CountDown vs BoulderBuilder
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.
BoulderBuilder
Log climbing sessions with detailed context like grade, result, and movement styles. Visualize your climbing performance with progress pyramids to identify strengths, weaknesses, and training priorities. Track your progress over time with style breakdowns and grade trends.
- Log climbs with grade, result, and notes
- Build performance pyramids by grade
- Track progress over time
- Customize grade systems
- Private by design, data stays on device
- Career-wide V-scale view
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BoulderBuilder turns your climbing log into performance pyramids that make strengths, gaps, and next steps easy to see. LOG CLIMBS WITH CONTEXT Record grade, result, attempts, date, notes, gym, and movement styles such as crimps, slopers, slab, overhang, compression, dyno, and coordination. SEE THE SHAPE OF YOUR CLIMBING Build a pyramid for each gym and a career-wide V-scale view. Compare volume at every grade, spot thin layers, and understand what to train next. TRACK PROGRESS OVER TIME Review activity, weekly rhythm, sessions, and goal progress. BUILT FOR REAL GYMS Use the V-scale or create color and grade-range systems that match how your gym sets. KEEP YOUR CLIMBING HISTORY CLOSE Your climbing history and photos stay on your device. Use guest mode or Sign in with Apple, and optionally protect the app with Face ID or Touch ID. GO FURTHER WITH BOULDERBUILDER PRO • Unlimited gyms and career progression analytics. • Rope climbing alongside bouldering, with YDS and French grades. • Projects that span sessions, with attempt timelines, beta notes, and optional photos. Archive completed projects and return to their history. • Clear outcome choices: Flash, RP, Attempt, Repeat, and Onsight for rope climbs. • Send rate, flash rate, and climbing-style filters and breakdowns. • Grade Progress across 30 days, 90 days, or all time, plus a weekly pyramid target. • Consistency insights with current and best climbing streaks and your top send grade. • Share cards for climbs, progress, and weekly recaps. Include your gym name only when you choose to. • One photo per climb, saved on your device. • Optional Apple Health sync for climbing workouts and estimated energy burned. • Optional weekly check-in reminders. Saved projects and existing climb photos remain readable if Pro expires. Adding project attempts, beta notes, and new photos requires Pro. BoulderBuilder Pro offers monthly and yearly subscriptions. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled in Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://nimuh.github.io/BoulderBuilder/terms Privacy Policy: https://nimuh.github.io/BoulderBuilder/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: BoulderBuilder at 5.0 against CountDown's 4.4. BoulderBuilder also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 60%) and update cadence (every 8 days vs every 3 months). CountDown's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ratings volume (7 vs 1). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. BoulderBuilder sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. CountDown asks for nothing beyond the download.
BoulderBuilder 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. Written reviews point the same way: 60% of CountDown's written reviews are positive against 100% of BoulderBuilder's.
CountDown ships an update every 3 months, BoulderBuilder every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CountDown | BoulderBuilder |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (7 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 60.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 8 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.2 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ian Docherty | KEYAN AZBIJARI |
Customer experience
CountDown
BoulderBuilder
In-app purchases
CountDown
No in-app purchases
BoulderBuilder
- BoulderBuilder Pro Monthly$9.991 Month
- BoulderBuilder Pro Yearly$49.991 Year
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