# Vertical-Life Climbing — Your Worldwide Climbing Guide

> Worldwide climbing guide for outdoor and indoor climbing, route logging, and training. (iPhone/iPad app by Vertical-Life srl.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/vertical-life-climbing/id710386774 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Vertical-Life srl](https://appshunter.io/developer/694612751)
- Category: Sports, Lifestyle
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Rating: 2.70/5 from 46 App Store ratings · 149 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 15.6 · 150 MB
- Languages: American English, Czech, Dutch, French (France), German (Germany), Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian and 2 more
- Released: 2013-12-07
- Data updated: 2026-08-28
- Monetization: free with in-app purchases
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/vertical-life-climbing/id710386774/reviews.md

## What is Vertical?

Built by Climbers for Climbers: Vertical-Life is Your Climbing Guide for Outdoor and Indoor Climbing. Keep a log of your climbs and favorite memories, access local beta, and dream about your next adventure. Start exploring new climbing spots and get inspired!


CLIMB OUTDOOR: Find sport climbing, bouldering and multi-pitch routes.
Hundreds of digital climbing guidebooks available online and offline. Discover routes and boulders, featured on a worldwide map. Authored by local experts, our crags and climbing topos are continuously updated. We support local developers with a portion of our revenue.


CLIMB INDOOR: Follow your home gym. 
Enjoy free access to gym topos and view rankings. Get updates on new routes, log your ascents and connect with climbers in your area.
GET PERSONALIZED TRAINING: Enjoy customized training plans by professional coaches. Tailored to your level, our plans align with your gym's routes and boulders. Also, explore our free, single-day workouts to spice up your gym sessions.


JOIN CHALLENGES & COMPETITIONS: Gym and global challenges are the perfect motivation boost. Move up the ranking ladder, reach new goals, unlock achievements, and win exciting prizes!


FIND FRIENDS & COMMUNITY: Join a global network of climbers. Follow friends, share your successes, encourage your peers, and climb as a team for your local gym.
ACCESS FROM THE WEB: Find your synced logbook and profile on https://www.vertical-life.info. Discover daily climbing news and a community-built route database with millions of ascents and insightful comments on Vertical-Life Web.

GET MORE WITH PREMIUM: 
Premium unlocks all outdoor content in the app and gives you the digital convenience of having topos, additional beta, training plans, parking navigation and digital maps, in your pocket, online and offline. 
- All guidebooks available on your phone
- Millions of ascents and comments for the best beta
- GPS navigation to crags
- Detailed map, with precise topos and route information

Learn more: https://www.vertical-life.info/premium
Terms of Use: https://www.vertical-life.info/en/pages/legal

## Key features

- Outdoor and indoor climbing route discovery
- Digital climbing guidebooks
- Logbook for climbs and memories
- Personalized training plans
- Gym and global climbing challenges
- Community features and friend connections

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Outdoor (1 Month) | $4.99 | per month |
| Training (1 Month) | $4.99 | per month |
| Friends (1 Month) | $14.99 | per month |
| Premium (1 Month) | $8.99 | per month |


## Recent user reviews (10 of 149)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/vertical-life-climbing/id710386774/reviews.md

### 4/5 — Great guidebook, but too much bloat

*2026-06-30*

Downloaded because it’s the best guidebook for the Dolomites. Fantastic info for that; only recommendation is an in-app translation feature as that’s tricky to do.

The issue is the inclusion of too many features for the subscription price. Training regimen, leaderboard, I don’t need these to just visit a new climbing area. Please break down the subscription model a bit, then the price might be worth it.

### 1/5 — It’s just the worst

*2026-06-04, version 6.19.9*

The hubris of the developers is just mind blowing. Nothing works on this app properly and nothing ever gets updated. Searching for routes doesn’t work, the screenshots of crags in the paid version often do not load. Why do you charge for this? You have no shame…

### 1/5 — Gekaufte Inhalte verschwinden

*2026-05-14, version 6.19.9*

Es verwundert und ärgert mich sehr, dass die gekauften und erworbenen Inhalte ein Ablaufdatum bekommen und nicht mehr zugänglich sind.  Ich rate stark davon ab, hier Geld in Kletterführer zu investieren, und werde weiter zurück auf Papier-Kletterführer bauen, die kann ich höchstens liegen lassen, dann hat aber wenigstens jemand anderes Freude dran..

### 2/5 — Generally bad

*2026-04-30*

This app could be so much better. It lacks sooo many basic features. You cannot search for climbs at one specific grade only a range. You can not organize boulder by section once you’re in a certain crag and you hardly can even search for crags. Like you go to search a very common area and the crag just doesn’t show up. Not to mention probably ever 2/5x you open the app it freezes. Many people have reached out to the developers to change things but they don’t appear to care or listen. Could be a great app, even better than mountain project.

