Comparison

Climbing Pins vs BoulderBot

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

Head to head
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

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

Climbing Pins3 screens
BoulderBot4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Climbing Pins at 5.0 against BoulderBot's 4.4. Climbing Pins also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. BoulderBot sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Climbing Pins asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Climbing Pins holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 11 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Climbing Pins ships an update every 6 weeks, BoulderBot every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and August 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Climbing Pins versus BoulderBot: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterClimbing PinsBoulderBot
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (6 ratings) — better4.4 (11 ratings)
Positive reviews—75.0% of reviews
Number of ratings611 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 5 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS14.414.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size32 MB74 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperBen SpannuthLuca Dellana

Customer experience

Climbing Pins

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

BoulderBot

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

In-app purchases

None

Climbing Pins

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 Climbing Pins free?
Climbing Pins 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, Climbing Pins or BoulderBot?
Climbing Pins is rated higher. Climbing Pins averages 5.0 out of 5 from 6 ratings, while BoulderBot averages 4.4 from 11 ratings.
Do Climbing Pins or BoulderBot have ads?
Neither Climbing Pins nor BoulderBot shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Climbing Pins or BoulderBot?
Climbing Pins ships an update every 6 weeks, and BoulderBot every 5 weeks. Most recently, Climbing Pins was updated on September 19, 2026 and BoulderBot on August 30, 2026.

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