Ready Steady vs Climbing Log
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
Climbing Log
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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.
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
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.
| Parameter | Ready Steady | Climbing Log |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.2 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 27 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Just Another Foundry GmbH | Adattenger Kft. |
In-app purchases
Ready Steady
No in-app purchases
Climbing Log
No in-app purchases









