First Bolt vs LineGrip lineScale
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
First Bolt
Easily navigate to climbing spots and identify routes with up-to-date information. Avoid surprises like incorrect routes or hazards. Quickly find your way to the crag and understand route difficulties.
- Route grade identification from photos
- Map-based crag approach navigation
- Route sorting by difficulty and rating
- Up-to-date route information
- Safety tips for climbing
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First Bolt will enable you to easily approach and know your way around the crag or boulder, find routes and get the most relevant and up to date information about them. - Have you ever wandered around a crag for hours, looking for the approach path? - Have you ever started climbing a route only to discover it is not what you thought it is and ended up leaving your gear on it? - Were you ever surprised by nesting birds or loose holds while climbing? First Bolt will help you avoid all that. This app will help you climb safely, save time with no hustle. Key features: - Just take a picture of the route and see it's grade immediately, no more mixing up routes. - Full approach on the map for quick and safe navigation to the crag. - Sort routes by difficulty, star ranking and more. Currently the app is only available for selected sites in Israel. Join our community and let's make the climbing world a little bit safer.
LineGrip lineScale
Connect to your digital dyno via Bluetooth for real-time load monitoring and remote control. Log events, view graphs, and export data as CSV. An alarm can be triggered at a specified load threshold, even when the device is locked.
- Bluetooth connection to lineScale-2
- Real-time load monitoring
- Remote control settings
- Event logging
- Log graph display
- CSV data export
- Load threshold alarm
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This is the app to connect to your lineScale-2 digital dyno via Bluetooth to your iPhone. Enables real time load monitoring, lineScale remote control (setting 0 value, sensor speed, display units, etc). Features event logging (specified start load and log length), log graph display and export as csv. An alarm sound can be triggered at a specified load threshold. Logging and alarm feature is active even while the iPhone is locked (screen off).
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: LineGrip lineScale at 10.0 against First Bolt's 15.1. 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for First Bolt against 5.0 for LineGrip lineScale. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
| Parameter | First Bolt | LineGrip lineScale |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 113 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ofir Dagan | Andreas Riedrich |
Customer experience
First Bolt
LineGrip lineScale
In-app purchases
First Bolt
No in-app purchases
LineGrip lineScale
No in-app purchases
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