Boulder Creator vs OruxMaps
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Boulder Creator
Easily create and share climbing problems with a global community. Document your training sessions by marking holds, assigning difficulty, and tracking your progress. No more physical markers needed to share your latest challenges.
- Create climbing problems
- Share problems with community
- Mark holds on wall photos
- Assign difficulty levels
- Track sends and projects
- Profile for progress tracking
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Take your climbing experience to a new era. Passionate about bouldering? Boulder Creator is the ultimate tool to connect with your gym, track your progress, and bring route setting creativity right to your fingertips. Forget about colored tape, blurry wall markings, or memorizing sequences. Now you can set, share, and climb interactive problems in seconds. What can you do with Boulder Creator? • CREATE WITHOUT LIMITS: Snap a photo of the wall, mark the holds, define grip types, choose the grade, and save your line. Your boulder is instantly available for the entire community. • LOGBOOK AND PROGRESS: Keep a detailed history of your sends, pending projects, and performance metrics for every session. • RANKINGS AND COMMUNITY: Check your position on the leaderboard alongside climbers and routesetters at your local gym. • DIGITAL BULLETIN BOARD: Stay updated on active events, gym competitions, and challenge yourself with the Boulder of the Week. Whether you train at a commercial climbing gym or on your private homewall, Boulder Creator keeps your motivation at an all-time high. Download for free and join the new era of climbing.
OruxMaps
Record and analyze outdoor activities with various online and offline maps. Track routes, use sensors, and share your live position. Includes advanced GIS tools for calculations and utilities like a compass and dashboard.
- Record routes with online/offline maps
- Integrate with heart rate and bike sensors
- Upload activities to Strava/SICAMI
- Analyze activity data with graphs
- Follow routes with alerts
- Live position sharing
- GIS tools for calculations
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Enjoy your outdoor activities. The app allows you to record your routes using different types of maps, both online and offline. Supported offline map formats: Mapsforge .map, Garmin .img, Rmap .rmap, GeoPDF .pdf, GeoTIFF .tif, MBTiles .mbtiles Keep your data private. No registration required, and no uploading of your data anywhere if you don't want to. Use different sensors in your activities (heart rate monitor, cadence/speed/power on a bike). Upload your activities to important sites like Strava or SICAMI. Analyze your activities, obtaining graphs, average and maximum data, etc. Follow routes, with alerts when you move away from the path or when you approach points of interest. Search for routes using an online service, which will allow you to find paths anywhere. It includes a powerful GIS tool for complex distance calculations, bearings, intersections, coordinate conversions, and more. Share your live position with your friends and hiking companions, or with family so they can follow your trail. It includes numerous utilities: - Dashboard - Compass - Artificial horizon - GIS tool Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Boulder Creator at 89% against OruxMaps's 36%. Boulder Creator also leads on rating (4.7 vs 3.8) and in-app purchases (none vs 6). OruxMaps's advantage is device support (4 vs 2). On price, update cadence, ads 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. OruxMaps sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Boulder Creator asks for nothing beyond the download.
Boulder Creator holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Boulder Creator has 31 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 89% of Boulder Creator's written reviews are positive against 36% of OruxMaps's.
Boulder Creator ships an update every 2 months, OruxMaps every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on August 27, 2026 and September 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Boulder Creator | OruxMaps |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (31 ratings) — better | 3.8 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 88.9% of reviews — better | 35.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 31 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 118 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Gustavo Grassi | jose Vazquez Araujo |
Customer experience
Boulder Creator
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In-app purchases
Boulder Creator
No in-app purchases
OruxMaps
- Monthly Premium$0.991 Month
- Yearly Premium$9.991 Year
- Buy me a coffee$1.99
- Small contribution$2.99
- Medium contribution$4.99
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- Large contribution$9.99
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