HangClimb Timer vs Woods Board
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
HangClimb Timer
Create, modify, and execute custom hangboard climbing workouts with a simple interface. Track your progress and integrate with Apple Health. Control workouts directly from your Apple Watch.
- Custom workout creation
- Workout editing (sets, reps)
- Hangboard workout execution
- Apple Health integration
- Apple Watch app support
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HangClimb Timer is a mobile application tool for creation, modification, and execution of hang board climbing workouts. HangClimb uses a simple interface for editing individual workouts, sets, or reps so that you can create your ideal hangboard workout. HangClimb Timer, a Health and Fitness app, uses HealthKit to integrate your workouts with the Apple Health App. The corresponding Apple Watch App allows you to execute the workouts from your watch.
Woods Board
This app connects to a specialized training board, allowing users to access and create climbing routes. It facilitates logging climbs, personalizing profiles, and engaging with a community leaderboard. Users can filter climbs by various criteria for tailored training sessions.
- Access and create climbing routes
- Log your successful climbs
- Personalize user profiles
- Community leaderboard
- Filter climbs by multiple criteria
- Bluetooth route lighting
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The Woods Board app is the one and only app designed to connect you to the Woods Board training board. With this app, you can create an account to access the entire database of climbs made for the Woods Board. This app allows you to connect to any Woods Board control box and light up any route via Bluetooth. The Woods Board climbs follow a Standard system to generate a universal grade system for all climbs. What does the app do? - Allow access to view and create any climb to submit to the official Woods Board database - Log your sends of Woods Board climbs - Personalize your own account information - Specify specific climb rules for climbs you publish - Allows the ability to compete against other climbers with a Leaderboard Our goal for the Woods Board app is to create a platform based around community involvement and interaction. We hope to foster an individual user experience based on interaction between you and the community. With the leaderboard (weekly and all-time) system, we hope to encourage a competitive and refreshing dynamic between users. Additionally, our goal with the playlist system is to enable user personalization for enjoyment and training purposes. Our filtering system includes the option to filter by: hold, author, climb type, wall angle, grade, and more.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: HangClimb Timer at 82% against Woods Board's 19%. HangClimb Timer also leads on rating (4.7 vs 2.0) and ratings volume (286 vs 1). Woods Board's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 5 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
HangClimb Timer holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: HangClimb Timer has 286 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 82% of HangClimb Timer's written reviews are positive against 19% of Woods Board's.
HangClimb Timer ships an update every 5 months, Woods Board monthly. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | HangClimb Timer | Woods Board |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (286 ratings) — better | 2.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 81.8% of reviews — better | 18.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 286 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Riley Bruce | Menagerie Climbing LLC |
Customer experience
HangClimb Timer
Woods Board
Bugs and requests
HangClimb Timer
Reported bugs
3 issues- Sound doesn't work
- Timer stops counting down when not actively using app
- Cannot figure out how to get sound notifications
Requested features
6 requests- Option to exceed 60 second reps
- Ability to delete sets within a workout
- Ability to delete hangs, hold and hold types
- Rest time limit to be uncapped
- Changeable sound options
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- Option to start with hang instead of rest
Woods Board
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
HangClimb Timer
No in-app purchases
Woods Board
No in-app purchases
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