Comparison

BoulderBot vs Flashboard climbing

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

Head to head
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.

About

Flashboard climbing

Features
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Flashboard is made for climbers with wallz. Set routes, edit, log sends, rate and grade them. Invite your friends to your wall to climb and create routes! Easily set up your wall for free - upload wall image, mark holds, and create your first route. Integrates with Flashboard LED system for moonboard-like route lighting: connect with multiple phones simultaneously, so each climber can put on his route and the switch back to a different route easily without disconnecting.

Screenshots

BoulderBot4 screens
Flashboard climbing4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Flashboard climbing at none against BoulderBot's 3. Flashboard climbing also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 14.1). On price, 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. Flashboard climbing asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
BoulderBot versus Flashboard climbing: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBoulderBotFlashboard climbing
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (11 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings11 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS14.112.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size74 MB31 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperLuca DellanaDavid Gdalevich

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
None

Flashboard climbing

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is BoulderBot free?
BoulderBot is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Flashboard climbing free?
Flashboard climbing is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do BoulderBot or Flashboard climbing have ads?
Neither BoulderBot nor Flashboard climbing shows ads.

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