Comparison

RRC vs BoulderBot

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

Head to head
About

RRC

Discover climbing routes and bouldering problems across Kentucky's renowned climbing destinations. This app provides a comprehensive guide to areas like the Red River Gorge and Foxtown Boulders, helping climbers find their next adventure.

Highlights
  • Climbing area guide
  • Red River Gorge routes
  • Foxtown Boulders problems
  • Kentucky climbing information
Features
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A comprehensive guide for various climbing areas in Kentucky including the Red River Gorge and Foxtown Boulders

About

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.

Highlights
  • Procedural climb generation
  • Manual climb creation
  • Progress tracking and logging
  • Wall setup wizard
  • Offline functionality
  • Search and filter problems
Features
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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.

Screenshots

RRC4 screens
BoulderBot4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: RRC at none against BoulderBot's 3. RRC also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 5 weeks) and ratings volume (129 vs 11). BoulderBot's advantage is review sentiment (75% vs 47%) and iOS requirement (14.1 vs 16.6). On price, rating, ads and monetization model 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. BoulderBot sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. RRC asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

RRC holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: RRC has 129 ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 47% of RRC's written reviews are positive against 75% of BoulderBot's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

RRC ships an update weekly, BoulderBot every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on June 8, 2026 and August 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
RRC versus BoulderBot: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRRCBoulderBot
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (129 ratings) — better4.4 (11 ratings)
Positive reviews46.7% of reviews75.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings129 — better11
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 5 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.614.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size48 MB74 MB
Age rating9+9+
DeveloperRAY ELLINGTONLuca Dellana

Customer experience

RRC

All ratings129 ratings
Positive89.9%
Neutral3.1%
Negative7.0%
Written reviews15 reviews
Positive46.7%
Neutral13.3%
Negative40.0%

BoulderBot

All ratings11 ratings
Positive81.8%
Neutral0.0%
Negative18.2%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%

In-app purchases

None

RRC

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

BoulderBot

One-time3
  • BoulderBot Pro Pass - 3 Months$7.99
  • BoulderBot Pro Pass - 1 Year$17.99
  • BoulderBot Pro$27.99

Questions

Is RRC free?
RRC is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is BoulderBot free?
BoulderBot is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, RRC or BoulderBot?
RRC is rated higher. RRC averages 4.6 out of 5 from 129 ratings, while BoulderBot averages 4.4 from 11 ratings.
Do RRC or BoulderBot have ads?
Neither RRC nor BoulderBot shows ads.
Which is updated more often, RRC or BoulderBot?
RRC ships an update weekly, and BoulderBot every 5 weeks. Most recently, RRC was updated on June 8, 2026 and BoulderBot on August 30, 2026.

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