Comparison

ClimbAlong vs BoulderBot

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

Head to head
About

ClimbAlong

Features
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ClimbAlong is an app for climbing competitions, designed for both climbers, judges, routesetters and organizers. It helps you register for and manage competitions, find results, and submit scores - Making the competition experience easy and simple. Key Features: - Create your profile with details, photo, and social links - See all your past, current, and upcoming competitions - Register for events online or by scanning a QR code - Self-score as a climber or submit scores as a judge - Manage competition details as a organizer or routesetter - Follow results updating live for each competition - Find results from any competition using ClimbAlong Thank you for using ClimbAlong!

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

ClimbAlong4 screens
BoulderBot4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: ClimbAlong at none against BoulderBot's 3. On price, update cadence, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. BoulderBot sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. ClimbAlong asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ClimbAlong ships an update every 3 weeks, BoulderBot every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 17, 2026 and August 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
ClimbAlong versus BoulderBot: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterClimbAlongBoulderBot
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.4 (11 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—75.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—11 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 5 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.014.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size43 MB74 MB
Age rating4+9+
DevelopernorthtechLuca Dellana

In-app purchases

None

ClimbAlong

No in-app purchases

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 ClimbAlong free?
ClimbAlong is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is BoulderBot free?
BoulderBot is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do ClimbAlong or BoulderBot have ads?
Neither ClimbAlong nor BoulderBot shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ClimbAlong or BoulderBot?
ClimbAlong ships an update every 3 weeks, and BoulderBot every 5 weeks. Most recently, ClimbAlong was updated on September 17, 2026 and BoulderBot on August 30, 2026.

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