# Griptonite — Explore More Indoors

> Climbing companion for route discovery, progress tracking, and community rankings. (iPhone/iPad app by Cascom Ltd.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/griptonite/id1462815353 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Cascom Ltd](https://appshunter.io/developer/1462727314)
- Category: Sports, Health & Fitness
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Rating: 3.00/5 from 21 App Store ratings · 86 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 15.5 · 91 MB
- Languages: American English, Dutch, French (France), German (Germany), Italian, European Spanish
- Released: 2019-08-02
- Data updated: 2026-09-05
- Monetization: free with in-app purchases
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/griptonite/id1462815353/reviews.md

## What is Griptonite?

The Griptonite app is a perfect companion to your climbing life. 

Discover what's important to you. Be it beta, routes, or inspiration. Our community ticks thousands of routes every day and we enable you to learn from their experience.

Everyone loves to get better, and seeing gains is a crucial part of staying motivated. In climbing, it's often hard to pin these down and so progression tends to plateau. The app helps you drill into the areas you can improve at your own pace.

Got a competitive or curious side. Or, just want to smash your own PB? The app has both global and venue linked rankings that are fully filterable to help you in your quest.

## Key features

- Discover beta and routes
- Learn from community experience
- Track personal progress
- Identify areas for improvement
- Global and venue rankings
- Filterable leaderboards

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Griptonite Pro | $4.99 | per month |
| Griptonite Pro | $49.99 | per year |
| Griptonite Pro | $49.99 | per year |
| Griptonite Pro | $39.99 | per year |
| Griptonite Pro | $4.99 | per month |
| Griptonite Pro | $49.99 | per year |


## What do users think of Griptonite?

Overall sentiment: mixed

**Pros**

- 🚀 Tracks climbing progress effectively
- 💡 Motivates users to climb more
- 👍 Easy to log climbs
- 📈 Shows improvement over time
- 🤩 Makes climbing feel like a game
- 🗺️ Useful for finding climbs at your level
- 🤝 Good for competing with friends
- 📹 Beta videos are helpful
- ✨ Convenient to use (RFID/map)
- 🏆 Leaderboards add competition
- 👍 Customer service is helpful (sometimes)
- 🌟 Influences gym choice

**Cons**

- 🐛 Very buggy and glitchy
- 🐌 Slow performance
- 💥 Frequent crashes
- ❌ Poor UI/UX
- 💸 Filters behind paywall
- 🤔 Not intuitive to use
- 🚫 Sign-up/login issues
- 🗑️ Resetting monthly is weird
- 📱 Video upload issues
- 🔔 Notification spam
- ⚪ White screen of death
- 📉 Grading system issues
- 🤷‍♂️ Unclear project tracking

**Commonly reported bugs**

- App constantly erroring
- Filters won't reset or apply
- Projects not registered properly
- App freezes when uploading video
- App crashes frequently
- Login screen freezes
- White screen of death on sign-in
- Filters not filtering properly
- Feed is glitchy
- Cannot log anything
- App crashes on iOS 16.3.1
- UI lags and jumps when scrolling
- Phantom notification icons
- Cannot clear notification badges
- Novice/intermediate/advanced grading inaccurate
- Ability breakdown doesn't show all grades
- Notification badges not clearing
- Grading of beginner/novice out of line with French system
- Blank screen after entering name
- App instant crashes on opening
- Latest update not working on older iOS
- Cannot get past sign-up page
- Password not visible due to privacy
- Slide to tick interaction not working
- Delay on feedback requests
- Cannot correct age category
- App crashes after a few minutes of usage
- UI is broken, cannot make account
- App crashes on iPhone 12
- App crashes on older iPhone/iPad

**Most requested features**

- Social sign-in (Apple/Google)
- Total grades/routes climbed count
- Sortable monthly gym results table
- Quick navigation between map and stats
- REST API for data access
- More holistic progress tracking (training, mood)
- Integration with health apps (Google Fit, Apple Health)
- Privacy mode (hide from leaderboards)
- Ability to log climbs offline
- Star/favorite problems
- Filter for routes not completed this month
- Visual indicator for attempted problems
- Add friends and leaderboards for friends
- Trophy section for comp achievements
- Check beta videos on profile
- Add/follow other climbers
- Clear breakdown for grade progression (novice to advanced)
- Search gyms by name
- Follow gyms for reset notifications
- Apple Watch integration
- Option to log 'clean/dogged' status
- Nominate incorrect grades
- Option to permanently skip video submission
- Toggleable option for route reset points
- Dark mode option
- AI driven training plans
- Filter by grade in free version
- More detailed analysis of climbs
- Sort completed climbs by grade
- League table for top ten climbs
- Line graph of points or top ten grades over time
- Ability to add line pics
- See which problems you’ve attempted at least once on the gym view
- Make it easy to see which problems you’ve attempted at least once on the gym view (eg making the number amber)

## Recent user reviews (10 of 86)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/griptonite/id1462815353/reviews.md

### 5/5 — grip to knight

*2026-08-13*

yep

### 5/5 — A climbing app I’m actually excited about

*2026-08-10*

I don’t really get into the gamification of my hobbies that apps like these tend to play into. However, I’m excited that my new home gym is using an app that gives a V grade to climbs and allows users to rate it soft/accurate/hard. I imagine that, as well as uploading video beta, will be the two most exciting features for me, personally.  I’m not sure if I’ll be interested in some of the pay to play features like workouts or video analysis of my climbs. I think I’m very unlikely to care about the point system or the concept of pitting myself against other users, but I guess, never say never.

