Comparison

Climber Diary vs Spray

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

Head to head
About

Climber Diary

Log your climbing sessions with detailed metrics like style, location, and mood. Visualize your progress over time with weekly, monthly, or yearly charts and compare performance. Supports multiple grading systems and includes a grade calculator.

Highlights
  • Effortless session logging
  • Detailed climb metrics
  • Progress visualization
  • Multi-grading system support
  • Grade calculator
  • Climbing gym pass scanner
Features
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Stop guessing and start progressing. Climber Diary is the streamlined performance tracker designed by climbers, for climbers. Whether you're projecting a V10 or hitting the gym for your first lead session, we help you identify exactly what's holding you back from the next level. Log Sessions in Seconds Don't let data entry ruin your flow. Log indoor and outdoor sessions effortlessly—during or after your climb. Granular Detail: Track style (pumpy, crimpy, balancy), location, and duration. Session Mood: Record how you felt to track the mental side of your performance. All Disciplines: Dedicated support for Bouldering, Lead, and Top Rope. Find Your Next Beta Never be without a place to climb. Our new Gym Finder helps you locate the nearest climbing centers and bouldering gyms, no matter where you are. Get there, get chalked up, and start logging. We are always updating this list. Data-Driven Progress Visualize your evolution with intuitive charts. Compare your performance across weeks, months, or years to spot trends and plateaus. Compare Periods: See how this week’s volume stacks up against last week. Global Standards: Full support for Hueco, French, Font, YDS, UIAA, British Tech, Australia, and RSA. Grade Converter Traveling to a new crag? Use our built-in calculator to instantly translate grades across all major international scales.

About

Spray

Log and organize climbing routes on your spray wall. Save problems, track your sends, and monitor progress over time. Features include creating routes by selecting holds and organizing them into sets.

Highlights
  • Save and organize climbing problems
  • Log successful sends
  • Store notes on problems
  • Monitor session progress
  • Create problems by selecting holds
  • Organize problems into sets
Features
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Spray is the perfect compannion for your home/gym spray wall. Use it to save and organize problems, log sends of created problems, store notes and monitor your sessions through the weeks, months and years. HOW IT WORKS Select an image of your spray wall. Create problems by selecting holds. Create sets to keep all your problems organized just the way you want. Mark problems as sent after you do them, to get an overview of your Sessions. Use the search functionality to find problems in your library. And much more. If you have any questions, notes, feedback, or you just want someont to talk to feel free to contact me at: lukaspaulhimml@gmail.com I hope you enjoy! :)

Screenshots

Climber Diary4 screens
Spray4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Climber Diary at Free against Spray's $0.99. Climber Diary also leads on review sentiment (33% vs 0%). Spray's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 3.0) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On ratings volume, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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

Climber Diary is free to download; Spray costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Spray holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 33% of Climber Diary's written reviews are positive against 0% of Spray's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Climber Diary ships an update fortnightly, Spray every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Climber Diary versus Spray: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterClimber DiarySpray
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating3.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews33.3% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings12 — better
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 9 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size24 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAlexander KozlowskiLUKAS HIMML

Customer experience

Climber Diary

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive33.3%
Neutral66.7%
Negative0.0%

Spray

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

None

Climber Diary

No in-app purchases

None

Spray

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Climber Diary free?
Climber Diary is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Spray free?
Spray costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Climber Diary or Spray?
Spray is rated higher. Climber Diary averages 3.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Spray averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Climber Diary or Spray have ads?
Neither Climber Diary nor Spray shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Climber Diary or Spray?
Climber Diary ships an update fortnightly, and Spray every 9 days. Most recently, Climber Diary was updated on October 11, 2026 and Spray on October 15, 2026.

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