Beta Direct vs Decoy Board
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Beta Direct
Easily create and share climbing routes on any wall by uploading a photo. Draw climbs, track your progress, and collaborate with friends by sharing your wall and their routes. Update your wall's configuration as holds change.
- Upload and adjust climbing wall photos
- Draw and create custom climbs
- Track and sort all created climbs
- Update wall configurations with new photos
- Share walls and climbs with friends
- Climb friends' routes on your wall
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Beta Direct allows any climber to make the most of their climbing wall - a home wall or even any gym wall. Take a photo of a climbing wall, add it to Beta Direct, and start creating climbs. Share your wall with friends and let them add climbs too. When some climbing holds change - take a new photo, adjust it so the holds still line-up, and keep climbing. Features: * Easily upload a photo of a climbing wall * Adjust your wall photos to best fit the climbing holds * Create climbs by drawing over your wall photo * Track and sort all climbs on your wall * Update your wall at any time - adjust a new photo so that old existing holds still line-up * Share your wall with friends, including your wall photo * Climb your friend’s climbs on your wall
Decoy Board
This app allows users to search, create, and log boulder problems for climbing training. It features LED integration to light up holds for a guided climbing experience.
- Search boulder problems
- Create new boulders
- Log ascents
- Browse logbook
- Share beta videos
- LED hold integration
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Climb and train on the Decoy Board with the Decoy Board app! Search and climb boulder problems of all difficulty levels. Create new boulders. Log ascents and browse your logbook. 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
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Decoy Board at 5.0 against Beta Direct's 4.0. Decoy Board also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 60%) and in-app purchases (none vs 3). Beta Direct's advantage is update cadence (every 8 days vs every 2 months) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 14.0). On price, ratings volume 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
Both are free to download. Beta Direct sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Decoy Board asks for nothing beyond the download.
Decoy Board holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 9 and 6 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 60% of Beta Direct's written reviews are positive against 100% of Decoy Board's.
Beta Direct ships an update every 8 days, Decoy Board every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Beta Direct | Decoy Board |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (9 ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 60.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 9 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 67 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Robert Pierce | Aurora Climbing Inc. |
Customer experience
Beta Direct
Decoy Board
In-app purchases
Beta Direct
- Remove Ads$0.99
- Wall Image Credit$0.99
- Unlimited Wall Image Credits$4.99
Decoy Board
No in-app purchases
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