Climbing Pins vs Retro Flash
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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
Retro Flash
This app helps climbers maximize their spray wall training with unique tools for setting various problems and supports multiple grading systems. It fosters a community for climbers to share and improve their training.
- Spray wall problem setting
- Supports symmetrical, partly symmetrical, adjustable, and private walls
- Circuit and competition boulder creation
- Fontainebleau, Dankyu, and Hueco grading systems
- Customizable grading systems
- Wall upgrades for new possibilities
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Welcome to Retro Flash and the Arcade Bouldering Community! Retro Flash is the Ultimate Spray Wall App, designed with every member of the climbing community in mind! We have created a lot of unique tools to ensure that everyone has everything they need to get the most out of their spray walls! For example, we support symmetrical, partly symmetrical, adjustable and private walls! Set all kinds of problems on your wall, like circuits or even competition boulders! With our wall upgrades, we upgrade your walls to the next level, opening up a lot of new possibilities! Now, you can even upgrade your walls by yourself!! Retro Flash supports the Fontainebleau, Dankyu and Hueco grading systems. You can also define your own grading systems or even deactivate grading! Download Retro Flash now and become a part of our growing community!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Climbing Pins at none against Retro Flash's 8. Climbing Pins also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Retro Flash's advantage is ratings volume (226 vs 6). On price, update cadence, ads and device support 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. Retro Flash sells 8 one-off in-app purchases. Climbing Pins asks for nothing beyond the download.
Climbing Pins holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Retro Flash has 226 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Climbing Pins ships an update every 6 weeks, Retro Flash every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Climbing Pins | Retro Flash |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better | 4.7 (226 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 82.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 6 | 226 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.4 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 162 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ben Spannuth | Arcade Bouldering UG (haftungsbeschrnkt) |
Customer experience
Climbing Pins
Retro Flash
Bugs and requests
Climbing Pins
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Retro Flash
Reported bugs
8 issues- Cannot see sends anymore
- All boulders set to unclimbed for all users
- Statistics are gone
- Won't let me reset wall
- Won't let me delete walls
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- Won't let me add a new wall on a new account
- Camera button to add a photo doesn't do anything
- Can't change the angle of the wall
Requested features
4 requests- Add a tick list of all climbs done
- Show number and distribution of grades
- Copy route feature for minor adjustments
- Ability to edit names or grades of existing boulders
In-app purchases
Climbing Pins
No in-app purchases
Retro Flash
- Unlock Rules for Circles$4.99
- Home Wall Year Pass$4.99
- 1 Month Upgrade Pass$8.99
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- Additional Wall$9.99
- Gym Year Pass Tier 1$14.99
- Add Gym$14.99
- Gym Year Pass Tier 2$29.99
- 6 Months Upgrade Pass$44.99
Questions
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