Comparison

La Pirca vs Cordada

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

Head to head
About

La Pirca

Create and distribute digital or paper guides for climbing routes. Retain full copyright and easily reuse digital content for print versions. This platform aims to provide a fast, user-friendly way for route setters to share information and monetize their guides.

Highlights
  • Create digital and paper guides
  • Distribute guides digitally or in print
  • Retain full copyright
  • Offline content creation
  • Reuse digital content for print
  • Monetize climbing guides
Features
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Crea tus tus guias y distribuye de forma digital o en papel. Conserva los derechos de autor sobre lo que publicas. Funciona tanto con o sin conexion, lo cual facilita enormemente la creacion de contenido. El equipador conserva en su totalidad los derechos de autor, pudiendo publicar o eliminar de la plataforma sin aviso previo. Reutiliza las guias y croquis digitales para luego editarlas en tus guias de papel Nuestro objetivo es lograr que los equipadores tengan una plataforma rapida y facil de utilizar a la hora de distribuir informacion sobre sectores de escalada. Que puedan cobrar por las guias a un costo minimo. Que tengan la libertad de distribuir el material en forma de guia de papel sin tener que hacer el trabajo dos veces y sin costo adicional alguno.

About

Cordada

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Cordada tells you when the rock grips. This isn't another climbing guidebook. It's an instrument: it cross-references which way each wall actually faces — worked out from the terrain — with the sun and shade on it at that hour, the last few days of rain against how porous its rock type is, humidity, wind and the dew point. The result is the Friction Score, hour by hour, sector by sector. You'll know whether the early start is worth it, whether the wall will be dry on Saturday, and what time the sun comes off it. THE CATALOG · Hundreds of thousands of routes, across tens of thousands of sectors in 80 countries. · Community topos, with the lines drawn over the real photo. · Search by route name, crag, town or grade, plus the full guidebook by region. · Grades in French, YDS, UIAA, UK and Font — pick your system. · Route missing? You add it and it goes straight in. New crags and sectors go through review. THE CONDITIONS · Friction Score hour by hour, and it tells you why: "Wall in the shade · cool rock, grips", "Rained 6h ago · rock still 40% wet, poor grip". · Mountain Skyline: the horizon profile of each sector, so you can see when the sun really hits it and when it leaves. · Season calendar for every crag. · Geological map of Spain (IGME): what rock you're standing on. YOUR CREW · Meetup board: post a plan or join someone else's. Every meetup shows the Friction Score for its spot at its hour, so plans get made with the rock on your side. · Invite your friends to a meetup, or offer a private plan to just one of them. · Cordada Match: find a belay partner in your area, by swiping. · My crew: share your live location only with the people you choose. · Belay endorsements: what your partners say about how you belay. YOUR GYM · Nearly 4,000 climbing gyms on the map, each with its address and the route to the door. · Join yours and it shows up under Your gyms. Once five of you from the same gym have joined, your room opens. · Missing yours? Suggest it from the directory and we will review it. YOUR LOGBOOK · Log every attempt and every send, with a photo and the conditions of the moment. · Grade pyramid and consolidated grade: how you're progressing, with data. · Send card ready to share. · Your conquest: the map lights up with the sectors and regions you climb. AT THE WALL · Augmented reality for the approach: the sectors, labeled over the camera. · Approach trails: GPS breadcrumbs left by the community so you find the way in. · Sun path in AR: where it will be three hours from now. · Offline download: topos, sectors and routes ready with no signal. FREE AND PREMIUM Free forever: the map, the catalog, your logbook, the grade pyramid, the geology, the season calendar and the whole social side in your own area — the meetup board, Match and your crew. We don't paywall the community. Premium (€4.99/month or €39.99/year, one week free; your local price is shown in the App Store) adds the Friction Score and the Mountain Skyline, the alert when one of your plans goes south on the weather, offline download, the sun path in AR and travel mode, which opens up Match and the meetup board in any other region. And on Fridays the Friction Score belongs to everyone: it opens up for all, right when the weekend needs planning. MADE BY A CLIMBER Cordada is made by one person, in Spain, with no investors and no outside money. If something breaks or could be better, write to us from inside the app: it gets fixed. Climbing carries a risk of serious injury and death. Cordada gives you guidance; the decision and the judgment on the mountain are yours. Always check knot, rope end and belay device. Terms of Use: https://cordada.eu/terminos Privacy Policy: https://cordada.eu/privacidad

Screenshots

La Pirca4 screens
Cordada4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: La Pirca at none against Cordada's 2. La Pirca also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.6). Cordada's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 10 days). On price 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. Cordada sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. La Pirca asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

La Pirca ships an update every 10 days, Cordada every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on September 14, 2026 and September 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 4 level
La Pirca versus Cordada: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLa PircaCordada
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews25.0% of reviews—
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS14.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size57 MB18 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJuan BreinlingerPAVEL VOJCIECH KADZIOLULA

In-app purchases

None

La Pirca

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Cordada

Subscriptions2
  • Premium mensual7 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • Premium anual7 Days trial$34.991 Year

Questions

Is La Pirca free?
La Pirca is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Cordada free?
Cordada is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do La Pirca or Cordada have ads?
Neither La Pirca nor Cordada shows ads.
Which is updated more often, La Pirca or Cordada?
La Pirca ships an update every 10 days, and Cordada every 3 days. Most recently, La Pirca was updated on September 14, 2026 and Cordada on September 11, 2026.

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