Decoy Board vs Boardsesh
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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
Boardsesh
This app connects to various LED climbing boards via Bluetooth to light up holds on your wall. Browse and filter thousands of community-created climbs, build a queue, and track your progress. It supports group sessions for climbing with friends, whether in the same gym or remotely.
- Connects to LED climbing boards
- Lights up holds on the wall
- Browse and filter community climbs
- Build and manage a climb queue
- Track climbing attempts and sends
- Supports group climbing sessions
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Climb on Kilter, Tension, MoonBoard and more, plus your spray wall. Keep your climbs, shared queue and logbook in one app. YOUR BOARDS. ONE APP. Boardsesh works with Kilter, Tension, MoonBoard, Woods, Decoy, Touchstone, Grasshopper and So iLL. Switch between supported boards and keep your climbing history together. YOUR SPRAY WALL, TOO A home wall, or a spray wall at your gym? Photograph it and Boardsesh suggests holds from the photo. Fix what it missed, then set climbs, queue them and log sends in the same logbook as your other boards. No LEDs needed: the holds are highlighted on your photo. Share the wall by link and your crew can set on it too. Stripped the wall? Reset it with a new photo, and the old wall is archived with its climbs and sends. Swap a single hold and any climb that used it is flagged. BOARD HISTORY Share a board and you lose track of the last climb fast, and someone always wipes it by accident. See climbs lit through Boardsesh on that board: the climb name, who lit it, who set it, grade and angle, and recent sends. SESSIONS WITH YOUR CREW Start a session and you and your crew can share one queue everyone can drive. Anyone can light the next climb on the wall. When you're done you get a recap and tracking: sends and attempts, grade spread, your hardest send, and progress over time. CONTROL FROM YOUR LOCK SCREEN (iOS 17+) iOS Live Activities tell you what climb is on from your lock screen, and allow you to change it without leaving your lock screen. BUILD A WORKOUT Pick Volume, Pyramid, Ladder or Grade Focus, set a target grade and warm-up, preview the climbs, then push them to the wall one at a time. TRACK YOUR CLIMBING Record sends, flashes and attempts, get a recap with duration, grade spread and your hardest send, and watch your sends and grades climb on the Progress tab. BRING YOUR HISTORY WITH YOU Save your session to Apple Health, and import your past Kilter and Tension logbook from Aurora Climbing. FIND MORE TO CLIMB Follow your crew and setters, search climbers, and pin playlists from Discover. Supported boards: Kilter, Tension, MoonBoard (2010, 2016, 2024, Masters 2017, Masters 2019), Woods (12x12, 8x10), Decoy, Touchstone, Grasshopper and So iLL. Plus spray walls: any wall you can photograph. Boardsesh is a community effort that works with these boards and is not affiliated with or endorsed by any board manufacturer.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Decoy Board at 5.0 against Boardsesh's 4.6. Decoy Board also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 77%) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.4). Boardsesh's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (29 vs 6). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Decoy Board holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 29 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Decoy Board's written reviews are positive against 77% of Boardsesh's.
Decoy Board ships an update every 2 months, Boardsesh every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Decoy Board | Boardsesh |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better | 4.6 (29 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 76.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 6 | 29 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 94 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Aurora Climbing Inc. | Marco de Jongh |
Customer experience
Decoy Board
Boardsesh
In-app purchases
Decoy Board
No in-app purchases
Boardsesh
No in-app purchases
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