Beta Direct vs Send It Climbing
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
Send It Climbing
Discover and preview climbing routes at various gyms. Connect with other climbers, share your own beta, and bookmark favorite locations. This app is designed for both climbing enthusiasts and gym owners.
- Explore new climbing gyms
- Preview routes by grade, color, or style
- Upload and preview climbing beta
- Connect with the climbing community
- Bookmark favorite gyms and routes
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Send It Climbing, is an app for climbing enthusiasts and gym owners Some of the features of the app are: - Explore new gyms - Preview routes at your gym - Filter routes by grade, color or climbing style - Preview and upload your own beta - Community feed to connect with the online climbing community - Bookmark your favorite gyms and routes
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Send It Climbing at 5.0 against Beta Direct's 4.0. Send It Climbing 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 ratings volume (9 vs 3). On price, device support 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. Beta Direct sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Send It Climbing asks for nothing beyond the download.
Send It Climbing holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 9 and 3 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 60% of Beta Direct's written reviews are positive against 100% of Send It Climbing's.
Beta Direct ships an update every 8 days, Send It Climbing every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on June 4, 2026 and June 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Beta Direct | Send It Climbing |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (9 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 60.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 9 — better | 3 |
| 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 | 13.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 67 MB | 59 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Robert Pierce | Andrei Villasana |
Customer experience
Beta Direct
Send It Climbing
In-app purchases
Beta Direct
- Remove Ads$0.99
- Wall Image Credit$0.99
- Unlimited Wall Image Credits$4.99
Send It Climbing
No in-app purchases
