BoulderBook Spraywall Climbing vs Boulder Challenge
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BoulderBook Spraywall Climbing
Log, share, and rate boulder problems on your training wall. Never forget a climb's details on your spraywall again, whether at home, a club, or a commercial gym.
- Save boulder problems
- Share climb definitions
- Rate boulder problems
- Use on homewalls
- Use in climbing clubs
- Use in commercial gyms
Read full descriptionHide full description
The spray wall app your whole crew uses for free. BoulderBook saves every boulder on your spraywall, board or home wall right on a photo of the wall – no subscription, no paid wall setup, no ads. Made by climbers for climbers, in English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch and Czech. DRAW BOULDERS IN SECONDS • Snap a photo of your wall and tap the holds – smart hold detection snaps each tap to the hold • Mark start holds, top and feet; set foothold rules and matching • Number the holds so everyone climbs the exact same sequence LOG EVERY SEND • Tick boulders as flash or redpoint and rate the grade • Thumbs up the best lines, add style tags like crimpy, slopey or dyno • Font or V-scale grades – switch any time FIND YOUR NEXT PROJECT • Browse every boulder on your wall and filter by grade, wall, style tags and what you've already sent • Sort by newest, hardest, easiest or most popular • Build project lists, share public lists or create collaborative circuits with friends CLIMB THE LEADERBOARD • Season rankings for boulderers and setters at your gym • Medals for the season's top three • Global ranking across all gyms KNOW YOUR LEVEL • Season score, grade pyramid and style breakdown • Personal insights: hardest send, flash ceiling and more • Your complete climbing history in one place STAY IN THE LOOP • Live activity feed of flashes, tops and new boulders • Gym chat and comments with photos and GIFs • Push notifications when someone comments or reacts to your boulders FOR EVERY WALL Commercial gyms, climbing clubs and private home walls – set up your gym in a minute, keep it public or invite only your crew. Find gyms near you on the map. Every feature is free for everyone. If BoulderBook helps your climbing, an optional tip in the app keeps it running. Questions or ideas? Use the feedback button in the app – we read everything.
Boulder Challenge
Easily create and share custom climbing boulder problems by taking a photo of the wall. Define holds, difficulty, and descriptions to document your routes or outdoor projects. Discover and rate boulders created by others, and track your climbing progress.
- Create custom boulder problems from photos
- Define hand and foot holds
- Specify difficulty and descriptive text
- Search and rate existing boulders
- Track climbed and favorite boulders
- Export data to Excel
- Follow other climbers and view news feed
Read full descriptionHide full description
App to create and share your own boulder problems on every climbing wall / spray wall / training wall / system wall / chaos wall / boulder block by simply taking a picture and easily specifying the definition as detailed as you like. - No additional costs like many other apps. Create as many walls and boulders as you like - Search for locations / boulder walls that have already been added or add them yourself - Suitable for all artificial boulder walls and also for saving the beta of your outdoor projects - Take a picture of the wall area you want, select an image that is already stored in the app or from the gallery of your smartphone - Define the start and end of your boulder - Define hand and foot holds (optionally separately and explicitly for left / right if desired) - Optionally define fixed hold sequences by specifying numbering - Various ways of displaying the markers - Smoothly fade out markings to be able to see details "behind" the markings - General descriptive text for a boulder and also possible per hold - Optional specification of the wall angle - Specification of difficulty in Fontainebleau / Hueco V scale or without - Mark boulders that have been resetted to see directly that they are no longer on the wall - Edit, delete and clone boulders - Rate and comment boulders - Submission of individual difficulty ratings with graphical display of the difficulty distribution per boulder - Search for boulders by name, creator, difficulty from / to, rating, climbed, favorite, wall angle, resetted - Sorting of boulders by created on, climbed on, name, difficulty, number of ascents, popularity - Random boulder selection in a certain difficulty range for e.g. warm-up - Lists for your favorite and already climbed boulders - Share boulders outside of the app as an image, direct link and QR code - Display of news per location / boulder wall - Display of the difficulty distribution per location / boulder wall - Display of the locals per location / boulder wall - "Bulletin board" per location / boulder wall - Share locations / boulder walls outside of the app as direct link and QR code - Follow other users and see what they've been up to in your personal news feed - Get score points for your created boulders, climbed boulders or e. g. if one of your boulders has been rated well by others - Optional private profile if your activities should not be visible to others - Send and receive private messages - Automatically kept logbook to easily display your activities for a period of your choice - Export of all your created and climbed boulders in Microsoft Excel format for further individual evaluation Have fun!
Screenshots
Verdict
The clearest difference is price: BoulderBook Spraywall Climbing at Free against Boulder Challenge's $2.99. BoulderBook Spraywall Climbing also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 6 weeks) and review sentiment (83% vs 71%). Boulder Challenge's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 5) and rating (4.3 vs 4.0). On ratings volume, ads and device support 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
BoulderBook Spraywall Climbing is free to download; Boulder Challenge costs $2.99 up front. BoulderBook Spraywall Climbing sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Boulder Challenge asks for nothing beyond the download.
Boulder Challenge holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 10 and 23 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 83% of BoulderBook Spraywall Climbing's written reviews are positive against 71% of Boulder Challenge's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
BoulderBook Spraywall Climbing ships an update every 3 days, Boulder Challenge every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BoulderBook Spraywall Climbing | Boulder Challenge |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | 4.0 (10 ratings) | 4.3 (23 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 83.3% of reviews — better | 70.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 10 | 23 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 10.3 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 79 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Florian Zindel | Christian Fenzl |
Customer experience
BoulderBook Spraywall Climbing
Boulder Challenge
In-app purchases
BoulderBook Spraywall Climbing
- BoulderBook Unterstützer$1.00
- BoulderBook Supporter$3.99
- BoulderBook Unterstützer$4.00
Show 2 moreShow fewer
- BoulderBook Unterstützer$9.00
- BoulderBook Unterstützer$18.00
Boulder Challenge
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is BoulderBook Spraywall Climbing free?
Is Boulder Challenge free?
Which has better reviews, BoulderBook Spraywall Climbing or Boulder Challenge?
Do BoulderBook Spraywall Climbing or Boulder Challenge have ads?
Which is updated more often, BoulderBook Spraywall Climbing or Boulder Challenge?
Other comparisons















