Touchstone Board vs Woods Board
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Touchstone Board
This app allows climbers to find and log boulder problems, create new ones, and share beta videos. It integrates with a special LED kit to illuminate holds for training.
- Search boulder problems
- Create new boulders
- Log ascents
- Follow other climbers
- Share beta videos
- LED hold illumination
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Climb and train on the Touchstone Board with the Touchstone Board app! Search and climb boulder problems of all difficulty levels. Create new boulders. Log ascents and browse your logbook. Follow other climbers. Find and share beta videos. LED Integration: Connect the app to the LED Kit via Bluetooth and light up the holds. Green = Start Hold Blue = Middle Hold Red = Finish Hold Magenta = Foot Only
Woods Board
This app connects to a specialized training board, allowing users to access and create climbing routes. It facilitates logging climbs, personalizing profiles, and engaging with a community leaderboard. Users can filter climbs by various criteria for tailored training sessions.
- Access and create climbing routes
- Log your successful climbs
- Personalize user profiles
- Community leaderboard
- Filter climbs by multiple criteria
- Bluetooth route lighting
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The Woods Board app is the one and only app designed to connect you to the Woods Board training board. With this app, you can create an account to access the entire database of climbs made for the Woods Board. This app allows you to connect to any Woods Board control box and light up any route via Bluetooth. The Woods Board climbs follow a Standard system to generate a universal grade system for all climbs. What does the app do? - Allow access to view and create any climb to submit to the official Woods Board database - Log your sends of Woods Board climbs - Personalize your own account information - Specify specific climb rules for climbs you publish - Allows the ability to compete against other climbers with a Leaderboard Our goal for the Woods Board app is to create a platform based around community involvement and interaction. We hope to foster an individual user experience based on interaction between you and the community. With the leaderboard (weekly and all-time) system, we hope to encourage a competitive and refreshing dynamic between users. Additionally, our goal with the playlist system is to enable user personalization for enjoyment and training purposes. Our filtering system includes the option to filter by: hold, author, climb type, wall angle, grade, and more.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Touchstone Board at 3.3 against Woods Board's 2.0. Touchstone Board also leads on ratings volume (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.6). Woods Board's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 2 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Touchstone Board holds the better App Store score, 3.3 against 2.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.
Touchstone Board ships an update every 2 months, Woods Board monthly. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Touchstone Board | Woods Board |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (3 ratings) — better | 2.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 18.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Aurora Climbing Inc. | Menagerie Climbing LLC |
Customer experience
Touchstone Board
Woods Board
In-app purchases
Touchstone Board
No in-app purchases
Woods Board
No in-app purchases
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