Comparison

Boardclimbs vs Rockclimbr App

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

Head to head
About

Boardclimbs

Log and share boulder problems on your spraywall. Automatically detect holds with AI and create custom routes. Compete on leaderboards and engage with the climbing community.

Highlights
  • AI hold detection
  • Create custom boulder problems
  • Share problems with community
  • Personalized climber profiles
  • Leaderboard competition
  • Spraywall photo uploads
Features
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Boardclimbs is an app for climbers to find and share boulder problems on spraywalls. Upload a photo of your wall/board and Hector the hold detector will find and mark all the holds on your wall. You can then create problems on your wall by interactively choosing holds in the app. Personalize your profile with a picture and a display name and engage in the many community features of the app. Try to top the leaderboard for your local wall, as a setter or a climber!

About

Rockclimbr App

Discover and document climbing routes with visual guides created by a community of climbers. Find new climbs, contribute your own route maps, and track your progress, whether you're at an outdoor crag or an indoor gym. Access detailed, up-to-date information offline.

Highlights
  • Visual climbing route maps
  • Community-contributed beta
  • Offline area downloads
  • GPS-based climb discovery
  • Send tracking and ticklists
  • Indoor wall documentation
Features
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The premier community-built visual climbing guides: Visual climbing guidebook with color-coded route maps, built by climbers. From local crags to home walls, quickly find the newest route beta—or create it for spots that deserve better coverage. Every crag deserves quality coverage: From the Gunks to your backyard boulders, every climbing area can have proper guidebook-quality documentation. Our community of climbers creates visual topos for destinations and hidden gems alike. Found a crag with poor coverage? Create the guide yourself in minutes. The more climbers contribute, the better everyone's beta gets. Guidebook-quality beta on your phone: Pull up visual route maps at the boulder. Download areas for offline access in remote locations. Use GPS to discover climbs near you. Track your sends and build your ticklist. All the detail of a printed guidebook, always up-to-date, always in your pocket. Turn your local crag into a proper guide: You don't need to be a professional author to create quality guidebook coverage. If you climb there, you can document it. Upload a photo of the boulder. Draw the route with our color-coded tool. Add the grade and name. Done. Your crag now has visual topos as clear as any published guidebook. Indoor walls, same visual approach: Spray walls, home walls, gym circuits—document indoor problems with the same photo topos and visual mapping tools. Share routes with your crew, track progression, never forget that perfect problem you set. The only climbing guide that works everywhere you climb. Visual guides for the modern climber: - Photo-first approach; Clear visual route maps instead of confusing text descriptions. See the beta, don't decode it. - Every crag matters; Community-powered coverage means small crags get the same quality documentation as famous destinations. - Always current; Real-time updates from active climbers. No waiting years for the next guidebook edition. Start exploring visual guides: Free to browse, free to contribute. Help build the world's clearest climbing beta.

Screenshots

Boardclimbs4 screens
Rockclimbr App4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Rockclimbr App at 3 against Boardclimbs's 1. On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Boardclimbs against 5.0 for Rockclimbr App. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 3 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Boardclimbs versus Rockclimbr App: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBoardclimbsRockclimbr App
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings13 — better
Update frequency—Every 8 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS14.2 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB31 MB
Age rating17+9+
DeveloperFelix AbrahamssonOctopus Software LLC

Customer experience

Boardclimbs

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Rockclimbr App

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Boardclimbs

No in-app purchases

None

Rockclimbr App

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Boardclimbs free?
Boardclimbs is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Rockclimbr App free?
Rockclimbr App is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Boardclimbs or Rockclimbr App?
Boardclimbs and Rockclimbr App are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 3 ratings respectively.
Do Boardclimbs or Rockclimbr App have ads?
Neither Boardclimbs nor Rockclimbr App shows ads.

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