Comparison

BoulderBook vs BoulderBot

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

BoulderBook

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.

Highlights
  • Save boulder problems
  • Share climb definitions
  • Rate boulder problems
  • Use on homewalls
  • Use in climbing clubs
  • Use in commercial gyms
Features
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The BoulderBook app allows you to save, share and rate boulder on your training wall. Never forget a boulder definition on your spraywall again! The app can be used on your private homewall, your climbing club or in a big commercial gym with a spraywall.

About

BoulderBot

Generate and track bouldering routes on your home climbing wall. Features procedural generation for infinite climb variations, manual creation, and progress logging. Supports various wall types and works offline.

Highlights
  • Procedural climb generation
  • Manual climb creation
  • Progress tracking and logging
  • Wall setup wizard
  • Offline functionality
  • Search and filter problems
Features
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BoulderBot is your personal bouldering Spray Wall setter, tracker and organizer. Challenge yourself and find new inspiration by using the experimental Procedural Generation algorithms, quickly creating an infinite number of new climbs on your wall! You can customize parameters like Difficulty and Length to create problems suited to your needs. The generation algorithms are experimental and under active development, but even if they don't produce perfect results, you can immediately edit the generated problems in a few seconds (which is also a great way to improve your setting skills). You can also easily create your own custom problems from scratch. Problems can be saved for tracking your progress and logging ascents, and functionality like searching, filtering and sorting is available to find problems for your training sessions. ADDING YOUR WALL An interactive wizard procedure will allow you to add your wall in the application, guiding you in specifying all required information (this procedure will take around 5 to 10 minutes): - An image of the wall (specific instructions are given to ensure the best generation results) - Attributes like height and angle - The position of the holds on your wall, and their relative difficulty rating This procedure needs to be performed only when you add a new wall or reset the current one. Once a wall is added, all other functionality (like generating problems, or creating them manually) is immediate and takes no extra set up time. An in-app help system is also available if you have any doubt about the application. The application supports Home Climbing Walls, Spray Walls, Woodys, and Training Boards. The generation algorithms work only on generally flat walls which can be pictured in a single image; highly featured walls with many different angles, corners and roof sections are not supported at the moment. NO MANDATORY INTERNET CONNECTIVITY The Application can work completely offline: you can choose to use the App without an account, making the image you select and the Boulder problems you create all stored on your device's internal storage. PROBLEM RULES The boulder problems should be climbed by starting with both hands on green "Start" holds (either one hand per hold if there are two holds, or with both hands matching the single hold). Blue "Hold" holds can be used with both hands and feet, while yellow "Foot" holds cannot be touched by hands. The problem is considered complete once you hold for a couple of seconds onto the red "End" holds (either one hand per hold if there are two holds, or with both hands matching the single hold). DISCLAIMER Climbing is an inherently dangerous activity. Climbs shown in the App are random in nature, there is no guarantee about their safety, quality or correctness, please always judge the safety of the climbs before attempting them.

Screenshots

BoulderBook4 screens
BoulderBot4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: BoulderBook at every 2 days against BoulderBot's every 5 weeks. BoulderBot's advantage is rating (4.4 vs 4.0) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. BoulderBook sells 5 one-off in-app purchases and BoulderBot sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

BoulderBot holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 9 and 11 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 82% of BoulderBook's written reviews are positive against 75% of BoulderBot's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

BoulderBook ships an update every 2 days, BoulderBot every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
BoulderBook versus BoulderBot: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBoulderBookBoulderBot
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (9 ratings)4.4 (11 ratings) — better
Positive reviews82.4% of reviews — better75.0% of reviews
Number of ratings911 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterEvery 5 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.014.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size17 MB74 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperFlorian ZindelLuca Dellana

Customer experience

BoulderBook

All ratings9 ratings
Positive77.8%
Neutral0.0%
Negative22.2%
Written reviews17 reviews
Positive82.4%
Neutral5.9%
Negative11.8%

BoulderBot

All ratings11 ratings
Positive81.8%
Neutral0.0%
Negative18.2%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%

In-app purchases

5 purchases

BoulderBook

One-time5
  • BoulderBook Unterstützer$1.00
  • BoulderBook Supporter$3.99
  • BoulderBook Unterstützer$4.00
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  • BoulderBook Unterstützer$9.00
  • BoulderBook Unterstützer$18.00
3 purchases

BoulderBot

One-time3
  • BoulderBot Pro Pass - 3 Months$7.99
  • BoulderBot Pro Pass - 1 Year$17.99
  • BoulderBot Pro$27.99

Questions

Is BoulderBook free?
BoulderBook is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is BoulderBot free?
BoulderBot is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, BoulderBook or BoulderBot?
BoulderBot is rated higher. BoulderBook averages 4.0 out of 5 from 9 ratings, while BoulderBot averages 4.4 from 11 ratings.
Do BoulderBook or BoulderBot have ads?
Neither BoulderBook nor BoulderBot shows ads.
Which is updated more often, BoulderBook or BoulderBot?
BoulderBook ships an update every 2 days, and BoulderBot every 5 weeks. Most recently, BoulderBook was updated on September 26, 2026 and BoulderBot on September 30, 2026.

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