Where to Climb vs BoulderBot
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Where to Climb
Discover nearby rock climbing locations and routes based on your current position. Find areas with optimal conditions, filter by climbing style, and check snow and historical weather data for your next outdoor adventure.
- Discover new climbing areas
- Filter by climbing style
- Check snow readings
- View historical weather data
- Find routes near your location
- USA-wide coverage
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'Where to Climb' answers that common question 'where can I go climbing this weekend?'. It's happened to us all where a weekend plan is foiled by weather or our favorite area opens up for a perfect weather weekend in shoulder season... That is, if we were paying attention close enough to notice. Instead of checking weather reports for each of these areas, just use your current location to find what areas around you are in prime time as well as the rock climbing routes there. * Discover new areas with less crowding using filters * Only look for the styles on the rock you think is bomber. Take those trad whippers on sandstone you animal. * Is this area melted out? Maybe! We now incorporate snow readings! * Planning a desert trip in September? We use historical data to tell you what to expect! Find where to climb wherever you are in the USA.
BoulderBot
Generate and track bouldering routes on your home climbing wall. Features procedural generation for infinite climb variations, manual creation, and progress logging. Supports various wall types and works offline.
- Procedural climb generation
- Manual climb creation
- Progress tracking and logging
- Wall setup wizard
- Offline functionality
- Search and filter problems
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BoulderBot is your personal bouldering Spray Wall setter, tracker and organizer. Challenge yourself and find new inspiration by using the experimental Procedural Generation algorithms, quickly creating an infinite number of new climbs on your wall! You can customize parameters like Difficulty and Length to create problems suited to your needs. The generation algorithms are experimental and under active development, but even if they don't produce perfect results, you can immediately edit the generated problems in a few seconds (which is also a great way to improve your setting skills). You can also easily create your own custom problems from scratch. Problems can be saved for tracking your progress and logging ascents, and functionality like searching, filtering and sorting is available to find problems for your training sessions. ADDING YOUR WALL An interactive wizard procedure will allow you to add your wall in the application, guiding you in specifying all required information (this procedure will take around 5 to 10 minutes): - An image of the wall (specific instructions are given to ensure the best generation results) - Attributes like height and angle - The position of the holds on your wall, and their relative difficulty rating This procedure needs to be performed only when you add a new wall or reset the current one. Once a wall is added, all other functionality (like generating problems, or creating them manually) is immediate and takes no extra set up time. An in-app help system is also available if you have any doubt about the application. The application supports Home Climbing Walls, Spray Walls, Woodys, and Training Boards. The generation algorithms work only on generally flat walls which can be pictured in a single image; highly featured walls with many different angles, corners and roof sections are not supported at the moment. NO MANDATORY INTERNET CONNECTIVITY The Application can work completely offline: you can choose to use the App without an account, making the image you select and the Boulder problems you create all stored on your device's internal storage. PROBLEM RULES The boulder problems should be climbed by starting with both hands on green "Start" holds (either one hand per hold if there are two holds, or with both hands matching the single hold). Blue "Hold" holds can be used with both hands and feet, while yellow "Foot" holds cannot be touched by hands. The problem is considered complete once you hold for a couple of seconds onto the red "End" holds (either one hand per hold if there are two holds, or with both hands matching the single hold). DISCLAIMER Climbing is an inherently dangerous activity. Climbs shown in the App are random in nature, there is no guarantee about their safety, quality or correctness, please always judge the safety of the climbs before attempting them.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Where to Climb at none against BoulderBot's 3. Where to Climb also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.4) and review sentiment (83% vs 75%). BoulderBot's advantage is iOS requirement (14.1 vs 16.0). On price, ratings volume, update cadence 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
Both are free to download. BoulderBot sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Where to Climb asks for nothing beyond the download.
Where to Climb holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 9 and 11 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 83% of Where to Climb's written reviews are positive against 75% of BoulderBot's.
Where to Climb ships an update monthly, BoulderBot every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Where to Climb | BoulderBot |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (9 ratings) — better | 4.4 (11 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 83.3% of reviews — better | 75.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 9 | 11 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 14.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 68 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Brice Pollock | Luca Dellana |
Customer experience
Where to Climb
BoulderBot
In-app purchases
Where to Climb
No in-app purchases
BoulderBot
- BoulderBot Pro Pass - 3 Months$7.99
- BoulderBot Pro Pass - 1 Year$17.99
- BoulderBot Pro$27.99
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