Hiking Buddies vs Boulder Challenger
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Organize hiking activities
- Create and estimate route difficulties
- Join or create events
- Track fitness
- Community for hikers
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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.
Boulder Challenger
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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.
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
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.
| Parameter | Hiking Buddies | Boulder Challenger |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 6 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 30 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Amit Verma | Marcel Rieger |
In-app purchases
Hiking Buddies
No in-app purchases
Boulder Challenger
No in-app purchases
Questions
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