Comparison

Indoor Bouldering vs BoulderBot

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

Head to head
About

Indoor Bouldering

Easily track your indoor bouldering progress. Record climbs, reflect on sessions, and monitor your improvement over time. Designed for simplicity with no logins or share spam.

Highlights
  • Quickly record climb details
  • Track goals and save session reflections
  • See progress over time
  • No logins or share spam
  • Syncs with iCloud
  • Common terms and holds for beginners
Features
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Simply track your indoor bouldering progress, that's it. Quickly record projects as you climb, reflect on your goals after each session, and move up in grade. - Quickly record climb details - Track goals and save session reflections - Easily see your progress over time - Add photos of each route you climb - Support grade scales: V, Font, YDS, UK - No logins - No share spam - No tracking - Syncs with iCloud - Common terms and holds for newer climbers - Export or import climb history

About

BoulderBot

Generate and track bouldering routes on your home climbing wall. Features procedural generation for infinite climb variations, manual creation, and progress logging. Supports various wall types and works offline.

Highlights
  • Procedural climb generation
  • Manual climb creation
  • Progress tracking and logging
  • Wall setup wizard
  • Offline functionality
  • Search and filter problems
Features
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BoulderBot is your personal bouldering Spray Wall setter, tracker and organizer. Challenge yourself and find new inspiration by using the experimental Procedural Generation algorithms, quickly creating an infinite number of new climbs on your wall! You can customize parameters like Difficulty and Length to create problems suited to your needs. The generation algorithms are experimental and under active development, but even if they don't produce perfect results, you can immediately edit the generated problems in a few seconds (which is also a great way to improve your setting skills). You can also easily create your own custom problems from scratch. Problems can be saved for tracking your progress and logging ascents, and functionality like searching, filtering and sorting is available to find problems for your training sessions. ADDING YOUR WALL An interactive wizard procedure will allow you to add your wall in the application, guiding you in specifying all required information (this procedure will take around 5 to 10 minutes): - An image of the wall (specific instructions are given to ensure the best generation results) - Attributes like height and angle - The position of the holds on your wall, and their relative difficulty rating This procedure needs to be performed only when you add a new wall or reset the current one. Once a wall is added, all other functionality (like generating problems, or creating them manually) is immediate and takes no extra set up time. An in-app help system is also available if you have any doubt about the application. The application supports Home Climbing Walls, Spray Walls, Woodys, and Training Boards. The generation algorithms work only on generally flat walls which can be pictured in a single image; highly featured walls with many different angles, corners and roof sections are not supported at the moment. NO MANDATORY INTERNET CONNECTIVITY The Application can work completely offline: you can choose to use the App without an account, making the image you select and the Boulder problems you create all stored on your device's internal storage. PROBLEM RULES The boulder problems should be climbed by starting with both hands on green "Start" holds (either one hand per hold if there are two holds, or with both hands matching the single hold). Blue "Hold" holds can be used with both hands and feet, while yellow "Foot" holds cannot be touched by hands. The problem is considered complete once you hold for a couple of seconds onto the red "End" holds (either one hand per hold if there are two holds, or with both hands matching the single hold). DISCLAIMER Climbing is an inherently dangerous activity. Climbs shown in the App are random in nature, there is no guarantee about their safety, quality or correctness, please always judge the safety of the climbs before attempting them.

Screenshots

Indoor Bouldering4 screens
BoulderBot4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Indoor Bouldering at 4.9 against BoulderBot's 4.4. Indoor Bouldering also leads on review sentiment (94% vs 75%) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months). BoulderBot's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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. Indoor Bouldering sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and BoulderBot sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Indoor Bouldering holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 44 and 11 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 94% of Indoor Bouldering's written reviews are positive against 75% of BoulderBot's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Indoor Bouldering ships an update every 2 weeks, BoulderBot every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Indoor Bouldering versus BoulderBot: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterIndoor BoulderingBoulderBot
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (44 ratings) — better4.4 (11 ratings)
Positive reviews94.1% of reviews — better75.0% of reviews
Number of ratings44 — better11
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS26.014.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB68 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperGil OsborneLuca Dellana

Customer experience

Indoor Bouldering

All ratings44 ratings
Positive97.7%
Neutral2.3%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews34 reviews
Positive94.1%
Neutral5.9%
Negative0.0%

BoulderBot

All ratings11 ratings
Positive81.8%
Neutral0.0%
Negative18.2%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Indoor Bouldering

One-time3
  • Lifetime unlimited access$4.99
  • Buy me coffee$4.99
  • Buy me lunch$9.99
3 purchases

BoulderBot

One-time3
  • BoulderBot Pro Pass - 3 Months$7.99
  • BoulderBot Pro Pass - 1 Year$17.99
  • BoulderBot Pro$27.99

Questions

Is Indoor Bouldering free?
Indoor Bouldering is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is BoulderBot free?
BoulderBot is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Indoor Bouldering or BoulderBot?
Indoor Bouldering is rated higher. Indoor Bouldering averages 4.9 out of 5 from 44 ratings, while BoulderBot averages 4.4 from 11 ratings.
Do Indoor Bouldering or BoulderBot have ads?
Neither Indoor Bouldering nor BoulderBot shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Indoor Bouldering or BoulderBot?
Indoor Bouldering ships an update every 2 weeks, and BoulderBot every 2 months. Most recently, Indoor Bouldering was updated on October 27, 2026 and BoulderBot on October 24, 2026.

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