Comparison

Boulder Challenge vs Lumo Climbing

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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!

About

Lumo Climbing

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The Lumo app is the remote control for the Lumo climbing wall. Climbers can set their own boulders, climb existing boulders, make lists, track training and much more.

Screenshots

Boulder Challenge4 screens
Lumo Climbing4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Lumo Climbing at Free against Boulder Challenge's $2.99. Boulder Challenge's advantage is iOS requirement (10.3 vs 16.6). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Lumo Climbing is free to download; Boulder Challenge costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Boulder Challenge ships an update every 6 weeks, Lumo Climbing every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Boulder Challenge versus Lumo Climbing: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBoulder ChallengeLumo Climbing
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating4.3 (23 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews70.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings23 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS10.3 — better16.6
Further details — not scored
Size79 MB61 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperChristian FenzlLumo Climbing ApS

In-app purchases

None

Boulder Challenge

No in-app purchases

None

Lumo Climbing

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Boulder Challenge free?
Boulder Challenge costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Lumo Climbing free?
Lumo Climbing is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Boulder Challenge or Lumo Climbing have ads?
Neither Boulder Challenge nor Lumo Climbing shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Boulder Challenge or Lumo Climbing?
Boulder Challenge ships an update every 6 weeks, and Lumo Climbing every 3 weeks. Most recently, Boulder Challenge was updated on October 9, 2026 and Lumo Climbing on September 26, 2026.

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