Comparison

Woods Board vs CountDown

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

Head to head
About

Woods Board

This app connects to a specialized training board, allowing users to access and create climbing routes. It facilitates logging climbs, personalizing profiles, and engaging with a community leaderboard. Users can filter climbs by various criteria for tailored training sessions.

Highlights
  • Access and create climbing routes
  • Log your successful climbs
  • Personalize user profiles
  • Community leaderboard
  • Filter climbs by multiple criteria
  • Bluetooth route lighting
Features
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The Woods Board app is the one and only app designed to connect you to the Woods Board training board. With this app, you can create an account to access the entire database of climbs made for the Woods Board. This app allows you to connect to any Woods Board control box and light up any route via Bluetooth. The Woods Board climbs follow a Standard system to generate a universal grade system for all climbs. What does the app do? - Allow access to view and create any climb to submit to the official Woods Board database - Log your sends of Woods Board climbs - Personalize your own account information - Specify specific climb rules for climbs you publish - Allows the ability to compete against other climbers with a Leaderboard Our goal for the Woods Board app is to create a platform based around community involvement and interaction. We hope to foster an individual user experience based on interaction between you and the community. With the leaderboard (weekly and all-time) system, we hope to encourage a competitive and refreshing dynamic between users. Additionally, our goal with the playlist system is to enable user personalization for enjoyment and training purposes. Our filtering system includes the option to filter by: hold, author, climb type, wall angle, grade, and more.

About

CountDown

This app helps climbers build custom hangboard workouts quickly and efficiently. It offers a simple interface to personalize grip types, feedback, and workout structure. Track your progress with detailed history and notes to optimize training.

Highlights
  • Build custom workouts
  • Create custom grip types
  • Personalize visual, audible, haptic feedback
  • View workout history
  • Add workout notes
  • Start timers without creating workouts
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Elevate your training with CountDown, the efficient, effective and free training app designed for the detail-oriented climber. CountDown is designed to help climbers build complex workouts in just a few minutes. CountDown differs from other hangboard apps by providing a simple and intuitive interface that enables you to customize every aspect of your workout. Key Features: - Build new workouts under specific categories to target different climbing fitness attributes. - Create as many custom grip types as you need. Add, reorder, and copy grips within a workout with ease. - Personalize your hangboarding experience with customizable choices of visual, audible, and haptic feedback. - View a detailed history of your completed workouts. Add notes so you can make informed decisions to optimize your training cycles. - If you want to get started right away, you can start a new timer without needing to create a workout.

Screenshots

Woods Board2 screens
CountDown4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: CountDown at 60% against Woods Board's 19%. Woods Board's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 3 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

Woods Board ships an update monthly, CountDown every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Woods Board versus CountDown: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWoods BoardCountDown
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.4 (7 ratings) — better
Positive reviews18.8% of reviews60.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings—7 — better
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.616.2 — better
Further details — not scored
Size26 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMenagerie Climbing LLCIan Docherty

Customer experience

Woods Board

Written reviews16 reviews
Positive18.8%
Neutral25.0%
Negative56.3%

CountDown

All ratings7 ratings
Positive85.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative14.3%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive60.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative40.0%

In-app purchases

None

Woods Board

No in-app purchases

None

CountDown

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Woods Board free?
Woods Board is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is CountDown free?
CountDown is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Woods Board or CountDown have ads?
Neither Woods Board nor CountDown shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Woods Board or CountDown?
Woods Board ships an update monthly, and CountDown every 3 months. Most recently, Woods Board was updated on October 12, 2026 and CountDown on October 8, 2026.

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