Indoor Bouldering vs CompSesh
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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
CompSesh
Log climbing sessions, compete with friends in real-time multiplayer, and track your progress. Features balanced scoring for fair competition and a community gym directory. Offers advanced analytics for Pro members.
- Track climbing sessions
- Real-time multiplayer competitions
- Balanced scoring for fair play
- Skill Index and progress tracking
- Apple Watch integration
- Community gym directory
- Social sharing and profiles
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CompSesh is a bouldering app for climbing with friends. Log your sends at the climbing gym, compete in live sessions, and see who climbed best this week. Compete live with friends Start a session and invite your friends. Every send you log updates the leaderboard right away, so you always know who's ahead. Chat during the session, add a friend who doesn't have the app as a guest, and see who takes the crown at the end. Crews and leagues Start a crew with the people you climb with and set challenges: most points this week, most sends this month, or a group goal you work toward together. Join your gym's league to compete with everyone who climbs there. When a challenge ends, the results show up in your feed. Fair for every level Balanced mode uses each climber's rating to even out scores, so a V2 climber and a V7 climber can compete in the same session and both have a real shot at winning. Fast logging in your gym's grades Log a boulder in a few taps. CompSesh works with V-scale, Font, and the color circuits many gyms use. Add a photo or video of your send and mark the start and finish holds so your friends can find the problem. Solo sessions too Climbing alone? Track your session score, every send and every attempt. Your climbing log builds itself as you go. See your progress Your rating updates after every session. Look back at your grade history, your best sessions, and how your climbing is improving. Follow your friends See your friends' sessions in your feed, react, and comment. Watch their live sessions as they climb. Every gym has a monthly leaderboard to climb. Apple Watch Log boulders and check your score and place from your wrist. CompSesh Pro Some features need CompSesh Pro: starting multiplayer sessions, extended stats, photos and videos, custom colors, and the Apple Watch app. Pro starts with a free one-month trial. Terms of Use: https://compsesh.app/terms-of-service Privacy Policy: https://compsesh.app/privacy-policy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: CompSesh at weekly against Indoor Bouldering's every 2 weeks. CompSesh also leads on iOS requirement (18 vs 26.0). Indoor Bouldering's advantage is ratings volume (44 vs 7). On price, rating, review sentiment 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
Both are free to download. Indoor Bouldering sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and CompSesh sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Indoor Bouldering against 4.9 for CompSesh. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Indoor Bouldering has 44 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 94% of Indoor Bouldering's written reviews are positive against 100% of CompSesh's.
Indoor Bouldering ships an update every 2 weeks, CompSesh weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Indoor Bouldering | CompSesh |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (44 ratings) — better | 4.9 (7 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 94.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 44 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 18 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 117 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Gil Osborne | Aric Burkert |
Customer experience
Indoor Bouldering
CompSesh
In-app purchases
Indoor Bouldering
- Lifetime unlimited access$4.99
- Buy me coffee$4.99
- Buy me lunch$9.99
CompSesh
- CompSesh Pro — Monthly1 Month trial$2.991 Month
- CompSesh Pro — Annual1 Month trial$29.991 Year









