# Griptonite — user reviews

> 86 indexed App Store user reviews of Griptonite by Cascom Ltd, rated 3.00/5 from 21 ratings.

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/griptonite/id1462815353/reviews
- App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/griptonite/id1462815353.md
- Rating breakdown: 5★ 6 · 4★ 3 · 3★ 2 · 2★ 6 · 1★ 4

## 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)

## Newest reviews (14 of 86)

### 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.

### 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.

### 3/5 — My gym isn’t on the app

*2025-11-26, version 3.8.2*

Not saying that apps bad just confused as why every other gym I’ve been to is but my local isn’t do they have to agree to be on there because they was a few years back just beer really remember to use the app

### 3/5 — Encore besoin d’améliorations

*2025-11-16, version 3.8.2*

L’interface est peu pratique. Et je trouve dommage de ne pas pouvoir voir l’historique de l’onglet « ability », car je ne visualise pas quand est-ce que je suis parvenue à faire une f7a dernièrement. Même si les blocs ne sont pas représentés, j’aurais pu essayer de me rappeler en voyant leur localisation dans la salle et la couleur des prises de ce bloc. Là j’ai juste l’impression d’avoir fait une fausse manipulation un jour, alors que si ça se trouve j’y suis réellement parvenu. C’est assez frustrant.

### 4/5 — What it does great but …

*2025-10-15*

It would be nice to see a more holistic approach to progress. Tools that would allow you to log a training schedule and different training techniques along with journaling features to track mood and enthusiasm would be great. 

Am I a better climber in the mornings or evenings? Do I send harder in group sessions or alone? Is three sessions a week a good balance between rest and training or would increasing to 4 see faster progress. 

Is that hangboarding routine still seeing gains or is it time to move attention something else?

There’s so much to training and logging climbs is great but I feel like this app could do so much more if it broadened its horizons slightly.

### 5/5 — Si sirve

*2025-05-01, version 3.7.14*

Si abre

### 2/5 — Pretty UI, terrible UX

*2025-01-11, version 3.7.5*

Looks flashy at first glance, but is a pain to navigate

You can’t properly filter on grade without a pro plan. Which is a pain because the full gym overview is so unclear. 
The option to filter on one grade at a time feels intentionally frustrating to push people to paying plans

Topped boulders are marked with miniscule and barely visible dots. 
Which become invisible when 2 boulders are close to each other.

=> Greying out topped boulders would be helpful here 
(I know you can hide topped boulders with a filter, but I just want to see at a glance what I have/haven’t done

The colour system for flashed/topped is unintuitive, but I suppose one can get used to that

It’s a pain to amend ticked boulders if you’ve entered them wrong - which due to the UI happens more than it should. It doesn’t seem possible to click on the topped boulder from the gym overview and change it from there. 

The personal overview and leaderboards are needlessly complex

The gender specific leaderboards still just shows the all gym ranking (bug?)

I’m climber app agnostic, but after having used griptonite a few sessions I’m gutted my new gym didn’t go with Toplogger, which is ugly but at least is’s functional

### 3/5 — Works fine until you try to install a video

*2025-01-03, version 3.7.4*

There’s a problem that when you try to upload a video the app freezes and you have to delete it and reinstall it.

### 2/5 — Dissapointing

*2024-09-21, version 3.6.38*

I have never had an experience using this app that hasn’t been buggy. It’s a great idea, need to be polished properly. Why would i consider paying for pro when the base app isn't even good.

### 2/5 — Pay to filter by grade??

*2024-09-12, version 3.6.37*

Users have to pay to filter by grade. I think that’s a really cheeky feature to paywall. You get paid by the companies to put climbs on the app and then want users to pay to filter by grade? Double dipping madness. 

Feel free to keep charging for AI driven plans and all that personal growth stuff. That’s fair.

Also, the app runs very slowly compared to TopLogger I was using elsewhere.

Still gets 2 stars as it does what it is supposed to and the QR feature is neat.

### 2/5 — Idea is good, app seems to be designed by amateurs

*2024-07-08*

The idea of this app is great. I love being able to track routes I’ve done and the gamification of sending climbs can be fun. But the app doesn’t function well. You’ll upload a video beta and it’ll disappear (I’ve uploaded like 6 times and it still won’t show), app will crash or freeze randomly. Really needs better developers and testers.

### 2/5 — Buggy

*2024-06-03, version 3.6.32*

The app is so buggy and laggy that I can’t believe that they are trying to sell subscriptions for it.

