Comparison

Hiking Buddies vs Boulder Challenger

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

Head to head
About

Hiking Buddies

Organize and discover hiking activities with this app. Create routes with estimated difficulty levels and track your fitness progress. Anyone can join or create events, fostering a community for outdoor exploration.

Highlights
  • Organize hiking activities
  • Create and estimate route difficulties
  • Join or create events
  • Track fitness
  • Community for hikers
Features
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Hiking Buddies provides a platform to organize hiking activities. You can create a route and the platform estimates a difficulties based on various criteria. Anyone is free to organize/join the events. You can track your fitness in the app.

About

Boulder Challenger

Features
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Bring variety to your next bouldering session! Boulder Challenger gives you fresh challenges for the problems at your climbing gym. You choose the boulders – we make the rules. SOLO OR DUEL Train on your own and choose from suitable challenges. Or play with 2–6 people on one device and pick challenges for each other. MATCHED TO YOUR LEVEL Enter your maximum bouldering level and pull-up count. The app uses these values to set difficulty and strength-based tasks. YOUR CHALLENGES, YOUR CHOICE Browse the rules in Settings and turn individual challenges off or back on. Your selection stays saved on your device. TECHNIQUE, BALANCE AND STRENGTH Discover challenges for precise footwork, controlled movement and new ways to solve familiar problems. • Solo sessions with 1–20 boulders • Points and an end-of-session summary • English and German • Play offline, without an account or ads Bouldering involves a risk of injury. Follow your gym’s rules, choose suitable problems and stop a challenge whenever you feel unsafe.

Screenshots

Hiking Buddies4 screens
Boulder Challenger4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Hiking Buddies at 3 against Boulder Challenger's 1. On price, update cadence, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Hiking Buddies ships an update every 3 days, Boulder Challenger every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Hiking Buddies versus Boulder Challenger: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHiking BuddiesBoulder Challenger
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews33.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 6 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.6
Further details — not scored
Size30 MB21 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperAmit VermaMarcel Rieger

In-app purchases

None

Hiking Buddies

No in-app purchases

None

Boulder Challenger

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Hiking Buddies free?
Hiking Buddies is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Boulder Challenger free?
Boulder Challenger is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Hiking Buddies or Boulder Challenger have ads?
Neither Hiking Buddies nor Boulder Challenger shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Hiking Buddies or Boulder Challenger?
Hiking Buddies ships an update every 3 days, and Boulder Challenger every 6 days. Most recently, Hiking Buddies was updated on October 21, 2026 and Boulder Challenger on October 24, 2026.

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