Ferrata Guide vs Dringo Climbing Journal
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ferrata Guide
Discover and navigate via ferratas worldwide with a comprehensive database featuring detailed descriptions, topos, ratings, and photos. Plan your adventures, track your climbs, and connect with a community of fellow climbers.
- Extensive via ferrata database
- Interactive map with advanced filtering
- Detailed route descriptions and topos
- User ratings and photos
- Personal climbing profiles
- Community communication features
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Ferrata Guide - The biggest Via Ferrata database containing ferratas from Austria, Italy, France and more than 20 other countries. Everything is shown on a map with advanced filtering. Detailed description, topos, ratings and photos from other climbers. You can create a profile where you can mark ferratas that you have climbed or save ferratas that you want to climb in the future. You can communicate with other climbers and many more cool features! Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Dringo Climbing Journal
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Dringo is a climbing notebook for the climbs you are actually working on. Start with a quick project, then build it out over time with move-by-move beta, session notes, photos, and timers. Everything stays together, so you can pick a climb back up weeks later and still know what worked. Use Dringo to: • Keep projects for boulders, sport routes, trad lines, board climbs, and training sessions • Build move-by-move beta with hold tags, movement cues, traits, and crux markers • Log sessions with attempts, conditions, body notes, photos, and carry-forward notes • Run interval timers for rests, repeater sets, hangs, or board sessions • Share a climb as an image card, plain-text beta, or a Dringo beta another climber can import • Keep a personal journal of what happened on the wall and what to try next time Dringo works whether you just want a simple project list or a deeper notebook for climbs that start to matter.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Dringo Climbing Journal at none against Ferrata Guide's 1. Dringo Climbing Journal also leads on ads (none vs shown). On price, update cadence, 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. Ferrata Guide sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $17.99 per year. Dringo Climbing Journal asks for nothing beyond the download.
Ferrata Guide ships an update every 9 days, Dringo Climbing Journal weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ferrata Guide | Dringo Climbing Journal |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (24 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 46.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 24 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | Weekly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 76 MB | 51 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | HARMANEC s.r.o | alexander Wigmore |
In-app purchases
Ferrata Guide
- Yearly subscription$17.991 Year
Dringo Climbing Journal
No in-app purchases
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