### 1/5 — Problem to load the gym

*2026-05-17, version 3.10.9*

The app used to work fine, but now it keeps saying that there has been an issue loading the gym so I can’t use it anymore

### 5/5 — Great tracking app

*2026-05-17, version 3.10.9*

Makes sessions so much better and great for tracking progress, underrated app! Fiddly at first to figure out but worth getting to grips with

### 5/5 — Great tracker

*2026-04-25*

All the reviews here are old, but this app is genuinely great. My friends and I have started climbing and this app was a good way to keep us going for climbing. Honestly underrated app!

### 2/5 — Add social signin

*2026-03-07, version 3.9.4*

I really can’t be bothered signing up for this manually during a climbing session. Apple/google signin etc would make this easy to do

### 2/5 — Not bad not good

*2026-03-06*

It’s great to be able to see grades and track climbs but it’s not very intuitive to use. I’ve no idea how projects seem to work, for example. It doesn’t seem to register them properly, there’s no obvious way to add them, and probably as a result of it not tracking them properly, in the projects section is gives me no data because it says there aren’t enough. I’m new so I’ll give it a bit longer but I’m really struggling to see the value in paying for this.

### 5/5 — Really cool, very efficient

*2026-02-09, version 3.9.2*

You can find people at your gym keep track of your climbs and it tells you what level you are.

### 5/5 — Superb

*2025-12-21*

It’s only fair I leave a review for Griptonite, by far my most used app. Seriously, I have tracked every session over the last 12 months, 3 sessions a week. 

The Griptonite platform has absolutely nailed the convenience factor. Using the RFID tags or (more often) using the top down map of the gym to select the problem, I can see the grade, the style and easily log my ticks and flashes.

The thing I love more than anything is watching improvement over time. After the year of lockdowns I returned to climbing maxing out on easy V4s and over the last 12 months I’ve progressed to climbing my first few V7s. Griptonite absolutely shines on showing improvement over time. I had a wrist injury in the summer and It’s really interesting to see recovery over time (it took around 3 months)

The newish addition of beta videos has been a pretty big hit at my local gym (shoutout to Freeklime!).

The app stability is perfect and updates are always solid, clearly well tested before anything gets released.

I do have a wish list if any developers happen to read this ;)

- it would be really convenient if the monthly gym result view table was sortable by the heading (route, grade, tries, points)

- navigating from the gym map to the above table takes quite a few steps (from the map - tap top left gym logo, tap view gym, find and click on yourself in the leaderboard). I find myself moving between the map to this stats page and back really often and it would be really useful to have a way of quickly jumping between these views somehow.

- A rest API. I’m a developer by trade and I’d love to be able to play with my data, but I imagine I’m in the small few that would be interested

So thanks Griptonite, love the app and I’m excited to get a motherboard home setup soon.

### 3/5 — Add total grades/ routes climbed

*2025-11-28, version 3.8.3*

I really like the app in terms of viewing routes but what I want more than anything is to just see how many routes of each grade I’ve climbed. Rather than sifting month to month on routes I’ve climbed, just seeing total figures under progression would be great.

## Frequently asked questions about Griptonite

### What does the Griptonite app do?

The app serves as a companion for your climbing life, enabling you to discover beta, routes, and inspiration. It allows you to learn from the experiences of a community of climbers and track your own progress to identify areas for improvement.

### How does Griptonite help with climbing progression?

It helps you drill into specific areas where you can improve at your own pace. By seeing your gains and identifying weaknesses, the app aims to prevent plateaus and keep you motivated on your climbing journey.

### What kind of rankings are available in the app?

The app features both global and venue-linked rankings. These leaderboards are fully filterable, allowing you to see how you stack up against others and potentially smash your personal bests.

### Is Griptonite free to use?

The app is free to download and use, with the option for in-app purchases. This allows users to access core features for free while offering additional value through optional purchases.

### Who is the target audience for Griptonite?

This app is designed for indoor climbers who are interested in discovering new routes, learning from a wider climbing community, and tracking their personal performance to achieve their climbing goals.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 3.11.2 — 2026-08-27

Minor improvements and bugfixes

### 3.11.1 — 2026-07-29

Fix a bug preventing scrolling on the "edit circuit" screen.

### 3.11.0 — 2026-07-18

Improved the onboarding process for new users

### 3.10.14 — 2026-06-22

Fix edge case where liking a beta did not increase the likes count

### 3.10.13 — 2026-06-05

Fix a bug where the available maps listed got out of sync with the maps themselves.

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