Comparison

CountDown vs Climbing Calendar

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

Head to head
About

CountDown

This app helps climbers build custom hangboard workouts quickly and efficiently. It offers a simple interface to personalize grip types, feedback, and workout structure. Track your progress with detailed history and notes to optimize training.

Highlights
  • Build custom workouts
  • Create custom grip types
  • Personalize visual, audible, haptic feedback
  • View workout history
  • Add workout notes
  • Start timers without creating workouts
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Elevate your training with CountDown, the efficient, effective and free training app designed for the detail-oriented climber. CountDown is designed to help climbers build complex workouts in just a few minutes. CountDown differs from other hangboard apps by providing a simple and intuitive interface that enables you to customize every aspect of your workout. Key Features: - Build new workouts under specific categories to target different climbing fitness attributes. - Create as many custom grip types as you need. Add, reorder, and copy grips within a workout with ease. - Personalize your hangboarding experience with customizable choices of visual, audible, and haptic feedback. - View a detailed history of your completed workouts. Add notes so you can make informed decisions to optimize your training cycles. - If you want to get started right away, you can start a new timer without needing to create a workout.

About

Climbing Calendar

Features
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I didn't really like the other fitness tracking apps out there, plus most of them are subscription based. Like, come on I'm not paying 10 bucks a month so I can log my workouts in a glorified spreadsheet. I vibe coded this for personal use but figured other people might find it useful. Simple, good at what it does, and visually pretty. This is my solution to tracking my climbing journey :) Features: - Log a session in one tap — open the calendar, tap the day, choose a type. - Build your own day types with custom colors — Gym, Outdoor, Lead, Board, Rest, whatever fits your use case. - Add tags to any type — track specific gyms, crags, or projects in a more detailed view in the stats page. - Log variety days — combine multiple types on a single day with a long press. - See your year at a glance — a clean donut chart breaks down your sessions. - Write session notes — jot how a session felt or what you sent. - A little celebration — a confetti burst when you log a session.

Screenshots

CountDown4 screens
Climbing Calendar4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: CountDown at 16.2 against Climbing Calendar's 26.4. 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.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
CountDown versus Climbing Calendar: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCountDownClimbing Calendar
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (7 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews60.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings7 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS16.2 — better26.4
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperIan DochertyJason Dykstra

In-app purchases

None

CountDown

No in-app purchases

None

Climbing Calendar

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is CountDown free?
CountDown is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Climbing Calendar free?
Climbing Calendar is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do CountDown or Climbing Calendar have ads?
Neither CountDown nor Climbing Calendar shows ads.

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