Comparison

Ready Steady vs Climbing Log

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

Head to head
About

Ready Steady

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Ready Steady is made for your training runs on the track: An accurate stopwatch that records heart rate and pace, and lets you easily time your rests. Features include: • Acoustic pacemaker. • Records heart rate and pace. • Your training session will show in Apple’s Fitness App on the iPhone. • Stop the run by tapping anywhere on the screen. Ready Steady prevents the display from sleeping on wrist-down. Also, con­sid­er setting the wake du­ra­tion to 70 s and activating “Wake on Wrist Raise”). • Long-sleeve mode (bump to stop). Works even if the watch is covered by a sleeve or glove: just give the watch a hard tap or bump your palms against each other. This works even if the display is sleeping. • Using the 3-second acoustic countdown means you do not even need to start the stopwatch manually, which makes the measurement even more accurate. • During the rests, Ready Steady shows the current rest as count-up, as well as a progress bar (if you have set a target rest, which is optional). • The little Bluetooth icon is shown if an external heart rate sensor is connected. • The current heart rate is shown even before the first run begins. • Optionally, choose to proceed to the next run automatically after the given rest time. • On the Apple Watch, you can see an overview of the runs and rests so far, including minimum and maximum heart rates. • Ready Steady on the iPhone lets you inspect your training session in more detail, including heart rate and pace. • The pace can be shown in m/s, s/100m, min/km or min/mile. • Use a two-finger pinch to zoom in and out of the heart rate and pace graph. • Tap on a run or rest to automatically zoom and scroll to the respective section. • See the average heart rate and pace in the currently visible section. • The list shows the minimum heart rate during the rests, and the maximum during the run – this includes up to 30 s after the run as the highest heart rate reading usually occurs shortly after you cross the finish line.

About

Climbing Log

Features
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Climbing Log is a simple, clean climbing logbook for boulderers and rope climbers — built first and foremost for indoor climbing. Record your sessions in a few taps and track your progress with detailed stats. KEY FEATURES: • Session logging: gym, duration, routes, flashes, attempts, sends • Choose your grade system — boulder: color tags, Font or V-scale; rope: French, YDS or UK • Attempts, style (flash, onsight, redpoint…) and character tags • Statistics: weekly stats, training time, grade pyramid, calendar and more • Quick session summary (see at a glance which routes you climbed, in what order) • Offline logging — works in the gym even with no signal • Light and dark mode • Sign in with Apple, Google or an email link (no password) Climbing Log is free.

Screenshots

Ready Steady3 screens
Climbing Log4 screens

Verdict

The call

Ready Steady and Climbing Log are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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

Ready Steady ships an update every 3 weeks, Climbing Log every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Ready Steady versus Climbing Log: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterReady SteadyClimbing Log
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 5 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.215.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB27 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJust Another Foundry GmbHAdattenger Kft.

In-app purchases

None

Ready Steady

No in-app purchases

None

Climbing Log

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Ready Steady free?
Ready Steady is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Climbing Log free?
Climbing Log is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Ready Steady or Climbing Log have ads?
Neither Ready Steady nor Climbing Log shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Ready Steady or Climbing Log?
Ready Steady ships an update every 3 weeks, and Climbing Log every 5 weeks. Most recently, Ready Steady was updated on October 14, 2026 and Climbing Log on October 1, 2026.

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