BoulderBot vs Sqrls
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Procedural climb generation
- Manual climb creation
- Progress tracking and logging
- Wall setup wizard
- Offline functionality
- Search and filter problems
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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.
Sqrls
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sqrls is the climbing companion that turns every gym visit into measurable progress. Scan a route's QR code, log your send in one tap, and watch your stats grow. Whether you're chasing your first send of a new grade or grinding through a long-term project, sqrls keeps your climbing history in one place — no more spreadsheets, paper logs, or trying to remember what you sent last Wednesday. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Scan QR codes at your home gym to instantly log ascents • Track recent ascents with starthold and route photos to remember every send • See your completion rate by difficulty, sector, or hold color • Browse all the routes currently set — grouped by sector or grade • Add friends, follow their climbs, and compare progress BUILT FOR SETTERS, TOO Gym staff and routesetters can use sqrls to manage their wall: • Create QR codes for new routes • Edit difficulty, sector, hold color, or setter attribution from the gym floor • Capture a starthold and route photo so climbers can find the line at a glance • Take down routes in batches when it's time to re-set • Everything syncs across the team in real time WHO IT'S FOR sqrls works best at climbing gyms that have adopted the QR-per-route system. Ask your gym if they're partnered, or send them our way — we're rolling out to more walls. SUBSCRIPTION The core app is free. A Pro subscription unlocks logging ascents on the top two grades at your gym, plus future Pro-only features. Subscriptions auto-renew unless cancelled. Manage or cancel any time in iPhone Settings. Questions, ideas, or want sqrls at your gym? Reach out via the support link below. Privacy Policy: https://sqrls.app/privacy.html Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Sqrls at every 4 days against BoulderBot's every 5 weeks. BoulderBot's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (14.1 vs 16.0). On price, 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. BoulderBot sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Sqrls sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
BoulderBot ships an update every 5 weeks, Sqrls every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on August 30, 2026 and September 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BoulderBot | Sqrls |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (11 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 11 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 14.1 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 74 MB | 71 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Luca Dellana | Mathias Steger |
In-app purchases
BoulderBot
- BoulderBot Pro Pass - 3 Months$7.99
- BoulderBot Pro Pass - 1 Year$17.99
- BoulderBot Pro$27.99
Sqrls
- Tier 1$0.991 Month
- Tier 2 Monthly$2.991 Month









