch. ## Is Climbing & Friends safe? Not enough ratings yet to assess Climbing & Friends. ## Is Climbing & Friends legit? Climbing & Friends: Cactux appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Climbing & Friends is 65 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data. ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 3.4.2 — 2026-10-21 Discover Cactux and keep up with the community. • A guided welcome introduces guidebooks, navigation, events and Compas. • Future updates appear on a full-screen view with release highlights and a daily reminder if you choose to update later. • Improvements to notifications and chat read status. • Fixes for loading Area climbs and filtering news. • More consistent behavior when switching accounts. ### 3.4.1 — 2026-10-17 Share more in your chats and see more of the map in your guidebooks. • Messages: send photo and video albums, HD photos and videos recorded with the camera. See PDF thumbnails and link previews, and see who is typing from the inbox. • Notifications: messages show the sender's or the group's photo without delaying their arrival. • Plans: create sessions and trips with a cover, share them with a link and invite your compas. • Guidebooks: more compact map controls leave more ground in view, and public guidebooks open faster. • Smoother scrolling, keyboard dragging and walking with the map open. • Privacy fixes when switching accounts or leaving a group. ### 3.4.0 — 2026-10-14 Plan your next climbing day in Cactux with richer messages, community channels and shared plans. • Messages: search conversations and share photos, voice notes, locations, contacts and documents. Create polls and try the new sticker characters. • Channels: find communities by topic, join posts and threads, and receive updates that interest you. • Plan Together: agree on destinations and dates, confirm attendance, and coordinate gear and transport in the conversation. • Compas: manage connections and attendance for sessions and trips. • Guidebooks: save whole guidebooks and edit photos, lines and markers in the unified topo editor. • Transfers: downloads and publishing request background continuation when iOS allows it. Stop a task and resume the preserved work later. • Avatars: your active Compas photo follows you across the community; without a photo, your Cactux avatar remains. • Better scrolling, keyboard behavior, privacy and recovery of offline edits. ### 3.3.0 — 2026-10-03 A refreshed messenger and tags in comments. • Messages appear instantly when sent, with sent and read marks. • Send photos from the "+" button or straight from the camera. Stickers live in the same panel. • Tag someone with @ in groups and in guidebook comments. • Long-press a message to reply, forward, copy or delete. Swipe right to reply. • Reply inside a comment thread; notifications open the conversation. • Darth Grader: work out a route's grade from its sections and rests, and attach the breakdown to the route or to your ascent. • A notice when a queued comment finishes publishing. ### 3.2.1 — 2026-10-01 Improvements to guidebooks, navigation and events. • Explore Areas and navigate to a climb on the same map. • Older downloads keep access to saved climbs, photos and topos. Update the download while connected to get Area maps for offline use. • Returning to the map no longer restarts a stopped walk or replaces a destination you chose later. • Event organizers can adjust the framing of their cover photos. • Improvements to event presentation and profile loading. ## Apps similar to Climbing & Friends | App | Rating | Price | Category | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [Khamai](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/khamai/id6757509169) | — | Free | Sports | | [Topos](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/topos/id6760948270) | — | Free | Sports | | [Boardclimbs](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/boardclimbs/id6499280509) | 5.0 (2) | Free | Sports | | [Gora - Find climbing partners](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/gora-find-climbing-partners/id6761748578) | 4.8 (5) | Free | Sports | | [Topo Guru](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/topo-guru/id1224547571) | 3.0 (3) | Free | Sports | | [The Topo \| Rock Climbing Guide](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/the-topo-rock-climbing-guide/id1010852143) | 3.0 (37) | Free | Sports | ## Related topics [sputnik climbing](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/sputnik-climbing) · [rockfax climbing guidebooks](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/rockfax-climbing-guidebooks) --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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