Comparison

Woods Board vs Boardsesh

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

Boardsesh

This app connects to various LED climbing boards via Bluetooth to light up holds on your wall. Browse and filter thousands of community-created climbs, build a queue, and track your progress. It supports group sessions for climbing with friends, whether in the same gym or remotely.

Highlights
  • Connects to LED climbing boards
  • Lights up holds on the wall
  • Browse and filter community climbs
  • Build and manage a climb queue
  • Track climbing attempts and sends
  • Supports group climbing sessions
Features
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Climb on Kilter, Tension, MoonBoard and more, plus your spray wall. Keep your climbs, shared queue and logbook in one app. YOUR BOARDS. ONE APP. Boardsesh works with Kilter, Tension, MoonBoard, Woods, Decoy, Touchstone, Grasshopper and So iLL. Switch between supported boards and keep your climbing history together. YOUR SPRAY WALL, TOO A home wall, or a spray wall at your gym? Photograph it and Boardsesh suggests holds from the photo. Fix what it missed, then set climbs, queue them and log sends in the same logbook as your other boards. No LEDs needed: the holds are highlighted on your photo. Share the wall by link and your crew can set on it too. Stripped the wall? Reset it with a new photo, and the old wall is archived with its climbs and sends. Swap a single hold and any climb that used it is flagged. BOARD HISTORY Share a board and you lose track of the last climb fast, and someone always wipes it by accident. See climbs lit through Boardsesh on that board: the climb name, who lit it, who set it, grade and angle, and recent sends. SESSIONS WITH YOUR CREW Start a session and you and your crew can share one queue everyone can drive. Anyone can light the next climb on the wall. When you're done you get a recap and tracking: sends and attempts, grade spread, your hardest send, and progress over time. CONTROL FROM YOUR LOCK SCREEN (iOS 17+) iOS Live Activities tell you what climb is on from your lock screen, and allow you to change it without leaving your lock screen. BUILD A WORKOUT Pick Volume, Pyramid, Ladder or Grade Focus, set a target grade and warm-up, preview the climbs, then push them to the wall one at a time. TRACK YOUR CLIMBING Record sends, flashes and attempts, get a recap with duration, grade spread and your hardest send, and watch your sends and grades climb on the Progress tab. BRING YOUR HISTORY WITH YOU Save your session to Apple Health, and import your past Kilter and Tension logbook from Aurora Climbing. FIND MORE TO CLIMB Follow your crew and setters, search climbers, and pin playlists from Discover. Supported boards: Kilter, Tension, MoonBoard (2010, 2016, 2024, Masters 2017, Masters 2019), Woods (12x12, 8x10), Decoy, Touchstone, Grasshopper and So iLL. Plus spray walls: any wall you can photograph. Boardsesh is a community effort that works with these boards and is not affiliated with or endorsed by any board manufacturer.

Screenshots

Woods Board2 screens
Boardsesh4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Boardsesh at 77% against Woods Board's 19%. Boardsesh also leads on rating (4.6 vs 2.0) and ratings volume (29 vs 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Boardsesh holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Boardsesh has 29 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 19% of Woods Board's written reviews are positive against 77% of Boardsesh's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Woods Board ships an update monthly, Boardsesh every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Woods Board versus Boardsesh: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWoods BoardBoardsesh
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.0 (1 ratings)4.6 (29 ratings) — better
Positive reviews18.8% of reviews76.9% of reviews — better
Number of ratings129 — better
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.616.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size26 MB94 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMenagerie Climbing LLCMarco de Jongh

Customer experience

Woods Board

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

Boardsesh

All ratings28 ratings
Positive92.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative7.1%
Written reviews13 reviews
Positive76.9%
Neutral7.7%
Negative15.4%

In-app purchases

None

Woods Board

No in-app purchases

None

Boardsesh

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Woods Board free?
Woods Board is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Boardsesh free?
Boardsesh is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Woods Board or Boardsesh?
Boardsesh is rated higher. Woods Board averages 2.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Boardsesh averages 4.6 from 29 ratings.
Do Woods Board or Boardsesh have ads?
Neither Woods Board nor Boardsesh shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Woods Board or Boardsesh?
Woods Board ships an update monthly, and Boardsesh every 2 weeks. Most recently, Woods Board was updated on October 24, 2026 and Boardsesh on October 24, 2026.

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