HangClimb Timer vs Boardsesh
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.
Boardsesh
This app connects to various LED climbing boards via Bluetooth to light up holds on your wall. Browse and filter thousands of community-created climbs, build a queue, and track your progress. It supports group sessions for climbing with friends, whether in the same gym or remotely.
- Connects to LED climbing boards
- Lights up holds on the wall
- Browse and filter community climbs
- Build and manage a climb queue
- Track climbing attempts and sends
- Supports group climbing sessions
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Climb on Kilter, Tension, MoonBoard and more, plus your spray wall. Keep your climbs, shared queue and logbook in one app. YOUR BOARDS. ONE APP. Boardsesh works with Kilter, Tension, MoonBoard, Woods, Decoy, Touchstone, Grasshopper and So iLL. Switch between supported boards and keep your climbing history together. YOUR SPRAY WALL, TOO A home wall, or a spray wall at your gym? Photograph it and Boardsesh suggests holds from the photo. Fix what it missed, then set climbs, queue them and log sends in the same logbook as your other boards. No LEDs needed: the holds are highlighted on your photo. Share the wall by link and your crew can set on it too. Stripped the wall? Reset it with a new photo, and the old wall is archived with its climbs and sends. Swap a single hold and any climb that used it is flagged. BOARD HISTORY Share a board and you lose track of the last climb fast, and someone always wipes it by accident. See climbs lit through Boardsesh on that board: the climb name, who lit it, who set it, grade and angle, and recent sends. SESSIONS WITH YOUR CREW Start a session and you and your crew can share one queue everyone can drive. Anyone can light the next climb on the wall. When you're done you get a recap and tracking: sends and attempts, grade spread, your hardest send, and progress over time. CONTROL FROM YOUR LOCK SCREEN (iOS 17+) iOS Live Activities tell you what climb is on from your lock screen, and allow you to change it without leaving your lock screen. BUILD A WORKOUT Pick Volume, Pyramid, Ladder or Grade Focus, set a target grade and warm-up, preview the climbs, then push them to the wall one at a time. TRACK YOUR CLIMBING Record sends, flashes and attempts, get a recap with duration, grade spread and your hardest send, and watch your sends and grades climb on the Progress tab. BRING YOUR HISTORY WITH YOU Save your session to Apple Health, and import your past Kilter and Tension logbook from Aurora Climbing. FIND MORE TO CLIMB Follow your crew and setters, search climbers, and pin playlists from Discover. Supported boards: Kilter, Tension, MoonBoard (2010, 2016, 2024, Masters 2017, Masters 2019), Woods (12x12, 8x10), Decoy, Touchstone, Grasshopper and So iLL. Plus spray walls: any wall you can photograph. Boardsesh is a community effort that works with these boards and is not affiliated with or endorsed by any board manufacturer.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Boardsesh at every 2 weeks against HangClimb Timer's every 5 months. HangClimb Timer's advantage is ratings volume (284 vs 28) and device support (4 vs 2). On price, rating, review sentiment 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.
HangClimb Timer holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: HangClimb Timer has 284 ratings behind it against 28, 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 77% of Boardsesh's.
HangClimb Timer ships an update every 5 months, Boardsesh every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | HangClimb Timer | Boardsesh |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (284 ratings) — better | 4.6 (28 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 81.8% of reviews — better | 76.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 284 — better | 28 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 2 weeks — 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 | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 94 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Riley Bruce | Marco de Jongh |
Customer experience
HangClimb Timer
Boardsesh
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
Boardsesh
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
HangClimb Timer
No in-app purchases
Boardsesh
No in-app purchases
Questions
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