SocialBoulder vs Grimp
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SocialBoulder
Discover new climbing routes at your gym, share your progress, and challenge friends. Find routes tailored to your skill level and connect with the climbing community.
- Find new climbing routes
- Share climbing beta
- Discover personalized routes
- Challenge friends
- Connect with climbers
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Thanks to SocialBoulder, find new routes in your gym, share your beta, find routes that suit you, challenge your friends ... (Social Boulder, SBoulder)
Grimp
This app helps climbers track their progress, analyze performance, and optimize their training. It offers personalized grade predictions, tools to design and share climbing walls, and detailed logging of every climb. Users can monitor growth through various climbing statistics and access daily training routines or create their own.
- Personalized grade prediction
- Spray Wall for designing/sharing routes
- Log every climb with details
- Track progress and climbing stats
- Daily training and custom workouts
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Grimp is designed to help you track, analyze, and optimize your climbing journey like never before. Features: - Predict Your Potential: Get a personalized grade prediction based on your climbing history and performance metrics. See how far you can go! - Create, share, and conquer the wall: with the Spray Wall, design your own blocks and share them, you'll never run out of ideas again. - Log Every Climb: Easily record each completed route, from location and grade to personal notes. Build your own climbing portfolio and watch your progress unfold. - Track Your Growth: Monitor your progress with insights on completed routes, grade trends, and climbing stats. - Do daily training or create your own. With a variety of exercises and premade workouts, you'll find what suits you best. Grimp is more than just a tracking tool, it’s your ultimate climbing companion! Ready to reach new heights? Start logging your climbs and climb smarter with Grimp.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Grimp at 100% against SocialBoulder's 33%. Grimp also leads on monetization model (free vs ad-supported). SocialBoulder's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 3 weeks) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
SocialBoulder ships an update every 2 days, Grimp every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SocialBoulder | Grimp |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 112 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | SocialBoulder | Edgar Clerc |
Customer experience
SocialBoulder
Grimp
In-app purchases
SocialBoulder
No in-app purchases
Grimp
No in-app purchases
