Pebble Climbing vs NYC Flash
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.
NYC Flash
Share your bouldering projects and progress with a community of climbers. Learn from others, showcase your sends, and get inspired to improve your climbing skills.
- Share boulder projects
- Showcase climbing sends
- Learn from community
- Improve climbing skills
- Community-driven content
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This app allows us to share our boulder projects with other fellow climbers. Show how you send your projects, help others improve their climbing, learn from our community.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: NYC Flash at 100% against Pebble Climbing's 47%. NYC Flash also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.3). Pebble Climbing's advantage is ratings volume (55 vs 12). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
NYC Flash holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 55 and 12 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 47% of Pebble Climbing's written reviews are positive against 100% of NYC Flash's.
Pebble Climbing ships an update every 8 days, NYC Flash weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 17, 2026 and September 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pebble Climbing | NYC Flash |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (55 ratings) | 5.0 (12 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 46.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 55 — better | 12 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 158 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pebble Climbing, LLC | Bora Tunca |
Customer experience
Pebble Climbing
NYC Flash
In-app purchases
Pebble Climbing
No in-app purchases
NYC Flash
No in-app purchases
