BoulderBook vs Boardclimbs
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Save boulder problems
- Share climb definitions
- Rate boulder problems
- Use on homewalls
- Use in climbing clubs
- Use in commercial gyms
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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.
Boardclimbs
Log and share boulder problems on your spraywall. Automatically detect holds with AI and create custom routes. Compete on leaderboards and engage with the climbing community.
- AI hold detection
- Create custom boulder problems
- Share problems with community
- Personalized climber profiles
- Leaderboard competition
- Spraywall photo uploads
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Boardclimbs is an app for climbers to find and share boulder problems on spraywalls. Upload a photo of your wall/board and Hector the hold detector will find and mark all the holds on your wall. You can then create problems on your wall by interactively choosing holds in the app. Personalize your profile with a picture and a display name and engage in the many community features of the app. Try to top the leaderboard for your local wall, as a setter or a climber!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Boardclimbs at 5.0 against BoulderBook's 4.0. Boardclimbs also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 5) and review sentiment (100% vs 81%). BoulderBook's advantage is ratings volume (9 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. BoulderBook sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Boardclimbs asks for nothing beyond the download.
Boardclimbs holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: BoulderBook has 9 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 81% of BoulderBook's written reviews are positive against 100% of Boardclimbs's.
| Parameter | BoulderBook | Boardclimbs |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (9 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 81.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 9 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 14.2 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Florian Zindel | Felix Abrahamsson |
Customer experience
BoulderBook
Boardclimbs
In-app purchases
BoulderBook
- BoulderBook Unterstützer$1.00
- BoulderBook Supporter$3.99
- BoulderBook Unterstützer$4.00
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- BoulderBook Unterstützer$9.00
- BoulderBook Unterstützer$18.00
Boardclimbs
No in-app purchases
