CountDown vs Hiker Logbook
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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.
Hiker Logbook
Document your outdoor adventures with a simple and clean interface. Track your progress, organize your gear, and build a personal record of your hiking journeys. Perfect for logging any distance, from short walks to long thru-trails.
- Document outdoor adventures
- Track progress
- Organize gear
- Build personal hiking record
- Log any distance
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Slow down. Remember where you’ve been. Hiker Logbook is the simplest, cleanest way to document your adventures — from weekend hikes to legendary thru‑trails. Capture each day on trail, track your progress, organize your gear, and build a personal record of the journey that shaped you. Whether you're logging your first mile or your five‑hundredth, Hiker Logbook keeps your story beautifully organized.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Hiker Logbook at 5.0 against CountDown's 4.4. Hiker Logbook also leads on update cadence (every 6 days vs every 3 months) and device support (3 vs 1). CountDown's advantage is ratings volume (7 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Hiker Logbook holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: CountDown has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
CountDown ships an update every 3 months, Hiker Logbook every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CountDown | Hiker Logbook |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (7 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 60.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.2 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 186 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ian Docherty | Voyage Guard LLC |
Customer experience
CountDown
Hiker Logbook
In-app purchases
CountDown
No in-app purchases
Hiker Logbook
No in-app purchases
