Comparison

Sweet Death vs Cordada

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

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About

Sweet Death

Features
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Con la app Sweet Death podrás reservar tus sesiones de entrenamiento y llevar un control de tus benchmarks.

About

Cordada

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Cordada tells you when the rock grips. This isn't another climbing guidebook. It's an instrument: it cross-references which way each wall actually faces — worked out from the terrain — with the sun and shade on it at that hour, the last few days of rain against how porous its rock type is, humidity, wind and the dew point. The result is the Friction Score, hour by hour, sector by sector. You'll know whether the early start is worth it, whether the wall will be dry on Saturday, and what time the sun comes off it. THE CATALOG · Hundreds of thousands of routes, across tens of thousands of sectors in 80 countries. · Community topos, drawn on their own photo. Not every crag has them yet. · Each sector's grades drawn as a mountain range, with the routes you've done. · Search by route, crag, town or grade, or browse the guidebook by region. · Grades in French, YDS, UIAA, UK and Font. · Route missing? Add it and it goes straight in. THE CONDITIONS · Friction Score, and it tells you why: "Wall in the shade · cool rock, grips", "Rained 6h ago · rock still 40% wet, poor grip". · Where to go?: the best crags near you for the conditions. · Season calendar for every crag, and its closures if it has any. · Geological map of Spain (IGME). YOUR CREW · Meetup board: post a plan or join someone else's, with the Friction Score for its spot at its hour. · Cordada Match: find a belay partner in your area, by swiping. · My crew: share your live location only with the people you choose. · Belay endorsements: what your partners say about how you belay. YOUR GYM · Nearly 4,000 climbing gyms on the map, with directions to the door. · Join yours: once three of you are in, your room opens. Missing? Suggest it. YOUR LOGBOOK · Log every attempt and every send, with a photo and the conditions of the moment. · Grade pyramid, consolidated grade and a send card to share. AWAY FROM THE ROCK · Log finger, pulling, endurance, power or cardio sessions, with your effort. · Hangboard and interval timer, with voice. · Finger, pull-up and core tests, to see how you change. · Gym mode: every attempt at the gym goes to your Logbook with one tap. ON YOUR WRIST · Log attempts from your Apple Watch, at the gym and on rock, with the route from the list. · The timer on your watch, and record your approach from the moment you leave the car. AT THE WALL · Augmented reality for the approach and the sun's path. · Approach trails: GPS breadcrumbs left by the community. · Download a whole crag to use it with no signal. FREE, PREMIUM AND PRO Free forever: the map, the catalog, the Friction Score right now, augmented reality, your logbook, the whole social side in your own area, sessions, timers, tests and the Apple Watch for logging. We don't paywall the community. Premium (€4.99/month or €39.99/year, one week free) adds the hour-by-hour and next-days Friction Score, Where to go?, whole crags offline, your stats and what you log as charts, travel mode for Match and the board, and the crag on your Apple Watch: map, topos, approach and Friction Score on your watch face. Pro (€9.99/month or €99.99/year) adds Suggestions for every week: ideas for what to work on for the grade you're after, around your days and your time, based on what you log and your tests. Plus what holds you back for your grade, how you recover from your watch's heart rate, and today's session on your Apple Watch. They are general suggestions, not medical advice. Prices vary by country. On Fridays the full Friction Score belongs to everyone. MADE BY A CLIMBER Cordada is made by one person, in Spain, with no investors. If something breaks, write to us from the app: it gets fixed. Climbing carries a risk of serious injury and death. Cordada gives you guidance; the decision and the judgment on the mountain are yours. Always check knot, rope end and belay device. Terms of Use: https://cordada.eu/terminos Privacy Policy: https://cordada.eu/privacidad

Screenshots

Sweet Death4 screens
Cordada4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Sweet Death at none against Cordada's 4. Sweet Death also leads on iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.6). Cordada's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 12 months). 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. Cordada sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Sweet Death asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sweet Death ships an update every 12 months, Cordada every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 3 level
Sweet Death versus Cordada: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSweet DeathCordada
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 12 monthsEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS15.6 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB67 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperWODBUSTER SLPawel Wojciech Kadziolka Bystrzycki

In-app purchases

None

Sweet Death

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Cordada

Subscriptions4
  • Premium monthly7 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • Cordada Pro7 Days trial$8.991 Month
  • Premium yearly7 Days trial$34.991 Year
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  • Cordada Pro yearly7 Days trial$89.991 Year

Questions

Is Sweet Death free?
Sweet Death is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Cordada free?
Cordada is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Sweet Death or Cordada have ads?
Neither Sweet Death nor Cordada shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Sweet Death or Cordada?
Sweet Death ships an update every 12 months, and Cordada every 2 days. Most recently, Sweet Death was updated on October 30, 2026 and Cordada on November 10, 2026.

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