Comparison

BoulderBot vs Pogo

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

Pogo

Features
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Pogo — Your Personal Climbing Log Climb. Log. Learn. Progress. Pogo is a climbing log designed to help you understand your training and see how you evolve session after session. Whether you're just getting started, working toward a new grade, or projecting your next hard climb, Pogo turns your sessions into useful data you can actually learn from. ### Track Every Session Set your goals, log the grades you climb, record your attempts and falls, and keep track of your rest times and session duration. Instead of scattered notes and complicated spreadsheets, your climbing history stays organized in one place. ### Understand Your Progress Your sessions become more valuable over time. Explore personalized performance metrics, compare your results, identify patterns in your climbing, and use your history to make better decisions about your training. ### Built for Climbers • Set personal climbing goals • Log sends, grades, attempts, and falls • Track rest times and session duration • Review your complete workout history • Explore personalized progress and performance metrics • Manage your climbing gym list • Celebrate achievements • View and share visual summaries of your progress Whether you're chasing your next grade or simply want a better record of your climbing journey, Pogo gives you a simple way to understand the work behind every send. Turn your climbing into progress you can see. Enjoy the climb. Pogo handles the logs. Designed for climbers. Powered by Rhumb Labs.

Screenshots

BoulderBot4 screens
Pogo4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Pogo at none against BoulderBot's 3. BoulderBot's advantage is 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. BoulderBot sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Pogo asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

BoulderBot ships an update every 2 months, Pogo monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
BoulderBot versus Pogo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBoulderBotPogo
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (11 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings11 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS14.1 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size68 MB70 MB
Age rating9+12+
DeveloperLuca DellanaRhumb Labs

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

Pogo

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is BoulderBot free?
BoulderBot is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Pogo free?
Pogo is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do BoulderBot or Pogo have ads?
Pogo shows ads; BoulderBot does not.
Which is updated more often, BoulderBot or Pogo?
BoulderBot ships an update every 2 months, and Pogo monthly. Most recently, BoulderBot was updated on November 3, 2026 and Pogo on October 31, 2026.

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