### 3/5 — Nice design, just missing a few features to be excellent.

*2024-05-27*

Very well designed and easy to use, logging climbs is very quick, but some of the analysis could do with some work. It would be good to be able to sort the climbs you’ve completed by grades when comparing against others so you can compare the hardest rather than the most recent. The league table is also skewed in favour of people who log every climb including warmups, it would be nice to have a league of the top ten climbs, even though this would move me down the list!
I can’t find a good way to track progress either, maybe a line graph of points or top ten grades over time? 
One more nice to have feature would be integration with health apps to help me with my health insurance, e.g. Google fit and Apple health. 
It’s the most popular app with gyms, hopefully it can be the best too!

## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated)

### 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

### 1/5 — way too buggy

*2025-05-31*

this app is constantly erroring. filters won't reset. or they won't apply. the UI is really not very intuitive. wish my gym would drop this entirely.

### 1/5 — 0/5 just awful

*2025-02-12, version 3.7.8*

0/5 terrible app, do not waste your time.

Update: The only way to make this app better is to just uninstall. Do not waste your time! Why would anyone need an app for climbing it's pointless.

### 1/5 — Notification Spam

*2025-01-28, version 3.7.8*

Just sent me a few hundred notifications within a few minutes trying to sell their pro accounts.

No thanks. Not if you don’t test your code before pushing it.

### 1/5 — Weird system

*2025-01-18*

First of all, the way things are reset every month is wierd. There should be a toggle able option on the setter menu to make it so that taken down routes don’t give you points anymore, so you don’t have to redo everything each month. Then it crashes. Even on 8 gb of ram, which shows that it is the app itself.

### 1/5 — Nice concept but neglected

*2024-07-08*

Tried using the app as I’ve just recently joined a climbing gym, the gym uses this app to track a see routes (that’s what im told) I haven’t seen myself as it is impossible to get past the sign in page. The screen goes white and the green tab gets stuck to the top of the screen. 

I see in recent updates of the app minor bug fixes where addressed however I think there needs a major bug wipe on the app or simply change the foundation that the app is made from as I see in other reviews the app has been going more and more downhill the the app’s performance. 

I seriously doubt anything will be done from this review. But it’s sad as it’s the only app the gym uses

### 1/5 — No sirve

*2024-05-19, version 3.6.30*

No abre

### 1/5 — Getting worse, greedy business model

*2024-05-05, version 3.6.30*

Ticking off and tracking climbs should be easy, yet the UI and bugs you sometimes run into make it harder than needed. Overall it was useful enough. 

Now they’ve hidden basic filters like the grade behind their pro paywall. I’ll never buy pro but I will give a 1* review and make sure to actively not recommend people use this app anymore.

### 1/5 — Sadly so frustrating

*2024-04-04*

Been using this app for years and it’s got worse and worse… to the point where I’m now actually needing to review it in the hope it’ll improve. As time goes on this app gets more bugs and more glitches, it’s functionality is now so compromised I’m unable to even track my climbs. Each click seems to crash the app and boot me out unexpectedly. This is a wonderful concept but seems to now be totally useless to serve its purpose. Sadly it’s got to the point where it’s so bad it can’t even be opened, the second you try navigating to a different page, BOOTED OUT. Please please please just make this app function again.

### 1/5 — Won’t let me sign up

*2024-03-21*

When I click the sign up button nothing happens :(

## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated)

### 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.

### 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!

### 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.

### 5/5 — Best app for tracking climbing progress

*2025-10-25*

We have been climbing since February and wondered what the mysterious QR codes were on the start holds and how you got your name on the screen in reception. Then we discovered Griptonite and our competitive nature took over! My boys and I love the app. It has been a great way to track our progress and easily find climbs of our standard in the gym. Competing to get higher up the table has led to us climbing more and progressing up the grades. Watching the betas from other climbers has taught us a lot about how to approach harder climbs. It has also been helpful when visiting other gyms using slightly different grading systems.

### 5/5 — justice

*2025-10-10, version 3.7.24*

i love griptonite

### 5/5 — Amazing.

*2025-06-14, version 3.7.19*

Amazing app, I don’t know why everyone’s complaining. Plenty of useful free features and a few things, like the leaderboard, make it feel more complete.

### 5/5 — Si sirve

*2025-05-01, version 3.7.14*

Si abre

---

*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 2026-09-01.*