Pebble Climbing vs Cruxt
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.
Cruxt
Connect with local climbers to find partners, organize climbing sessions, and build trust within the community. Discover gyms, chat with your crew, and track your climbing activity.
- Find climbing partners instantly
- Create and join climbing sessions
- Build trust with peer evaluations
- Discover climbing gyms
- Chat with your climbing crew
- Activity feed for favorite gyms
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Cruxt is the climbing community app that makes it easy to find partners, organize sessions, and build real trust with the people you climb with. Whether you're looking for a belay partner right now or planning a session for this weekend, Cruxt connects you with climbers at your local gym — so you never have to climb alone. CREATE & JOIN SESSIONS Start a live session or schedule one for later. Set your climbing type — Boulder, Lead, Top Rope, Sport, or Trad — your grade range, and how many people can join. Your session shows up at the gym for other climbers to find and join. FIND PARTNERS INSTANTLY Tap "Down to Climb" to let climbers at your gym know you're looking for a partner right now. Browse who's available nearby and connect in seconds. BUILD TRUST WITH PEER EVALUATIONS After every session, rate your partners on safety, vibe, and profile accuracy. Earn trust badges — Rising, Trusted, Community Pillar — that show other climbers you're the real deal. Safety is weighted highest because it matters most. DISCOVER GYMS & FOLLOW THE ACTION Find climbing gyms on the map, check hours and amenities, and see who's climbing there right now. Favorite your gyms to follow their activity in your feed. CHAT WITH YOUR CREW Message partners directly or in group chats that are created automatically when you join a session. Coordinate plans, share beta, stay connected. YOUR ACTIVITY FEED See what's happening at your favorite gyms and what your crew is up to — sessions created, partners found, and milestones earned. GO PRO FOR MORE Free accounts get 20 sessions with up to 3 participants each. Upgrade to Cruxt Pro to unlock: • Unlimited sessions • Up to 20 participants per session • Friends Only & Invite Only join permissions • Advanced filtering by climbing style and grade • Unlimited conversations Cruxt is built by climbers, for climbers. Set up in 30 seconds and start climbing with people near you.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Cruxt at 5.0 against Pebble Climbing's 4.3. Cruxt also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 8 days). Pebble Climbing's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ratings volume (55 vs 1). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Cruxt sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Pebble Climbing asks for nothing beyond the download.
Cruxt holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pebble Climbing has 55 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Pebble Climbing ships an update every 8 days, Cruxt every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on September 17, 2026 and September 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pebble Climbing | Cruxt |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (55 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 46.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 55 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 158 MB | 103 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Pebble Climbing, LLC | John Cottongim |
Customer experience
Pebble Climbing
Cruxt
In-app purchases
Pebble Climbing
No in-app purchases
Cruxt
- Cruxt Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
- Cruxt Pro Annual$24.991 Year