### 1/5 — Fallo

*2026-02-03, version 6.19.9*

En las búsquedas no se pueden buscar Boulders cuando antes si se podía!!

### 2/5 — The app falls behind the website…a lot

*2025-12-08, version 6.19.9*

I use 8a.nu to log my ascents. To me it is a nice diary to store memories in. For that I use the desktop version, but the app has some problems:
- you cant search for boulder/routes directly in tue search bar: you have to search for the area and improvise from that (usually filtering the available stuff/sorting by grade etc). Super annoying if you want info on some boulder
- logging on the app is only saved on the app. Meaning if you check your profile on 8a.nu you don’t see the ascents logged with the app. 
- same with pictures in the opposite direction, you cant see my media on the app if I uploaded it on 8a.nu

### 5/5 — Top App! Zwei Verbesserungsvorschläge

*2025-11-12, version 6.19.9*

Nutze die free version der App jetzt seit knapp 1 1/2 Jahren v.a. fürs Indoorklettern und bin sehr zufrieden.

Zwei Verbesserungsvorschläge:

1. Bild-Upload bei Indoorrouten ermöglichen (Das wäre insbesondere bei Projektrouten hilfreich und klappt momentan noch nicht, auch wenn die Upload-Funktion angezeigt wird)

2. In der Routenübersicht den besten Versuch auch nach mehrfachem Klettern der selben Tour mit türkisfarbenem, gelbem, rotem oder blauem Kreis anzeigen (Derzeit wird ab dem zweiten Versuch nur die Anzahl der eigenen Begehungen angezeigt. Dadurch wird die Routenübersicht unübersichtlicher. Man verliert den Überblick, welche Touren man schon durchgestiegen ist)

### 1/5 — App crashes constantly

*2025-09-22, version 6.19.9*

App crashes all the time. Too bad

### 1/5 — Book content with a expiry date

*2025-07-05, version 6.19.3*

Loved this App until my guidebook content expired, so I simply do not have any use for it anymore.
The free version is almost useless without a subscription.

### 1/5 — Was ein Schrott

*2025-06-02, version 6.19.3*

Da der passende Kletterführer für unser Urlaubsziel aktuell in Neuauflage ist, bekamen wir den App-Code für Vertical Life. Ich bin froh dass der Urlaub zu Ende ist und ich endlich die App löschen kann. 

Was ist da los?! Unübersichtliche Menüs, die App zeigt bei runtergeladenem Content „Wartezeit beim
Laden wegen schlechtem Empfang“, zwischendrin ist alles an Inhalt wieder weg und muss neu geladen werden - kurz mal in das Topo vom Nachbarfels schauen - besser nicht! Achso und wenn man „Pech“ hat, vergisst die App kurzzeitig am Fels bei 1 Balken Netz dass man den Inhalt ja gekauft hat und schmeißt einen ganz raus. Vertical Life - das nächste Mal bitte wieder Papier.

## Frequently asked questions about Vertical

### What does the Vertical-Life Climbing app do?

This app acts as a worldwide climbing guide for both outdoor and indoor climbing. It allows users to discover sport climbing, bouldering, and multi-pitch routes, access hundreds of digital climbing guidebooks, and log their climbs and favorite memories. It also provides features for indoor gym climbing, personalized training plans, and community engagement.

### What are the key features of the app?

Key features include discovering outdoor climbing routes worldwide with digital guidebooks, accessing indoor gym topos and rankings, logging ascents and memories, personalized training plans, joining climbing challenges and competitions, and connecting with a global community of climbers. Premium users gain access to all outdoor content, offline topos, and GPS navigation.

### How much does Vertical-Life Climbing cost?

The app offers free access to indoor gym topos and some single-day workouts. However, to unlock all outdoor content, including guidebooks, additional beta, training plans, and offline maps, a Premium subscription is required. Details on Premium pricing can be found on their website.

### What kind of climbing does this app support?

The app supports a wide range of climbing disciplines, including sport climbing, bouldering, and multi-pitch routes for outdoor climbing. For indoor climbing, it provides access to gym topos and allows users to log their ascents on routes and boulders within their home gyms.

### Can I use this app offline?

While the app offers some offline capabilities, full offline access to all outdoor content, including guidebooks, topos, and detailed maps, is a feature unlocked with a Premium subscription. This allows climbers to access essential information even without an internet connection.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 6.19.9 — 2025-09-10

- Fixed issue with opening hours in gyms

### 6.19.7 — 2025-09-09

- Fixed bug in Training log

### 6.19.6 — 2025-09-02

- Fixed bug with existing Ascents not showing up in Route/Boulder lists

### 6.19.5 — 2025-08-25

- Dependency updates
- iOS Target bump

### 6.19.3 — 2024-07-09

bugfixes

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## More apps by Vertical-Life srl

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All apps by Vertical-Life srl: https://appshunter.io/developer/694612751

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