Comparison

AllClimb vs Climbing Pins

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

AllClimb

This app serves as a digital guidebook for rock climbers, consolidating information on numerous climbing areas. It features detailed route stats, trail lines, user comments, and interactive maps for navigation. The app supports offline access and includes a messaging system for connecting with friends.

Highlights
  • Digital climbing guidebooks
  • Offline access
  • Interactive maps
  • Route filtering
  • User comments and ratings
  • Ascent logging
  • Friend messaging
Read full description

AllClimb is a guidebook for climbers designed to store information about lots of climbing areas all in one place – in your mobile device. Now it's most world famous climbing areas: Arco, Crete, Kalymnos, Geyikbairi, Thailand, Sicily, Bishop, Siurana, Frankenjura and many more... Find a sector you’re interested in, check out the stats on route, view the trail lines, read and post the comments. Use filters to see only the areas with route types and grades you want: sport, bouldering, trad, etc. An interactive map will help you build a car or pedestrian route to the area, find a path to the sector, then find a multi-pitch start or a bouldering rock in the woods. You can leave comments, vote for a route rating or for an alternative "public" grade. You can log your Ascents and see your friends activity. to communicate with your climbing mates there is a messaging system in the app. Just find your friend by name or email and tap the chat button. The application can work offline, without Internet access, just make sure you downloaded sectors or whole areas you need in advance. You can download them all at once (on the "App Guides" tab of the main menu) or manually, sector by sector. And make sure your device’s battery has enough power to keep you on track as long as you need it! Happy onsights!

About

Climbing Pins

This app allows climbers to upload photos and automatically tag them with location, climb, and area names. Discover nearby climbs on a map, track approaches, and get directions. Search for climbs, areas, or users and filter results by quality and difficulty.

Highlights
  • Automatic location tagging for climbing photos
  • Tag photos with climb and area names
  • Discover nearby climbs and areas on a map
  • Track approaches and drop parking pins
  • Get driving directions
  • Search climbs, areas, and users
  • Filter search results by quality and difficulty
Features
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Upload climbing photos to automatically drop location markers Tag photos with climb and area names Home Explore climb and area photos within 100, 10, or 1 km Map Find nearby climbs and get additional climb and area info Track approaches and drop parking pins Get driving directions Help keep markers accurate by tapping to select then tapping and dragging to suggest location corrections Search Search by climb, area, city or user Filter by quality, difficulty, alphabetically, and recently added Add Upload images with location info from camera and photo roll

Screenshots

AllClimb4 screens
Climbing Pins3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Climbing Pins at none against AllClimb's 10. Climbing Pins also leads on update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 3 months) and iOS requirement (14.4 vs 16.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. AllClimb sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Climbing Pins asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for AllClimb against 5.0 for Climbing Pins. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 6 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

AllClimb ships an update every 3 months, Climbing Pins every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
AllClimb versus Climbing Pins: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAllClimbClimbing Pins
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (5 ratings)5.0 (6 ratings)
Positive reviews26.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings56 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 6 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.014.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size119 MB32 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperStanislav PologrudovBen Spannuth

Customer experience

AllClimb

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews23 reviews
Positive26.1%
Neutral26.1%
Negative47.8%

Climbing Pins

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

10 purchases

AllClimb

One-time10
  • Kalymnos. Vathis$1.99
  • Kalymnos. Panormos-Argos$1.99
  • AllClimb Unlimited (1 month)$2.99
Show 7 more
  • Kalymnos. Emporios-Sikaty Cave$4.99
  • Kalymnos. Skalia-Arginonta-Palionisos$6.99
  • Kalymnos. Telendos$6.99
  • Valle de Aosta$7.99
  • Kalymnos. Masouri-Mirties$8.99
  • Rock Climbing Guide for Yekaterinburg area$10.99
  • AllClimb Unlimited (1 year)$16.99
None

Climbing Pins

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is AllClimb free?
AllClimb is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Climbing Pins free?
Climbing Pins is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, AllClimb or Climbing Pins?
AllClimb and Climbing Pins are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 5 and 6 ratings respectively.
Do AllClimb or Climbing Pins have ads?
Neither AllClimb nor Climbing Pins shows ads.
Which is updated more often, AllClimb or Climbing Pins?
AllClimb ships an update every 3 months, and Climbing Pins every 6 weeks. Most recently, AllClimb was updated on November 11, 2026 and Climbing Pins on November 2, 2026.

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