Touchstone Board vs Boardsesh
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
Boardsesh
This app connects to various LED climbing boards via Bluetooth to light up holds on your wall. Browse and filter thousands of community-created climbs, build a queue, and track your progress. It supports group sessions for climbing with friends, whether in the same gym or remotely.
- Connects to LED climbing boards
- Lights up holds on the wall
- Browse and filter community climbs
- Build and manage a climb queue
- Track climbing attempts and sends
- Supports group climbing sessions
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Search a climb, watch your wall light up. Less time on your phone, more time on the wall. ONE APP FOR EVERY BOARD YOU CLIMB Kilter, Tension and MoonBoard each ship their own app for their own board. Boardsesh works across all of them, plus Woods, Decoy, Touchstone, Grasshopper and So iLL, in one place. Your whole climbing history across every board lives here. BOARD HISTORY, ALWAYS ON Share a board and you lose track of the last climb fast, and someone always wipes it by accident. In Boardsesh every board you connect to has a live feed of what's lit on that wall right now: the climb's name, who lit it, who set it, the grade and angle, and recent sends. It updates as the wall changes, so you always know what's up there. SESSIONS WITH YOUR CREW Start a session and you and your crew can share one queue everyone can drive. Anyone can light the next climb on the wall. When you're done you get a recap and tracking: sends and attempts, grade spread, your hardest send, and progress over time. CONTROL FROM YOUR LOCK SCREEN (iOS 17+) iOS Live Activities tell you what climb is on from your lock screen, and allow you to change it without leaving your lock screen. BUILD A WORKOUT Pick Volume, Pyramid, Ladder or Grade Focus, set a target grade and warm-up, preview the climbs, then push them to the wall one at a time. TRACK YOUR CLIMBING Record sends, flashes and attempts, get a recap with duration, grade spread and your hardest send, and watch your sends and grades climb on the Progress tab. BRING YOUR HISTORY WITH YOU Save your session to Apple Health, and import your past Kilter and Tension logbook from Aurora Climbing. FIND MORE TO CLIMB Follow your crew and setters, search climbers, and pin playlists from Discover. Supported boards: Kilter, Tension, MoonBoard (2010, 2016, 2024, Masters 2017, Masters 2019), Woods (12x12, 8x10), Decoy, Touchstone, Grasshopper and So iLL. Boardsesh is a community effort that works with these boards and is not affiliated with or endorsed by any board manufacturer.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Boardsesh at 4.6 against Touchstone Board's 3.3. Boardsesh also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (24 vs 3). Touchstone Board's advantage is iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.4). 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.
Boardsesh holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Boardsesh has 24 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Touchstone Board ships an update every 2 months, Boardsesh every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on September 13, 2026 and September 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Touchstone Board | Boardsesh |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (3 ratings) | 4.6 (24 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 75.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 24 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 100 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Aurora Climbing Inc. | Marco de Jongh |
Customer experience
Touchstone Board
Boardsesh
In-app purchases
Touchstone Board
No in-app purchases
Boardsesh
No in-app purchases





