Pebble Climbing vs Griptonite
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pebble Climbing
This app gamifies your climbing experience by providing personalized grade pyramids to help you improve. Track your progress, discover new climbs, and connect with friends. It also offers workout plans and session tracking for gyms and outdoor adventures.
- Gamified grade pyramids for improvement
- Friend activity feed
- Outdoor guidebook with user-added climbs
- Gym session tracking
- User-created workout and circuit plans
- Personalized climb recommendations
- Climbing progress analysis charts
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Gamify your climbing with Pebble! Pebble helps you improve your climbing by giving you a grade pyramid to complete each week. Finish the pyramid and move up a level. If you don't, you'll get 2 more tries before you drop back down a level. Each level is tailored to your abilities and helps direct you to climbs that are appropriate for you. In addition to the gamification, Pebble offers these other features: • Follow your friends in the FEED to see their sends and media or your gym to see when a new area has been reset or if any events are happening soon. • Find climbs for your next trip in the OUTDOOR GUIDEBOOK or give back by adding climbs that you've sent to the guidebook through the app in a wiki-style. • Track your nightly sessions at the local CLIMBING GYM if they've joined Pebble or even if they haven't. • Find climbing-specific WORKOUTS & CIRCUITS that other users have created to do specifically at your gym, your local crag, or at home. • Get RECOMMENDATIONS based on your current climbing ability and what climbs you need to send to reach the next grade. • ANALYZE your climbing and training using our charts to see your progress and plan your next sessions. • SCHEDULE workouts and sessions and track your successful completion automatically.
Griptonite
Enhance your climbing experience by discovering beta, routes, and inspiration from a community of climbers. Track your progress, identify areas for improvement, and compete with others through global and venue-specific rankings.
- Discover beta and routes
- Learn from community experience
- Track personal progress
- Identify areas for improvement
- Global and venue rankings
- Filterable leaderboards
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The Griptonite app is a perfect companion to your climbing life. Discover what's important to you. Be it beta, routes, or inspiration. Our community ticks thousands of routes every day and we enable you to learn from their experience. Everyone loves to get better, and seeing gains is a crucial part of staying motivated. In climbing, it's often hard to pin these down and so progression tends to plateau. The app helps you drill into the areas you can improve at your own pace. Got a competitive or curious side. Or, just want to smash your own PB? The app has both global and venue linked rankings that are fully filterable to help you in your quest.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Pebble Climbing at 4.3 against Griptonite's 3.0. Pebble Climbing also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 6) and update cadence (every 8 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume 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. Griptonite sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Pebble Climbing asks for nothing beyond the download.
Pebble Climbing holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 55 and 21 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 47% of Pebble Climbing's written reviews are positive against 45% of Griptonite's.
Pebble Climbing ships an update every 8 days, Griptonite every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 17, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pebble Climbing | Griptonite |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (55 ratings) — better | 3.0 (21 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 46.7% of reviews — better | 45.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 55 — better | 21 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.5 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 158 MB | 91 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pebble Climbing, LLC | Cascom Ltd |
Customer experience
Pebble Climbing
Griptonite
Bugs and requests
Pebble Climbing
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Griptonite
Reported bugs
30 issues- App constantly erroring
- Filters won't reset or apply
- Projects not registered properly
- App freezes when uploading video
- App crashes frequently
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- Login screen freezes
- White screen of death on sign-in
- Filters not filtering properly
- Feed is glitchy
- Cannot log anything
- App crashes on iOS 16.3.1
- UI lags and jumps when scrolling
- Phantom notification icons
- Cannot clear notification badges
- Novice/intermediate/advanced grading inaccurate
- Ability breakdown doesn't show all grades
- Notification badges not clearing
- Grading of beginner/novice out of line with French system
- Blank screen after entering name
- App instant crashes on opening
- Latest update not working on older iOS
- Cannot get past sign-up page
- Password not visible due to privacy
- Slide to tick interaction not working
- Delay on feedback requests
- Cannot correct age category
- App crashes after a few minutes of usage
- UI is broken, cannot make account
- App crashes on iPhone 12
- App crashes on older iPhone/iPad
Requested features
34 requests- Social sign-in (Apple/Google)
- Total grades/routes climbed count
- Sortable monthly gym results table
- Quick navigation between map and stats
- REST API for data access
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- More holistic progress tracking (training, mood)
- Integration with health apps (Google Fit, Apple Health)
- Privacy mode (hide from leaderboards)
- Ability to log climbs offline
- Star/favorite problems
- Filter for routes not completed this month
- Visual indicator for attempted problems
- Add friends and leaderboards for friends
- Trophy section for comp achievements
- Check beta videos on profile
- Add/follow other climbers
- Clear breakdown for grade progression (novice to advanced)
- Search gyms by name
- Follow gyms for reset notifications
- Apple Watch integration
- Option to log 'clean/dogged' status
- Nominate incorrect grades
- Option to permanently skip video submission
- Toggleable option for route reset points
- Dark mode option
- AI driven training plans
- Filter by grade in free version
- More detailed analysis of climbs
- Sort completed climbs by grade
- League table for top ten climbs
- Line graph of points or top ten grades over time
- Ability to add line pics
- See which problems you’ve attempted at least once on the gym view
- Make it easy to see which problems you’ve attempted at least once on the gym view (eg making the number amber)
In-app purchases
Pebble Climbing
No in-app purchases
Griptonite
- Griptonite Pro1 Month trial$4.991 Month
- Griptonite Pro14 Days trial$4.991 Month
- Griptonite Pro$39.991 Year
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- Griptonite Pro1 Month trial$49.991 Year
- Griptonite Pro$49.991 Year
- Griptonite Pro14 Days trial$49.991 Year
