Comparison

Mountain Project vs Span

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

Head to head
About

Mountain Project

Discover and navigate to outdoor climbing areas, and find specific routes with detailed filters. Access route beta, photos, and topos offline, and view climbing area statistics. Connect with other climbers in the forum, track your progress, and create to-do lists.

Highlights
  • Find and navigate to climbing areas
  • Sort routes by discipline, difficulty, and rating
  • Search 155,000+ climbing routes offline
  • Download route beta, photos, and topos for offline use
  • View climbing area route statistics and critical info
  • Connect with climbers in the forum
  • Track attempts, sends, and create to-do lists
Features
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Beyond the Guidebook: The Definitive Rock Climbing Resource. • Find outdoor climbing areas near you, and navigate to them, using the map. This super-handy new feature is one of our personal faves. • The much requested route finder: Easily sort routes by discipline, difficulty, star ranking and more. If a 4-star M9 is your thing, we'll help you find it. • Search our entire database of 155,000+ climbing routes, even offline. • Download route beta, photos, and topos state by state for offline use — because the best crags often have the worst reception. • View a climbing area’s route stats (how many 5.11s are there?) and critical info (when is the raptor closure again?) in a single glance. • Chat, ask questions, or put out a call for partners in our forum. • Rate routes and photos, keep track of attempts & sends, or make a to-do list • It's free to download and free of advertising too. Everything you need, nothing you don't.

About

Span

Features
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Span turns a video of your climbing into something you can actually read. Point it at the wall, or import a climb you have already filmed. Span finds your body in every frame and draws it back as a moving skeleton — where your weight sits, where your hands and feet have been, how straight your arms are through the crux. WHAT YOU SEE • A live skeleton over the camera, and burned into what you record • The path your centre of mass took through the whole climb, drawn on the climb itself • Arms-straight percentage, left-right balance, how direct your line was • A stick-figure animation driven by your own movement MEASURED, NOT GUESSED Tell Span your height and wingspan once and it gains a ruler. From then on it reads heights in metres instead of body lengths, and works out your arm, leg and torso lengths from your own climbing. The estimates sharpen as you record more. EVERYTHING STAYS ON YOUR PHONE There is no account, no server and no upload. Pose detection runs on the device. Your climbs, your measurements and your video never leave it unless you share a file yourself. Span is a feedback tool for technique. It is not a medical or diagnostic device, and its measurements are estimates from a single camera.

Screenshots

Mountain Project4 screens
Span4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Span at daily against Mountain Project's every 3 weeks. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Mountain Project ships an update every 3 weeks, Span daily. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Mountain Project versus Span: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMountain ProjectSpan
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (4.6K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews34.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings4.6K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS16.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size79 MB59 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAdventure Projects Inc.Ravi Singh

Bugs and requests

Mountain Project

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • App crashes when opening routes or areas
  • Map not showing all available climbs
  • Incorrect date recording for ticks
  • Inability to delete downloaded areas
  • Login issues and account sync problems

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add ability to add/update routes and areas
  • Implement better offline map functionality
  • Improve search and filtering options
  • Add user profile and route tracking features
  • Enhance community engagement tools

Span

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Mountain Project

No in-app purchases

None

Span

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Mountain Project free?
Mountain Project is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Span free?
Span is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Mountain Project or Span have ads?
Neither Mountain Project nor Span shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Mountain Project or Span?
Mountain Project ships an update every 3 weeks, and Span daily. Most recently, Mountain Project was updated on October 25, 2026 and Span on October 2, 2026.

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